News & reviews

VERY interesting changes are afoot at Aqua Shard as they confirm that Ben Spalding is joining the restaurant as Executive Chef from May 11. So this is another high-rise restaurant which has a well...

Updated 4/5/15 with more details: It had been rumoured for a while, but now a London restaurant, The Clove Club, has taken the plunge and taken on the ticketing method that's been made popular by...

Haven't yet managed to land that booking at Dabbous? Well soon there's another option to try out the food of one of London's top chefs, as he'll be Harrods' latest Chef for the Season from 11 May.  That...

Fitzrovia continues to be an interesting place to eat out with yet another new opening unveiled for Wells Street. Taking over the space that used to be Monty's Wine Bar will be the second venue for...

29/4/15 - Added launch offer. As everyone writing a trend piece about London restaurants will tell you, it's all about single item (or at least very pared down) menus at the moment. And making the...

The inaugural GQ Food and Drink Awards took place last night at the Bulgari Hotel & Residences. It was almost a slam dunk for London establishments and folk who picked up at the glitzy ceremony,...

For a while we've heard rumblings about upcoming restaurant collaboration between Allan Picket (former head chef at Plateau, Aviator, Galvin Bistro de Luxe, and Orrery) and André Blais (founder of...

Know what this is folks? It's the holy grail - a terrace, outside a London restaurant, that you can actually book. Open from today, this lovely pavement space outside Antidote Wine Bar & Restaurant just...

Alan Yau unveils his Chinese gastropub concept on Soho's Berwick Street market. We went along to see what on earth that means in practice.

As proof that our brand new Top 40 London restaurants list will be constantly changing rather than a static account of the London dining scene, comes news that one of the restaurants featured on it,...

Updated 28/4 with soft launch booking info. There are going to be a lot of excited fans of José Pizarro today with the news that the Spanish chef is opening a new restaurant by Liverpool Street...

You can only imagine what capital We Want Plates is going to make out of the taco car that's just turned up at Gaylord. One of London's oldest Indian restaurants (it opened in Fitzrovia way back in...

Coming soon to that growing foodie hub in Broadgate is a new Vietnamese restaurant, Hop, that specialises in boxes of Vietnamese food to have on the go (the word "hop" means box in Vietnamese).  The menu will...

Tooting foodies have what looks to be a promising new gastropub in their midst. The Selkirk, which used to be a pizza and nachos kind of pub, relaunched a few weeks back with a new team. And key to...

We popped down to the latest instalment of Street Feast last weekend to see how things were playing out. In short - they've managed to cram a lot into a small space. 

There's no slowing down the barbecue trend in London as another restaurant will soon be smoking all sorts of meat in Shoreditch. This time it's Red's True Barbecue, which has a number of restaurants in the...

Mayfair restaurant 34 is undergoing a week-long change in May as they invite Ben Orpwood, a British chef now based in Sydney, to take over the kitchen for their Gone Fishing pop-up for six days. He'll...

For folks in E17, there's a new local BBQ opportunity as Bristol fave Grillstock warms up for their upcoming festival with a brand new smokehouse. It's the first time they've come to London and...

Updated 25/4/15 with menu If you've a taste for the finer things in life, you'll be wanting to get your name down for Les 3 Étages by Dom Pérignon. It's a ten day dining experience, taking place in...

23/4/15 Updated with menu details. London's love of Middle Eastern food is one of 2015's most obvious culinary trends, which makes Noam Bar in the right place at the right time for the launch of his...