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

Caterer was given a plug in the Sunday Telegraph yesterday where food critic Zoe Williams agreed with our assertion that The Walnut Tree near Abergavenny has put Wales on the culinary map.

Williams is impressed by the Michelin-starred restaurant where chef-patron Shaun Hill has been leading its revival for the past few years and is serving a "confident" menu. 

Meanwhile French chef Joel Antunes, who has returned to London after a decade in the USA, gets a lukewarm welcome from John Walsh in The Independent. While he rates the service at Brasserie Joel at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge hotel, he says he "strove, without success, to find something that we hadn't eaten a thousand times before".

Writing in The Observer Jay Rayner gives Tom Aikens' new venture, Tom's Terrace at Somerset House, a basting, saying that he has rarely been to a more tawdry catering venture. His gripe centres on what appears to be a lack of input from Aikens and the steep mark-up on dishes such as £6.50 for a bowl of truffle chips.

Lucas Hollweg of The Sunday Times enjoys eating in a circular, open-sided thatched hut outside at The Black Rat in Winchester. He particularly likes the pared down Sunday lunch menu offering just three starters, three mains and three puds. "It's the sort of menu I generally like, too much choice sending me into a spin of indecision," he says.

In the Independent on Sunday, Simon Usborne says that Angels & Gypsies, a new tapas in London's Camberwell feels sent from above in a neighbourhood not known for destination dining.