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News Published 30 June 2025
New Restaurant Openings in 2025
Keeping your finger on the pulse? If you've visited any of the new openings below, let us know what you think by sending us your review.Restaurants opening this month | Restaurant openings this year | Restaurants opening next yearRestaurants opened in 2025: January | February | March | April | May | June Restaurants opening in July 2025RoamAt the end of last summer, the impressive Circa restaurant at ...
Where to eat Published 30 June 2025
24 top spots for an ice cold martini
Like negronis before them and gin and tonics before that, there’s no denying the martini is having its moment. From Rules’ stone cold classic to Osip’s preserved tomato take, here are some of our favourites to raise a glass to World Martini Day.
Feature Published 26 June 2025
Fully booked: what makes a restaurant so difficult to get into?
The rise of booking platforms like OpenTable and SevenRooms may have made securing a restaurant table seem easy, yet there are still a handful of places that require a convoluted game of careful planning, alarms set for midnight, and fastest finger first, says The Good Food Guide’s editor-at-large Elizabeth Carter.
Feature Published 25 June 2025
'Pungent, lively, elegant': an early review of Singburi 2.0
'Did you go to the old Singburi?' the waiter asks as we tap our credit card on the reader at the end of lunch. 'No, ' we admit, somewhat shamefacedly (should we pretend that we did?). 'I didn’t either, ' she laughs. 'It was impossible to get in.' The old Singburi, for those unfamiliar, was the rare London restaurant that ...
Where to eat Published 24 June 2025
Wined and dined: 19 of Britain's best wine bars and bottle shops with great food
From a pint sized charmer in St Ives to a flavour forward Manchester favourite, in celebration of English Wine Week here are the best wine bars and bottle shops across Britain that will feed you well.
Feature Published 22 June 2025
A first look at Ragù, Bristol
And so to Ragù, open since April in a bijou corner of Cargo 2 that seems both blessed and cursed. Previous occupant Tare Bistro was, during its short life, one of the most delicious and enjoyable dinner spots in Bristol. On first look Ragù is a strong contender to inherit that title, so let’s hope it can fend off whatever ...
Feature Published 20 June 2025
A first look at Shwen Shwen, Sevenoaks: sophistication and comfort defines Maria Bradford’s debut restaurant
After flying the flag for Sierra Leonean culinary tradition and contemporary West African fusion with her cookbook Sweet Salone, Maria Bradford’s debut restaurant, Shwen Shwen, brings the flavours of Freetown and beyond to Sevenoaks. Toyo Odetunde takes a first look.
Feature Published 20 June 2025
Are your scallops hand dived? (And why you need to know)
Scottish seafood is heralded as some of the world’s best. Exported across Europe and beyond, championed on top restaurants menus, the picture in the mind’s eye is of crystal-clear lochs, unspoilt landscapes and bountiful catch. But the reality of the situation is much murkier. Catastrophically damaging bottom trawling and dredging dominate the fishing industry leaving behind bare ...
Feature Published 19 June 2025
To eat: Hodmedods' carlin peas à la Française
Make a sustainable meal with Hodmedod’s British-grown, nitrogen-fixing carlin peas. Started in 2012 by co-founders Nick Saltmarsh, Josiah Meldrum and William Hudson, Hodmedod works with British farms to provide good quality indigenous beans and pulses.
Where to eat Published 17 June 2025
Where to eat on working farms: 15 great restaurants and cafés
It’s Sustainable Gastronomy Week and what better way to mark it than by seeking out a local farm and dining directly from the spoils of the land. From a dairy farm in Norfolk, where you can pick up a pint of raw milk after brunch, to a radically regenerative farm in Cornwall, this line up of farm restaurants will take ...
