Double-winning TV chef Nikita Pathakji (centre in picture) launches her debut restaurant next week – MAAI by Nikita in Clapham, south London, a family- and female-run business with her mother Rima (left) and sister Isha (right) at her side. Nikita, now 28, won MasterChef: The Professionalsin 2022 and followed that up by being crowned Great […]
Prolific chef Nick Molyviatis (right in picture) unveils his debut Greek taverna Zylia in London this week as the headline act at Covent Garden’s Arcade food hall – one of three new food halls opening this month as operators gear up for the summer. South of the Thames, Manchester’s Freight Island launched a southern outpost […]
One of the most famous names in post-war London dining has bowed out with the closure of all five Spaghetti House venues, after the family company behind the brand was placed in administration. A Braccetto, the Earl’s Court trattoria opened two years ago by the second generation of the Lavarini family, has also ceased operation. […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 10th May 2026 Daily Mail Impala, Soho Tom Parker Bowles joined the chorus of critical praise for the new restaurant from former Kiln head chef (and still co-owner) Meedu Saad, who “truly soars” given the opportunity to create his […]
The trio behind Highbury restaurant Lupa – restaurateur Ed Templeton, chef Naz Hassan and actor Theo James – have followed it up just nine months later by opening Ornella in Hackney’s Wilton Way. While the menu at Lupa is inspired by Rome, Ornella takes its culinary cues from Milan – where Naz grew up – and its name […]
High-profile chef Monica Galetti has made a return to the capital’s restaurant scene as executive chef of a venue in Primrose Hill with a social purpose – to provide hospitality training to homeless people and recovering addicts. 130 Primrose, which opened this week, takes its name from the area and also from the ‘prima rosa’ flower, […]
Legendary Philadelphia pizzaiolo Joe Beddia has joined forces with Ed McElroy of Four Legs – the team behind north London pub The Plimsoll pub and fish bar Tollingtons – to open Bar Etna in Newington Green. The founders say Bar Etna “will blend the spirit of New York and Philadelphia pizza culture with the ease of an […]
High-flying Indian restaurant brand Trèsind opens its first UK branch in Mayfair today (8 May), offering a take on the cuisine that earned chef Himanshu Saini (pictured) three Michelin stars in four years at its Dubai flagship. The launch follows hot on the heels of Oudh 1722 from Birmingham’s Aktar Islam in Borough and shortly […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 3rd May 2026 Financial Times Sentosa, Bermondsey Declaring that “going to a restaurant with one particular dish in mind is a noble approach to eating out”, Jay Rayner set his heart on a rare-in-London plate of Singapore chilli crab at […]
Birmingham-based chef Aktar Islam, whose stellar flagship Opheem has taken Indian cuisine to new heights in recent years, opens his first London venue today (May 1) – with another restaurant following later this month in Bristol. Oudh 1722, his London debut, has taken over the former site of Lupins in a listed Victorian building on the […]
