Test Drives

Fifteen, Jamie Oliver's flagship restaurant in the City, has just had a complete overhaul, changing both the look and menu. We popped along to see whether we liked the new look.

Jason Atherton has set up shop in Soho with his latest venture. His former Pollen Street Social head chef takes the reins at Social Eating House. We check it out.

It's one of the hottest openings of 2013, but is Story a bestseller? We find out...

We head under the arches at Hoxton Station to check out this new neighbourhood restaurant and are very impressed.

We pull up a seat at the kitchen counter at Argentinean restaurant Zoilo.

Claude's Kitchen is a hidden away restaurant at the top of Amuse Bouche champagne bar in Fulham. We popped in to see what the ex-Petersham chef is cooking.

Claude Bosi's had big success in Wimbledon with his first pub the Fox and Grapes. We head over to Fulham to find out more about his latest gastrpub...

In their first standalone restaurant, the Clove Club opens at Shoreditch Town Hall with Isaac McHale in the Kitchen, Daniel & Johnny on the floor and they've added a bar too.

Jason Atherton had a huge hit with Pollen Street Social - something he's repeated around the world. Now he returns to London with a new French Bistro just yards away from the original PSS.

London's obsession with chicken continues unabated, which is how we found ourselves one weekend lunchtime at one of the newer spots, Clockjack Oven. It's probably to safe to say they're hoping, if successful, to roll out more of these around town. Tucked away on a side street behind Piccadilly Circus, where the lovely old New Piccadilly Cafe once...

Eric Chavot returns to London with the intention to reinvent himself from his previous incarnation as a two Michelin-starred chef. Brasserie Chavot in Mayfair ends up ticking all of our boxes.

Gail's is well known for their bread and bakeries - but we head to Bloomsbury to try out their first restaurant. They say a picture's worth a thousand words - to go with this, we have just three more for you - Gail's ice-cream sandwich.

Peruvian restaurant Lima has been a favourite since it opened last year. Now it's starting up a special tasting menu and we popped along to give that a try.

We head to Holborn to try out Wabi's new Kaiseki tasting menu.

We head over to Notting Hill to try out the new Caribbean kitchen and rum bar.

We head down to the Longroom at Smithfield to try their salt beef and tosated cheese sandwiches while washing it all down with craft beer.

If you're looking forward to breaking your January detox - we can heartily recommend Opium Chinatown as a good place to start. We visited it on a Thursday night in January (no detox for us) and lived to tell the tale. As our news story on its opening revealed, this is a collaboration between mixologist Dre Masso and the good folk of Dumplings...

Alan Yau comes to Islington with the first outpost of a new chain, modelled after  Bangkok cafes.

Ever since it was revealed that the former Pitt Cue Co chef Neil Rankin was taking over after Ben Spalding's departure at John Salt, anticipation has been slowly building to fever pitch. The menu has been getting everyone VERY excited on Twitter since we revealed it last week, and on Monday we had a chance to properly put it through its paces. We...

This most recent addition to Richard Caring's stable of Mayfair restaurants works like a well oiled machine to keep diners very, very happy..