The Time Out London blog team

Who on Earth doesn’t know Gordon Ramsay? The British chef’s career has gone from telly shows like Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares to viral memes like ‘idiot sandwich’ and ‘where’s the lamb sauce?!’ and a new reality show. Not to mention, of course, his vast culinary empire. Gordon Ramsay Restaurants – which launched in 1997 and now claims locations as far and wide as London, Singapore, South Korea, France and the US – has been awarded 17 Michelin stars throughout the years and currently holds eight. A few weeks ago, 12-seater restaurant Gordon Ramsay High gained its first star in this year’s Michelin Guide.  Photograph: Gordon Ramsay Restaurants Bread Street Kitchen & Bar at 22 Bishopsgate in the City is the latest venue to join the fold. Its upcoming launch marks a new milestone for the celebrity chef, as it will be his 100th restaurant. If you’re a Ramsay megafan, this may be old news. The new restaurant was spotted on his recently released TV show Being Gordon Ramsay. The new all-day dining spot is located on the 59th floor of 22 Bishopsgate, which is currently the tallest skyscraper in the City of London (second only to the Shard, city-wide). It joins a roster of Ramsay restaurants already located in the tower, including Asian-inspired Lucky Cat and the aforementioned Gordon Ramsay High, plus Gordon Ramsay Academy – Europe’s highest cookery school.  This latest opening coincides with the 15th anniversary year of the Bread Street Kitchen & Bar brand. A...

Post-pandemic the ‘big summer musical’ has become tradition at the Barbican: the iconic arts centre has staged one every year since 2021. This year, it’s one-upping itself and putting on two. It was announced some time ago that the first half of the summer would see it stage Cole Porter’s High Society, in a production that’s the spiritual sequel to the smash production of Porter’s Anything Goes that ran in 2021 and 2022.  That’s definitely one for the ‘classic musicals’/‘bring your nan’ crowd.  The second half of the summer is given over to something rather different in the form of Death Note. It will be a new musical adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s hugely successful ’00s manga series about a gifted student named Light Yagami who – for Reasons – is given an enchanted notebook that will kill anyone whose name is written in it within 40 seconds. Now convinced he is basically a god, Yagami reshapes the world as he sets about eliminating its criminals. Baffled at events, the authorities turn to enigmatic master detective L to try and get to the bottom of the killings. It’s a fairly unusual set up for a musical, but to be fair no more so than Cats, and this adaptation by Frank Wildhorn, Jack Murphy and Ivan Menchell has in fact been kicking around in various Asian productions for the last 10 years, with a concert version of it staged over here a few years back. Now, though, it gets by far its biggest Western production to date as it moves into the Barbican for...

Hold on to your horses, because one of London’s most coveted food teams, Four Legs, is opening a brand new bar and eatery in the capital. The people who brought you north London’s most famous burger (found at The Plimsoll, of course), and the hip Iberian seafood counter Tollington’s Fish Bar, are branching into pizza. Four Legs’ upcoming opening is called Bar Etna and it’ll be in Newington Green. Four Legs founder Ed McIlroy has teamed up with Philadelphia-based chef and restaurateur Joe Beddia, whose pies were once declared ‘America’s best pizza’ by Bon Apétit. Pizzeria Beddia was also awarded a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2025.  McIlroy will be in the kitchen bringing his ingredient-led approach to Beddia’s signature ‘za style. Bar Etna will offer pizza with seasonal toppings, as well as dishes like aubergine parmigiana, meatballs, sides and soft serves. And if a bar opens in north London and doesn’t serve low-intervention wines, does it really exist? As well as natty wines, Bar Etna will serve house spritzes and negronis on tap.  McIlroy and Beddia’s new venture will take over the former site of Nino’s Italian restaurant and open in April 2026, Hot Dinners reported. ‘Opening in London is a dream come true, and together with Ed and Mike, they’ve helped make that happen,’ Beddia said. ‘I’m so excited to finally open the doors and bring my cooking outside of the US for the very first time.’ Here are London’s best pizza restaurants, according to Time Out.  Nothing like a bit...