Top Scottish chef Mark Greenaway has taken advantage of the various lockdowns to expand his empire south of Hadrian's Wall. He's getting ready to open up a new takeaway pie and mash shop on Villiers Street, next door to Gordon's Wine Bar. And, cunningly, he picked British Pie Week to make his announcement.
If it all sounds a bit coals to Newcastle - the idea of a Scottish chef showing Londoners h…
Read more: Chef Mark Greenaway is opening Greenaway’s Pie & Mash in Charing Cross
Taking over the old Hix space, El Pastor's latest Mexican restaurant is landing in Soho. Alongside tacos and tostadas, they'll have a bar with a "house party vibe" in the basement too. …
Read more: El Pastor is opening a new Taqueria in Soho (taking over the Hix location)
5/3/21 - Updated with new opening date
Chameleon is taking over One Marylebone, which was mainly used as an events space - and one with a pretty impressive interior as you can see above (it's the imposing building right opposite Great Portland Street station on the Euston Road).
Billed as "a multi experiential space" Chameleon will have a restaurant, club, cafe, market space and more.
The r…
Read more: Chameleon takes over One Marylebone, with food by Tel Aviv chef Elior Balbul
It was the first place we booked when London came out of the original lockdown, and now - just as we approach the end of the current one, Islington gastropub The Drapers Arms have launched a delivery service.
They're offering a range of click and collect as well as delivery options from today. If you live near the pub in Barnsbury, they'll be selling sausage rolls, scotch eggs, spring rolls…
Read more: The Drapers Arms joins the at home delivery set with pies, roasts and more
They've been serving up chicken burgers throughout the lockdown (we've had more than a few from the Islington CHIK'N) and now David Wolanski and Carl Clarke's Chick 'n' Sours is getting into the meal kit game.
They've created the "All in" (£50) to recreate the whole Chick n' Sours eating in experience, with the kit featuring:
Read more: Chick n' Sours bring their new meal kit to the nation
Blacklock have now started delivering cooked meals and we tried them to see how they compare to the real restaurant. Spoiler alert: VERY well. …
Read more: Test Driving Blacklock at Home - and this time it's a hot food delivery
Having an outside space matters more than ever for hospitality businesses. Anywhere in London that can do alfresco will have a clear month's extra trading before inside dining resumes in May.
One East London pub's solution to the problem has been to seek help from its customers - and that's been a runaway success.
Leyton's Filly Brook launched a crowdfunding campaign to help transform its bare ya…
Read more: Leyton's Filly Brook pub crowdfunds its way to a new alfresco space
If there's one thing that we've missed during this latest lockdown, it's the lack of pies from Calum Franklin and the Holborn Dining room team. But that's now changing with the launch of Rosewood London's at-home delivery services, which included three showstopping pies from their restaurant (just in time for National Pie Week).
The pies are larger sharing versions, and on the list are some…
Read more: Rosewood London are delivering Calum Franklin pies from Holborn Dining Room
If you're stretching your legs in Regent's Park this weekend why not treat yourself, after your state prescribed exercise, and head north of the park to St John's Wood deli Panzer's.
Why? Well, because all weekend their in-store sushi bar, which is run by the modern sushi restaurant Sushi Atelier, is going to be serving up hand rolls from a pop-up stall.
The Hand Roll Bar will be outside the fron…
Read more: Panzer's are having a pop-up sushi hand roll stall this weekend
The Bleecker Black is one of Bleecker's most loved burgers (and actually our personal fave from them) but it hasn't been a mainstay of the menu for a while (since 2017, in fact). But now it's making a triumphant return for one day only, to celebrate St Patrick's Day.
It'll be available as an at-home kit, and features enough to make two Bleecker Blacks. So that's four dry-aged Bleecker beef…
Read more: The Bleecker Black returns as a DIY kit - for one day only
Burger & Lobster already have two meal kits covering the basics - the lobster roll and the burger (and we were pretty taken with the lobster roll). Now they're putting on something a little fancier - lobster thermidor.
Their Lobster Thermidor Kit is a strictly limited edition and comes with either four or six whole lobster tails, already halved, pre-steamed and prepared - so all you need to d…
Read more: Burger & Lobster unleash a limited edition lobster thermidor kit
This new pizzeria in Peckham's Copeland Park is aiming to serving up what they say is London-style pizza - with no delicious topping taboo…
Read more: Mike's is bringing London-style pizzas to Peckham
The latest Wing Wing, its flagship restaurant, is coming to a big new space on the edge of Chinatown - with Korean fried chicken alongside draft beer (and eventually karaoke too). …
Read more: Wing Wing brings their Korean chicken and beer to Chinatown
South Asian restaurant Yuu Kitchen has joined up with Restaurant Box their new meal kits - we try out their Chicken Chicken Box for plenty of bao and Vietnamese roll action. …
Read more: Test Driving Yuu Kitchen from Restaurant Box - chicken baos, rolls & more...
If you've been hankering for any taste of what it's like to be back in London's restaurants, a new photography series might have what you need.
Photographer Sam Wright has put together a collection called Local London, showcasing London's independent restaurants and cafes that have been closed during the lockdown. He managed to capture the places in question during one of the brief lockdown lifts…
Read more: Sam Wright's Local London photography series takes a look inside London restaurants
