David Ellis

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David Ellis is the London Standard's restaurant critic and Going Out editor. He writes regularly about eating and drinking, and is a keen practitioner of both

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David Ellis is the London Standard's restaurant critic and Going Out editor. He writes regularly about eating and drinking, and is a keen practitioner of both

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Restaurants

David Ellis reviews Nipotina: the Queen of W1 expands her empire

The room is glamorous, the food is excellent, and the price? It’s from an entirely different postcode, says David Ellis

9 Jan 2025
<p>New beginnings: the club is back from Friday, with updated rules and a fresh sign-in process</p>
Pubs, Bars and Nightlife

Groucho Club to reopen with Elli Jafari gone and new rules for guests

The famed members’ club shut in November following an alleged rape

8 Jan 2025
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Restaurants

The hottest new restaurants opening in London this year

Cottage pie tacos might not be everybody’s cup of tea, but they’re coming nonetheless

7 Jan 2025
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Food + Drink

Try these non-alcoholic cocktails for Dry January

Gaucho’s Theo Konstantopoulos has just the cure if Dry January is looking too tedious for words

3 Jan 2025
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Pubs, Bars and Nightlife

London restaurateurs share their (questionable) hangover cures

From a Rogers’ Bucks Fizz to Guinness bombed with coffee, David Ellis runs over his favourite liquid cures for a night gone too far

1 Jan 2025
<p>Drink up: a hair of the  dog can be just the thing for a swift recovery </p>
Pubs, Bars and Nightlife

Thirst Aid: Three cocktails to cure a hangover

Shakers at the ready: it’s time to mix-up a liquid cure to the morning after, says David Ellis

1 Jan 2025
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Restaurants

Atherton: 'The year's been terrifying. Some nights I haven't slept'

Jason Atherton put everything on the line this year. He tells David Ellis why — and whether he thinks it will pay off

31 Dec 2024
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Food + Drink

Three cocktail recipes perfect for New Year's Eve

Raise a glass to what’s gone and what’s to come

31 Dec 2024
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Restaurants

London's best restaurants to fuel the last-minute Christmas shopping

Christmas shopping can be tricky. Here's where to refuel while out buying gifts in London

23 Dec 2024
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Food + Drink

What the Going Out team will be eating and drinking this Christmas

For a little extra festive inspiration, this is what the Standard’s Going Out team will be eating and drinking over Christmas

23 Dec 2024
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Pubs, Bars and Nightlife

2024's top country pubs in the UK

We went, we saw, we drank — now you can too

23 Dec 2024
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Restaurants

David Ellis reviews Wiltons: Elegance and charm from a lost world

David Ellis luxuriates in a time gone by at Jermyn Street’s grandest resident

19 Dec 2024
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Events and Things To Do

Alfies Antique Market is a champion of aged wonders given new life

Welcome to Alfies, where one stall might offer a perfectly preserved vintage dress in midnight silk, and the next a display of taxidermy

17 Dec 2024
<p>Forget a shandy and order a “semi-skimmed” Guinness instead </p>
Pubs, Bars and Nightlife

Think you really know Guinness? Ask for a pint of semi-skimmed

In among all the nonsense surrounding pints of the black stuff, having a “skimmed” or “semi-skimmed” pint is the latest order

16 Dec 2024
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Pubs, Bars and Nightlife

Country pub of the week: The Thatcher's Arms, Bures

It sits with its gaze over green fields smudged with yellow

15 Dec 2024
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Restaurants

The best London restaurants of the year, according to David Ellis

London offers restaurants of varying quality, and of varying interest and originality, writes David Ellis

13 Dec 2024
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Restaurants

David Ellis reviews Cafe Mondo: Probably Britain's best sandwich shop

David Ellis basks in the incandescent brilliance of this Peckham bar

9 Dec 2024