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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 19th October 2025 The Guardian 670 Grams, Birmingham Grace Dent thrilled to a “dark, daunting, uncompromising” but “never boring” venue in Digbeth’s Custard Factory development, from former Purnell’s and The Man Behind the Curtain chef Kray Treadwell – a place of […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 12th October 2025 The Guardian Punk Royale, Mayfair Grace Dent braved a subversive, immersive and rowdy Swedish take on multi-course fine dining that she felt was targeted at “cash-rich, experience-hungry twentysomethings”. It certainly wasn’t for her, and she signed […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week to 5th October 2025 The Guardian Kudu, Marylebone Grace Dent was an early visitor to the “bright, twinkly turbo-Kudu” that has been newly transplanted to the West End from Peckham, and declared it “London’s prettiest restaurant of 2025 so far… the […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week to 28th September 2025 The Guardian Brasserie Constance, Fulham Grace Dent had “easily the weirdest restaurant experience” of the last six months at a new venture its website presents as a pastoral riverside homage to the post-War cook, florist and potter […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week to 21st September 2025 London Standard Carbone, The Chancery Rosewood, Mayfair David Ellis suffered a “night of glitz, glamour and ennui” at the latest branch of a New York-based global group which is the headline restaurant of the swanky new Mayfair […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week to 14th September 2025 The Times Legado, Shoreditch Giles Coren was the first of the critics into print on the merits of Spanish chef Nieves Barragan’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to her phenomenally successful Sabor. His verdict: “Legado is set fair to […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week to 7th September 2025 The Guardian Duck & Rice, Battersea Grace Dent was puzzled and left a little flat by a visit to the new flagship dining option at the former Battersea Power Station, now a luxury shopping complex that is […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week to 1st September 2025 The Guardian Inis, Hackney Wick Grace Dent found a “little patch of sanity” amid the gentrification of the 2012 Olympic zone, in a new all-day venture by the canal that is “Irish in spirit” – in its […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 24th August 2025 The Guardian Bellota, Bury St Edmunds Grace Dent hailed a 20-seat counter venue “tucked away in a quaint West Suffolk market town” and serving a set menu from two “relatively unknown chefs”, married couple Ruben Aquilar Bel and […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week to 17th August 2025 London Standard Paulie’s, Shoreditch David Ellis popped in to one of the plethora of New York-style pizzerias that have sprung up around London in recent times – this one from Ryan O’Flynn (“Canadian, shush”), who also owns nearby Detroit […]
