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This year, over 8,000 'reporters' - people like you - gave us 87,000 reports, to help us write this guide. Using your feedback, we cover over 3,000 places: everything from gastropubs to temples of cuisine. All entries are rated, mapped and comprehensively indexed to make the guide as user-friendly as possible. We're proud of our independence: We take no payments or freebies from anywhere included

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24/04/2026

A hot newcomer this week was .pasta latest opening in the City.

Service and food were superb. The classics — fried artichoke and silk handkerchiefs — were as good as ever, while dishes unique to this branch included a tuna tartare with fried pasta and rare beef. A carbonara raviolo had sold out on our visit, but it sounded good enough to tempt us back.

An excellently located spot for a working lunch, with a fantastic atmosphere to match. We can’t wait to see what our diners think of it in the 2027 survey.

16/04/2026

About last night: Gill to Tail at Dinings SW3.

A 10-course guest chef night with Masaki and Louise from Boubou’s, cooking sustainable seafood that uses every part of the fish.
Cod tongue, monkfish liver, dashi from shells and bones, a ‘tea’ of fins in warm sake. The hand-dived Cornish scallop is, by Masaki’s reckoning, sweeter than Scottish and almost as good as Japanese.
Louise opened Boubou’s Lisbon at 23, spent eight years there, and has just left to explore what’s next.

09/04/2026

We caught up with Alex Dilling at his two Michelin starred chef restaurant Hotel Cafe Royal about his career, signature dish and who has his vote in the 2027 Harden’s Annual Diner’s Poll.

26/03/2026

Get to know the “one to watch” Luke Armstrong, who’s just taken the helm at The Four Seasons, Tower Bridge. Plus hear who thinks will top our 2027 Diner’s poll 👀

21/03/2026

Simpson’s in the Strand has reopened under Jeremy King. London’s grand dame of dining retains its Edwardian opulence, now gently refreshed for a new chapter.

We’re looking forward to hearing what our diners think in the 2027 survey, now open.

17/03/2026

Harden’s Diners’ Poll 2027 is open.
Support the restaurants you love and help shape our 35th annual survey before the April 20 deadline.
Review 3 restaurants for the chance to win a stunning stay with lunch at Moor Hall, plus more rewards the more you rate.
Take part now and give your favourites the kudos they deserve.

13/03/2026

Hot newcomer!

12/03/2026

Opening today!

A new stablemate for Greek siblings Mazi and Suzi Tros in Notting Hill from owners Christina Mouratoglou and Adrien Carré. The third member of the family heads to swanky Mayfair, taking over a cute Bruton Place site designed by the same people behind Chiltern Firehouse and The Peninsula.

Its name means “everyday bread” and the newcomer will apparently channel the spirit of a 1980s Athenian taverna for 90 guests, with an upstairs bar soundtracked by 1970s and 1980s Greek vinyl.

Sample dishes include pasta with sea urchin, chicken jus and truffle, plus disco fries topped with shredded veal kokkinisto. It also promises what it claims is the world’s largest exclusively Greek wine list, with more than 150 bottles.

Next stop, Abu Dhabi.

06/03/2026

We had the pleasure of submitting the first of an extremely exciting venture from with Luke Armstrong at the helm.

We loved it and can’t wait to see what our diners think in our 2027 survey.

03/03/2026

In our 2026 survey we asked our 30,000 diners where is the best place to go for a business lunch... this is what they had to say.

Where do you book when it has to go well? Tell us your go-to spot in the comments.

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