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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 […]
Chef Elliott Kaye will next week launch Marrion’s Bar in Hackney, his follow-up to Norman’s Cafe in Archway, which he ran for five years with Richie Hayes until it closed last summer. The new venue on Morning Lane is Elliott’s first solo project, and he says: “I wanted Marrion’s to be somewhere I’d actually want […]
A new pub opens two minutes’ walk from Bank station in the City next week offering £6 pints of Guinness and lobsters fresh from the display tank. The Albatross has taken an ex-Brown’s – originally the Commonwealth Bank of Australia – on Old Jewry, and is the first pub from Wild Group founders George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya […]
Former Raby Hunt chef James Close opens a purpose-built restaurant called Atlas at Rockliffe Hall near Darlington next week, with the declared ambition to establish it as “one of the world’s best restaurants“. Atlas is one of six dining and bar options at Rockliffe Hall, a luxury resort hotel which has undergone a multi-million-pound transformation […]
The team behind west London restaurant Dorian is to open a new Japanese venture near Notting Hill Gate station next week that combines two separate hit residencies, Urchin and Robin’s Ramen. Nakimushi – which means ‘cry-baby’ in Japanese – has taken over a three-storey townhouse in Kensington Mall, providing a permanent home for two residencies that made […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 31st August 2026 Financial Times Saarawos, Elephant and Castle Jay Rayner was impressed by the Thai cooking he encountered in the upstairs back room at an old boozer called The Albert Arms, where young ex-Fallow chef Ice Pongnat Ramanat […]
Gordon Ramsay is to open a self-named venue in a prominent site on London’s South Bank next Tuesday (1 September), having taken over the restaurant in Sea Containers luxury hotel. It is his first new launch since the widely publicised opening of his 100th restaurant earlier this summer – but has attracted surprisingly little attention. Sea […]
A new boutique hotel opens in Mayfair next week called The Shepherd, with a modern all-day brasserie called Fayre. The 82-room hotel replaces the former Park Lane Mews Hotel, in a refurbished block of townhouses above a ‘secret wartime bunker’ from the 1940s, near cute Shepherd Market. Fayre offers a menu of classic European dishes using […]
Former Mangal II chef Sertaç Dirik is opening a new restaurant in Soho next week called Kid, in partnership with David Carter, the restaurateur behind a string of hits from Smokestak and Manteca in Shoreditch to Oma and Agora in Borough Market. Sertaç started out in the kitchen at his family’s Turkish grill in Dalston […]
Chef Dom Chapman (left in photo) and restaurateur Nigel Sutcliffe, who worked together at the Fat Duck 25 years ago, have joined forces to revive the Jack O’Newbury in the Berkshire village of Binfield, which reopens next Wednesday. ‘The Jack’ is a former village inn close to both Windsor and Ascot that has been transformed […]
