The Independent

Chipotle, 114-116 Charing Cross Road, London WC2

25 July 2010 12:00 AM

One night. Two tables. One hot cuisine. But are the chains opening in the trail of Wahaca taco-tastic or just tacky?

Cantina Laredo, St Martin's Courtyard, 10 Upper St Martin's Lane, London WC2

24 July 2010 12:00 AM

Spoiler alert. This review contains details of the single worst dish the reviewer has yet encountered in her professional career. If you don't want to know the ending, or are reading this in the hope of finding a great new Mexican restaurant, look away now.

Terminus Nord, 23, Rue de Dunkerque, 75010 Paris

18 July 2010 12:00 AM

Robert Chalmers' Parisian getaway hits the buffers with an argument over the bill at Terminus Nord

Café Luc, 50 Marylebone High Street, London W1

17 July 2010 12:00 AM

The eponymous Luc is Luc van Oostende who (as his name subtly hints) comes from Belgium. Luc and his daughter Julie – a graduate of "the world's leading hotel management school" no less – have acquired a large Victorian building that was home to Eat and Two Veg, and installed a dead-chic brasserie in it.

The Dock Kitchen, Portobello Dock, 342/433 Ladbroke Grove, London, W10

11 July 2010 12:00 AM

It took time to find its feet, but the temporary restaurant in Tom Dixon's HQ is fast becoming a west-London fixture

Table, Jubilee Square, Brighton, East Sussex

10 July 2010 12:00 AM

On paper, Brighton's Table looks like the perfect modern restaurant. Everything about it screams "like me!" – from the location, attached to a hip designer hotel in an acclaimed new development just behind the Royal Pavilion, to the pedigree: it's operated by the admirable Company of Cooks, who run top-notch catering outlets in London's Royal Parks and at cultural institutions including the Imperial War Museum and the Royal Opera House.

Field and Fork, Pallant House Gallery, 90 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex

03 July 2010 12:00 AM

You can't guarantee that art galleries and museums will boast wonderful eating facilities. In 1988, the Saatchi brothers wrote an ad campaign describing London's Victoria & Albert Museum as "an ace caff with quite a nice museum attached" but few people were impressed with either the slogan or the food. Maybe, after two hours of inspecting Last Suppers, still-life dead pheasants and fruit portraits by Arcimboldo, the last thing the art-lover wants is a hearty lunch. And in many galleries, you won't get one.

Look Mum No Hands! 49 Old Street, London EC1

27 June 2010 12:00 AM

Put down those energy bars and leave your bike outside – cyclists have finally got the pit stop they deserve

The Old Brewery, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10

26 June 2010 12:00 AM

This fine summer's evening we are travelling downriver to Greenwich, to partake of a whitebait dinner and a glass of Hospital Porter. How delightfully mid-19th century. In Dickens' time, Greenwich was famous for its whitebait – the small fry of various fish which bred abundantly in this polluted stretch of the Thames – and visitors would journey from far and wide for an infanticidal fry-up. The fish may come from Billingsgate Market these days, but the traditional Greenwich whitebait dinner is enjoying a revival, thanks to an appealing new venture from local brewers Meantime.

Angels & Gypsies, 29-33 Camberwell Church Street, London

20 June 2010 12:00 AM

KFC or kebab? London's Camberwell is not known for destination dining. So a new tapas bar feels sent from above

Brasserie Joel Park Plaza Hotel, 200 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7UT (020-7620 7272)

19 June 2010 12:00 AM

I've been driving round the huge roundabout on the south side of Westminster Bridge for years, and assumed there might be a pumping station inside, or a maximumsecurity prison. Imagine my surprise when it recently shed its dismal chrysalis and emerged as a lumpen butterfly, 15 stories high with 1,021 rooms and dramatic views of Big Ben.

The George & Dragon, High Street, Rowde, Devizes, Wiltshire

13 June 2010 12:00 AM

This Wiltshire gastropub is renowned for its seafood; and there's certainly something fishy going on here...

Gauthier Soho, 1 Romilly Street, London W1 (020-7494 3111)

12 June 2010 12:00 AM

The long, boozy lunch may no longer be a part of media culture, but you'd never know it from all the new restaurants opening in Soho. Just when it seemed that chain cafés and bars would choke the life out of London's creative heartland, the place has been revived by an infusion of exciting, independently-owned new openings.

Bar Boulud 66, Knightsbridge, London, SW1

06 June 2010 12:00 AM

Can Daniel Boulud weave his New York magic in the UK? And is it worth braving Knightsbridge to find out?

Chapter One, Farnborough Common, Locksbottom, Kent

05 June 2010 12:00 AM

I don't want to be negative about the "Garden of England" but the area around the Chapter One restaurant suffers from a slight reputation problem. Since the 1950s, this suburban district on the edges of Farnborough, Croydon and Bromley has been considered Desperado Central: a lawless terrain of mock-Tudor homes and gated communities where retired armed robbers, Cockney racketeers and their kohl-drenched partners in crime used to retire to spend their ill-gotten gains. Of course, this is a foolish cliché, like the idea that Kent is full of gin-soaked lechers motoring to roadhouses in Maidstone with young popsies called Joy or Samantha in the MG's passenger seat. But there's a real feeling of stepping into the past about stepping into Chapter One.