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Dinner by Heston Blumenthal continues to impress the food critics, with both The Sunday Times' AA Gill and The Independent's Tracey Macleod giving it top marks.

Housed in the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Knightsbridge, Dinner offers a contemporary menu of dishes inspired by historic British food.

Gill says here Blumenthal offers "an exemplary menu of perfect balance and brilliance". "The preparation and the concept manage to be a very British contrariness, both comforting and surprising, inventive but familiar. This food is unthreatening but commands attention and there isn't a mouthful that doesn't insist on the next mouthful," he says.

Meanwhile MacLeod says Dinner is the missing link between the labour-intensive complexity of contemporary haute cuisine, and the produce-led simplicity of modern British pioneers like Fergus Henderson and Mark Hix.

Writing in The Guardian, John Lanchester says Non Solo Vino, Chesterfield, is a pioneering wine shop that doubles up as a restaurant - and a really good Italian restaurant at that.

In time for Valentine's Day and with romance in mind, Zoe Williams heads to date central and finds herself utterly seduced by the food at Hakkasan Mayfair.

Finally after drinking too much to remember eating at Hawksmoor Seven Dials, The Times' Giles Coren goes back and discovers he loves the food.

Restaurants are always thinking of romantic ways to lure loved up couples on Valentine's Day but one operator has taken things a tad too far.

A Canadian restaurant plans to celebrate Valentine's Day weekend by calling on diners to have sex in the toilets. From 12-15 February, Mildred's Temple Kitchen in Toronto is asking its customers to get up close and personal in its unisex loos.

"Have you given any thought to moving beyond the bedroom?" asks its website. "Check out Mildred's Sexy Bathrooms throughout the weekend of Big Love. You get the picture."

It's up to the couples to decide whether they'd like to get down to business before during or after their meal and a special Valentine's Day cleaner has been hired by the restaurant. (Isn't that a dream job?!?)

"We've always had little trysts in our bathrooms. We're taking it to the next level on Valentine's weekend," chef and co-owner Donna Dooher told the Toronto Star, adding she was encouraging customers to bring their own condoms.

And as far as any legal or hygiene concerns go, Toronto Public Health insisted that as long as there's no sex in the kitchen and the loos are being kept clean and sanitised, there was no problem.

And whoever called Canadians boring?!?