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Feature Published 08 August 2024

First look: The Park, Queensway

During a recent visit to The Park, Jeremy King’s newest restaurant that opened a couple of weeks ago on the corner of Queensway and Bayswater Road, the chef Rowley Leigh was enjoying a solo lunch. Many Good Food Guide readers will remember Leigh from his Kensington ...

Feature Published 26 July 2024

A first look at Cornus: a tasteful destination with potential

Cornus, the second restaurant from the owners of Medlar in Chelsea, isn’t in the most obvious of locations. As you walk along Eccleston Place, look for a large number 27 wall sign then head down the alley next to it. Turn right into the courtyard and you’ll immediately see the restaurant’s name in large white letters over the covered doorway ...

Feature Published 17 July 2024

First look: Terra by James Close, a beacon of luxury in County Durham

When James Close announced the closure of The Raby Hunt at the beginning of 2024, it marked the end of an era for international destination dining in a not-so-destination location. As a  beacon of culinary excellence, it sat incongruously on a long, flat B-road to a sparsely populated corner of the North East. The cooking from Close and his wife ...

Feature Published 26 June 2024

A first look at The Counter: neighbourhood restaurant with a big-city attitude

This new venture by Robin Read is the best news for Tunbridge Wells. Having spent his early years working for some of the UK’s most electrifying chefs (and the last sixteen as executive chef of the luxury Firmdale Hotel Group), The Counter is the result of Read’s long-held dream to have his own restaurant. It has the makings of a ...

Feature Published 19 June 2024

First look at Native: a terrific celebration of English food

The Native narrative advocated by Ivan Tisdall-Downes – which is basically eat the view – has been promoted by other chefs, but few restaurants can match food and setting more harmoniously than this out-of-the-way restaurant (with a couple of rooms), on the Hereford-Worcestershire border. As a whole it breathes ‘nature’ and after almost a decade at various sites in London, ...

Feature Published 29 May 2024

A first look at Skof: L’Enclume expertise mixed with Manchester chill

Walking down Hanover Street, the large windows of a former drapery warehouse in Manchester’s NOMA district allow a glimpse of a team of chefs, smartly kitted in whites, moving seriously around an open kitchen. Next to them, Tom Barnes stands sentry, waiting to welcome his first run of guests to what is undoubtedly Manchester’s opening of the year.  The ...