Test Drives

After proving a huge hit in Soho and winning an Observer Food Monthly award, Tonkotsu heads east to Hackney for its next venture. We went along to check it out.

A timeless French restaurant returns to London - we head to Mayfair to try out the new incarnation of Boulestin.

Start the day in London with a breakfast that serves up the whole of London as the view. With Aqua Shard being the first place at the Shard to do breakfast we went along to try it out.

Hawksmoor (but also not Hawksmoor) head to Farringdon for their next brand new restaurant. We check it out.

Scarfes Bar at the Rosewood London is fast becoming one of the city's great new hotel bars. But did you know it serves up curries and casseroles at lunchtimes? We head along to take a look.

Going east, Angela Hartnett teams up with the people behind Canteen for this Shoreditch bar and restaurant. We head along to take a look.

  Inspired by its turning up as a plot point on Downton Abbey, we get dressed up and head over to the Ritz for dinner.

London meets New York head on at Chop Shop on Haymarket.

It's only there for 12 weeks, so we head for the 24th floor at Tower 42 to see if Anthony Demetre's pop-up is worth catching.

We head to Mayfair to try Michelin-starred Karam Sethi's (from Trishna) latest venture, Gymkhana.

With over 10,000 covers booked pre-opening, there's a lot riding on Gordon Ramsay's newest London restaurant. We headed down to Southwark to see whether it could stand up to the hype.

We head to a restaurant  built in a 19th century coal vault in the heart of Soho serving small plates and cocktails.

For his third opening this year, Jason Atherton teams up with chef Phil Carmichael to open this glamorous all day restaurant at the London EDITION Hotel.

We go the master chocolatier William Curley's dessert bar in Belgravia to try the special tasting menu.

We head to the latest from Richard Caring - the man behind Dirty Burger and Chicken Shop - to see how he brings affordable grilled fast(ish) food to Soho.

We go to the Soho cousin of the Electric Diner to see how the dirty food transfers to the West End.

This new neighbourhood restaurant in Islington offers rotisserie chicken and a while lot more. We head over to check it out.

Flights of margaritas, a top chef in the kitchen - we head to Shoreditch's Casa Negra to try out the latest place for Londoners to get their Mexican fix.

We head to Granary Square near King's Cross to check out Bruno Loubet's restaurant where the focus is all on the vegetables.

Descending down the winding concrete stairs, you enter a candlelit cocktail bar, reminiscent of a New York bunker. But don’t be fooled, you’re not in The Big Apple, you’re in ‘Downstairs at Harrison’s’ in Balham, London.  Harrison’s, run by Sam Harrison and co-owned by Rick Stein and Rebecca Mascarenhas, opened in 2007 and to celebrate its fifth...