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Our round-up of wha the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 20th September 2026 The Guardian Kid, Soho Grace Dent gave her seal of approval to the “distinctive, delicious” cooking at one of the year’s most anticipated new restaurants, from ex-Mangal II chef Sertaç Dirik and restaurateur David Carter of […]
A Parisian-style bistro opens next week in Covent Garden from the team behind Levan in Peckham Rye – with specials that include an hommage to Pierre Koffmann’s stuffed pig’s trotter (pictured), for which the great chef was famous long before Koffmann’s fries. Named Cassette, the new venture has taken over the former premises of Grind on […]
An ambitious Brazilian/Japanese restaurant opens in Newcastle’s Quayside next week, which its founders believe has the potential for national and international expansion. Nipo takes its name from the Nipo-Brasileiro community of São Paulo, said to the be the largest concentration of Japanese people outside Japan, and is the brainchild of the team behind Newcastle’s Rio […]
The hit-making Public House Group opened their latest pub this week – The Horses in Clerkenwell, which comes galloping hard on the heels of The Hart, which opened last year in Marylebone, joining a four-year-old stable that includes The Hero, The Fat Badger and The Pelican. The Horses is primarily a dining venue, with a strong […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 13th September 2026 Financial Times Igni, Mayfair Jay Rayner savoured a meal of “only highlights” from ex-Cycene chef Theo Clench, who has taken over the live-fire kitchen of what used to be called Humo. The experience is best enjoyed […]
Chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen next week opens a Mediterranean-style all-day restaurant with a large terrace inspired by ‘Milanese piazzas and Riviera promenades’ that overlooks a landscaped garden, just a couple of minutes’ walk from the hustle of Oxford Street. Pearl, in Mayfair’s Brown Hart Gardens, close to Selfridges, is a standalone venue adjacent to and part […]
Chef and food writer Romy Gill marks her return to frontline hospitality – and her London debut – with the launch next week of Romy Gill at the Pem, where she will present a menu of regional Indian cooking. She ran Romy’s Kitchen in Thornbury, near Bristol in south Gloucester, from 2013-19, and was awarded […]
Chef Tom Sellers is to open five new eating and drinking sites at Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire, purported to be Britain’s oldest country club and now owned by Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, the richest man in Asia. The luxury venue near Slough – but more importantly for its clientele within easy reach of both Heathrow […]
A new neighbourhood independent restaurant called Vera opened in Glasgow’s Southside this week, serving Mediterranean-influenced modern cooking from chef Zak Young, who has worked in two of the city’s most celebrated kitchens, Cail Bruich and Unalome. Vera, from the Latin for ‘true’, is on Nithsdale Road near Strathbungo, and pitches itself as “a relaxed place […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 6th September 2026 The Guardian Kintsu, Colchester Grace Dent sang the praises of “a small regional indie doing its very best in rather weird times”: chef Paul Wendholt’s ambitious set menu outfit (eight courses plus extras for £90) closed […]
