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Bob Bob Cite - 2019 June

Editor's note: Eric Chavot left at the end of January 2020. The new head chef is Ben Hobson. Bob Bob Cite is the sister restaurant of Bob Bob Ricard, and finally opened in June

Bo Shanghai - 2018 August

Editor's note: this restaurant closed in March 2019. Bo Shanghai opened in mid 2016, the sister restaurant of Bo Innovation in Hong Kong. It was awarded a Michelin star in the

Bo London - 2013 February

Editor's note. In March 2014 Bo London closed, though on 6th March its own Twitter feed claimed this was merely a refurbishment. Later responses from Alvin Leung in The Caterer

Bo Innovation - 2009 February

Bo Innovation tries to play around with traditional Cantonese cooking and mix in some modern European influences. Finding it is tricky. Our taxi driver got completely

Blue Plate - 2013 August

In late 2012 the cake shop Outsider Tart in Chiswick opened a small restaurant called Blue Plate, serving food from America’s deep south. Outsider Tart was established over

Blue Boar - 2021 August

This pub opened in May 2021. Although it has its own entrance, it is within the Conrad London St James hotel. The Blue Boar is a casual sister restaurant of The Pem in the same

Blandford Comptoir - 2016 October

Blandford Comptoir was opened in May 2016 by Xavier Rousset, former head sommelier at Le Manoir au Quat’ Saisons and co-founder of Texture and 28/50. The head chef here is

Blanchette - 2014 June

Blanchette opened in December 2013, a French bistro owned by three brothers in partnership with the founders of Salt Yard. The head chef is Tam Storrar, previously senior

Black Salt - 2023 October

There is a new head chef at Black Salt. Chinta Mamgain was formerly at Copper Chimney and before that at Zaika. Otherwise the staff (other than the manager) are the same as

Black Salt - 2022 September

Black Salt is the sister of Dastaan and has become a regular haunt for me. See earlier reviews for more detail on the background, head chef etc. At this latest meal I tried one

Black Salt - 2022 June

Black Salt is sister to Dastaan, and cooks the Dastaan recipes, with just a few differences in menu between the two locations. The head chef is Manish Sharma, who was

Black Salt - 2022 January

Black Salt, sister to the superb Dastaan, was one of the most exciting Indian restaurant openings in London in 2021. The head chef is Manish Sharma, who was at Copper

Black Salt - 2022 April

Black Salt is the younger sister of the superb Dastaan in Ewell, cooking almost entirely the same recipes as at the mothership. The head chef is Manish Sharma, who previously

Black Salt - 2021 November

Black Salt opened in May 2021 in East Sheen, on the Upper Richmond Road. The restaurant owners are Nand Kishore Semwal and Sanjay Gour from Dastaan and Sanjay Patel, who had

Bistro du Vin - 2011 May

Editor's note: in May 2012 this restaurant was sold, and will become a branch of Burger and Lobster. Bistro du Vin is the first in what will be a chain of bistros, themselves

Bistro Bruno Loubet - 2010 February

Below are notes from my initial, much less successful meal here in February 2010.Over the years I have Bruno Loubet’s food many times. After training as a chef in France

Bibi - 2021 November

Bibi (“Lady of the House”) opened in May 2021, part of the growing JKS restaurant group, which includes Gymkhana, Trishna, Hoppers and Lyles. The head chef is Chetan

Bibendum - 2024 November

Bibendum is on the first floor of the art deco Michelin House (built in 1911), which has a superbly light and airy dining room with large stained-glass windows. It used to be the

Bibendum - 2020 October

The Michelin House (Bibendum) building in South Kensington was the home of the Michelin tyre company, built in 1911 in just five months. The company vacated the building in 1985

Bibendum - 2017 May

Bibendum become an iconic London restaurant under Simon Hopkinson, the gifted chef hired by Terence Conran in 1987 to run it. Located in the old Michelin corporate building, the