One of London’s ultra-high-end sushi specialists has changed its leadership, with Taku in Albemarle Street, Mayfair rebranding as Sushi Amamato under the direction of a sushi master based in Taiwan. The 16-seat counter was rated number 5 in last year’s Harden’s 100 of the UK’s best restaurants under chef Takuya Watanabe, who is best known […]
The City of London’s notorious appetite for red meat shows no sign of abating, with the opening of two new steakhouses within 10 minutes’ walk of each other this week. The Four Seasons hotel at Tower Bridge has replaced La Dame de Pic, its highly rated French restaurant from visiting star chef Anne-Sophie Pic, with […]
The prolific Public House Group opened its latest venue this week – CeCe’s in Notting Hill, billed as a classic Italian restaurant with “a hint of Hollywood”. Taking over the former site of celeb hangout Casa Cruz in Clarendon Road, the launch has been kept quiet until this week. It follows hot on the heels of […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 1st March 2026 The Guardian Pavyllon, Mayfair Grace Dent, a proud member of the early-rising “5am Club”, followed a heavily hyped trend to sample an upmarket power breakfast at the Four Seasons hotel on Park Lane, suggesting: “Perhaps now […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 15th February 2026 The Times & Sunday Times Materia Prima, Notting Hill Following her debut review of London’s oldest restaurant (Rules), new Sunday Times restaurant critic Camilla Long turned her attention to one of its newest, a “high-concept, Japanese-adjacent” […]
Three-and-a-half years after closing his Hackney wine bar the Laughing Heart, Charlie Mellor is back with Osteria Vibrato, an old-school Italian restaurant in Soho that opens on Valentine’s Day. Charlie (left in photo) is joined by fellow bearded sommelier Cameron Dewar (ex-Luca and Burnt Ends; right in photo) in the new Greek Street venture, which […]
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 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 […]
DakaDaka, an ambitious Georgian restaurant from a newly formed hospitality outfit, opens tomorrow in Mayfair’s Heddon Street foodie enclave, tucked away off Regent Street. Taking over the site formerly occupied by hit restaurants Manteca and Fallow, DakaDaka is the debut London project from Berkeley Square Hospitality, headed by Georgians Giorgi Mindiashvili and chef patron Mitz […]
