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Tim Hayward

Owner / operator · Critic — Restaurants, bread and baking, kitchen craft; the technical read.

Listed with the bar people, owners and locals in London.

Tim Hayward is restaurant critic for FT Weekend Magazine, won the Guild of Food Writers Restaurant Writer Award in 2026, and owns Fitzbillies in Cambridge.

Their own reviews and picks.

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

• FT Magazine, quoted in Harden's Review of the Reviews 315 ↗their review · 2024-09-23
  • SweetingsCity of London

    “Rigid with tradition, yet noisy, informal and weirdly democratic”

• Financial Times, via Harden's review-of-the-reviews ↗their review · 2024-04-02
  • DoniaSoho

    “fantastic, new to me”