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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 

May 2025

  • Shabby-chic: One Club Row, Interior shot.

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    One Club Row, London E1: ‘Battered stuff, things in buns, strong drinks: a thrilling, retro ride’ – restaurant review

    They will feed you, water you, give you a good time and make you feel carefree and cosseted

April 2025

  • The Lavery, London SW7: ‘Not only beautiful, but useful, too.’

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    The Lavery, London SW7: ‘One of London’s loveliest new places to eat’ – restaurant review

  • Tatar Bunar, Shoreditch, London:: ‘Confident, expertly staged, rather sexy.”’

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    Tatar Bunar, London EC2: ‘No faff, no lectures. Just dinner, and lots of it’ – restaurant review

  • Harry's – interior shot: Harry's, Cammber, East Sussex: ‘Focuses on the heartier, homelier side of classic French cookery.’

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    Harry’s, Camber Sands, East Sussex: ‘A startlingly good dinner’ – restaurant review

  • Interiors and diners at Voyage, N1

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    Voyage with Adam Simmonds, London NW1: ‘A bit like eating at a weight-loss camp’ – restaurant review

March 2025

  • Calong 16, London, interior shot with two diners: ‘Plenty enough spark, light, fire and crunch to intrigue Korean food enthusiasts.’

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    Cálong, London N16: ‘A delicious, Korean-flecked hotch-potch’ – restaurant review

  • Photograph: Sophie Harrow/The Guardian

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S9, Ep6: Suzi Ruffell, comedian

  • Bar Valette, London.

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    Bar Valette, London E2: ‘How to be truly relaxed while paying £11 for a bowl of kale’ – restaurant review

  • Photograph: Emily Badescu/The Guardian

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S9, Ep5: Babatunde Aléshé, comedian

  • Grace Dent on restaurants
    The Prince Arthur, London SW1: ‘Welcome to the bright new dawn of the turbo-bougie boozer’ – restaurant review

  • Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S9, Ep4: Dave Gorman, comedian

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    Satori, Birmingham B13: ‘Pomposity chimed loudly in the air’ – restaurant review

  • Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S9, Ep3: Pete Tong, DJ

February 2025

  • Interior view of Yari Club, London: ‘There’s a lot to love about the food’.

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    Yari Club, London WC2: ‘I didn’t expect the robot chef to be simply a no-frills kitchen gadget’ – restaurant review

  • Ellie Simmonds

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S9, Ep2: Ellie Simmonds, Paralympian

  • ‘Delightfully homespun’: Stark in Mersea Island, Essex.

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    Stark, Mersea Island, Essex: ‘Quite unlike anything I’ve ever been served’ – restaurant review

  • Photograph: Sophie Harrow/The Guardian

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S9, Ep1: Gary Kemp, musician

  • Grace Dent on restaurants
    Vatavaran, London SW3: ‘Grimly edible, if you’re very hungry’ – restaurant review

  • Grace Dent on restaurants
    Tropea, Harborne, Birmingham: ‘A forward-thinking take on the Italian trattoria’ – restaurant review

January 2025

  • Krokodilos restaurant, W8: ‘Airy, opulent and verging on the semi-Californian.’

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    Krokodilos, London W8: ‘Suddenly I’m Christina Onassis’ – restaurant review

    I was wearing white, and foolishly imagined I’d emerge unsplattered
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