Our mission is remarkably simple. To tell it how it is!
The UK’s top 100 restaurants are revealed in Harden’s Best UK Restaurants 2018 published today – the country’s most comprehensive restaurant guide available in bookshops, with approximately twice the number of entries as The Good Food Guide. The guide hails London’s The Araki as the country’s best restaurant. The experience is “world class” and, at £385-a-head, […]
Jay Rayner in The Observer wants to love the newly refurbished Simpsons in the Strand, but the booze prices (“a maniacal laugh in the face of sanity”), “calamitous” Beef Wellington, and lack their infamous breakfast rather spoils his fun… “I want to love Simpson’s in the Strand. I want to adore it, in the way I once […]
Marylebone’s “engaging and informal” merry-go-round Carousel has announced its first roster of guest chef residencies to kick off the New Year. The restaurant will reopen on 4 January with the Templeton cousins welcoming Romy Gill MBE, Angelo Sato, and Shuli Wimer into their kitchen for the year’s first set of residencies. As always, each of the chefs […]
Jay Rayner in The Observer says the decor at Gul & Sepoy is so distressed it needs a hug. From reading his review it sounds like Jay could use one too… “Sometimes it just doesn’t matter how good individual dishes are… If, at the end of the meal you feel baffled or let down or short […]
At noon today (1 December) early bird tickets for Meatopia 2018 go on sale at meatopia.co.uk, permitting discerning diners entry to the event a valuable 30 mins before regular ticketholders. Now in its sixth year, Meatopia UK boasts a fully curated menu of exquisite, one-off dishes, all cooked over fire by some of the world’s most sought-after and […]
This December Soho’s HIPCHIPS – which is proud to be the world’s first crisp and dip cafe – launches its own take on Christmas (or should that be Crispmas?!) dinner. Their menu will feature a whole festive feast in dip form. Your ‘Christmas Dinner Box,’ includes five varieties of handcrafted, heritage crisps paired with both sweet and […]
Giles Coren in the Times revisits Restaurant Gordon Ramsay (the original on Royal Hospital Road) and finds the three Michelin star level service to be just a bit much… “Smartly redone a couple of years ago in the art deco style, it must look great when empty, but it was so rammed with waiters that I […]
Jay Rayner in The Observer reviews The Kitchen, Inverness (after a bad meal at Boath House, Nairn)… BOATH HOUSE: “I’ve had more fun at the chiropodist, getting my corns removed. I left the Boath House with my will sapped. It is a brilliant opportunity wasted. “A narrow, gummy strip of treacle-cured salmon arrives, with cubes of bitter, […]
Fay Maschler in the Evening Standard, heads to another of London’s many ‘baby roll-outs’ as she samples the second Smoking Goat… “’Nu-Thai’ is what the cool kids call it, I am told, food from white boys who have travelled widely in South-East Asia. “New place, groovy food, stripper ghosts, Shoreditch, buzz, buzz, buzz. Drinking Foods — the […]
Charlotte’s W5 From 2 November 2017-January 2018 As the weather gets colder and the hours of daylight shorter, Charlotte’s W5 in Ealing, have the ideal place to cosy up this winter. Their winter terrace, in association with Sipsmith, includes blankets, fairy lights, hot cocktails, fir trees and roasted chestnuts. The latest addition to Charlotte’s Group, Charlotte’s […]
