A night at the opera calls for a perfectly picked restaurant to set the evening off in style. Whether you're heading to the Royal Opera House, Royal Festival Hall or for the opening of the season at Opera Holland Park, here are eight excellent spots to sustain and entertain.
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The race is on to uncover Britain's best local restaurant of 2023. Nominations close on Wednesday 24th May but here are the frontrunners currently coming out on top.
Country house hotels have been quietly shaking off their dusty image for years. Then the no-fly period of the pandemic struck and suddenly opinion-shapers were checking into places with glorious gardens, sumptuous interiors and kitchens whose food thrilled. Voluminous floral chintz in dusty dining rooms, prissy formality and palate-deadening food? There’s no space for that in these competitive times. Heritage-respecting style, easy informality laced with luxury, and inspired cooking by talented chefs using kitchen garden ingredients? Yes please.
A former editor of the Good Food Guide once defined everybody's favourite restaurant as 'the one where they know you'. To walk in and be greeted by name, before anybody has glanced at the on-screen booking data, is to be reminded of the restaurant's primeval role of restoring the spirits, a task equally as important as feeding and sustaining the body. Come in, how are you? Awful weather. Did you have trouble parking? Let me take your coats. Stuart Walton has eaten in an extraordinary range of restaurants - he explains why he couldn’t agree more.
