Anita Pati goes back to her briny roots at the new Bonnie and Gull seafood shack in Exmouth Market

A cut above the rest hostel in Liverpool with its very own street kitchen.

Dram and smoke is located in one of those big old yards,  a yard you know is going to be on Grand Designs in a few years time.  A graphic artist and his pushy, rude wife, will be smugly telling Kevin how they intend to turn it into a giant living space at phenomenal expense.

The Crown and Anchor pub , something of a Chiswick institution,  has undergone a major refurbishment and is aspiring to be The W4  place to be with an elegant upstairs gallery bar, open kitchen and a fresh new menu.

Lucy Self checks out The Mandeville Hotel’s Marylebone restaurant and questions whether too much comparison is a good thing. 

I think Rextail is a winner for Mr Novikov, who has hit the button this time. It’s out of my personal price range for repeat dining but the food is much better than expected; enjoyable and straightforward and the room works.

Brigade, the London Bridge restaurant where good causes and good food meet and actually get on.

A restaurant in a tower in Liverpool – that’s enough to get me in the door.

 A friendly, neighbourhood bar full of 20-50-year-olds, families, couples – but now with a much more eclectic décor; think 1970s Greek taverna bricking, pianos on the walls, tan Chesterfields, Toby Jugs and curios in every corner. 

Keith Lewis visits newly opened City hotspot Core for a cocktail or two.