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Grill Room at The Dorchester - 2020 January

The Dorchester Grill room has been running since 1931, when the hotel itself opened in Park Lane. In the same hotel are the restaurants Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester and China

Grill at The Dorchester - 2015 March

The Grill Room at the Dorchester was previously known as much for its décor as its food. Vast murals featured kilted Highlanders tossing cabers and staring down

Greenhouse - 2012 May

The dining room seats 48 diners at capacity, with a further dozen in the private dining room. Chef Antonin Bonnet left the Greenhouse to open his own place in Paris, and he was

Green and Red - 2007 March

Green and Red closed in 2011. It will not be particularly missed, at least not by me. The dining room is on the ground floor, along with a bar. A larger bar area is downstairs. On

Great Queen Street - 2011 May

Editor's note: this restaurant closed on July 12th 2019. Great Queen Street has a long, narrow dining room with a bar down one side, a wooden floor and remarkably murky lighting

Grangers - 2011 December

Bill Granger is an Australian restaurateur and food writer (with multiple TV series) who has restaurants in Sydney and Tokyo; this is his seventh venture, and his first in the UK

Grand Trunk Road - 2021 August

The “Grand Trunk Road” was one of the great trading highways of Asia, linking what is now Afghanistan to India. Its origins go back two millennia but it was rebuilt in

Grand Imperial - 2011 January

Grand Imperial is part of a Malaysian restaurant group (run by entrepreneur Rand Cheung), which opened their first restaurant in the Kuala Lumpur shopping mall Bangsar in December

Gourmetrestaurant Lerbach (formerly Dieter Muller) - 2002 June

Editor's note: the restaurant closed in January 2015 for a major refurbishment, with a planned reopening in late 2015. It is not entirely clear at the time of writing whether the

Gouqi - 2024 May

Gouqi opened in March 2023, with chef Tong Chee Hwee leading the kitchen. I covered the background of the restaurant, the chef’s illustrious career and the wine list

Gouqi - 2023 April

Gouqi (the name is a play on goji berry) opened in March 2023 just off Trafalgar Square. Chef Tong Chee Hwee has a long background in high-end Chinese food. He had cooked at the

Gordon Ramsay at Verre - March 2003

Important note: this review was written when Jason Atherton was cooking here, so the review should be treated with considerable caution given the different chef (Scott Price)

Gordon Ramsay - 2023 November

Restaurant Gordon Ramsay opened in 1998 on the site of the former La Tante Claire. Gordon has long since moved out of the kitchen to build a restaurant and media empire, but this

Gordon Ramsay - 2018 July

This restaurant is the flagship of the Gordon Ramsay restaurant empire, having opened in 1998. Since 2015 the chef de cuisine has been now Matt Abe, who has worked in the Gordon

Gordon Ramsay - 2012 December

In 2000 I wrote on this web site: “The kitchen here is cooking at very high two Michelin star level, and would be a good bet for the UK’s next 3rd Michelin star

Goodman - 2010 September

This was the first Goodman in London (a second branch in Old Jewry in the City opened in mid 2010), a steak house serving American beef but owned by Russians. The room itself is

Golden Hind - 2011 February

A restaurant, even a chippie, which has been in continuous operation since 1914 must be doing something right. The Golden Hind has no prententions, but its brightly lit, basically

Golden Dragon - 2006 March

The Golden Dragon is a large, bustling place on two levels. We ate upstairs, and the place was packed, with tables being turned even on this midweek evening. The dining room had

Glasshouse - 2010 June

Editor's note: this restaurant closed on 17th September, 2022. This opened in mid 1999 and finally brought classy cooking to this prosperous but culinarily challenged area of West

Gillray's Steakhouse

Gillray’s is a steak house based in the old County Hall building on the South Bank (now a Marriott hotel), opening in March 2012. Its head chef is Gareth Bowen, who worked