The dust had barely settled following the closure of well regarded Papi in London Fields when a new restaurant called Auguste opened in the premises this week – and the Papi team revealed their plan to launch a ‘public house dining room’ called The Golden Tooth near Newington Green later this month. Auguste takes its name […]
Gordon Ramsay launches his TV-tie-in restaurant brand Hell’s Kitchen in London this week, closely followed by a high-rise City branch of Bread Street Kitchen which will be the 100th restaurant in his global empire. Originally a tough area of New York, Hell’s Kitchen lent its name to the chef’s reality TV cooking show first aired […]
MEATliquor and Patty & Bun – two of the country’s most prominent ‘dirty burger’ groups – have both shrunk dramatically following multiple closures this week after 15 years of trading. MEATliquor shuttered branches in Islington, Clapham Junction, Queensway and in Brighton, as well as its pub the Dartford Arms in Forest Hill. Having pulled out of Leeds […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 22nd March 2026 Financial Times Restaurant Gordon Ramsay High, City of London Jay Rayner ascended to the 60th floor of 22 Bishopsgate to sample the new offshoot of Gordon Ramsay’s flagship, whose £250 menu – just £10 less than the Prestige […]
Highly rated restaurants Silver Birch in Chiswick and Somssi in Mayfair were shuttered permanently this week, while Honey & Smoke grill house in Great Portland Street and Milk Beach in Queen’s Park have closed for conversion into wine bars, as hospitality owners grapple with market place challenges. The Silver Birch ran for five years and […]
Two new handroll sushi bars are about to launch in London’s West End, offering a different twist on Japanese dining. Temaki opens next week in Maddox Street, Mayfair after a five-year run in Brixton Market that ended last summer. Billed when it opened as London’s first handroll specialist, it won high ratings in the Harden’s […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 15th March 2026 Daily Telegraph Simpson’s in the Strand William Sitwell hustled a table for the first night of full trading at “the hottest ticket in London”, earning bragging rights as the first national critic into print on restaurateur […]
The Aegean too hot in August these days? Never mind: a trio of smart new tavernas in central London will make it easier than ever for stay-at-homes to enjoy a taste of Greece this summer. First to launch this week was Maza in Bruton Place, off Berkeley Square, from Christina Mouratoglou and Adrien Carre, the […]
Jamie Oliver this week relaunched his Jamie’s Italian brand in the UK with a new opening in London’s West End – almost seven years after the original brand collapsed into liquidation with the loss of 22 venues and more than 1,000 jobs. The new branch can accommodate 140 guests across three storeys in Irving Street, off […]
Heston Blumenthal is to shut down his London restaurant Dinner by Heston at the end of next January, on the 16th anniversary of its launch. Describing the closure as “sad and bittersweet“, he said the project had “run its natural course“. Set in the Mandarin Oriental hotel overlooking Hyde Park, Dinner was Heston’s follow-up to the […]
