Restaurant reopening

You know it's all such hooey when chefs say they don't care about Michelin stars. So we applaud the new chef taking over Marylebone stalwart Orrery, who is making no apologies for saying that his ambition is to get Michelin recognition.

Pierre Minotti (formerly at Alex Dilling at Hotel Cafe Royal) is so convinced of his offering that he's putting his name on the restaurant and it'll now be known as Orrery by Pierre Minotti. And now we can exclusively reveal his grand plans for the restaurant.

To start with, there will be a promenade element, as we've seen in places like

This month has seen the return of two big restaurants, returning after being shut by a fire. First there was Som Saa, and now it's the turn of Kensington classic Maggie Jones, which is back having being closed for two years. 

Originally opening back in

Six months after a kitchen fire that closed it down for half a year, Shoreditch restaurant som saa is getting ready to reopen. But the team haven't been sitting twiddling their thumbs during the long closure and renovation. They've come up with a bunch of new dishes as well as a brand-new bar snacks menu.

New dishes you might want to go and try include lemongrass salad, with squid, pork and cashew nuts,

Hats off to the journos at City AM who've managed to winkle out a reopening date for the Chiltern Firehouse. As you'll remember, the celeb haunt has been closed ever since a fire raged through the property back in February.

The hotel's accounts have just been submitted to Companies House and ...

There was quite the kerfuffle on Instagram when Jackson Boxer took to social to announce that his much-loved Notting Hill restaurant Orasay was going to close at the end of 2024. "There are a multitude of reasons for this," the chef and restaurateur said, "but the simplest one is that Orasay was never a very lucrative business. We specialised in working with a fragile and elusive product

There are plenty of restaurant operators who like to keep all their businesses close to each other - think Tom Kerridge in Marlow or Rick Stein in Cornwall. Now, up in North London, popular pub landlord Heath Ball is hoping to follow in their footsteps. Heath owns the super-popular (and our own personal favourite drinking hole) the Red Lion & Sun in Highgate, but has just taken on a new pub less than 200 yards

It's one of the most highly-rated sushi restaurants in London. But when Endo at the Rotunda reopens next month following a five-month closure for refurbishment there are going to be some key changes you need to know about.

The first is that it's going to be even harder to get a reservation. Before there were seats for 11 guests up at the omakase counter. Now that it's been reduced in size to increase intimacy between the

Updated 28/2/24 with the opening date

Jeremy King is about to have a very busy 2024. The well-known restaurateur who opened The Wolseley, The Delaunay, Brasserie Zedel is opening three restaurants this year and the first of them is something of a remake - as he's taken over the old Le Caprice site in St James. He can't actually call it by its previous name (after all, Caring may be bringing Le Caprice back),

15/11/23 - updated with more details about the opening

Well, this is a blast from the past. Five years after closing its overly ornate doors in Camden, the pan-Asian restaurant Gilgamesh is being reincarnated in a new site in Covent Garden.

When the original opened, it was the biggest restaurant in London (with one of the world's longest bars) that cost millions to build. It

Back in March, along with the closure of sibling businesses Bright and Noble Fine Liquor, the super popular Clapton wine bar P Franco closed its doors for what, we all thought, was for good.

But the team behind the bar weren't going down without a fight and the bar's manager William Gee started a

Update 8/5/23

We couldn't be more pleased to be able to update this story with the best news - L'Escargot's closure has indeed been temporary. Bookings are reopening for late May, a fact that's going to please so many people. 

We have to say there were a lot of naysayers who believed that this - and we use the term advisedly - iconic London restaurant had closed its doors for good. Three months

It's been closed for nine months after a fire last July but now Jun Tanaka's The Ninth is getting ready to make a comeback (cue Rocky music).

While the look of the restaurant will apparently be "reassuringly familiar", we're told that they've taken the opportunity to freshen things up a bit with new leather banquettes, new tableware and new bathrooms (always

Last year popular Smithfield haunt Lino made the announcement that they were closing their doors permanently. The pandemic, successive lockdowns and an unsupportive landlord did for them, despite positive reviews in both the Guardian and ...

In the same month we lost one of London's oldest restaurants (fingers crossed that's only temporary) it's good to hear that another of London's eighteenth century hostelries is being resurrected.

The Bleeding Heart Wine Bar's doors have been closed since the pandemic. And faint hearts

The Connaught Grill may have originally opened two years ago, but few Londoners will have had a chance to dine there given that lockdown began just weeks after the newest restaurant at The Connaught had unveiled its luxe interior. Now, the restaurant has reopened giving you all the chance to check it out.

If you're looking for it, you need to find the hidden away hall at the back of the lobby which leads to