Soho

  • Test Driving Bébé Bob - Bob Bob Ricard goes all-in on chicken in Soho

    Bebe Bob

    Bébé Bob is the offspring of Bob Bob Ricard which mixes rotisserie chicken and caviar with a bit of that Bob Bob magic. We went down to see how this mini Bob has turned out.  

  • Test Driving Manzi's - the huge seafood restaurant in Soho, complete with mermaids

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    From the group behind The Wolseley and Brasserie Zedel, Manzi's is a huge seafood restaurant in Soho with occasionally bonkers touches. We went in to try it out. 

  • Supernova is serving up London's hottest new burger

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    A Hot Dinners exclusive

    It's been a while since someone stealthily opened an interesting new burger place in London. Back when Hot Dinners first started up we had the likes of MEATliquor popping up in the car park in Peckham and Bleecker landing a pitch on the South Bank. But in an age where everyone has a phone and every restaurant has an Insta account (and extensive marketing plan) not so much.

    That

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  • Cafe Kitty is the new Soho restaurant from Kitty Fisher's in the Boulevard Theatre

    Cafe Kitty is the new Soho restaurant from Kitty Fishers in the Boulevard Theatre

    Somewhat out of nowhere, a new restaurant by Kitty Fisher's is opening - and it's right in the middle of Soho. 

    It's all part of the new makeover of the Boulevard Theatre in Soho which is becoming Underbelly Boulevard. That's going to be a new cabaret space, with the first show by Bernie Dieter. The theatre did have a restaurant when it first reopened in

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  • Atelier Coupette sees the Coupette team serving up cocktails and French small plates in Soho

    Atelier Coupette sees the Coupette team bring cocktails and French small plates to Soho

    Fans of Bethnal Green's Coupette, get ready - they're coming to Soho.

    The new bar will be called Atelier Coupette and, as the name suggests, it'll be a bit different from their original bar. Following on from the Sunday sessions in the Bethnal Green which were more experimental events used to create new cocktails, Atelier Coupette is also going to have an

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  • Super trendy Paris spot Daroco is heading to London's Soho

    Daroco Soho sees the French Italian move to London

    3/10/23 - Updated with opening details

    We've already had the successful launch of Milk Beach and Kapara at the new area of Soho that is Ilona

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  • Bébé Bob is Bob Bob Ricard's spin-off Soho restaurant

    Bebé Bob is Bob Bob Ricard's spin-off Soho restaurant

    23/9/23 - Updated with the opening date

    It's been almost 15 years since Bob Bob Ricard first opened their restaurant in Soho, with its infamous "press for Champagne" buttons. Since then, the glitzy restaurant has launched a second Bob Bob Ricard in the City, but is returning to Soho for its third opening, Bébé Bob (taking over from what used to be Folie on Golden Square). 

    This marks

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  • Bocconcino Italian restaurant is coming to Soho

    Bocconcino Italian restaurant is coming to Soho

    Updated 10/9/23 with soft launch info

    It feels like only yesterday we were telling you about Mayfair’s Bocconcino opening a new restaurant on The Strand, but we’ve just heard it has been rescheduled until later in 2024. Hold onto your Bellinis, though, there’s a new

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  • Footballer José Fonte is opening Mexican restaurant Zócalo in Soho

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    Having played for two London clubs over the course of his career - Crystal Palace and West Ham - we'll presume that footballer José Fonte is pretty well acquainted with the London restaurant scene. Let's hope so as he's just about to open his first restaurant here.

    Zócalo in Soho will be the first of several London openings planned by Fonte and his business partners Andre Martin (ex-Zuma and Roka) and Pritesh and

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  • Wagamama’s Noodle Lab has returned to Soho

    Wagamama’s Noodle Lab has returned to Soho

    Good news for fans of Wagamama’s Noodle Lab. Having closed in Soho’s Dean St in 2020, citing pandemic business-viability reasons, before resurfacing in Old Street in 2021, it’s back to Soho again, this time to Wagamama’s Great Marlborough St restaurant location.

    You’ll consider it worth chasing around town if you’re the kind of person who wants to be first to try the restaurant’s brand-new creations as

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  • Test Driving Mountain - the Brat team's sequel is an unqualified hit

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    Tomos Parry's follow up to his Brat restaurants, Mountain, is a Soho love letter to Spain by way of Wales.

  • Brat's Tomos Parry is opening Mountain in Soho

    Brat's Tomos Parry is opening Mountain in Soho

    11/7/23 - updated with the new photos

    We've been hearing for a while about an upcoming new Soho restaurant from Tomos Parry (the man behind Brat in Shoreditch) and now we've finally got some actual details. He'll be opening Mountain on Beak Street. 

    It's being described as a wood grill and wine bar, which they say reflects "Tomos' favourite meals from journeys across Spain over

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  • Test of time - we make a return visit to SOLA

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     As this Soho restaurant breaks into the top 40 section of the National Restaurant Awards list we felt it was time for a return visit to Victor Garvey's Californian fine dining spot on Dean Street. 

  • New Italian restaurant 64 Old Compton Street to open in Soho

    New Italian restaurant 64 Old Compton Street to open in Soho

    Struggling to find somewhere in Soho to eat on a sultry summer’s evening but everything is fully booked? Got a friend who can never find the restaurant location? We can help with both of these things, because we bring you news of a new dining destination that is helpfully the same name as its address: 64 Old Compton Street.

    It’s a sister site to 40 Dean Street (they’re on a winning

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  • Manzi's is a huge seafood restaurant in Soho from The Wolseley Group

    Manzi's will be a huge seafood restaurant in Soho

    Updated 8/6/23 with opening date

    As the first new restaurant to be opened by The Wolseley Hospitality Group since it was formed following the departure of Jeremy King and Chris Corbin, all eyes are on Soho for the reveal of Manzi's.

    The restaurant is named after the much-loved (but now closed) legendary London fish restaurant. It's not on the same site - the original Manzi's was

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