Three years ago Jonathan Sands opened the London Film Museum with no public funding and a truckload of movie props. Now, he tells Louise Jury, the scene is set for him to expand into the old Theatre Museum in Covent Garden... more
Neither Russell Norman nor Tom Oldroyd are Italian monikers. Yet this pair have just opened a resolutely Venetian bar-with-food in central Soho.... more
Elle Macpherson, Sienna Miller, Stephen Fry and Sting are among more than 30 celebrity customers who have signed a letter calling on Nobu to stop selling bluefin tuna so that they can "dine with a clear conscience"... more
Richard Caring's portfolio of restaurants, which includes some of London's favourites, has defied the credit crunch by more than doubling its profits... more
Côte is the first of a proposed new restaurant chain from the men behind Strada, but it needs to get more authentically Gallic, says Fay Maschler.
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From the finest buffalo mozzarella to fiery Sichuan hotpots and the freshest seafood, Fay Maschler names the final 25 of her top 50 restaurants.... more
First it was Marco Pierre White who confessed using Knorr chicken stock cubes. Now other top chefs have admitted their junk food secrets, although these are the snacks they love to eat.... more
Starters in Sketch and Scott's, then The Greenhouse for mains and Locanda Locatelli for pudding - it's a one-off chance for 10 lucky readers to eat at London's finest.... more
Scott's, the famous British seafood restaurant, was fashionable in the Fifties and Sixties, and is now enjoying a bit of a revival, despite a catalogue of disasters during its relaunch.... more
Scott's had lost its magic for most Londoners, but a pearl of a revamp might just put this seafood landmark back on the map, says Fay Maschler.... more
Celebrated fish restaurant Scott's is re-opening and features an eye-catching innovation - an air conditioning system using cool water pumped from the chalk deep underneath Mayfair.... more
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