Reviews

Pierre Koffmann Restaurant on the Roof, Selfridges

Pierre Koffmann Restaurant on the Roof Selfridges, 400 Oxford Street, W1

Can Pierre Koffmann regain the dizzy heights of his three-starred La Tante Claire on the rooftop at Selfridges?

Inside Reviews

Allium, 1 London Road, Market Place, Fairford, Gloucestershire

Saturday, 21 November 2009

A crying shame

Waldo's at Cliveden Taplow, Berkshire

Sunday, 15 November 2009

No need for special glasses: Waldo's uses flavour, presentation and nutrition to give its food that extra dimension

Age & Sons, Charlotte Court, Ramsgate, Kent

Saturday, 7 November 2009

Despite a rumoured sighting of Samuel L Jackson in a Herne Bay barbers, it's fair to say that the Kent coast has some way to go before it rivals the Italian Riviera as a tourist destination.

Can Fire & Stone's 'experimental' pizza combinations live up to the glamour of Europe's biggest shopping mall?

Sunday, 1 November 2009

Fire & Stone, 107A Southern Terrace, Westfield, Shepherds Bush, London W12, tel: 0844 371 2550

Dans Le Noir? 30-31 Clerkenwell Green, London EC1

Saturday, 31 October 2009

"It's just the thing for Hallowe'en," grated the Independent Magazine's top brass, in their don't-even-bother-arguing way. "Instead of reviewing a normal restaurant, where people eat a romantic meal with knives and forks in discreet lighting, you'll go to that place where everyone dines in spooky total darkness, you'll think you've gone blind and you'll pour red wine down your front. Shut the door on your way out."

Polpo, 41 Beak Street, London W1F

Sunday, 25 October 2009

When one Italian 'tapas bar' goes under, can it possibly make any sense to open another in the same spot?

Hix, 66-70 Brewer Street, London W1

Saturday, 24 October 2009

OK, let's get it out in the open. I know Mark Hix. You know Mark Hix. He works just a few pages up from here. He lets the magazine team hold their Christmas party in his house. But does that mean I'm not going to review his new Soho restaurant? No it certainly does not. After all, you've arrived at this part of the magazine via Hix's pages, so you, of all people, will want to know what he's up to.

Hix, 66-70 Brewer Street, London W1

Sunday, 18 October 2009

Even the art on the ceiling doesn't detract from the food on the plates at Mark Hix's new Soho restaurant

The Luxe, 109 Commercial Street, London E1

Saturday, 17 October 2009

The denizens of Spitalfields in east London have been waiting a long time for The Luxe. John Torode – the Australian judge on TV's Masterchef, who closes his eyes while shouting at his fellow judge, the cockney hard-man Gregg Wallace – has been promising to open for over a year. But since he's the chap behind Smiths of Smithfield, people have been happy to wait.