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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 22nd February 2026 The Guardian Sông Quê Pho Bar, Shoreditch Grace Dent hailed the new canteen offshoot from a 25-year-old Vietnamese institution that serves “the best phở in town” – al-dente noodles in a “very meaningful broth”, topped with a […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 15th February 2026 The Times & Sunday Times Materia Prima, Notting Hill Following her debut review of London’s oldest restaurant (Rules), new Sunday Times restaurant critic Camilla Long turned her attention to one of its newest, a “high-concept, Japanese-adjacent” […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 8th February 2026 The Times & Sunday Times Rules, Covent Garden The Sunday Times unveiled Camilla Long, one of its heavyweight columnists, as its new restaurant critic this week – dispatching her for her first review, as custom apparently […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 1st February 2026 The Guardian Guinness Open Gate Brewery, Covent Garden Grace Dent was both puzzled and “underwhelmed” by a visit to Guinness’s new “multi-multi-million-pound” visitor centre – complete with a craft brewery, a gift shop, a pie stall from […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 25th January 2026 The Guardian The Tin Roof, Maldon, Essex Responding to a tip from a reader, Grace Dent found herself at a hugely popular café and bakery attached to a huge garden centre, where she ate alongside “pensioner […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant reviewers were writing about in the week up to 18th January 2026 The Guardian Corenucopia, Chelsea The first critic into print on Clare Smyth’s snazzy bistro, Grace Dent‘s appreciation of the Northern Ireland-born chef’s upmarket take on comfort food (complete with a potato menu and a Hibernian tiramisu […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 11th January 2026 The Guardian Martino’s, Chelsea Grace Dent hailed the “beautiful bedlam” of restaurateur Martin (‘The Dover’) Kuczmarski’s “glitzy, sexy, mock-Italian trattoria” in Sloane Square – a place so superbly designed and operated, at once so cool and so laidback, […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about over the holiday period up to 4th January 2026 The Guardian Poon’s at Somerset House, Aldwych Grace Dent was an immediate convert to Amy Poon’s relaunch of the family’s restaurant brand in the New Wing of Somerset House, declaring it simultaneously “sweet, confident, feminine, […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 14th December 2025 Financial Times Vetch, Liverpool Jay Rayner had his faith in top-end tasting-menu establishments and their frequently self-important, grandstanding chefs restored – well, “(almost)” – by dinner at this “sweet, modest and clever restaurant”, where chef Daniel McGeorge […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 7th December 2025 London Standard Bonheur by Matt Abé, Mayfair David Ellis was the first critic to issue judgement on the heralded reboot of Le Gavroche by chef Matt Abé, backed by his old boss, Gordon Ramsay. It is, he […]
