New grill house, West Thirty Six, will open in Golborne Road later this month – the same west London street that already houses John Doe, the charcoal grill spot glowingly reviewed by the Observer’s Jay Rayner on Sunday (4 Jan). The three storey 100-cover restaurant with bar and cocktail lounge, on the former site of the […]
The Harden’s survey results for the 2015 guide are in Find out which London restaurants are hot (and which are not) with our results based on 65,000 restaurant-goer reports. Grace Dent blows her Christmas budget at Roka Aldwych The Standard’s reviewer finds great robatayaki at wickedly expensive prices – “Think The Wolf of Wall […]
In what is turning into a real life game of Monopoly, one where your starting capital needs to be oligarch billions rather than £200 for passing Go, Mayfair’s desirable restaurant sites are being snapped up by Russia’s elite. The string of Russian-backed restaurants now inhabiting the priciest heart of W1 include Novikov, Goodman, Rextail, Burger/Lobster and, most […]
Grace Dent eats humble pie – and burgers – at Bobo Social The Evening Standard reviewer is forced to admit she judged this posh burger concept by its cover. Pop-ups in very poor taste? From death row dinners to human burgers, east London pop-ups become more outré. Oh dear, Marylebone’s Opso has a bad […]
The Editors’ review of L’Anima Café Some of the food is of very high quality but there’s scope for greater consistency here. Opso? More like Oops Fay Maschler doesn’t enjoy her trip to Marylebone’s new Greek restaurant. Canvas to take over Le Cercle Restaurant ups sticks from Marylebone to Sloane Square. Kurobuta […]
The Editors’ review of Strand Dining Rooms It’s a handy enough place for breakfast or tea and coffee but we’re not sure it persuades as a lunch/dinner destination. Ms Maschler enjoys ‘ethereal’ and ‘extraordinary’ food at Wormwood The Evening Standard critic is back from her hiatus and thrilled to discover a new Notting Hill […]
A new café/bar/restaurant offering ‘eclectic modern European cuisine with an Asian twist’ has just opened in Shoreditch. Penkul & Banks, serving tapas and sharing plates (what else?), takes its name from two furniture craftsmen whose Victorian workshops were sited at 77 Curtain Road. Of course more recently the site was home to a manly-menued place […]
The Editors’ review of Pavilion It’s handy enough for a pricey shopping lunch, but not a destination restaurant. Grace Dent is in a Viennese whirl over Fischer’s The Evening Standard critic loves Corbin & King’s new Vienna-style café. Smith & Wollensky to open at Adelphi US steakhouse to open its first London outpost […]
The Editors’ review of Ham Yard The food is the usual Firmdale Hotel formula, but the setting is really something special. Beast has Grace Dent roaring and raving “Look away now if London decadence leaves you boggle-eyed”, warns ES’s critic. Get a free glass of bubbly at the new Hawksmoor The Knightsbridge outpost […]
The Editors’ review of Bilbao Berria This Basque-style tapas joint is a welcome break from the usually grimly impersonal restaurants around Haymarket. Grace Dent falls in love with Georgian food at Marani ‘I don’t even like mascarpone that much, or mille feuille, but this is making me quite… emotional’. Vienna waltzes into Marylebone, […]
