The menu is British at the Anchor & Hope, and so is the seating policy, with no reservations from Monday to Saturday, meaning that diners wanting to sample...

Unlike some gastropubs with gourmet pretensions, the Bull & Last proudly sells real ales. Doom Bar is a mainstay, but you may find Truman's Runner, or...

Around the turn of the millennium, a memorable television commercial featured a woman searching for a bank that hadn't been 'turned into a trendy wine bar'....

Very much a venue that trades on its ambience, this buzzy, pan-European Soho eaterie goes all out for romantic intimacy. The dark wooden interior of the...

Eating food by Nuno Mendes (whose first restaurant, Viajante, is also in this boutique Bethnal Green hotel) is an adventure. As any hobbit will tell you,...

What to expect from the brasserie at the gallery of Charles Saatchi, arguably the most powerful man in contemporary art? Instances of the super-collector's...

John Torode may be most familiar nowadays for raising satirical eyebrows on MasterChef, but he also has a good line in user-friendly restaurants. Smiths is...

A large, open-plan space in the Royal Festival Hall complex, glitzy Skylon commands jaw-dropping views across the Thames from its massive windows. It's a...

The trio of restaurants run by Anthony Demetre and Will Smith - the others are Wild Honey (Modern European) and Les Deux Salons (French) - are emblematic of...

The Harwood Arms is a smart restaurant with the conceit that it's a gastropub. While you can pop in for a pint - and a few local toffs do - dinner...

Despite the slide of many gastropubs into aping fancy restaurants, the Eagle - one of the originals - remains pleasingly unreconstructed. Scuffed cream...

Rochelle Canteen actually merits the description 'hidden gem', lying as it does behind a high brick wall in what was once a Victorian school playground....

Anyone who familiar with the McDonald's model will recognise the recession-busting restaurant trend of the moment - and I don't mean burgers, or 'small...