Seafood

• Cornerstone's Tom Brown is opening Pearly Queen oyster bar and seafood restaurant in Spitalfields

  

  He's had a lot of success with Cornerstone and now Tom Brown is getting his second restaurant ready, the seafood-led Pearly Queen in Spitalfields (taking over from The Space on Commercial Street). 

  Billed as both an oyster bar and a restaurant, UK-sourced oysters will be a big thing on the menu, both fresh and grilled, and there will be

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

  

  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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• Test Driving London Shell Co in Highgate - a cosy neighbourhood fishmonger and seafood bar

  

  Just off Hampstead Heath you'll find this new fishmonger and seafood bar. We went to check it out.

• London Shell Co lands in Highgate with a fishmonger and seafood bar

  

  Hot Dinners exclusive - updated 15/3/23 with opening date

  They already have two barges, one roaming and one moored, but now London Shell Co are moving onto terra firma. They're getting ready to open their first land-based site, a fishmonger and seafood bar near Parliament Hill.

  The move is rooted in something they did to survive the lockdowns, a period

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• America's Angry Crab Shack arrives in London

  

  7/3/23 - updated with the opening date

  Hard on the heels of Boston's Saltie Girl opening in London comes news of another American seafood import.

  Angry Crab Shack is a restaurant group that was first opened in Arizona back in 2013 by former NFL player Ron Lou. It's billed as a 'bib up and

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• Test Driving Saltie Girl - the Boston seafood import hits Mayfair

  

  All the way from Boston, this US import is hoping to make itself an indispensable seafood spot for anyone shopping on Oxford Street. 

• Saltie Girl are bringing their Boston lobster rolls and tinned fish to Mayfair

  

  21/10/22 - opening date added

  Here at Hot Dinners, we're always up for a good lobster roll and it sounds as though Mayfair should have a new place serving up just that before the end of the year.

  Saltie Girl is a popular Boston restaurant that's taking over what used to be Prezzo on North Audley Street, next to The Mayfair Chippy.

  For their London opening they've brought in

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• Celebrity hangout Scott's is opening in Richmond

  

  Updated 26/9/22 with photos

  He's already had a lot of success with expanding his Ivy restaurant group across the country. Now Richard Caring is getting ready to do the same with Mayfair classic seafood restaurant, Scott's. And the first place he's expanding to is south of the river, in Richmond.

  Announced earlier this year, Caprice Holdings has revealed a little

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• The best fish and seafood delivered in London

  

  Looking to get all your fish and seafood delivered to your door? We've rounded up some of the best places delivering in London now. 

• Max's Sandwich Shop teams up with Burger & Lobster for two very special rolls

  

  Well here's a collab we can 100% endorse - Max Halley of the legendary Max's Sandwich Shop is teaming up with Burger & Lobster for two lobster roll specials that are hitting the group's nine restaurants.

  The first, the Lobster Cocktail Roll, is a brioche roll stuffed with lobster claw and knuckle meat with a retro Marie Rose sauce that's finished with a dash of tabasco and brandy. That's topped with

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• Test Driving Goddard & Gibbs - bringing seafood to Shoreditch

  

  Goddard & Gibbs is a new seafood spot in Shoreditch and part of the brand new One Hundred Shoreditch hotel. We went down to take a look. 

• Shutters opens at One Canada Square with its Cali-Cornish seafood mix

  

  It takes a brave soul to put a seafood restaurant in the lobby of one of London's biggest office blocks (here's hoping their extraction is top-notch), but the folks behind Shutters which has just opened up at One Canada Square are hoping their mix of Cornish fish and Californian vibes will be a winning formula.

  The team behind it are Cornish company The Happiness Cartel who also run a Shutters restaurant down in Marazion in

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• Sustainable seafood restaurant Off The Hook heads to Wapping

  

  If you’re the kind of person who loves fish and chips but has concerns about eating sustainably, then fret no more. One of your mindful New Year’s Resolutions can involve heading to Wapping in East London, to check out new restaurant Off The Hook, where absolutely everything has been accounted for, right down to the time your chosen fish arrived in London.

  Run by chef Neil Wagner in collaboration with Shaun

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• SeaSons will be taking over from The Square in Mayfair

   

  Updated 22/11/21 with menu details and images

  Back in 2019, longstanding Mayfair restaurant The Square closed rather abruptly (right in the middle of a lunch service) but we're getting closer to a new restaurant taking over the building. Opening in The Square's place will be

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• Fin + Flounder are launching a seafood shack in Netil market

  

  Fancy a lobster muffin for brunch? Then the new shack from Fin and Founder is for you. 

  Up until now, they're best known as a fishmonger on Broadway Market (and they also supply London's restaurants like Brat, for their turbot, Lyles, Smoking Goat and more). Now they're trying something new - but they're not going far to do so. They'll be launching Bar Flounder, just around the

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