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- Shuk serves up Tel Aviv street food at the Seven Dials Market in Covent Garden
Fresh from the success of having won this year's Croquetas Challenge, the team at Tel Aviv street food spot Shuk are getting ready to open their second London location. This week seems them heading to Seven Dials Market where they'll be the only Middle Eastern trader at the popular Covent Garden spot.
Obviously a new location means an opportunity to showcase new dishes in addition to their popular
... - Roxanne is a hip-hop speakeasy from the Dirty Bones team in Shoreditch
The people behind Dirty Bones have something very different planned for their next opening. They're about to open a hip hop speakeasy in Shoreditch called Roxanne (which happens to be just around the corner from the Shoreditch Dirty Bones).
Named after The Roxanne
... - Zoom East Sicilian kitchen comes to Whitechapel
The relatively new Hyatt Place London City East hotel (it opened mid-2021) has just opened its main restaurant. Called Zoom East, it's billed as a Sicilian Kitchen & Bar with Sicilian chef Vittorio Meli in charge of the menu (he was previously at Polpo Soho).
On the menu will be:
- Arancini with Carnaroli saffron rice, peas & bechamel
- Sarde
- TikTok favourite Bun House opens in Camden Market's Hawley Wharf
They're already a viral sensation for their Cantonese steamed buns, now Chinatown's Bun House are getting ready to bring those buns north to Camden.
Opening today in the Hawley Wharf food hall, they'll be serving up their most famous creations alongside some brand new dishes including:
- Sticky salt lime chicken nuggets
- Crispy shiitake nuggets with house ranch
- Tatale to open first permanent restaurant at the Africa Centre in Southwark
Updated 10/6/22 with interior pics
He's already been popping up around London with his supper clubs, but now chef Akwasi Brenya-Mensa is getting ready to open Tatale as a permanent restaurant, housed in The Africa Centre in Southwark.
With a menu focused around Pan-African cuisine, Tatale takes its name from a Ghanaian dish, the plantain
... - Elsewhere Coffee is opening a new cafe in Brockley
Elsewhere Coffee Roasters in Deptford (and who also have a Cafe in Herne Hill) are expanding - this time with a new cafe that's heading to Brockley.
And while the coffee will, of course, be a big thing at the cafe, they're also bringing in a new chef to take on the food. That's Adam Andrews, previously executive chef at Farm Girl and who also had his own business Little Ghost
... - Le Bab's kebabs head south to Brixton Village
Le Bab have become big hitters in London's kebab scene in the past few years - as well as launching the odd innovative concept like their Kebab Queen restaurant. Now they're getting ready to launch their fourth restaurant, this time in Brixton Village (where Ms Cupcake used to be).
The new opening, their first in south London, is a small affair, with room for just 20 people. Before you get to
... - Café Leon Dore opens in London at Aimé Leon Dore's flagship store in Soho
London's cafe scene got a boost at the weekend when fashion and lifestyle brand Aimé Leon Dore opened their London flagship store in Soho. Why it's of interest to us is that it means that, like the original store in New York, London now has a Café Leon Dore.
The hip walnut-panelled, marble-floored café serves up a shortish menu that they say is "inspired by Greek culture". That means you'll be able to order Freddo Espresso
... - Burger & Beyond's next stops are in Soho and Borough Yards
Updated 6/6/22 with Soho soft launch info
Burger and Beyond have had a pretty successful two years, all things being considered. They were one of the very first restaurants out of the door with a meal kit once the first lockdown arrived and they became a big hit (and they're still available too). Now, they've returned to real-life, mainly concentrated at their
... - New London restaurants opening in June 2022
Even with a long Jubilee weekend kicking things off, a lot of new restaurants are coming in June including another Robin Gill restaurant, the new location for Honey & Co, a revamped Boundary and more...
- Islington is home to Mother Clucker’s new fried-chicken restaurant
Get your chicken puns ready, Mother Clucker is setting up a restaurant in Islington, having previously found fame as a street-food truck in 2013 and then a UK-nationwide delivery service in 2021.
You may recall we reported on their first bricks-and-mortar home back in 2018, when Mother Clucker set up shop in Exmouth
... - The Rooftop at One Hundred Shoreditch is the latest roof for drinks and views
With rooftop bars suddenly becoming destination de rigueur for Londoners eager to make the most of spring weather (or perhaps everyone just read our recent feature), comes news of another that has just launched in Shoreditch.
You can now head up to the top of the
... - Le Cordon Bleu launches its first London restaurant: CORD
25/5/22 - updated with new opening plans
If you’ve not heard of Le Cordon Bleu you must have been living in some kind of cryogenic culinary time capsule. The famed culinary arts and hospitality institute has celebrated over 125 years of teaching some of the world’s greatest chefs. And now it’s also opening its first fine-dining restaurant in London. Except it’s much more than a
... - The Little Scarlet Door brings the house party to Soho
24/5/22 - Updated with launch details
They've opened little yellow, blue and orange doors around town and now the same people are bringing The Little Scarlet Door to Soho. It's part of the big renovations on Greek Street which have created the new Ilona Rose House (so you can see where they got the inspiration for the colour choice).
If you're yet to visit any of the
... - Compton Restaurant is opening in the old Modern Pantry space
We've already had the news that The Modern Pantry is making a return to London - but what about its original location? We had previously thought it was becoming a co-working space/property agency but it turns out that it's actually going to be a restaurant
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