New week sees the opening of a trio of statement Italian restaurants in London – two offering roof-top dining (one each to the east and west of the capital) and one that is simply BIG. First to open on Monday (12 October) is Torino, on Paddington Square outside the station, with a bakery on the […]
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 […]
Chef Andrew Sheridan opens his latest venue today – a New York-inspired restaurant and cocktail bar in Liverpool’s Ropewalks area named Manhattan-style after the corner it sits on, Seel & Slater. The launch follows an astonishingly quick transformation of Gary Usher’s Wreck Bistro, which served its final meals last Sunday, having been acquired by Andrew’s Open […]
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 […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 4th October 2026 The Guardian Dante Mayfair, Claridge’s Grace Dent managed to find nice things to say about the New York import permanently installed in the main restaurant space at this grand hotel, going against the flow of reviewers who […]
The team behind the much-praised Silver Birch in Chiswick, west London, which closed down after five years in March, has reopened the site as an all-day neighbourhood spot called Brook & Green (pictured). Owner Tim Price says the new project, which draws on Mediterranean, Asian and British influences, is “built for consistency and repeat use […]
Gennaro Contaldo, best-known as Jamie Oliver’s mentor, has opened his latest restaurant near Piccadilly Circus – at the mature age of 77. Named Bolo after his signature Bolognese ragu, the 32-seat trattoria in Air Street serves a tight menu that revolves around seven pasta dishes – including the ‘Jamie’ (mezze maniche with sausage, Calabrian chilli bolo & […]
The Hispanophile Hart Brothers have closed their Borough Market grill restaurant Parrillan and will replace it with a Spanish-style neighbourhood bar or ‘cerveceria’ called Los Primos, where guests can enjoy a beer and a bite to eat for less than a tenner. Ice-cold Estrella Galicia will be sold by the caña – a small glass holding […]
Polish chef Marek Dziedzic is to showcase the cooking of his home country at his new County Durham restaurant Biedronka, meaning ‘ladybird’, which launches this Thursday (1 October). Marek is already well-known in the area as head chef at Scandinavian-influenced restaurant Hjem in nearby Wall, which closed down at the end of last year having […]
