St Barts: The hidden City restaurant looking beyond the British larder Food The Toast the City Awards are mere days away, with the great and good of the Square Mile preparing to descend upon Steel Yard for the party of the year. One of the Finalists is the stunning Barts North Wing – but did you know there is also an incredible place to grab lunch after [...]
Vraic: The Michelin-starred restaurant putting Guernsey on the map restaurants At Vraic, Nathan Davies has created a restaurant worth flying to – and back from – in a single day, writes Carys Sharkey Flying anywhere for lunch is pretty decadent. Flying back the same day is borderline obscene. But Vraic, which opened on Guernsey a year ago, is a restaurant that has muscled its way [...]
Lita: The pursuit of the perfect neighbourhood restaurant Food After running a three-Michelin-starred kitchen, one chef has set out to create the ultimate neighbourhood restaurant at Lita in Marylebone, writes Carys Sharkey What makes the perfect neighbourhood restaurant? Some immediately come to mind: Perilla in Stoke Newington, Camberwell Arms in Camberwell, Chez Bruce in Wandsworth, Saikei in the retail complex side of Greenwich. All [...]
Bonheur by Matt Abé review: This Michelin magnet left me hungry July 23, 2026 Matt Abé, formerly of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, has gone it alone with the opening of Bonheur. His food might be winning plaudits (including two Michelin stars) but our reviewer was left craving french fries I’d eaten like a catwalk model in the hours that preceded my meal at Bonheur by Matt Abe. My guest had [...]
I eat for a living. Can I get fit in 100 days? July 10, 2026 City AM’s Deputy Life&Style Editor Adam Bloodworth reviews restaurants for a living. Can he get fit while still doing his job? Can I get fit in 100 days? I eat for a living. Not like those viral food challengers who eat 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes, but still in a quite ridiculous way that [...]
‘It’s military precision’: meet the chefs crafting summer’s £6k corporate hospitality dishes July 2, 2026 Inside the race to create summer’s poshest corporate hospitality dishes Later this month, the thrice-Michelin-starred chef Simon Rogan will be serving Cornish lobster with pickled gooseberries, oysters with chicken glaze and Miso-roasted cod with smoked roe. In many ways, it will be the same as any other day for the 57-year-old from Southampton. At his [...]