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Eipic - 2019 September

Michael Deane first opened a restaurant in this two storey building in central Belfast in 1997, with the eponymous Restaurant Michael Deane gaining a Michelin star that same year

De Leest - 2014 April

De Leest opened in August 2002, and is run by a married couple: Kim Veldman is sommelier and Jacob Jan Boerma the head chef. The chef had trained at a number of establishments in

Dani Garcia - 2015 May

This restaurant closed on 22nd October 2019. Dani Garcia trained at Martin Berasategui before opening his own restaurant "Les Tragabuches" in Ronda in 1998, earning a

Da Terra - 2021 July

Da Terra opened in early 2019 on the site that used to be Typing Room in the Bethnal Green Town Hall. Head chef Rafael Cagali runs the restaurant with his business partner Paulo

Crown at Burchetts Green - 2018 March

The Crown at Burchett’s Green is run by chef/owner Simon Bonwick, with no kitchen staff but some help from his extensive family; his son Dean runs the front of house

Crown at Burchett's Green - 2017 January

The Crown is very much a family-run affair, with chef-patron Simon Bonwick operating on his own in the kitchen but with assistance from some of his nine children. The restaurant

Club Gascon - 2018 March

Club Gascon opened in Smithfields in 1998 and gained a Michelin star in 2002, which it has retained ever since. Its head chef is Pascal Aussignac, born in Toulouse, and who

Christian Tetedoie - 2017 March

Christian Tetedoie trained under Paul Bocuse and George Blanc, and is a MOF (Meilleurs Ouvriers de France). He opened his first restaurant in 1986 and was awarded his first

Chishuru - 2024 February

Adejoké (Joké) Bakare studied biology in Nigeria but also ran a fish and chip shop. After moving to London, she started a supper club, out of which grew the

Cafe Royal Ten Room Brasserie - 2013 January

The Café Royal was established in 1865 on the east side of Regent Street by a French wine merchant called Daniel Thevenon. It was an icon of polite society, with regular

Brasserie Chavot - 2013 March

Editor's note. In December 2015 it was announced that the restaurant would in due course be closing and relocating elsewhere due to rent issues. Eric Chavot was brought up in

Botrini's - 2017 May

Ettore Botrini was brought up in Corfu and worked in the family restaurant "Etruscan" there, after briefly training at Martin Berasategui. His Athens restaurant opened in 2011

Blue Boar - 2021 August

This pub opened in May 2021. Although it has its own entrance, it is within the Conrad London St James hotel. The Blue Boar is a casual sister restaurant of The Pem in the same

Bibendum - 2017 May

Bibendum become an iconic London restaurant under Simon Hopkinson, the gifted chef hired by Terence Conran in 1987 to run it. Located in the old Michelin corporate building, the

Ballyfin Demesne - 2012 July

Ballyfin Demesne is a country hotel in County Laois, just over an hour to the west of Dublin. The striking main house nestles by a lake on a huge 610 acre estate. The house was

Atrio - 2024 January

Atrio (“atrium”) restaurant is located within the walled old town of Caceres in Extremadura in western Spain. Caceres is about 300km southwest of Madrid, 315km east of

Arros QD - 2019 July

Arros QD opened in June 2019, a paella restaurant with an interesting pedigree. It is owned by Quique Dacosta, whose eponymous restaurant in Denia, a port city near Valencia

Angler - 2020 October

Editor's note: as of mid-2024 chef Gary Foulkes is now cooking at Cornus in Belgravia. On the seventh floor of the smart South Place Hotel near Moorgate tube station is

Angler - 2019 May

The Angler kitchen at the South Place Hotel is headed by Gary Foulkes, who joined in April 2016 after being head chef at The Square, and taking over from Tony Fleming. The

Adam's - 2024 April

Adam Stokes with his wife Natasha opened Adams in January 2016 after a two-year pop-up. Adam Stokes remains as executive chef, but there are currently two joint head chefs, Adam