Nick finds Savannah less a’grass based ecosystem’ and more a brave little hotel restaurant in a backwater of Euston.

May Fair Kitchen’s new sharing menu and refurbished dining area is a great place to share a meal and a glass of wine with friends and their Mediterranean-inspired menu, packed full of flavour, can really could convince you that you are in the Mediterranean for a few hours. 

‘There’s no sign outside,’ my informant told me over a beer in the Ramblas,’and you’ll think that there simply can’t be anywhere good to eat in that tourist area, but honestly, it’s the bomb.’

No prizes for guessing what’s on the menu at Top Dog Diner, says Beena.

Judith Baker finds why local produce and honey from its own bees is creating a buzz at Island Grill, Lancaster Gate

Danielle Woodward experiences luxury in the middle of London at the elegant Savini at Criterion

If you want cheap, you should probably stay on the Central Line at Notting Hill Gate and get off somewhere around Hangar Lane, where the tea might come before the fry-up, but the eggs won’t be pasture-raised! 

Danielle Woodward steps back in time in this Victorian pub and restaurant in Maida Vale.

Bangalore Express is certainly an interesting place; my initial reservations about the hotel-style menu were sent packing by the presentation and the flavours. 

If Balcon can just up the standard of desserts, make the execution match up to the conception, I’d say they’d be a real destination restaurant and not simply a’hotel restaurant’. The cooking is much, much better than that.