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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 25th October 2026 The Guardian Outlier, Glasgow Grace Dent followed up a tip from a stranger to have brunch at a four-year-old art space with a kitchen whose “carefully orchestrated can’t-be-arsedness is really quite magical [and] intensely likable”. She was […]
Former Kiln head chef Karla Knowles is opening two Thai restaurants in quick succession, starting next week with Pam, by Smithfield Market in Charterhouse Street. Her first standalone restaurant, Pam is pitched as a “playful and creative” take on Thai cuisine, making use of seasonal British produce in a venue that will also host art […]
An upmarket steakhouse called Lucky Grill opens this week from the Wild Group in Kensington, replacing Greek restaurant Krokodilos that lasted just over a year at the site in Lancer Square, off Church Street. The move follows a similar switch last year by Wild Group when Fantomas in King’s Road, Chelsea, was replaced by the […]
A restaurant on a remote Welsh eco retreat is opening an outpost in the heart of the Big Smoke next week. Bert’s has taken over part of the well-known Brackenbury Wine Rooms in Hammersmith, which closed down 18 months ago, and will be an all-day small-plates spot featuring produce from Wales. Founder Ali Paice (pictured) and […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 18th October 2026 Financial Times Miokuru Handroll Bar, Soho Jay Rayner dropped into one of the half-dozen handroll bars that have opened within a couple of hundred metres of Piccadilly Circus in recent months, where he enjoyed “one of […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 11th October 2026 The Guardian Indian Café Racer, Birmingham Grace Dent enjoyed the ride at a cult Brum outfit that started out in the back room of a pub and has now expanded into “fancy new” 65-cover premises. Its […]
An East European chophouse will open next month in the crypt of St George’s Church in Hanover Square, a troubled site in Mayfair that has seen the departure of two previous restaurants in the past year. Elezar, which takes its name from the Hebrew eleazar meaning “God has helped”, is from a trio who share […]
Dishoom is to open its largest branch yet next week on the edge of Borough Market, having taken over two storeys in the west wing of the Hop Exchange, an extravagant Victorian edifice built as a hub for the brewing industry. Open for breakfast from 8am during the week (9am art weekends) until late, the […]
Actor Daniel Craig has teamed up with a pair of hospitality heavyweights, Soho House founder Nick Jones (left) and Flat Iron founder Charlie Carroll (right), to take over a pub called The Horseshoe in Clerkenwell. Best-known for his role as James Bond in five films, the actor has beer in his veins: “I grew up […]
