This is a London food story of the big and the small, the high and the shy, a tale of multi-storey and one-storey. Let’s start at the top…...

A crosstown journey, from Spitalfields to Soho – pretty easy by tube, could be an hour in a cab. First stop, pretty close to Liverpool Street s...

It is almost 20 years since Pharmacy restaurant opened on Notting Hill Gate. It was cooler than a freezer-fresh martini; the brainchild of Damien Hirs...

Something strikes you as you walk into Social Eating House. It’s a curtain, which is hanging just beyond the door. After that, things can only ...

Where we live in London, you can always go for a walk if you’re feeling a bit down on or around Upper Street. It’s vibrant, cheery; it&#...

Chiltern Firehouse opened as a restaurant in 2013, just 124 years after it opened as the Marylebone Fire Station. Obviously, in its original form, it ...

I recently went for lunch to Joe Allen in Covent Garden. It was the first time I had been in ages, albeit maybe the 100th time in all. We go back a lo...

There were four Basque restaurants rated in the best 20 in the world according to one recent and prestigious ranking of such things, which makes the ...