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The owner of Caravel and Studio Kitchen has disputed claims from former business partners Fin and Lorcan Spiteri that they left the business due to “circumstances out of their control”.
Evolv Collection is launching a project to help French restaurant Orrery to regain its Michelin star, almost 20 years after it lost it.
The highly anticipated restaurant by Matt Abé has opened its doors in Mayfair.
A live music and late-night lounge is opening within London’s Mandarin Oriental Mayfair hotel next month.
Fin and Lorcan Spiteri have left Islington’s Caravel and Studio Kitchen after five years due to “circumstances out of their control”.
Des Gunewardena’s D3 Collective will open a trio of new venues at the £1.3bn redevelopment of Olympia next spring.
From protein-packed dishes and premium seafood to super posh sandwiches, here’s what happened in 2025’s restaurant scene.
Things got very spicy at the top London Thai restaurant earlier this year when a fire tore through its ventilation system. Six months on, it’s back up and running.
Stephen Harris masters classic, nostalgic home cooking in his latest book.
A restaurant serving London-Italian food has motored into Fitzrovia.
The wine expert behind the list at Hampshire’s The Milbury at Beauworth on growing up in Burgundy, her love of Riesling, and pairing Epoisse with Gamay.
Will Jenkins will open a neighbourhood restaurant and bar in Margate this weekend.
The trio behind Farringdon’s Cloth have become the new custodians of storied City venue Simpson’s Tavern.
Kensington restaurant Maggie Jones’s has reopened after an electrical fire forced it to close for two-years.
Islington restaurant FKABAM will close at the end of the year after a decade of operation.
Shoreditch welcomes a new a Japanese-inspired chophouse with Mediterranean influences.
Hospitality duo Simone and Lidia Crepaldi will open a modern Italian restaurant and ‘secret’ cocktail bar in Dalston next month.
A striking former industrial building in Leith has been redeveloped into a “collaborative space for food, drink and the arts” that will house three restaurants when its first phase launches towards the end of the month.
The Gold Service Scholarship has revealed the 48 finalists who will progress to the next round of the UK’s leading front-of-house competition.
Locals have rescued Hampshire pub The Purefoy Arms from residential development, with plans now underway to relaunch it next year as The Candover.
Melody Adams’ latest restaurants brings cuisine de sud to Marylebone.
Following success in Chiang Mai and more recently Bangkok, Northern Thailand inspired restaurant concept Khao So-I has launched a permanent site in Fitzrovia’s Market Place.
Marc Summers’ cook book brings a taste of his Middle Eastern restaurant group to the home table.
Birch co-founder Chris King will launch the first of what is intended to be a series of nature-and-wellness-focused venues later this month.
Lee Murdoch has been named as executive chef at St Andrews’ boutique five-star hotel Seaton House.
Cin Cin founder David Toscano is bringing his pop-up brand Barbino to well-known Brighton pub The Windmill.
After a few false starts, the daughter of legendary Chinese restaurateurs Bill and Cecilia Poon has opened a restaurant within Somerset House.
The assistant general manager at Hackney’s The Marksman on Jurançon, oxidised Domaine de Chevalier Grand Cru and accommodating uptight in-laws.
Phil Kearsey has been appointed executive chef at Michelin-starred Morston Hall in Norfolk following the departure of Galton Blackiston.
The newly-appointed Lima head chef on pairing fried chicken with White Russians, good bread, and a love of frozen lasagne from gas stations.
Tom Simmons has announced a new direction for his Pontcanna-based restaurant, Thomas by Tom Simmons, which will relaunch in January 2026 under a new name with a new look and concept.
New projects from former Ramsay chefs Matt Abé and Clare Smyth and a generous helping of progressive pizzerias are among this month’s key restaurant openings.
Noble Inns is transforming the site of its The Smokehouse restaurant into a new French bistro.
Daniel Rogan will reopen his eponymous fine dining restaurant in a new site in Southampton next month.
After serving time in prison for drug offences, South London-born chef and Instagram star Nathaniel Mortley wants Caribbean food to get the respect it deserves.
Dan Cox has closed his Michelin-starred farm-to-table restaurant Crocadon and is leaving Crocadon Farm in Cornwall after eight years.
The general manager at north London’s Cinder on Petrus, the Mantonegro grape and Bordeaux’s Maison Advinam.
Drew Snaith and Hannah Kowalski are to close their Hackney restaurant Sesta just over a year after it opened.
Another high-end seafood restaurant is coming to Mayfair, this time headed up by renowned French chef Thierry Laborde.
Chefs Pip Lacey and Calum Franklin will lead the kitchens at three restaurants within the new Guinness Open Gate Brewery in Covent Garden.
Edinburgh-based chef Stuart Ralston’s smart wine-led restaurant and cocktail bar brings a touch of Parisian chic to Auld Reekie.
Los Mochis and Sale e Pepe operator Thesleff Group will launch a ‘ground-breaking’ luxury Japanese restaurant in Mayfair early next year.
The restaurateur behind renowned Turkish fine dining restaurant The Mantl in Knightsbridge is opening an ambitious three-storey venture in Mayfair.
Andy Oliver and Mark Dobbie’s highly-rated East London Thai restaurant Som Saa will reopen next month following a kitchen fire earlier this year.
Twenty chefs including Angelo Sato, Kim Ratcharoen, John Chantarasak, Sujan Sarkar, John Williams, and Adam Byatt have been confirmed as cooking at next year’s Northcote Obsession.
The team behind Canary Wharf-based Korean restaurant 3KOBROS have opened a second, central London restaurant.
OMNOM, the Islington-based vegetarian and vegan Indian restaurant and wellness charity, has chosen Birmingham for its second location.
Michelin has insisted its green stars remain part of its recognition of restaurants following a story that it might be dropping them.
Social media star and former City Social chef Nathaniel Mortley AKA NattyCanCook will open his debut London restaurant early next month.
Former Amethyst and Xier chef Carlo Scotto has brought his ambitious cooking to an intimate hotel setting.