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Joe Lutrario

Journalist — UK restaurant industry news: openings, closures, ownership changes, chef moves. London-heavy.

Deputy editor, Restaurant magazine (William Reed), whose "Latest opening" column is the trade record for who opened what, when, with which team. He reports, he does not review.

No reviews or picks captured yet.

Nothing here yet where they gave a verdict of their own — anything below is coverage they wrote, not an endorsement.

Pieces they wrote about these places.

Reporting, openings and roundups. Kept for the trail, and not read as their endorsement — a writer relaying someone else's award is not recommending it.

• Restaurant (William Reed), 'Latest opening: Appalachia' ↗opening coverage · 2026-07-03
  • Counter 71Shoreditch

    “Appalachia has taken over the former Counter 71 site and is run by much of the same team, with the notable exception of former Counter 71 head chef Joe Laker, who has moved on from the Shoreditch restaurant.”

• Restaurant (William Reed) ↗opening coverage · 2024-02-22
  • The Sea, The Sea (Hackney)Haggerston

    “A spokesperson confirmed that Carreira would be leaving his role as executive chef for the group - which also operates the more casual The Sea, The Sea Chelsea - after March and that the decision was made 'very amicably'.”