What the Critics Say - a round up of the weekend's reviews

Fishy Fishy,  X Factor presenter Dermot O'Leary' s seafood restaurant in Brighton, is eager to please, but needs to try harder, according to the Guardian.

Food critic Matthew Norman says while the restaurant isn't bad or without potential, its cheery amateurism isn't good enough.

"All three starters were poor," Norman says, adding: "The FF fish pie was a miserably under-seasoned, sludgy mess beneath slightly clumpy pastry."

Meanwhile the Sunday Telegraph's Tim Auld is impressed with the Michelin-starred Seaham Hall in County Durham, where Great British Menu winner Kenny Atkinson is the head chef.

"You'd be hard-pushed to eat this well, for so little, in such welcoming surroundings anywhere else in Britain," he says.

The Observer's Jay Rayner says Bjorn van der Horst's Eastside Inn in London has survived the recession because the food is "so damn good", while the Sunday Times' AA Gill feels the food at MasterChef judge John Torode's new restaurant The Luxe is little more than good.

The Times' Giles Coren and the Independent's Tracey MacLeod are both impressed with Mark Hix's latest venture Hix in Soho, with the latter describing it as a great new restaurant that already feels like a copper-bottomed success.