News & reviews

Le Bab are opening a new restaurant in Shoreditch - but this time they're going for a pint-sized classic kebab shop vibe. It'll be open late-night too - if you fancy a kebab at 5am!

  10/5/21 - updated with opening details.  Last year, Peruvian restaurant Andina (from the same people behind Ceviche) ended up in the position of having to find a new location. In a passionate...

News reaches us of big changes to a hotel/restaurant that's within very easy distance of Londoners fancying a day-trip or night away. And most importantly, it sees chef Andrew Clarke, formerly of St...

Chef Angelo Sato brings a slice of Japan's yakitori style to the heart of Soho with a restaurant focused on using every part of the chicken.

We were sad to hear that Two Lights restaurant was one of the victims of the lockdown, but where one door closes another opens. And today, P Franco announced that Two Light's former chef-patron...

A new sushi restaurant has opened in Brixton that looks well worth checking out. Sushi Revolution comes from two people who have come from Sticks'n'Sushi,  Aidan Bryan and Tom Blackshaw, and this is...

Seeing any shuttered pub reopen its doors is a good news story, but the team behind this Catford pub have triumphed with their neighbourhood opening.

Former Benares head chef Navin Prasad is in charge of the food at this new St John's Wood restaurant showcasing the seasonal cooking of India. 

The latest Social restaurant to join the Jason Atherton empire is within Knightsbridge's iconic Harrods. He's launching a menu there that makes the best of British provenance. 

We've been reading about Whisht for a while - who started selling sandwiches with an Irish twist during the most recent lockdown. Now that we've all properly emerged from lockdown, Whisht have done the...

The team behind some of London's greatest Indian restaurants is behind Bibi, which puts its main development chef in charge of the kitchen. 

As former Head Chef of London's only Michelin-starred pub, it's fair to say that Sally Abé knows how to construct a winning pub menu. So it's perhaps no surprise that she's been brought into the...

We take a look at Raw on Brick Lane - dining alfresco with a mix of seafood and cocktails.

Coming to Covent Garden this summer is a new restaurant that's all about two types of flatbread: manakish or naan. They're taking over an old Starbucks (we're noticing a trend of chain coffee shops...

30/4/21 - updated with the opening date. While we don't think the queues are going to be quite as long (over 10 hours) as the ones when they opened in Earl's Court, the news that Jollibee is opening on...

The Mash Inn has taken to alfresco dining with aplomb - this is a country restaurant that fully embraces the concept of a long lunch. 

The Italian food and wine marketplace gets ready to open their first London opening in the heart of the City at Broadgate.

You win some. You lose some. No sooner were we able to share the news that Notting Hill's The Cow had survived its license review by Westminster council, than the story dropped that one of Soho's...

Update 28/4/21 - looks like good things do happen to nice people, as we've just heard that Westminster Council has approved the pub's reopening. "We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the...