Tanya Gold

Michael Caine: no, Zulu doesn’t incite far-right extremism

11 March 2023 9:00 am

Michael Caine and the pursuit of happiness

Too perfect for Instagram: Cédric Grolet at the Berkeley reviewed

4 March 2023 9:00 am

The Cédric Grolet at the Berkeley lives in the shiniest hotel in Knightsbridge, though I prefer the Mandarin Oriental, because…

An innate contradiction: Mount St Restaurant reviewed

18 February 2023 9:00 am

The Mount St Restaurant lives above the Audley Public House on Mount Street, ‘a traditional neighbourhood pub, carefully restored, and…

Still thrilling: the Wolseley reviewed

4 February 2023 9:00 am

Restaurant and dog years are similar, and so the Wolseley, which is 20 this year, seems as if it has…

Better than the original: Scott’s Richmond reviewed

18 January 2023 10:00 pm

Scott’s, Richmond, is a fish, champagne and oyster bar, and a new branch of Scott’s, Mayfair. The original Scott’s was…

Petrol, seawater and blood: the horror of Cornwall

14 January 2023 9:00 am

Tanya Gold talks to cult director Mark Jenkin about his ominous vision of Cornwall

Rich pickings: Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal reviewed

7 January 2023 9:00 am

Alex Dilling at the Hotel Café Royal is a minute restaurant above Regent Street, which has the type of British…

Beyond satire: Richard Caring’s Bacchanalia reviewed

17 December 2022 9:00 am

Bacchanalia is the new restaurant from Richard Caring – I sense he would like me to call it a ‘landmark’…

The best Ukrainian restaurant you will find: Mriya reviewed

10 December 2022 9:00 am

Mriya lives at the end of Old Brompton Road where South Kensington turns into Earl’s Court and, as if by…

The rich complexity of Britain’s Jewish population

26 November 2022 9:00 am

There is no single community, Harry Freedman stresses, but a multitude of voices ranging from the liberal to the ultra-orthodox

Another wasteland lost: Battersea Power Station reviewed 

19 November 2022 9:00 am

The rude fingers of Battersea are repointed, and barely rude at all. The power station by Giles Gilbert Scott and…

Theme of despair: Drop’N Chicken at Chessington reviewed

5 November 2022 9:00 am

Chessington World of Adventures sits in a bowl near the A3. I went in the 1970s when it was a…

Echoes of John Lewis: Piazza at Royal Opera House reviewed

22 October 2022 9:00 am

The Piazza is not a piazza – a realisation which is always irritating – but a restaurant in the eaves…

If Blairism were a carvery: the Impeccable Pig reviewed

8 October 2022 9:00 am

Labour is 30 points ahead, and in honour of this I review the Impeccable Pig in Sedgefield (Cedd’s field), a…

Fine food in a sinister Weimar wine cellar: Bardo St James’s Restaurant reviewed

24 September 2022 9:00 am

Bardo St James’s Restaurant – a name which reads like a map – is a vast new Italian restaurant in…

What Soho House has got right: Electric Diner reviewed

10 September 2022 9:00 am

Electric Diner is from the Soho House group, which has done terrible things to private clubs, luckless farmhouses, domestic interior…

Among the best puddings I’ve ever eaten: Richoux reviewed

27 August 2022 9:00 am

Cakeism is offering the voters everything they desire, knowing you will never give it to them because you live in…

In praise of character actors

20 August 2022 9:00 am

If you want real acting in films, forget the leads – it’s in the supporting roles that you’ll find true talent, says Tanya Gold

A great chef at his best: Lisboeta reviewed

13 August 2022 9:00 am

In 2014, Nuno Mendes, a chef from Lisbon by way of Wolfgang Puck’s kitchens and his own Viajante in Bethnal…

Escaping the memory of Liz Truss: Noci reviewed

30 July 2022 9:00 am

Sometimes this column has a guest reviewer: a dining companion. It was Liz Truss in late summer 2011, for the…

Civilisation in a sausage: River Restaurant at the Savoy reviewed

16 July 2022 9:00 am

When the Tory party set itself on fire last week a restaurateur told me: ‘Don’t worry, Tanya, we’ll still be…

Pub food, Disney-style: the George reviewed

2 July 2022 9:00 am

The George, Fitzrovia, was Saki’s local, and a pub for men talking about cars when Great Portland Street was called…

More spectacle than food: Ave Mario reviewed

18 June 2022 9:00 am

Ave Mario looks like Clown Town, a soft-play centre in Finchley with a ball pit so large you could drown…

Where to take Jubilee tea: Fortnum & Mason reviewed

4 June 2022 9:00 am

I went to a garden party at Buckingham Palace once. It is coloured in my memory like childhood. There are…