London Restaurants - West London
In the 80’s, Alex Giri opened West London’s Canal Brasserie. Now, 30 years later, she’s back with her son Oscar in tow to bring flexitarian food to Notting Hill’s Kensington Park Road, with a separate cocktail bar featuring sharing plates.
After a stint roving around London, Gerald and Ko of Bistro?s Mirey have decided to settle in Fulham, where they?ll be continuing to whip up seasonal dishes from a short menu that's big on French and Japanese flavours.
With the success of 108 Garage behind them, the same team have opened Southam Street. This is a three storey place taking in a grill, raw bar and an upstairs mezcal bar too.
Drawing on London inspiration from Borough Market, and not-so-local inspiration, The Pilgrm will be catering to the Paddington crowd with menus they're billing as ?journeys in themselves?, plus internationally acclaimed cocktails and a special late night menu laden with comfort food.
Colin Tu has branched out from his North and East London Salvation in Noodles restaurants with a new Vietnamese restaurant in Notting Hill.
Critic reviews - total score out of 10
For years Clare Smyth was seen as the guiding light of Gordon Ramsay's flagship Hospital Road restaurant. Now she's going it alone with her own fine-dining spot in Notting Hill
Critic reviews - total score 8 out of 10
One of the most Loved restaurants in Notting Hill, this is an old school Italian.
Critic reviews - total score 6 out of 10
He's been a mainstay of Padstow for many a year but this sees Rick Stein heading to Barnes for his London restaurant.
Critic reviews - total score 9 out of 10
Former pop-up, London Shell Company is launching a floating restaurant on the Regent’s Canal at Paddington with dinner either moored up or on the move. The menu focuses on seasonal seafood.
Critic reviews - total score 3 out of 10
This sees Bjorn Van Der Horst (Eastside Inn) and Omar Romero (Rhodes Twenty Four, Rosewood) taking over the dining room on the 23rd floor of the Hilton Metropole. Expect a modernist Japanese pub with food to match. Plus Kirin beer K-slurpys and clay barrel aged cocktails served on airline trolleys.
Critic reviews - total score 8 out of 10
Six Portland Road and comes from Oli Barker (who used to head up Terroirs alongside Ed Wilson). It's a small 40 seater restaurant with an ever-changing menu.
Critic reviews - total score 7 out of 10
This is a combined Danish restaurant and deli in Notting Hill. Expect a very Danish all-day menu in very Danish surroundings.
Critic reviews - total score 8 out of 10
Former blogger Mikael Jonsson has created his ideal restaurant in Chiswick, with an emphasis on freshly sourced ingredients.
Critic reviews - total score 8 out of 10
This Notting Hill restaurant is run by chef/patron Rabah Ourrad, an Algerian rapper in Paris who used his time there to hone his culinary skills. He worked at Sketch, the Ledbury and Momo before starting Wormwood with his brother Akli. The menu here "spans the Mediterranean, but stands alone in its conformist refusal" so expect mezze/tapas with a French cooking flair.
Critic reviews - total score 6 out of 10
This old favourite is now under the ownership of Ossie Gray, who used to be the General Manager of River Cafe. They're "cooking the food we love based on our experience of regional French & Italian with some other Mediterranean influences as well."
Critic reviews - total score 8 out of 10
This restaurant from MasterChef , the Professionals finalist Marianne Lumb will have just 14 covers, and five tables, allowing the chef to concentrate on producing perfect plates of seasonal food. There will be a daily changing menu.
Critic reviews - total score 6.5 out of 10
This is the restaurant housed in the Serpentine Sackler Gallery. Housed under the fancy new part attached to the grade II listed building, this has German chef Oliver Lange in charge who aims to mix Japanese food with European.
Critic reviews - total score 7 out of 10
Luis Baena, a famed Portuguese chef who has worked with Paul Bocuse has taken over the space once occupied by Notting Hill Brasserie and replacing it with Notting Hill Kitchen. The new restaurant will be focus on a mix of seasonal Portuguese and Spanish food, such as pork cheek confit with truffled bread & bacon crumble.
Critic reviews - total score 7 out of 10
This is the follow up to the diminutive Sushi of Shiori. The larger restaurant allows chef Takashi Takag to run a Kaiseki dining experience in an authentic Japanese setting.
Critic reviews - total score 6.5 out of 10
Bush Hall Dining Rooms is described as "a true neighborhood restaurant". The 70 cover spot is an all day diner, open seven days a week. Family-style dishes will be available at breakfast and for Sunday lunch when they'll serve up roasts with all the trimmings for the head of the table to carve themselves.
Critic reviews - total score 7 out of 10
The Gladwin brothers, who are each a farmer, a chef and a restaurateur are joining up to create this new British restaurant and bar. Richard Gladwin (who launched Brawn and Bunga Bunga) will manage the place, Gregory Gladwin will supply the restaurant with from the family farm, and chef Oliver Gladwin (who's worked at Launceston Place and River Cottage) will be inventing "spontaneous dishes from produce that is readily available in a flamboyant fashion".
Critic reviews - total score 7 out of 10
Rising from the ashes of Electric Brassiere, Soho House's new outfit consists of a completely refurbished Electric House members club, a re-upholstered Electric Cinema, London’s oldest cinema, and two completely new concepts, Electric Donuts and the Diner. Fronting these will be American Chef Brendan Sodikoff, from legendary Chicago restaurant Au Cheval, whom Soho House have partnered with to develop the concepts and oversee the kitchen team.
Critic reviews - total score 6.5 out of 10
Critic reviews - total score 7 out of 10
Claude Bosi and his brother already have a pub in Wimbledon (the Fox and Grapes) and now they've opened their second in Fulham. This time, they'll be aiming for "modern British pub food" but Fulhamites can expect a stamp of quality as Bosi has enlisted Marcus McGuinness, the former Head Chef of Hibiscus (Bosi's two Michelin starred restaurant in Mayfair), to take over the revamped pub.
Critic reviews - total score 8 out of 10
He's had a big hit with the Mall Tavern and now Jesse Dunford Wood has expanded further to Kensal Green.
Critic reviews - total score 8 out of 10
The team behind the Harwood arms are Stephen Williams, former head chef at the Ledbury, Mike Robinson from the Pot Kiln pub in Berkshire and Edwin Vaux from the Vaux brewery. Together their impressive credentials have formed a perfect whole - a gastropub that actually serves what the name suggests.