The Good Front Room: The Next Chapter

The Good Front Room is entering its next chapter with a new menu that broadens its exploration of Caribbean cooking while making the restaurant easier to enjoy more often. Phase two builds on the vision established by its founder, the late Chef Dom Taylor.

The permanent Dalston restaurant opened in February 2026 following the success of Dom Taylor's acclaimed Good Front Room residency at The Langham, where his contemporary approach to Caribbean cooking first reached a wider audience. Head Chef Amani Garcia, who worked alongside Dom, leads the kitchen.

While Jamaican cooking remains important to The Good Front Room, the new menu looks more widely across the region, drawing inspiration from Guyana, Trinidad, Guadeloupe and other Caribbean cultures and traditions. There's also a new way to eat, with the traditional starter and main course structure replaced by Lickle Plates and Big Plates, giving guests the freedom to order a few dishes with drinks, share across the table or build a larger meal. Dishes are brought to the table as they are prepared rather than following a fixed starter, main and dessert sequence, creating a more relaxed and social style of dining.

Lickle Plates are grouped across Caribbean Sea, Caribbean Garden and Caribbean Fire Pit. Dishes include Escovitch Soft Shell Crab, Peach Mango Peppered Prawns, Trinidadian Doubles, Guyanese Poulourie Skewers, Pepperpot Sliders and Jerk Chicken with Plantain Jam. Big Plates include Brown Stew Short Rib with Rice and Peas, Guadeloupe-inspired Colombo de Poulet, Green Seasoning and Tamarind Grilled Sea Bass, and Balanjay with coconut white rice.

With Lickle Plates starting from £12.00, this new format and more accessible pricing are designed to suit different occasions, from a quick dinner or date night to a larger gathering, and to make repeat visits easier. This new direction continues the story, retaining the identity and purpose on which The Good Front Room was built. Several dishes and flavours associated with Dom remain, creating continuity between the celebrated Langham residency and the restaurant today.

Dom won Channel 4's Five Star Kitchen: Britain's Next Great Chef with The Good Front Room concept before taking it to The Langham in 2023. The name was inspired by his great aunt Myrtle and the front rooms traditionally kept for special guests in Caribbean homes. Phase two continues that spirit: a contemporary expression of Caribbean food, culture and hospitality, with a front room that everyone is invited into.

The Good Front Room, 1 Thomas Tower, Dalston Square, London E8 3GU

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