London restaurants

Nick on restaurants A successful Soho partnership celebrated. Many different qualities are required of successful modern chefs. They must be able to cook...

Nick on restaurants Calling the sweet-toothed… I have felt sorry for pastry chefs for the past 41 years. It was in the summer...

Nick on restaurants Nick is feeling deprived… A version of this article is published in the Financial Times. I followed Tom Richardson-Hill down...

Nick on restaurants A London restaurant that's hot in at least two ways. In September 2020 I wrote an article for the FT...

Nick on restaurants The ex-manager of the world's finest restaurant, seen above with David Bowie and below with many other famous folk, shares...

Nick on restaurants The somewhat tortuous background to a new opening opposite London's Royal Opera House. In 1998 restaurateur Danny Meyer opened Eleven...

Alder on America Alder on somewhere other than America this month: London. Food great. Mask-wearing not so much so. Every time I find...

Nick on restaurants Fan of Indian food? Check out this distinctive central London newcomer. North Audley Street, which links Oxford Street to Grosvenor...

Nick on restaurants Nick catches up with London's most celebrated Chinese chef/restaurateur. I first encountered the talented Andrew Wong in his restaurant A...

Nick on restaurants A sustainably minded London restaurant has moved… Will Murray met Jack Croft at the kitchen stoves of Heston Blumenthal’s Dinner...

Nick on restaurants Nick pleads for a return of the specials menu. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times...

Nick on restaurants A new favourite in London's St James's. Perhaps I should have written about Maison François when I first ate there...

Nick on restaurants Nick is disappointed by the London arm of an international group of restaurants specialising in Shanghai dumplings. Like so many...

Free for all What wine waiters think of us diners. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. We are...

Nick on restaurants 11 September 2021 Nick explains why we are republishing this 14-year-old article. The opening of the Sessions Arts Club in...

Nick on restaurants Nick reprises a Friday tradition. A ritual used to take place every Friday lunchtime around 2.30 pm during the 1980s...