Is Retsina Still Open? Best Local Restaurant Update (Belsize Park, UK)
Current status
As of October 2026, Retsina is listed open on opentable.co.uk, reviewed by our team on October 20, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
Last verified
What the source shows: An OpenTable listing shows diner visits through 2026-08-01 and an owner reply dated 2026-08-18, and the restaurant's own site, checked 2026-10-20, offers bookings and pick-up orders.
- Season / episode Season 1, Episode 9
- Original air date
- Address 48-50 Belsize Lane, Belsize Park NW3 5AR
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What happened after The F Word: Britain's Best Local Restaurant?
Retsina, a Greek restaurant at 48-50 Belsize Lane in Belsize Park, north London, scored 77 out of 100 against 63 for Doukan of Wandsworth in the heat shown on 2009-12-29 in the episode "Rest of the World" of Britain's Best Local Restaurant on Gordon Ramsay's The F Word (Channel 4), according to Wikipedia, which lists it in the second semi-final on 2010-01-06. Time Out, on a page dated 2021-11-12, describes a long-serving restaurant with a Hague Blue exterior and a hand-painted, gold-plated amphora, offering multi-plate meze feasts, grilled seafood, kebabs, moussaka and baklava, and Greek, French and Greek-Cypriot wines. Retsina's own website calls it an award-winning, family-run restaurant serving traditional Greek cuisine and offers pick-up orders. An OpenTable listing shows diner visits through 2026-08-01 and an owner reply dated 2026-08-18, with evening hours Tuesday to Sunday and weekend lunch.
On 2010-01-06, in the episode "Everything is On the Line", Retsina appeared in the second semi-final of Britain's Best Local Restaurant on Gordon Ramsay's The F Word (Channel 4), alongside The Pheasant of Keyston and Simply Thai of Teddington, according to Wikipedia's series table. The table says the semi-finalists had served signature dishes to panels of diners at their own restaurants and then cooked in a cook-off at Ramsay's Royal Hospital Road restaurant in Chelsea; it gives no scores or dishes for the semi-finals. Retsina had reached this stage by scoring 77 against 63 for Doukan in the Rest of the World heat shown on 2009-12-29. Time Out, on a page dated 2021-11-12, described Retsina's meze feasts and its Greek and Greek-Cypriot wine list, and an OpenTable listing shows diner visits through 2026-08-01.
Featured on The F Word: Britain's Best Local Restaurant
- Original air date
- Episode title
- Rest of the World
- What was featured
- Greek heat win over Doukan, 77 to 63; later semi-finalist
- Role
- Featured restaurant
- Name on the broadcast
- Retsina
- Season / episode
- Season 1, Episode 11
- Original air date
- Episode title
- Everything is On the Line
- What was featured
- Second semi-final alongside The Pheasant and Simply Thai
- Role
- Featured restaurant
- Name on the broadcast
- Retsina
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Visit info
- Address
- 48-50 Belsize Lane, Belsize Park NW3 5AR
- Venue type
- restaurant
- Official website
- retsina.squarespace.com
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Sources
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_F_Word_(British_TV_series)
- opentable.co.uk — https://www.opentable.co.uk/restaurant/profile/455007
- timeout.com — https://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/retsina
- retsina.squarespace.com — https://retsina.squarespace.com/
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