Nottingham chef-entrepreneur Nichola Thompson is opening her second private dining venue, Chapter 2 – a follow-up to Table 47, which regularly has a four-month waiting time for bookings. Neither is a traditional restaurant for walk-in customers: instead, they offer pre-booked dining for parties of various sizes, with bespoke or tasting menus and open-kitchen cooking as […]
The team behind Shoreditch restaurant Nest will relaunch it next week as a ‘British bistro’ called Tavern, while Mayfair restaurateur Samyukta Nair has revived her Thai restaurant Koyn under the name Miko Mei Fair – as hospitality owners shuffle their packs in response to customer demand. Nest established the reputation of chef Johnnie Crowe with his […]
The duo behind British-Afghan barbecue Cue Point this week opened their first permanent site – in North Kensington, close to the project’s origins as a pop-in west London 10 years ago. Founders Joshua Moroney and Mursal Saiq have teamed up with the Garden Bar pub near Latimer Road tube station to create The Garden Bar Grill and […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 19th April 2026 The Times Burro, Covent Garden Giles Coren hailed the new opening from chef Conor Gadd as “one for the ages”: a “great, rustic Italian in a beautiful airy space with plenty of easy West End glamour.” Long […]
Former Cycene chef Theo Clench is to relaunch the chic Mayfair open-fire restaurant Humo next week as Igni, a little over a year after the departure of launch chef Miller Prada. As suggested by the new name (from the Latin ‘ignis’, meaning fire), the restaurant will continue its culinary approach, although Theo has warned guests […]
Chef and foodwriter Ravinder Bhogal is to open a second branch of her restaurant Jikoni this weekend at the stunning new V&A East Museum in Stratford, east London. Ravinder opened the original Jikoni in Marylebone 10 years ago, winning high praise in this year’s Harden’s Guide for her “delicious and original Indian-fusion cooking”. She and […]
Two generations from a family of London restaurant ‘royalty’ have combined forces for the first time, to open a dining pub in North Kensington that launches next week. Jon Spiteri (second from left in picture), a veteran general manager best known as co-founder of St John, and Melanie Arnold (second from right), co-founder of Rochelle […]
Chef Charlie Simmonds is opening his debut venue called Ebb at the end of Worthing’s Victorian pier this month, replacing hit restaurant Tern which moved on to permanent premises on dry land in December. Ebb occupies the upper storey of the pier’s Grade II listed Southern Pavilion – a space with stunning sea views known as […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 12th April 2026 London Standard Impala, Soho David Ellis was thrilled by the “one-off” cooking at former Kiln head chef Meedu Saad’s Egyptian-inspired grill, which he hailed as “fusion food without the naffness” in the mould of “West-African-but-not-really” Ikoyi […]
A Slavic-inspired wine and listening bar serving East European-style sharing plates has opened this week in Notting Hill. Called Sova – ‘owl’ in several Slavic languages – it is from the team behind Russian restaurant Zima in Soho, and replaces their year-old Notting Hill offshoot. A wine list from consultant sommelier Christian Vega focuses on […]
