Fine dining

• Test Driving Cornus - a sophisticated second album from the Medlar team

  

  New rooftop restaurant Cornus is the first opening in over a decade from the team who brought us Medlar. We took a trip to Belgravia to check it out.

• Test Driving The Cocochine - fine dining meets exquisitely fine design

  

  Gallery owner Tim Jefferies and chef Larry Jayasekara have teamed up in Mayfair for an impeccably-designed fine dining restaurant. We went in to take a look.  

• Test Driving Mauro Colagreco at Raffles London at The OWO - our first taste of London's newest luxury hotel

  

  His restaurant in the south of France topped the World's 50 Best list and won three Michelin stars. Now chef Mauro Cologreco has opened three restaurants at once in London. We went to try the fine dining one. 

• Test Driving The Ritz Restaurant - one of London's truly special restaurants

  

  It's a restaurant that can accuratly be called iconic, and is blessed with a spectacular menu from John Williams and amazing service. Almost a decade since our last visit, we went back to give it a new look.

• Test Driving Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal - the hotel gets a real destination restaurant

  

  Alex Dilling at the Hotel Café Royal promises to deliver an elevated Frech dining experience from a lauded chef. We went along to see if the hotel has finally landed a full-on destination restaurant.  

• Test Driving Da Terra at the Town Hall - an exemplary restaurant hiding in plain sight

  The Town Hall has done it again with Da Terra, an excellent restaurant that has its influences in Latin America and Italy. We went to check it out.  

• 104 in Notting Hill is Richard Wilkins' miniature fine dining restaurant

   

  Chef Richard Wilkins has moved into West London to open his solo venture, serving up a modern French fine dining menu.

• Dead Rabbits Saloon brings luxe burgers to Highbury

  

  This Highbury burger spot boasts a head chef who's worked in Michelin-starred kitchens and has burgers on the menu which really deserve a gourmet label. Expect BIG burgers, with pork belly, oxtail, bone marrow and more thrown into the mix. 

• Ex-Babbo Head Chef to open Xier in Marylebone

  Carlo Scotto's first solo venture, on Thayer Street, will be a two tiered affair with a casual ground floor space XR and then a first floor fine dining experience Xier with a tasting menu.

• The best set lunch deal in London? We Test Drive Le Gavroche

  The lunchtime deal at Michel Roux Jr's two Michelin-starred Mayfair restaurant has long been a thing of legend. We went to see if it lived up to expectations

• Only the name is the same - we Test Drive The Square in Mayfair

  With a new look and new chef - we see what the wholly redone Mayfair spot The Square is now like post refurb.

• A first look at the revamped Simpson's in the Strand

  Simpson's in the Strand is one of London's most iconic restaurants - and it's just emerged from a much-needed revamp...

• Monica Galetti's Mere - Test Driving her fine dining with a twist in Fitzrovia

  Monica Galetti's new restaurant on Charlotte Street is taken for a spin.

• Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester - a return visit

  

  It's all change at Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester where there's a new Executive Chef at the helm. Jean-Philippe Blondet was previously head chef under Jocelyn Herland who has moved to Le Meurice, before taking up his current position. And as it has been four years since we last tried out lunch here at Michelin's most highly starred establishment in the city (along with Restaurant Gordon Ramsay) we figured it was time for another

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