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Jin Da Thai - 2024 February

Jin Da Thai (“precious stone”) has been serving northern Thai cuisine in Hammersmith since 2017. It has quite a small dining room with closely packed tables. The menu

Jin Da Thai - 2022 March

This neighbourhood restaurant opened in 2017 and features the cuisine of northern Thailand. The cooler climate of the north tends to lead to a lot of herbs and vegetables

Jikoni - 2016 October

This restaurant, whose name means “kitchen” in Swahili, opened in September 2016. It is the first venture from Ravinder Bhogal, a food writer who released her first

Jean-Christophe Ansanay-Alex

Jean-Christophe has for some time been a highly respected two Michelin star chef in Lyon, and in 2008/2009 brought his talents to London with Ambassade de l'Ile. He has now

Jaylu - 2018 May

This seafood restaurant has been operating for no less than fifty years, so in the fly-by-night world of restaurants it is clearly doing something right. It is situated on the

Jar - 2010 December

The Jar restaurant (there is a Jar Bar in the basement) is on the ground floor of an attractively sited restaurant overlooking the sea. The dining room has fairly conventional

Janetira - 2013 August

Editor's note: in February 2019 Janetira was refurbished and rebranded as "Wild Rice". Janetira is an unassuming Thai restaurant in Soho that opened in 2012, but became more

Jamavar London - October 2017

Jamavar is across the road from the Connaught hotel on Mount Street, spread over a ground floor main room and an additional basement dining room. See my previous reviews for

Jamavar London - 2025 August

I have written previously about Jamavar, its heritage in India and the background of its highly experienced head chef Surender Mohan. Jamavar is located just off Berkeley Square

Jamavar London - 2024 July

Jamavar is part of the group of restaurants owned by Samyutka Nair and her father, who founded the Leela Hotel group, which was sold in 2019 to an asset management group. Sister

Jamavar London - 2022 July

Jamavar is the first incarnation of the restaurant brand that was not attached to one of the luxury Leela Hotels in India (the hotel group has recently been acquired by Brookfield

Jamavar London - 2021 November

Jamavar is the brand used for the flagship restaurants of the luxury hotel group Leela in India. I have eaten at several of the hotel’s restaurants around India, from

Jamavar London - 2021 August

Leela is a luxury hotel chain in India, with Jamavar restaurants in a few of their properties, including in Bangalore, Goa, Delhi and Mumbai. Jamavar London is the only restaurant

Jamavar London - 2019 August

Jamavar is the London outpost of the Leela group, who run a string of luxury hotels in India. Jamavar is their flagship restaurant brand, and I have eaten meals at Jamavar

Jamavar London - 2018 August

Jamavar is the restaurant brand of the Leela hotel group, who run a group of luxury hotels in India. There are Jamavar restaurants at some, though not all, of their properties: in

Jamavar London - 2017 February

This was my third meal here – see earlier reviews for the background of the restaurant. Today’s lunch began with aloo tikki, which had potato patties, white radish

Jamavar London - 2016 December

For me the opening of Jamavar in London was of particular interest. Jamavar is the flagship restaurant brand of the Leela Hotel group, whose properties I have stayed in many times

Jamavar Goa - 2019 January

Jamavar, named after a type of Kashmiri shawl, is the flagship restaurant of the Leela Palace hotel and serves Indian cuisine from Goa and beyond. The dining room was completely

Jaks - April 2000

Jaks is a pleasantly relaxed neighbourhood restaurant, avoiding the stuffiness that might be expected in this part of London, but also managing to avoid the pretension that might

Jaan - 2011 August

Jaan is located on the 70th floor of the Swissotel, and as you might expect has a spectacular view over the city. There has been considerable change in the kitchen in the last