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  • The Sidemen bring Sides to Boxpark Wembley

    The Sidemen bring Sides to Boxpark Wembley

    Huge on YouTube, The Sidemen (which is a team of KSI, Miniminter, Zerkaa, TBJZL, Behzinga, Vikkstar123 and W2S, all big individually on YouTube too) are also pretty big in the food delivery game having launched Sides as a delivery-only virtual chicken restaurant late last

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  • Firebird comes to Soho bringing cooking over fire from St Petersburg restaurateurs

    Firebird comes to Soho bringing cooking over fire from St Petersburg restaurateurs

    New Soho restaurant Firebird is taking over the spot where Corazon used to be. It's from two restaurateurs who hail from St Petersburg, Madina Kazhimova and Anna Dolgushina where their Wong Kar Wine restaurant has been a real success. With the London restaurant name as a clue, it'll focus a fair bit on cooking over fire, using both charcoal and wood (with a bit of

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  • Three Uncles brings Cantonese roast meats to Brixton with its first restaurant

    Three Uncles brings Cantonese roast meats to Brixton with its first restaurant

    They're big in Camden and The City with their Cantonese roast meats and now Three Uncles are continuing their journey with their next opening, in Brixton Village, as reported by

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  • Haggerston is getting a cake-themed cafe and bar from The Big London Bake

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    East London cake fiends will soon have something new to get their teeth into when the Big London Bake East opens. This new space, which channels the Great British Bake Off, will feature a 12 station baking tent along with its first cake themed bar.

    If you haven't been before, the Big London Bake is all about learning how to bake (or improve your baking skills) in a fun environment. They're firmly pitched at the

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  • Ochre restaurant to launch at the National Gallery by Muriel's Kitchen team

    Muriel's Kitchen takes over the food at the National Gallery

    11/2/22 - Updated with details of the restaurant

    The food at London's galleries is starting to get very interesting indeed. We've already had Jose Pizarro taking over at the RA and next up are South Kensington's Muriel's Kitchen who are going to be

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  • The Oystermen are opening Walter's in West Dulwich

    The Oystermen are opening Walter's in West Dulwich

    10/2/22 - Updated with the opening date

    Following their Covent Garden restaurant (which doubled in size after they opened it), Rob Hampton and Matt Lovell, aka The Oystermen, are getting ready to open their next restaurant. This time they're heading south to West Dulwich to launch Walter's.

    Heading up the kitchen is Head Chef Khalid Hassan (previously at Social Eating

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  • Upstairs at The George sees James Knappett take pub dining to the next level in Fitzrovia

    The George in Fitzrovia is the next JKS & James Knappett pub

    Back in November, we first reported on the second project by dream team JKS (Gymkhana, Hoppers), James Knappett (Kitchen Table) and publican Dominic Jacobs (The Running Horse) - a makeover of The George in Fitzrovia. That followed their successful opening of The Cadogan on the King's Road in Chelsea.

    The Fitzrovia pub opened its ground floor offering before Christmas. That

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  • Chaiiwala are coming to Dalston Junction

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    Last month they opened their 50th store, in Knightsbridge, with fans including Konan and boxer Amir Khan. Now the UK-based South East Indian cafe chain Chaiiwala have set their sights on Dalston.

    The company was founded in Leicester by a family whose great grandfather was indeed a chai wallah in Delhi back in the 1920s. Since then they've been opening places like crazy across the UK and London.

    In addition to

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  • Kerb Counter brings pop-ups and residencies to Shoreditch, starting with From The Ashes

    Kerb Counter brings pop-ups and residencies to Shoreditch, starting with From The Ashes

    After the success of Seven Dials Market, Kerb are branching out further from the street food scene with a new venture in Shoreditch - Kerb Counter. It's both relocating from its previous home in Camden, to new digs just off Old Street roundabout, and evolving in the process. 

    It'll be a test kitchen, designed to host a number of pop-ups and residencies

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  • New Islington cafe TRAMPOLINE serves up hope to refugees

    trampoline cafe camden passage islington

    If you prefer your morning coffee to come with a side order of goodwill, then a new cafe opening in Angel next week sounds like just the place for you.

    TRAMPOLINE is a new social enterprise cafe by Founder Pranav Chopra on Camden Passage which is all about helping refugees to the UK enter the workforce. How they do that is by working with Groundwork London and Hotel School a hospitality training

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  • Madhu's Brasserie choose Richmond for their second Indian restaurant

    Madhu's Brasserie chooses Richmond for its second Indian restaurant

    They've been big on the 5th floor of Harvey Nichols and now Madhu's Brasserie are getting a second place all to themselves in Richmond. 

    If you're unfamiliar with them, Madhu's started out as caterers (with the royal family among their customers) before getting into the restaurant business in Knightsbridge. Their second restaurant in Richmond will carry on with a menu of what

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  • Blacklock's fourth restaurant will be in Covent Garden - bring on the chops

    blacklock to open on henrietta street in Covent Garden

    07/02/22 - Updated with imagery

    Originally revealed at the end of 2019 and planned to open the following year (but we all know what happened then), the plans for the fourth iteration of chops purveyors Blacklock are back on. 

    Their next restaurant will open in Covent Garden and will actually be their biggest yet, taking over one of the old Patisserie Valerie spots

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  • David Thompson is bringing Long Chim to London with Thai street food on the menu

    long chim david thompson london

    It's been 12 years since renowned chef David Thompson last cooked his amazing Thai food in London. Back in 2010 he closed his restaurant Nahm - the first Thai restaurant to get a Michelin star - before moving to Bangkok where he reopened and quickly hit the World's 50 Best List.

    Having made a name for himself with high end Thai food, Thompson's most recent restaurant forays have been for his casual street food group

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  • Itaku is Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini's first London restaurant

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    3/2/22 - updated with launch info

    Celeb restaurateur Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini (who also happens to be Cheryl Cole's ex), is gearing up to open his first London restaurant Itaku. 

    He's talked about opening in London twice before, but this time it looks like it's actually going to happen. He's bringing on chef Ivan Simeoli and also taking over what used to be the chef's previous restaurant, RAW in

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  • Punk Pasta brings vibrant plant-based pasta to Bloomsbury's Brunswick Centre

    Punk Pasta brings vibrant plant-based pasta to Bloomsbury's Brunswick Centre

    There's a lot of change afoot at Bloomsbury's Brunswick centre at the moment, we've had new openings like Tian Tian supermarket and now they're about to get a new plant-based pasta restaurant, Punk Pasta. 

    It comes from Erich Ribeiro, best known for

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