Here’s our weekly round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 12th November 2023. ***** The Evening Standard “A sophisticated, scintillating shot in the arm for London’s Thai scene.” Jimi Famurewa reviewed Kolae, “a new Borough Market, southern-accented grill restaurant from the creators of som saa that feels, […]
Here’s our weekly round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 5th November 2023. ***** The Guardian “The place is modern, elegant and cool, but not painfully so.” Grace Dent continued a tour of Scotland with a trip to The Fish Shop in Ballater, a village “to the […]
Here’s our regular round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about up to 15th October 2023. ***** The Guardian “Part pub, part living history.” Grace Dent was in Cumbria, and is already planning a return trip to The George and Dragon in Clifton, just outside Penrith; it’s “a country estate pub, and part […]
Here’s our regular round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about up to 8th October 2023. The Observer “Completely compelling.” “On a shopping parade in the heart of inland Cambridge” Jay Rayner checked out Fin Boys, “a curiously briny restaurant” to find so far from the sea. Chef Richard Stokes and (ex-Bibendum and […]
Here’s our regular round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about up to 1st October 2023. The Observer “An unpretentious, but beguiling little bistro.” Jay Rayner popped to Cirencester to review Sam & Jak, whose owners Sam Edwards and Jak Doggett previously “ran the very much-loved Upton Firehouse in a broad shed not […]
Here’s our regular round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 24th September 2023. The Observer “A hotbed of vegetable-love.” Jay Rayner reviewed Tendril, a vegan restaurant that “has put down roots in meaty Mayfair and is doing smart things with great produce”, creating “something distinctive, clever and […]
Here’s our regular round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about up to 17th September 2023. ***** The Telegraph William Sitwell enjoyed a “lunch of great confidence” at Story Cellar, the newly opened Covent Garden spot from Tom Sellers, whose Tower Bridge place Restaurant Story is closed for a major refurb, so he […]
Here’s our regular round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about up to 10th September 2023. ***** The Observer “Slapping the words “nose to tail” on your website is a gutsy flex for a new restaurant, when it’s located fewer than 250m from Fergus Henderson’s St John.” Jay Rayner reviewed Origin City, a […]
Here’s our regular round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about up to 3rd September 2023. ***** The Observer “The neo-Byzantine, gold-tiled glories of the Criterion on Piccadilly Circus have finally got the restaurant both they and London deserve.” Jay Rayner visited the new, grand, branch of Masala Zone on a much-revamped site […]
ROTR was on holiday last week – here’s a two-week summary of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about up to 6 August 2023. ***** The Evening Standard On 26 July, Jimi Famurewa reviewed Gengelly’s at The Earl of Derby of Telegraph Hill, a “handsomely restored Victorian drinking hole on a south-east London backstreet […]
