The City of London

• Bowls with soul, trying the Ivan Ramen pop-up at The Ned

  

  For just two months Londoners can try a special menu by Ivan Orkin of NYC's Ivan Ramen being served up at The Ned. We went along for a slurp.

• Is Big Mamma coming to the City?

  

  News reaches us that the Big Mamma Group has designs on the City of London. While we wait to hear what they're doing over in Canary Wharf, we hear that they're also looking at opening a new restaurant in the heart of the financial square mile. According to reports they're fairly far down the

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• Test Driving TENrei the art of tuna ceremony at Los Mochis London City

  

  Los Mochis London City is offering an immersive experience where diners get to see a whole bluefin tuna broken down for an omakase dinner. We managed to get some seats at the sushi counter to see what exactly goes on at an evening like this.

• Ivan Ramen is back in London with a residency at The Ned

  

  A year after his longish residency in Islington won him legions of London fans, top ramen chef Ivan Orkin is back in town with another residency. This time he's heading into the City with a two-month stay at The Ned. The chef, who runs the highly-rated Ivan Ramen in NYC and has been the subject of a Netflix Chef's Table episode, will be presenting a special menu at The Ned's Kaia restaurant.

  There will be four new ramens on

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• Osteria Angelina sees the Dalston restaurant opening a grill and pasta restaurant in the City

  

  Angelina has been a big success in Dalston and while their other restaurant Dai Chi didn't last the distance in Soho, they're sticking to what they do best in the City by opening a second Angelina.

  Called Osteria Angelina, it'll be opening in the Nolton Folgate development by Shoreditch station that's seen ...

• Honest joins the smash burger trend with Smash + Grab in the City

  

  They've dabbled in the whole smash burger scene before with a special burger on their main menu, but now Honest Burgers are making a bigger move in that direction. From today, their Liverpool Street restaurant has become the first Honest Smash + Grab. 

  That means, for the first time in a while, an Honest Burgers location will have a completely new menu. While full details

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• Pick Your Own are all about sustainable salads in the City

  

  If you're in the City and permanently thinking about what to have for lunch, the arrival of brand new salad spot Pick Your Own (aka PYO) should be of interest.

  As the name somewhat gives away, it's a choose-your-own salad place. You'll be creating a salad of four key parts. The base could be seasonal shredded veg, chopped lettuce or some fava beans. Then another layer gets added for "texture" like

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• Nancy Spains are opening their next Irish pub in the City

  

  Their first pub opened in Shoreditch only earlier this year, but a second Nancy Spains is already on the way (and we now wouldn't be surprised if more were planned). 

  It's taken over the space that was once City pub, The Wine Lodge (which appears to have been closed for over five years). As before, it's run by Kerry-born brothers Peter and Nicholas O’Halloran and they'll be

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• Sandwich Sandwich's second London shop is going to be huge

  

  They've only recently launched their first London sandwich shop but Sandwich Sandwich already have their next place lined up. And this time they're going big.

  Recently announced on their Instagram page, they're rather confidently saying that this will be "the

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• Gordon Ramsay is opening London's highest restaurants at 22 Bishopsgate

  

  Updated 10/10/24 with more details

  It's big news when Gordon Ramsay reveals he's opening five (FIVE!) new restaurants at 22 Bishopsgate next year. The skyscraper in the City of London is the UK's tallest office building and Ramsay will have a number of restaurants and bars right at the top.

  The biggest reveal is that the 60th floor of the

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• New Spitalfields bar 68 & Shanghai pairs wine and katsu sandos

  

  Regular Hot Dinners readers will know that we're very much in favour of all the new wine bars opening in London of late and this latest Spitalfields addition sounds very promising. 

  68 & Shanghai comes from the team behind 68 & Boston in Soho, who also run the nearby Yuu Kitchen (as well as Opium, The Last Talisman and Lucy Wong). It's replaced what was the

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• Test Driving Leydi - Selin Kiazim's new modern Turkish restaurant in the City

  

  Selin Kiazim (previously behind Oklava) returns to the London restaurant scene with a large Turkish restaurant right in the heart of the City. We went down for a first look at Leydi.

• A Cantina Malibu vs Breddos Tacos collaboration is coming to The Ned

  

  For the month of September only, there’s a tacos takeover coming to Cantina Malibu in The Ned London. Breddos Tacos will be bringing their Mexican-flavoured joy every Friday.

  If you’ve not sampled the fare of Breddos Tacos, this is an ideal cameo appearance, given the

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• Test Driving Kolamba East - the Sri Lanka restaurant comes to the City

  

  Five years after opening in Soho, Kolamba have gone east for their second restaurant, bringing Sri Lankan food to the City. We went down to try Kolamba East.  

• BAO City is coming, with bonus karaoke

  

  It’s a good day for fans of steamed milk buns, with the news that BAO London is opening its new BAO City outlet. This will be the seventh restaurant from the Taiwanese group that has an extraordinary reach across London, with outlets in Soho, ...