News & reviews

  You might have caught them as they've been popping up all over London before settling down for a residency in Hackney's Spurstowe Arms. Now Dough Hands is heading south for a second residency, this...

In today's febrile restaurant scene, most restaurateurs would be congratulating themselves for having successfully reached the end of one year. So it's properly impressive for anyone to reach the...

In the run-up to the end of last year, we were so focused on the recent openings of Alley Cats and Zia Lucia in Chelsea that we missed another very promising new Chelsea pizza opening, called Marta.  It...

Having started during lockdown in Crouch End and now with a fully fledged bakery there and in Islington, the North London baker Sophia Handschuh and her husband Jesse Sutton-jones are gearing up to...

Islington's run of interesting openings continues this year with the arrival of Leigh's in De Beauvoir. The duo behind it are Cordon Bleu-trained chefs Melanie Clarke and McKenzie Amaral who have...

Londoners love their pubs and love a good Indian, so the growth of Indian-based pubs in the City isn't altogether surprising. Arriving off the back of the huge success of The Tamil Crown and Prince comes...

New West African restaurant Shakara opened quietly just before Christmas, but it has some impressive names behind the scenes. In the kitchen is Victor Okunowo, previously from Talking Drum and a...

10/1/24 - Updated with the opening date For the last two years, chefs Tamas Naszai and Tomoko Hasegawa have been running omakase restaurant Roji in Mayfair (which we thought was excellent). Now Roji...

8/1/25 - Updated with full opening details. The casual rotis and curries restaurant Tamila (from the people behind the Tamil Prince and Tamil Crown) first opened in Battersea late last year, but...

Updated 9/1/25 with new opening date and photos Just in case you were thinking that London may have just reached Italian restaurant saturation, a new restaurant is banking on the fact that the...

Updated 9/1/25 with January's openings Every month the inspectors at Michelin hand-pick a few new restaurants to add to their UK and Ireland guide. That doesn't mean the same as getting a star, but...

A year after his longish residency in Islington won him legions of London fans, top ramen chef Ivan Orkin is back in town with another residency. This time he's heading into the City with a...

Indian restaurateur Gobind Chona's first London restaurant Gura Gura must have been a hit because he's getting ready to open his second quite close by.  Oorja is opening on Shaftesbury Avenue (next to...

Although the news was first previewed in an article on Michelin-star closures in the Times back in September, it was still a shock to read late on Friday that Georgio Locatelli's Locanda Locatelli...

  Two Ukrainian restaurateurs, Alex Cooper and Anna Andriienko, are getting ready to open their first London restaurant, Tatar Bunar, in Shoreditch.  The duo have multiple restaurants in Ukraine and...

Amid all the festive craziness pre-Christmas, a new wine bar opened its doors for the first time in E10. Swirl is a new bar that sees three local entrepreneurs joining forces. Arch Deli owner...

Almost a decade after launching their Russian street food restaurant in Soho, the team behind Zima have now opened a second restaurant, this time in Notting Hill. In December, they took over the old...