While Nick was in Boston speaking to a group of leading hoteliers, our son suggested we console ourselves at Terroirs, a brand new very wine-minded establishment just opposite Charing Cross, on a...

  Even after a delicious bowl of pumpkin soup with girolles and hazelnuts at Magdalen, which opened no more than a five minute walk from London Bridge station in early January, there was...

  A sequence of restaurant openings across London’s West End may finally lay to rest one of the industry’s long standing maxims, that ‘location, location,...

Eric Lecours, San Francisco: My wife and I spent last week in London and had a wonderful time. We took your travel advice and went to Chez Bruce , a Michelin one star with two forks. We called...

London, many contend, has become the restaurant capital of the world. This is not a claim, however unscientific, I have ever adhered to although I am firmly convinced that the rate of improvement...

Richard Harden, co-editor of Harden's restaurant guides, stopped in the course of a disappointing meal at the recently opened Cafeteria, London W10, to answer a question from a restaurant supplier...

Since my first and, regrettably, only trip to Japan I have come to appreciate the enormous gulf that separates Japanese food eaten there and in the West. It is not a question of the variety...

A week touring the West End and the west of London left me in no doubt that there are some wonderful things happening on London's food and restaurant fronts. But why, I was also left wondering, do...

The restaurant business harbours very few secrets. Its sales prices are widely published via its menus and wine lists. The wholesale prices of any restaurant's main suppliers are invariably...

In time, we hope, for those planning a trip to London over the forthcoming holidays, here is a guide to our favourite wine bars in London. As we pointed out here , after years of having...

When my Russian grandfather finally arrived in the UK in 1910, at the impressionable age of 15, he did so with a very different view of his former countrymen than the one he had set out with....

An old friend, recently arrived in London from Sydney, Australia, was sitting comfortably on the leather-padded, high-backed bench in one of the restaurant's booths with a glass of Montlouis white...

With the unveiling of 700 seats in four new restaurants across central London this autumn, restaurateurs at least seem to be doing their utmost to address the alarming rise in the capital's...

The Dorchester Hotel on London's Park Lane has just opened its third restaurant in association with an outside partner. While the China Tang and Alain Ducasse restaurants in the main hotel...

Daniel Land and Jeremy Sanders have been each other's closest friends for 25 of their 28 years. They were separated only by stints at different universities and briefly afterwards when Land went...