Australian-raised Italian brothers Gabriel and Marcello Bernardi bring an Antipodean approach to their motherland’s cuisine to London with Bernardi’s, now open in Marylebone. The 120-cover all-day restaurant and bar on the corner of Seymour Street and Seymour Place, occupies two floors of a restored Victorian property in Portman Village. As well as an open plan dining […]

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Allan Pickett, graduate of pretty much every French restaurant in London from the Galvin group to L’Escargot and D&D’s Orrery, has opened his first solo venture in Fitzrovia. Piquet, a 98-cover venue in Newman Street, serves classic Gallic cuisine with a modern twist using British ingredients. Pickett is backed by Bodean’s founder André Blais. On the menu: Roast […]

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From the owners of Manicomio in Chelsea and St Paul’s (known for their “glorious al fresco seating” but perhaps not their culinary prowess) comes an ambitious-sounding new Italian restaurant near Spitalfields Market. Canto Corvino opened this week in the City’s labyrinthine backstreets on Artillery Lane. This week only (21-27 September) there will be a 50% off food […]

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