
This week's featured article is
The Duke of Wellington, N1 4BL, an excellent real ale pub with food at the edges of De Beauvoir Town, a short walk from the Dalston stations.
New additions are:
Best Kebab, a good kebab shop in Walworth; and
Bar Boulud, an American celebrity chef's brasserie in a Knightsbridge hotel.
There's an update to the stub entry for
The Ship, a Good Beer Guide pub around the back of Fenchurch Street station.
Temporary closures reported are:
The Rye, a gastropub on the southern tip of Peckham Rye Common, which is being refurbished following its summer residency by the Meatwagon (who are taking up a permanent restaurant site in Marylebone W1); and
The Shaftesbury Arms, a Young's pub in Richmond, also closed for refurbishment.
Reopening after temporary closure is
La Fermata, an Italian trattoria on Tower Bridge Road in Bermondsey.
Permanent closures are:
Moshi Moshi, the sushi bar in the Canary Wharf Waitrose; and
Sea Breeze Fish Bar, a fish and chip shop in Walworth.