Gavin Hanly

His Birmingham restaurant Opheem has two Michelin stars and now Aktar Islam has opened Oudh 1722, his first London restaurant. We went down to see what he's cooking in his London Bridge home.

At the end of last year, Douglas McMaster's Silo shut the doors in Hackney Wick (over Crate Brewery), but now Uncle Hon's BBQ is hoping to take the space over - and he's nearly got his Kickstarter completed. Founder Man Hon Luk (who lives in the ...

The man behind the very successful Lita in Marylebone, Daniel Koukarskikh, is quietly getting ready for his next London opening, but this one is going to be a little different. Mardy's will be a sandwich shop opening in Mayfair. Unfortunately, th...

It's been just over a year since they opened in King's Cross and now Bubala is getting ready to open their fourth restaurant, this time in Covent Garden. They're taking over the space that used to be Lima Cantina for their biggest restaurant yet. ...

The Spiteri family have joined forces as a hospitality super group to open this new West London pub, fronted by the sibling duo behind Caravel. We went west to check it out.

As we enter summer properly, there are even more new restaurants to look out for. There's another team-up between Spencer Metzger and Jason Atherton, a huge rooftop opening at Olympia, Claridge's embraces New York for its new restaurant, Adam Byat...

Back in 2022, chef Max de Nahlikl regenerated West Kensington pub The Holland. Now, just half an hour's walk away, he's done the same with Brook Green pub The Bird in Hand. While The Holland is "British ingredient-led", Max has taken a different ...

After eight years, one of the best restaurants in the Highbury and Islington area, Sambal Shiok, has closed the doors for good (on 27 May). The Malaysian restaurant, which opened on the Holloway Road in 2018 has been forced to close thanks to the ...

It's been just over two years since chef Florence Knight left Sessions Arts Club, the beautiful-looking restaurant that she helped launch in Clerkenwell. And now the chef is getting ready to make her return to the London dining scene. She'll be t...

It's been a long time since Andrew Wong has concentrated on anything other than his two-Michelin-starred restaurant A Wong, last opening the short-lived Kym's in Bloomberg Arcade, back in 2018. But now he's getting ready to head to Shoreditch, op...