The hungry gap of ingredients, when winter veg runs out and spring’s produce has yet to come on stream, might not be until April, but as far as new restaurants go, January is always the bleak midwinter.
Still, while the giddy whirl of autumn launches opening in time for Christmas might have ground to a halt, there are rays of hope to brighten the January gloom: pasta in Marylebone, a bistro from arguably London’s foremost French chef and the reopening of the flagship of one of our brightest British talents, plus a pair of sushi joints for anyone clean-eating after Christmas.
