News & reviews

If we're not hearing about new restaurants, the next biggest thing seems to be restaurant revamps. Now we hear about MODE, a new restaurant coming to Notting Hill that's taking things a bit further...

You may have encountered the talents of When Mac Met Cheese at various pop-ups and market stalls around town over the past few years. Now they're stepping things up a notch with a three month...

Once again the people behind Hawksmoor and Foxlow come up trumps with a dish that stops you in your tracks. Although hopefully not quite like the permanent stop that The King came to after eating...

Just opened at King's Cross and hitting the hotdog and doughnut trend square on is Coffee Dogs. It's the brainchild of the folk behind Fine Burger Co and you'll find it wrapped around a ventilation...

Enoteca Super Tuscan founder Nick Grossi has announced its first ‘Super Tuscan Wine Week’ due to be held at the Spitalfields restaurant and wine bar at the end of April. The event will showcase a...

When news broke yesterday that Gordon Ramsay had paid £1.2 million for a Chelsea restaurant site, it was interesting for two reasons. First, the fact that El Gordo would be opening his third...

Updated 11/4 with booking details. It would be fair to say that the opening of Simon Rogan's restaurant at Claridge's is the most-anticipated London restaurant opening this year. We've had some...

Koya, Soho's favourite udon noodle bar is getting a special new menu to celebrate its fourth birthday. Chef Junya Yamasaki's BackBench set menu is specially designed to let him go "beyond the...

Bar supremo Tony Conigliaro has been turning out some amazing cocktails from his diminuitive bar at 69 Colebrooke Row in Islington for five years now. But the one thing the bar has lacked has been a...

Updated 26/3/14 with new images and menus He's known for being one of the most exacting and demanding chefs in the business, so when Marcus Wareing announced he was undertaking nothing less than a...

We had a cracking (or should that be crackling) dinner at Blackfoot when it first opened and at the time thought what a brilliant place it would be for weekend brunch. Now, lovers of all things...

We head over to London's new much bigger Big Easy, in Covent Garden for a BBQ blowout.

London's BBQ trend is showing no signs of slowing down as American restaurant Red Dog Saloon is about to head south with a new restaurant in Clapham called, appropriately, Red Dog South. The current Hoxton...

Updated 24/3 with soft launch details. Already hugely popular in Margate, where their pizzas earned them a Runner-up prize for Best Cheap Eats in the 2013 Observer Food Monthly Awards, GB Pizza Co...

Updated 24/3/14 with menu details and picture We're intrigued by a new opening coming up in Spring from the group responsible for Tamarind and Imli Street. They're launching One Kensington - a...

Mexican streetfood duo Breddos have announced that they will be taking over Trip Kitchen, Haggerston from 11 April 2014. The residency, which will run for a minimum of six months, is being held at...

Honestly, we don't know why anyone would bother leaving London on Easter weekend when there's such fun to be had. Like the Ox Roast planned by Flat Iron at the Ship Wandsworth. As they succintly put it...

Kerbisher & Malt in Shepherd's Bush and Ealing are often brought up by many as their favourite fish and chip shop in London but if you haven't been west to visit them so far, they may be about to...

Olive magazine's current issue features its respected annual Cool List and there are a number of London restaurants and chefs featured on it. Notably, in the section picking out trending chefs, 3...

If you're planning on staying in town over the Easter weekend, we can think of no better way to kick that long weekend off to a great start than the Drapers Arms Drink the List night.  The list at the...