Test Drives

Gezellig are yet to pick a suitable venue for the new restaurant, but for now we were treated to a preview of what'll be on offer by visiting the the final days of its Carousel pop-up, and boy we were ever impressed.

Seb Holmes is packing them in with his authentic Thai restaurant Farang. We head down to Highbury to take a look.

Ollie Dabbous teams up with the Experimental Group for a match made in heaven

The people behind the very popular City Indian restaurant Gunpowder have launched a follow-up. We take a look.

The folk behind Primeur have opened a second restaurant, Westerns Laundry. We went to see how their empire is expanding

We take a trip to Barnes to visit Rick Stein's new Thames-side restaurant, to see how the seafood master fares away from the seaside...

London's best known high rise restaurant has a ground-level, fast food sibling. But how does it actually work? 

Del 74 is a taqueria in Clapton that seems to be doing everything just right. When various folk on the London restaurant scene recommended it to us, we popped down for a Test Drive. 

Francesco Mazzei's Sartoria in Mayfair is one of our favourite restaurants. We take a look at his next, Radici, a neighbourhood Italian restaurant in Islington.

This weekend riverside brunch has a mid-Atlantic flavour

Stoke Newington has a rather special new neighbourhood restaurant worth crossing town for

South Kensington's iconic restaurant now has a chef to match - we pop in to see how Claude Bosi is enjoying his new Michelin home  

Lucky City folk now have a new Blacklock to enjoy - we popped along to see how the Blacklock vibes survived the move East.   

Tucked away in a quiet street in St James, a very British hotel, The Stafford. now has a restaurant it can be proud of

Jason Atherton is the latest to join the eclectic restaurant crowd at Nova, Victoria. We head along to see how he manages with an Italian menu. 

 We came to Tony Conigliaro's Untitled expecting some damned fine cocktails, but there's some great cooking happening there too. 

Monica Galetti's new restaurant on Charlotte Street is taken for a spin.

 It's Hawksmoor's sixth London restaurant, opening in their tenth year. We head down to Borough Market to see what's new.

We take a look at the latest addition to Maltby Street Market

We take a look at the West Coast-inspired Pomona’s in Notting Hill.