The sad death of Rose Gray, the founder with long-time business partner Ruth Rogers of London's highly influential River Café, after a valiant battle against cancer, rips a hole through the...

When I walked into More, a five-minute walk east from London Bridge station en route to Tower Bridge, chef Theodore Kyriakou was standing in almost the same position as I had seen him in for the...

It was 3.30 pm and my fifth visit to the Four Seasons restaurant in London's Chinatown (pictured at night). Finally, I was going to be granted a rare glimpse of its famed barbecue section, located...

Ed Burgess, 18, having worked as a waiter for the past nine months, has just flown off to spend six months travelling around South America before university. This trip has been funded by the...

The attention and good will of many of London’s leading restaurateurs are currently focused on Kitchen W8, which has just opened off Kensington High Street, west London, and Rebecca Mascarenhas...

My first visit to La Chapelle and Café de Luxe, the restaurant and cafe just opened by the brothers Chris and Jeff Galvin close to Liverpool Street station and the City, was almost my last to any...

Roka, which opened on Charlotte Street five years ago, has always seemed to me to embody the cosmopolitan nature of London’s restaurants. Although its principal cooking tool is the Japanese...

‘Intrigued’ was Henry Harris’s immediate response to my initial request for a meeting. Although when we finally did meet, and he had given considerable thought to the question I had left him...

The downturn in demand for what is sometimes euphemistically called 'fine dining' in London has led to a positive rash of activity designed to lure wine lovers to various restaurants and bars....

Charlotte Street, just north of Oxford Street, encapsulated cosmopolitan London in the recent sweltering heat. There were cafés and restaurants offering pizza, steak frites, Mexican food,...

Nick reports on what leading restaurateurs in Singapore, Hong Kong, San Francisco, New York, London and Paris are experiencing and predicting. Recent restaurateurs' revelations have centred...

For the past 30 years, John Hutton has led a professional double life at the heart of the London restaurant scene. As we met at Mark Hix's Chop House in Smithfield, London, he revealed the secret...

No sooner had I sat down at L'Anima, the modern Italian restaurant near Liverpool Street station which opened six months ago to justifiable acclaim, than its owner, Peter Marano, asked me to...

Chefs, restaurateurs and those who are brave enough to back them are continually searching for a formula that can be described as 'fast good'. This phrase, coined initially by Ferran Adria of El...

Pre-theatre business, the potential for a restaurant to be busy most nights a week from 6pm to 7.20pm, is something that brings a smile to the face of any restaurateur lucky enough to be close...