The Crowne Plaza London -The City, has announced the completion of its brand new Lobby Café. Replacing a lounge area, the lobby has undergone a complete facelift to provide a handy cafe for the local community with a menu playing strongly on its close proximity to Smithfield Market, offering a fine selection of traditional meat dishes

Bellevue Rendezvous is a new French restaurant on the site of local favourite Mini Mundus, at 218 Trinity Road, Wandsworth Common, SW17 (near the junction with Bellevue Road). The restaurant, owned and run by Pablo Gallego (in the kitchen) and his partner Stephanie Gandon (running front of house),

Situated on the fringes of Notting Hill and just moments from Portobello Road, the Clarendon is positioned on a quiet residential street, providing a welcome oasis of calm. With a cocktail lounge, ground floor restaurant and large roof terrace it is a spot to relax with a cocktail, re-energise with a brunch, sunbathe on the terrace or have a party with friends.

Located in the former Reuters building in Fleet Street, Lutyens is the latest project from Prescott and Conran Limited, the company behind the recently opened Boundary and Albion in Shoreditch. Lutyens includes a large bar on Fleet Street with a charcuterie counter, 130 seat restaurant, crustacea and sushi bar, members club and 4 private dining and meeting rooms.

Conceived by Harbour & Jones, this unique 48-cover dining room, with its own dedicated entrance, can be found alongside a new café in St Paul’s Cathedral’s crypt. Open for lunch and afternoon tea, the menus romp through the British Isles providing up-to-date food created from carefully considered ingredients courtesy of head chef Candice Webber.

Just twenty miles from central London, within easy reach of the M25 and minutes from Potters Bar and Cuffley, The Sun at Northaw offers all the values of a quality characterful country pub, without the schlep.

Plenty of foodies like to worship at the feet of chefs, now they can do it in a place with the right odour of sanctity. Defying the recession, or maybe just too far down the contract road to stop, Chris and Jeff Galvin have announced that the name of their forthcoming City of London restaurant will be Galvin La Chapelle

Timely for our heat-wave. Bedecked in purple, marble and mirrors and brought to you by ‘Gaucho’ Freggo represents the first U.K. outlet of the South American staple, known there as ‘Freddo’.

The man behind venues such as the iconic Crab at Chieveley and before that, the Crab & Lobster restaurant and Crab Manor hotel in Thirsk, has spent the last twelve months and in excess of £4m converting and shaping the Chilgrove White Horse in West Sussex into his latest masterpiece, The Fish House.