Drakes Restaurant in the Surrey village of Ripley has been renamed The Clock House following the divorce of chef Steve Drake and his former wife Serina. Serina now owns the restaurant, with the kitchen run by head chef Fred Clapperton. She said the distinctive Georgian building on Ripley high street has always had the Clock House […]

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The Harden’s survey results for the 2015 guide are in Find out which London restaurants are hot (and which are not) with our results based on 65,000 restaurant-goer reports.   Grace Dent blows her Christmas budget at Roka Aldwych The Standard’s reviewer finds great robatayaki at wickedly expensive prices – “Think The Wolf of Wall […]

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