Praise has continued to roll in for Gordon Ramsay’s latest Murano, with the London restaurant critics joining their national piers in praising the newly launched venture.

Bloomberg’s Richard Vines finds the Angela Hartnett helmed eaterie “smart and chic” and “generally as smooth as you might expect”.

Guy Diamond at Time Out finds the simplicity of the Munaro menu a virtue.

Twenty-one years to the good Fay Maschler from the Evening Standard finds Bibendum, set up by Terrance Conran, Paul Hamlyn and chef Simon Hopkinson in 1987, still worth taking a detour for.

For theses reviews in full and more see What’s on the Menu? and to book a table see Caterer Eats Out.

Your chance to grill the food critics

They pronounce on your restaurants, but what motivates them, and are they fully qualified to pass judgement?

We’re offering you the chance to put the Observer’s Jay Rayner, Nick Lander from the Financial Times and the Evening Standard’s Charles Campion on the spot in our new feature ‘Ask the Critic’.

It’s a chance to press the UK’s top restaurant columnists on exactly how much chef training they’ve received, for example, or what you should most change at your restaurant – in their opinion.

So e-mail your enquiries to catererfeatures@rbi.co.uk or write to Tom Vaughan, Caterer and Hotelkeeper, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5AS – together we can grill them.

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By Chris Druce

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