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Jimi Famurewa

Critic · Author — London restaurants; British-Nigerian and diaspora food; the cultural read on a restaurant.

Listed with the critics and writers in London.

Jimi Famurewa is the former restaurant critic of the Evening Standard. He won the Guild of Food Writers Food Book Award in 2026 for Picky, and wrote Settlers.

Their own reviews and picks.

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

• TOPJAW, 'Best of #London' ↗their pick · 2025-05-18
  • Arcade Food TheatreTottenham Court Road

    “Best spot for solo dining: Arcade. So many amazing options. You can get curries from Plaza. The beef massaman curry is one of the best things you'll put in your gob.”

• Evening Standard, quoted by Harden's ↗their review · 2024-08-18
  • MigaHackney

    “The result is a justifiably hyped, word-of-mouth success that honestly may be one of the best places I have eaten at this year. They talk a good game here. But, holy cow, do they back it up.”

• Evening Standard, 'Jimi Famurewa reviews Oma and Agora: Greek Gods have conspired to bring us something epic' ↗their review · 2024-05-01
  • Agora Souvla BarBorough

    “Agora (which, fittingly, means 'market') on a Friday night is almost illegally fun; an irrepressible, clubby whirl of bubbled flatbreads, green chilli margaritas and the young and attractive spilling out from communal tables onto the street.”

• Evening Standard ↗their review · 2023-07-19
  • Mountain Beak StreetSoho

    “There is a magnetic, tactile sensuousness to so much of the food that consistently took my breath away.”

• Evening Standard, as reproduced by Harden's ↗their review
  • RoeCanary Wharf

    “Roe is both big and clever...one of the defining, gravity-defying openings of the year.”