The famous Midland Grand dining room at St Pancras, one of London’s most beautiful restaurant spaces, is to become the latest branch of upmarket steakhouse Hawksmoor. The move follows the sudden closure of Victor Garvey at the Midland Grand in July, just six months after its launch. Hawksmoor St Pancras is expected to open in […]
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 […]
Chef-patron Robin Gill is to open a new all-day cafe and aperitivo spot called Bar Brasso next door to his flagship restaurant Darby’s, near the new US Embassy in Nine Elms. The space has been operated until recently as Darby’s Next Door, and will offer pastries and coffee in the morning, bigger dishes at lunchtime […]
A lavish Maltese-owned Japanese restaurant has opened in a Grade II-listed former bank in Marylebone. Converted at a reputed cost of £15million, it features a cocktail bar in what was the underground safety deposit vault. Aki – from ‘akitsu’, an old Japanese word for dragonfly – is a short walk from Oxford Circus in Cavendish Square. […]
Two London institutions combine next week with the opening of a new café from the St John stable at the London Review Bookshop, around the corner from the British Museum in Bloomsbury. Launching on Wednesday 1st October, the new venture replaces the London Review Cake Shop that has been sorely missed by regulars since closing […]
Former El Bulli chef Rob Roy Cameron next week launches a Basque-inspired restaurant in Soho called Alta, after northern Spain’s Alta Navarra region. Rob spent 10 years working in Spain and was Albert Adria’s right-hand man for the opening of 41 Degrees – the offshoot of restaurant Tickets – and later at Hoja Santa, both […]
Kudu, Richoux and Chick’n’Sours all reappeared this week at unfamiliar addresses as London restaurateurs reshuffled their packs for the winter. Kudu, until recently a ‘collective’ of four venues in southeast London from Amy Corbin and Patrick Williams (pictured), has moved to a prominent corner site opposite La Fromagerie in Marylebone – marking a big shift from […]
The fast-expanding Public House Group soft-launched its latest London pub this week – The Hart in Marylebone, behind the Wallace Collection and next door to the currently closed Chiltern Firehouse. Known as The Flowerhouse for the past four years, The Hart has three storeys with a bar at ground-floor level leading up to a restaurant on […]
After more than 30 years as leader of the gastronomic pack in the West Country, Michael Caines has made his London debut as a chef-restaurateur this week at the Stafford hotel in St James’s. The new venture brings a flavour of his native region, with the menu name-checking fish and seafood from Brixham in Devon […]
