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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 23rd November 2025 The Guardian The Shaston Arms, Soho Grace Dent was resolutely unimpressed by a pub that failed to bridge the gap between being an “old-school boozer” and “a cool restaurant that serves food at premium prices” – a […]
Our round-up of what the nations restaurant critics were writing about in the week to 16th November 2025 The Guardian 2210 by Natty Can Cook, Herne Hill Grace Dent enjoyed one of her best meals of the year at an “utterly classy” take on Caribbean cuisine from Nathaniel Mortley, a chef who worked at Oblix and […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 9th November 2025 The Guardian Lilibet’s, Mayfair Grace Dent anointed her “new favourite restaurant”: Australian chef and Bone Daddies founder Ross Shonhan’s seafood specialist at the birthplace of the late QEII (fka ‘Lilibet’) – whose “turbo-chintz, Las Vegas-style royalist fever dream” […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 2nd November 2025 The Guardian Franc, Canterbury Grace Dent enjoyed some “just great, great cooking” at a new venture from Dave Hart and Polly Pleasence, formerly of the Folkestone Wine Company, in a timber-framed gatehouse to Tudor-era almshouses – which, unusually, serves its fancier […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 26th October 2025 The Guardian Fête, Chelmsford Grace Dent thoroughly enjoyed a “welcome slice of unpretentious hospitality happiness” in deepest Essex, where chef Tobias Godfrey and his co-owner and partner, Laura Day, have “taken the Chelmsford dining scene by storm” with […]
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 […]
