• Hawthorn, Kew: ‘It aims to fill and soothe' - restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants

    7 days ago - By The Guardian

    This is fine dining, but not of the painful sort when, by course nine, you wonder when real dinner will get going “ Hawthorn , we'll call it Hawthorn,” said the owners of the reincarnation of The Glasshouse in Kew. It's a beautiful name, redolent of nearby Kew Gardens and natural abundance, although, by sheer chance, it is also the exact same name as the restaurant in The Menu , the recent Ralph Fiennes horror-satire about a murderous chef. We can, however, move quickly past this, because chef and co-owner Josh Hunter certainly means his guests no harm. No deaths occurred while I was...
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