A Mediterranean-inspired restaurant enticing long-lunchers launched this week close to Marble Arch in Marylebone – Mour, an offshoot from the Leonard Hotel next door. Set inside a smartly remodelled Georgian townhouse with its own entrance on Seymour Street, the 60-seater restaurant includes a sun-lit courtyard open all year round thanks to its retractable roof – providing a […]
Farmer-chef Will Devlin of The Small Holding in Kent this week opened his first London outpost, Birchwood at the Conduit members’ club in Covent Garden. The venture is starting out as an all-day cafe and wine bar with a roof-top restaurant follow in the autumn – all of them open to the general public. The […]
Adam Byatt of Trinity in Clapham is to open an Italian neighbourhood restaurant overlooking Wandsworth Common, called Rosina after his daughter Rosie. Rosina has taken over the corner site formerly occupied by Brinkley’s Kitchen – just a few doors along Bellevue Parade from Chez Bruce, which has for many years jousted with Trinity for the title […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 21st June 2026 The Guardian The Golden Tooth, Newington Green Grace Dent welcomed the new venue from Matthew Scott – “one of the most interesting cooks around right now” – and wine merchant Charlie Carr, the duo behind Papi in London Fields […]
The latest phase of the six-year, £1.4billion revamp of Olympia in west London opened for business this week – Canopy, a rooftop dining and drinking space between the two main halls, incorporating four different venues. Canopy is named after its 22-metre-high vaulted glass roof made from 520 separate panels, and has direct access via stairs and […]
The ground-floor restaurant at Soho House founder Nick Jones’s new-build luxury hotel St Clement opened formally this week, overlooking the Thames at Temple. Café Clement offers an all-day Franco-Italian menu, from a kitchen run by ex-River Cafe chef Danny Bohan. It has a riverside terrace as well as garden seating. Ahead of its opening to […]
Yorkshire chef Liz Cottam opened her new restaurant Byre this week – an old dairy farm in Wharfedale overlooking Bolton Abbey, and her first rural venue after a decade in Leeds. She says the setting and the ingredients she now has on her doorstep are changing the way she works. A former corporate high-flyer who […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 14th June 2026 The Guardian Oudh 1722, Borough Grace Dent tipped the London debut from Birmingham-based chef Aktar Islam as “one of the restaurant openings of 2026”, serving 300-year-old Awadhi cooking from the royal courts of Lucknow in a “charmingly […]
A female-led wine bar and bistro which celebrates wines made by women producers opens this weekend in the heritage Menier Chocolate Factory building opposite Borough Market. Launched by Parisienne wine expert Carole Bryon, Lady of the Grapes focuses on organic, biodynamic and natural wines on a 400-strong list. It follows the smaller wine bar of […]
