News & reviews

  Notting Hill is getting a new music-led restaurant and bar in the shape of The Residency.  It's opening on Westbourne Grove (taking over from the Gourmet Burger Kitchen site) and is promising a...

  20/4/22 - Updated with the opening date We already have the new Carousel in Fitzrovia and Kerb Counter in Shoreditch - now there's another restaurant on the way that's a rotating showcase for chefs...

Cubitt House, the people behind The Thomas Cubitt and many other London pubs, have unveiled The Princess Royal in Notting Hill with a menu by Ben Tish. We head west for a look... 

If your idea of a good shopping trip is one interspersed with multiple pitstops to eat and drink, then Ichiba's new addition at Westfield London is worthy of note. Japan Centre Ichiba recently...

  Right next door to 40FT Brewery and Dusty Knuckle, Acme Fire Cult are grilling over fire. We head down to take a look.  

Back when it was The Curtain the rooftop bar at the Shoreditch hotel was strictly a members-only space. So we're delighted at the much more egalitarian approach by its successor, The Mondrian...

Promising a dusting of spices that "are not for the faint hearted" new fried chicken joint Bird and Tie has just launched in Clapham. The folk behind it say they were inspired by trips to the Deep...

  This year, The World's 50 Best Restaurants awards were due to be held in Moscow, but after the invasion of Ukraine, those plans were quickly dropped. Instead, the ceremony is coming back to where it...

Islington has a hot new pasta place that's already pulling the crowds in. We went to take a look. 

  Veueve Clicquot is coming to Soho with The Sunny Side Cafe, a pop-up that's a little different from their standard fare. Yes, there's Champagne (of course) but this is also a pop-up that's their own...

Camberwell residents should be hightailing it to Peckham Road where Frog Bakery has just recently opened. Originally run as a popup, before crowdfunding helped them kit out their new site, the...

11/4/22 - Updated with opening date Flat Iron are heading south of the river again, this time to Waterloo (taking over the space vacated by Byron). They've only recently opened further along the...

He's only just launched Acme Fire Cult (with Daniel Watkins) and now chef Andrew Clarke is also across the other side of town in Hammersmith with Cellar. This is the restaurant that's open on the...

Finsbury Park's Common Ground is a bit of a Dishoom, in that there's always a queue outside it. Now the popular North London cafe is capitalising on its popularity with the daytime crowd, by...

Zia Lucia have been tearing around London, opening pizzerias and their latest is in the adjoining neighbourhood of the original on Holloway Road - they're opening in Stoke Newington.  They're taking over the site...

8/4/22 - updated with Brent Cross opening details They've proven to be a hit in King's Cross (of which Grace Dent was a fan) and now Happy Face pizza is expanding with two new restaurants - one that...

7/4/22 - updated with opening date Last year, Korean fried chicken giant Pelicana opened its first London store, in Hammersmith. Now they're heading across town, picking Islington for their second...

Islington's waited a while for a pasta restaurant and soon there will be two within a few feet of each other. Hot on the heels of Noci opening on Islington Green, Italian chain Miscusi is opening...

It's been a busy old year so far for the folks at Buns From Home. Barely three months after opening their last place, the business which grew out of lockdown has flourished by opening a further two...

A Hot Dinners exclusive Chef Shay Cooper is no stranger to turning old-school hotel dining rooms into places where you feel truly cosseted. Having already done so with a similar role at The Goring, where...