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Grace Dent

Grace Dent is the Guardian's restaurant critic. She is the author of Comfort Eating, published by Guardian Faber 

July 2024

  • Interior, Albert's Schloss, Shaftesbury Avenue, London

    Grace Dent on restaurants
    Albert’s Schloss, London W1: ‘A stroke of genius’ – restaurant review

    It’s really much, much better than it needs to be, especially this close to Leicester Square
  • The Counter restaurant – Interior shot with chefs and guests.

    Grace Dent on restaurants
    The Counter, Tunbridge Wells, Kent: ‘It treats my inner Veruca Salt with pure imagination’ – restaurant review

    I’m a sucker for any tasting menu that bombards the guest with sweetness at the end

    • Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
      S7, Ep5: David Harewood, actor

    • Grace Dent on restaurants
      Chez Roux, London W1: ‘Posh comfort food for the weary, moneybags traveller’ – restaurant review

    • Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
      S7, Ep 4: Allan Mustafa, actor and comedian

June 2024

  • Cloth restaurant in Farringdon, London.

    Grace Dent on restaurants
    Cloth, London EC1: ‘It’s really quite special’ – restaurant review

  • Photograph: Sophie Harrow/The Guardian

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S7, Ep 3: Golda Rosheuvel, actor

  • Assaggini, Glasgow G12: ‘The menu is irresistible, which makes the fact that they cannot cook any of it a huge source of dismay.’

    Grace Dent on restaurants
    Assaggini, Glasgow G12: ‘Until now, I thought “bad pizza” was a contradiction’ – restaurant review

  • Photograph: Sophie Harrow/The Guardian

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S7, Ep 2: Joanne McNally, comedian and podcaster

  • Grace Dent on restaurants
    Dipna Anand Kitchen & Bar, Milton Keynes: ‘Thoughtful cooking that is determined to incapacitate you’ – restaurant review

  • Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S7, Ep 1: Katherine Ryan, comedian and writer

  • Grace Dent on restaurants
    July, London W1: ‘A sort of M&S meal deal for Coutts cardholders’ – restaurant review

May 2024

  • Roe London E14: The menu screams “crowdpleasers cooked as you’ve never seen them before”.

    Grace Dent on restaurants
    Roe, London E14: ‘Kind of mad, but also sheer bloody genius’ – restaurant review

    Massive, assertive flavours in a hulking football pitch of a restaurant
  • Brett, Glasgow G4: ‘They serve some of the most complex and intriguing dishes I’ve eaten all year.’

    Grace Dent on restaurants
    Brett, Glasgow G4: ‘Comfort food with the chef’s foot fully on the gas’ – restaurant review

    Very possibly Glasgow’s best restaurant

    • Grace Dent on restaurants
      Oma, London SE1: ‘Very difficult to resist’ – restaurant review

    • Grace Dent on restaurants
      Apple Butter Cafe, London W1: ‘Food to make a diabetes doctor sigh anxiously’ – restaurant review

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      Poppies, London W11: ‘It’s fine, but only fine’ – restaurant review

April 2024

  • Sekkoya Canterbury: ‘an impressive “mural” skylight gives the impression you’re dining in a rainforest.’

    Grace Dent on restaurants
    Sekkoya, Canterbury, Kent: ‘A prime example of why the term “pan-Asian” fills me with foreboding’ – restaurant review

    This is the sort of food invented for British people that you’d have got at a Cantonese restaurant back in 1994
  • The Arlington, London: interior. A bar, some tables, daylit.

    Grace Dent on restaurants
    Arlington, London SW1: ‘It’s for spoilt, grown-up babies’ – restaurant review

    Jerry Hall’s next husband could manage almost the whole menu without putting in teeth
  • Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Grace Dent

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S6, Ep 10: Kiell Smith-Bynoe, actor and comedian

    Joining Grace this week is the multi-talented actor, comedian and rapper, Kiell Smith-Bynoe.
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