Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 30th June 2024 Evening Standard Akira Back, Mayfair Jimi Famurewa gasped when he stepped inside the extravagant new Mandarin Oriental Mayfair in Hanover Square. Sadly its headline restaurant, from Seoul-born, Las Vegas-based celeb chef Akira Back, had the opposite […]

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Just off Regent Street, a handy brasserie-style operation serving thoroughly competent but rather unremarkable dishes at prices seemingly inflated by association with proprietor Gordon Ramsay. You never quite know what to expect at a Gordon Ramsay establishment. Within a mile or so of each other, you can have places which are very good (Pétrus, say), and […]

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The Editors’ review of One Kensington Tamarind group’s latest offering is already firing on all cylinders.   Simon Rogan goes wild at Claridge’s The speculation is over, Rogan’s restaurant will be called Fera (wild in Latin).   The rise of ‘food porn’  Chefs rail against the fashion for photographing food.   Ramsay returns to his […]

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