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David Ellis

Critic · Author — London restaurants and bars; the city's mid-market and neighbourhood end as well as openings.

Listed with the critics and writers in London.

David Ellis is restaurant critic of The London Standard, succeeding Jimi Famurewa after the 2024 rebrand.

Their own reviews and picks.

Their own judgment, in their own words, by the piece it appeared in.

• The Evening Standard, quoted in Harden's critics round-up ↗their review · 2025-05-25
  • TOWNCovent Garden

    “a Wolseley, reimagined for the modern age... True, no one went to the Wolseley for the food, but I suspect they just might here... Town has no theme other than to serve good food in a knockout space.”

• Evening Standard, restaurants of the year 2024, via Harden's ↗their review · 2024-12-17
  • Chinese GourmetIsle of Dogs

    “Restaurants like this, that go unnoticed, feel like gifts”

• The London Standard, September 2024, as reproduced in Harden's Review of the Reviews 316 ↗their review · 2024-09-29
  • The Ritz RestaurantPiccadilly

    “The Ritz is the restaurant I routinely name as London's best, because it is. Only no one ever believes me, on the grounds it's too preposterously obvious to possibly be true. But it is. Accept no substitute, not even the afternoon tea.”

• The Standard, quoted by Top 50 Cocktail Bars (the original review was NOT read at source) ↗their review
  • Kwãnt MayfairMayfair

    “I can't quite shake the feeling London hasn't had a bar this radical in years.”