Boasting impressive views over Trafalgar Square, this high rise sushi restaurant mixes Japanese techniques with British produce. We took the lift up to the top floor to check it out.
Read more: Test Driving Bisushima - sushi with stellar high rise views over London
One-offs, limited editions, special menus and more are hitting London restaurants all the time. We'll be updating this page regularly with the very best special new dishes as they appear, so you can make sure to grab them before they're gone. …
Updated 10/11/21 with more info on the Vinoteca opening
We've only just had the opening of the big Hawley Wharf development in Camden and now another new retail and restaurant scheme is getting ready to open on the other side of town in Borough. Borough Yards is the latest hoping to tempt in the workers giving up their WFH status.
It's part of a wholesale reworking of the old Vinopolis…
Read more: Borough Yards will have a new Barrafina, Butchies, Vinoteca and much more
We're all supposed to be multitaskers in the new economy, so we applaud new venture Elephant Stores at Elephant Park in Elephant & Castle which is a multi-use space with three pop up businesses in it.
Swing by here and you can get your bike fixed with Fix Your Cycle, buy homemade crafts from the SoLo Craft Fair and pop into the new Little Louie cafe.
The latter is a two year 'pop-up' for Walw…
Read more: Louie Louie pop up with Little Louie at Elephant Park
The Barbary has expanded next door with a mini version of itself (and a brand new menu). We head down to Covent Garden to try it out. …
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Every now and then, plans for a restaurant in London catch our eye. The latest is for a space on Shaftesbury Avenue that should be for one of China's big chain restaurants (there are over 5000 of them), Zhang Liang Mala Tang.
It will be a serve yourself Sichuan restaurant, with mala tang soup as the base.
Just browse and select the ingredients which, overseas, r…
Read more: Sichuan restaurant Zhang Liang Mala Tang is coming to London
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Dalston has a new coffee shop that genuinely sounds like it's adding something new to the area. Its owners are Jakarta-born folk who back in 2018 opened Birmingham's "first and only independent coffee shop with Indonesian vibes".
Here in London they'll be serving coffee, light meals and beans to go. The menu, includes:
Read more: Ngopi Indonesian cafe opens in Dalston with noodle toasties and banana lattes
If there's a hotter ticket than the prospect of a Sabrina Ghayour supperclub, then we've yet to discover it. The bestselling cookbook author and regular Saturday Kitchen guest has always been well known for her sellout supperclubs, but the past eighteen months of Covid restrictions put paid to those.
Now, she's back with a bang, heading to London for two days of pre-Christmas feasting, taking ove…
Read more: Sabrina Ghayour's supperclubs are back on, starting with Shoreditch
It's long been a popular spot in Brixton for Jamaican tapas and boozy brunches, but now Three Little Birds is heading in a new direction. Owner April Jackson is turning her Coldharbour Lane bar into a restaurant serving what she calls "modern British food with Jamaican soul".
If you're wondering what that means for the menu, we're told to expect dishes like:
Read more: Wood & Water takes over from Three Little Birds in Brixton
3/11 - Updated with the opening date and details about the menu
Given Five Guys' fairly massive rollout across the UK. it was only a matter of time before more US chains started heading this way. We already have had the return of Wendy's, and joining them soon will be American chicken juggernaut Popeye's.
The first London location, much like Wendy's before it, will be in Stratford, although…
Eight years after opening their massive Brasserie Zedel, restaurateurs Corbin & King are launching another affordable restaurant. Manzi's in Soho will be a homage to the much-loved Manzi's fish restaurant and will be a seafood restaurant that's both fun and affordable.…
Read more: Manzi's will be Corbin and King's next project - a huge seafood restaurant in Soho
3/11/21 - updated with the opening date
The team behind Berber & Q, Brothers Josh and Paul Katz and Mattia Bianchi, are getting ready to open a new restaurant in Queen's Park. Carmel will be both a bit of a departure from what came before, but still with a touch of inspiration from North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean. It's arriving on Lonsdale Road, just done the road from the exc…
Read more: Carmel comes to Queen's Park from the Berber & Q team
Amsterdam's The Avocado Show has arrived in London and it really is ALL about avocado. We popped in for a look. …
Read more: Test Driving The Avocado Show - the Amsterdam hit arrives in London
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He had a big hit with his dishes at Bancone, before moving onto Tavolino, and now Louis Korovilas is opening an Italian pasta restaurant in Islington (taking over from the Cote on Islington Green).
At this new restaurant, you can expect a combination of Italian street food and pasta dishes. Of the former, the fritti are the main attraction. There will be fried parcels…
Read more: Noci is a new pasta Islington restaurant from ex-Bancone chef Louis Korovilas
She's worked with Soho House's Nick Jones and Yotam Ottolenghi, now Turkish chef Esra Muslu is getting ready to open her first solo London venture.
Zahter is being described as a 'love letter' to Esra's Turkey. The whole thing sounds like they've imported everything from tiles to table linen from the chef's homeland. The three-floor restaurant in Carnaby takes over that large corner site as you t…
Read more: Zahter sees top Turkish chef Esra Muslu opening her first solo restaurant in Soho
