Anthea Gerrie reviews Church Road Restaurant in leafy Barnes

It doesn’t happen very often that restaurants exceed expectations, but Chef Ruth Hansom’s cooking does exactly that at Pomona’s Restaurant.

November marks the anniversary of the death of Antonio Carluccio, the legendary Italian chef who made Britons take mushrooms seriously at Carluccio’s.

North-west London’s Finchley Road has never quite made its mind up. On one hand, it’s a sprawling main road of coffee bars, apartment buildings, launderettes and offices and on the other, it flirts with the well-heeled of Hampstead and Swiss Cottage.

Anthea Gerrie reviews Tredwells in trendy Covent Garden.

     I was expecting a bowl of sunshine brimming with steam in homage to the yellow fog tunnel which is the star turn of Olufor Eliasson’s show at Tate Modern, but the carrot soup kicking off the special menu created for the gallery’s Terrace Bar was actually bright orange. 

When two close friends from Kolkata (or Calcutta as we call it in the West) decide to work together, that alone is a tough enough test of friendship.

Wiltons Restaurant has made eight moves since starting as a shellfish-mongers in 1742 in London’s Haymarket – a plenty swanky address in recent centuries, but back then, just that – a market selling hay.

Just around the corner from Green Park tube, Novikov Restaurant and Bar is owned by Russian entrepreneur Arkady Novikov, apparently a buddy of President Putin.

Early evening at Orient London and the place is positively heaving. Not surprising I suppose when you consider it’s prime spot on Wardour Street, just a chopstick throw away from Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square.