Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 8th September 2024 The Evening Standard Ambassadors Club House, Mayfair Jimi Famurewa was the first critic to the latest opening from all-conquering JKS Restaurants – this one a “typically fine-drawn love letter to the princely flavours and riotous drinking traditions […]

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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 1st September 2024 Evening Standard Mauby, Brockley Jimi Famurewa was very taken by “this immensely likeable slice of British-Caribbean cool” from married couple Daniel and Heleena Maynard, who previously operated Deptford’s Jerk Off BBQ and showcase the Jamaican and […]

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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 25th August 2024 The Sunday Times Daquise, South Kensington Charlotte Ivers may not have discovered a new restaurant, but she scored a genuine scoop in her review of this legendary and much-loved Polish institution (est. 1947), breaking the news […]

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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 19th August 2024 Evening Standard Miga, Hackney Jimi Famurewa visited a new Korean restaurant “like no other in the capital” – a two-generational father-and-sons project combining old school and new school in a minimalist modern shoebox of a setting. “There […]

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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 11th August 2024 Evening Standard Mamapen at The Sun & 13 Cantons, Soho Jimi Famurewa gave a warm welcome to what it is “incredibly, London’s only Cambodian restaurant” – a residency at the foodie Soho pub that served as a […]

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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 4th August 2024 Evening Standard Ibai, Smithfield Jimi Famurewa headed to a new “City-boy steakhouse” from Basque meat specialist Nemanja Borjanović, the founder of Lurra, which overturns the beamed-farmhouse-with-pintxo-counter stereotype of the Spanish-French border region. Instead, he found a […]

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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 28th July 2024 Evening Standard Henri, Covent Garden David Ellis headed to what he calculated was Jackson Boxer’s sixth restaurant on the go, “a Paris-inspired bistro — wanting to be ooh la la, va va voom On-ree, not claret-at-the-golf-club […]

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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 21st July 2024 Evening Standard Lucia, Hackney Wick Jimi Famurewa brushed aside the social-media hype attending so many launches to draw attention to a new Mexican spot in east London whose Instagram account has yet to post a single […]

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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 14th July 2024 Evening Standard Tollington’s, Finsbury Park Jimi Famurewa hailed the Spanish-accented makeover of a derelict chippy, by Four Legs chef Ed McIroy (Plimsoll and the Compton Arms), as “both a justified candidate for opening of the year and […]

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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 7th July 2024 Evening Standard Julie’s, Notting Hill Was Dylan Jones pulling rank, or rolling up his sleeves to show the guys on the shop floor how it’s done? Either way, the editor-in-chief of the Evening Standard cropped up […]

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