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Ritz - 2013 December

This meal began with a few nibbles including unusually light and fluffy cheese gougeres, with lots of cheese flavour yet meltingly delicate. The first course was a mosaic of game

Ritz - 2011 February

What follows are notes from a meal in February 2011. The dining room here is striking, luxuriously appointed as you might expect, yet for me the food is what I care about, and the

Ritz - 2011 December

The Ritz Hotel has a long history. It was opened in 1906 by Swiss hotelier César Ritz after his initial solo hotel venture The Carlton Hotel on Pall Mall (which opened in

Ritu - 2022 February

Ritu in St Johns Wood opened in September 2021, taking over the site of former Lebanese restaurant Yasmeen. The name “Ritu” means “seasons” in India. There

Ristorante Frescobaldi - 2015 February

Ristorante Frescobaldi London opened in November 2014. It is owned by the Frescobaldi family, a Florentine wine dynasty who have been making Tuscan wines since 1308, and now

Rigo - 2018 November

Rigo opened in August 2017 in the Parson’s Green end of Fulham, with head chef Gonzalo Luzarraga, who is originally from Piedmont. He worked for over three years at Louis XV

Riding House Cafe - 2011 September

The Riding House Café is an all-day affair serving, as is the way so often these days, a format of small plates of food. It opened in May 2011 and is run by the

Rick Stein Barnes - 2017 June

Rick Stein opened this London outpost of his fishy empire in the summer of 2017. Appropriately it is by the river, in what used to be “the Depot” in Mortlake, which is

RIA - 2011 May

Editor's note: this restaurant closed in July 2012. Situated on the third floor of the modern boutique hotel Elysian, RIA is the fine dining establishment of the hotel. The head

Rhodes 24 - 2011 March

Editor's note. This restaurant will cease trading in September 2013 and be replaced in due course by a Jason Atherton restaurant.The notes below will then be of purely historical

Residenz Heinz Winkler- 2003 September

In the 2009 Michelin guide Heinz Winkler lost his third star, which surprised many. Heinz Winkler was the youngest ever three star chef (in the UK the food press often claims

Republic - 2021 July

Editor's note: this restaurant sadly closed in October 2023. Republic opened briefly in late 2020 before having to close due to the Covid pandemic. Now fully open, it serves

Relais Bernard Loiseau - 2015 August

Over fifty years ago, a restaurateur called Claude Verger owned a fashionable Paris restaurant called La Barriere de Clichy, and in 1972 hired as its head chef a 22-year-old chef

Regis et Jacques Marcon - 2017 June

Regis et Jacques Marcon is situated on a hillside about two hours drive west of Lyon, near a little village called St Bonnet Le Froid. The microclimate here lives up to the name

Regadera - 2024 June

Regadera opened in 2011 and is located just by the river in Cordoba. The ground floor dining room has a wooden floor and well-spaced tables. The room seats around forty people at

Red Pocket

The Verta Hotel on Battersea Wharf opened in late 2010, on the river next to the London heliport. When I say next to the heliport, I mean actually adjacent: the helicopters land

Red Pepper - 2003 November

Dining here is a is a bit like being in an episode of that old Tv series “Land of the Giants”: you are seated at a tiny table, and are brought the smallest breadbasket

Reale - 2014 February

Reale opened in 2003 in the ski resort of Rivisondoli, but moved to its current premises in late 2011. It is situated on the outskirts of a small city (with a population of around

Raunka Punjab Diyan - 2015 December

There is no shortage of Indian restaurants in Southall. On a warm summer’s day in the Broadway if you blink then you could almost imagine you are in India. Every shop seems

Rasoi Vineet Bhatia - 2008 February

Editor's note: in September 2015 it was announced that this restaurant would be closing "soon". The last service was actually on October 8th 2017. Vineet Bhatia trained at the