The team behind Wild Tavern in Chelsea and Wild in Notting Hill have opened their first Japanese venture – Wild Izakaya on Old Jewry Street in the City, fronted by former Koyn and Nobu head chef Satoru Hashimoto. The izakaya has taken over the former Browns premises opposite Goodman, the steak house opened 16 years ago […]
Ed and Ollie Templeton, the brothers behind influential chef residency showcase Carousel in Fitzrovia, will next week open an ambitious Mexican seafood restaurant on the same site. Cometa – pitched as a “contemporary take on Mexican seafood, seen through a distinctly British lens” – is taking over the space currently occupied by the Carousel wine bar. Ed […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 8th February 2026 The Times & Sunday Times Rules, Covent Garden The Sunday Times unveiled Camilla Long, one of its heavyweight columnists, as its new restaurant critic this week – dispatching her for her first review, as custom apparently […]
A new cafe opens off Rye Lane in Peckham next week with a focus on prime Welsh ingredients. Bara is from a duo of ‘chefs and bread lovers’, Zoë Heimann and Cecily Dalladay – the latter a former quarterfinalist in MasterChef: The Professionals. They say: “Bara is the Welsh word for bread, a simple, universal food that […]
Brighton’s Black Rock restaurant group has this week opened its first pub – the Crazy Goose, on the original site of the Coal Shed in Boyce’s Street, one block back from the seafront in the town centre. The pub features a bar on the ground floor and a first-floor dining room called The Blue Room, with […]
A new boutique hotel called the Newman with an all-day brasserie serving North European-inspired comfort food opens this Sunday 1 February, just north of Oxford Street in Fitzrovia. Brasserie Angelica has its own bar and a terrace for outdoor eating in warmer weather, with the added attraction of a sandwich trolley at lunchtime. The kitchen […]
Chef Tony Parkin is to open his first solo restaurant next week – Daise, in Oxton on the Wirral, in premises occupied for almost two decades by Marc Wilkinson’s acclaimed Fraiche. Tony has teamed up with Andrew Sheridan’s Open Restaurant group, based across the Mersey in Liverpool, which has run the site under the name Oxa […]
Hugely popular Cantonese canteen Dim Sum Duck in King’s Cross has opened a second branch around the corner from the tiny original – which should ease the long queues for a table. The family-run outfit has steadily earned cult status since launching six years ago, and is the top-rated Chinese restaurant in the under £80-a-head category […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 25th January 2026 The Guardian The Tin Roof, Maldon, Essex Responding to a tip from a reader, Grace Dent found herself at a hugely popular café and bakery attached to a huge garden centre, where she ate alongside “pensioner […]
