Kensington

• Krokodilos restaurant in Kensington promises to serve up amazing Greek food

  

  Do you know what's more stressful than opening a new restaurant in London just before Christmas? Opening two restaurants. But that's the delightful pickle that restaurateurs George Bukhov-Weinstein, Ilya Demichev and their business partner Elmira Amdiya find themselves in. One day after they throw open the doors to ...

• Friends of Ours are popping up for six months at the Serpentine Gallery

  

  They're responsible for serving up one of Shoreditch's most popular brunch menus. Now Friends of Ours are hoping to bring that same joy to West Londoners. This weekend they launch a six-month pop up brunch restaurant inside the Serpentine North Gallery's Zaha Hadid building.

  The new restaurant will take over from what used to be a Benugo, serving up the Friends of Ours brunch-with-a-twist dishes for a

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• Japan House is putting on Looks Delicious! a food replica exhibition

  

  If you've ever been to Japan and seen the superb food replica dishes they have in front of restaurants there, you'll know just how amazingly realistic they can be. Now Londoners are going to get a chance to see this kind of artistry up close in a new exhibition opening at Japan House in Kensington.

  Looks Delicious! features 47 specially commissioned food replicas, one from each of Japan's

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• The best restaurants in Kensington and Chelsea

  

  From longstanding neighbourhood favourites to more glitzy, new establishments, this part of town has it all. We pick out the best restaurants in Kensington and Chelsea for your delectation. 

• La Palombe sees the Il Portico family switching to Pays Basque food in Kensington

  

  Updated 6/11/23 with chef info

  At their original restaurant Il Portico, they boast of being the oldest family-run restaurant in London. Now the family behind that are getting ready to unveil a new place that focuses on French Basque regional cuisine.

  La Palombe opens next week on the site of the ill-fated Pino, also by the same family, which only lasted a year. But while that was also

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• EVE Mediterranean-inspired restaurant, bar and café is coming to Kensington

  

  If you’re looking for a little late-summer Mediterranean escapism, we might have the culinary answer in the form of new restaurant EVE that is opening in Kensington. Think vegetables, grilled meats and seafood in an all-day dining concept. It's in Ember Locke, an aparthotel lifestyle complex (formerly the NH Kensington), that has a few locations around town like Leman Locke, (once home

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• Test Driving Jacuzzi - Big Mamma goes extra extra in Kensington

  

  The latest restaurant from Big Mamma has arrived in Kensington and we got in early for a preview. Here's what to expect from Jacuzzi.

• Test Driving The Holland - Kensington's lovely new neighbourhood pub

  

  Kensington locals' pub options just got more interesting with the arrival of The Holland. We went to check it out. 

• The Drop wine bar heads west to Kensington

  

  They already have wine bars on Drury Lane and in Clapham and now Drop Wine bar has just opened another - this time in Kensington.  

  The Drop (also a wine delivery app) comes from Ian Campbell and Will Palmer, who also happen to be the pair behind The Ten Cases and Parsons in Covent Garden. The Drops are all run independently, however, and this West London outpost is owned and

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• Maria G's is Robin Gill's seasonal Italian restaurant in Kensington

   

  15/6/22 - updated with the opening date and menu details

  Robin Gill (Darby's, Bermondsey Larder, Sorella) is heading west for his next opening, Italian restaurant Maria G's. 

  This restaurant will be inspired by the chef's time in southern Italy and they're billing is as a relaxed Italian restaurant with British produce. He'll be joined

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• Flesh & Buns head to Kensington for their latest restaurant

  

  25/2/22 - updated with launch details

  Flesh & Buns are heading west for their third restaurant, opening up their latest just off High Street Kensington. Taking over what was previously Sticky Fingers on Phillimore Gardens, the new site will be their biggest yet and will offer Flesh & Buns’ usual Japanese izakaya and Nikkei-inspired dishes, along with whisky, sake, and beers for the full

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• Pino is opening in Kensington, from the people behind the classic Il Portico

  

  The people behind family-run restaurant Il Portico in Kensington are getting ready to relaunch their sister restaurant, just a few doors down the street. Previously Pizzicotto, it's going to be reborn as Pino. 

• Is another The Ivy coming to Kensington?

  

  Following a conversation on social media over the weekend, Hot Dinners was alerted to the potential arrival of yet another Caprice Holdings restaurant in Kensington.

  Richard Caring's restaurant group already have the Ivy Kensington Brasserie on the High Street here, but it looks like they're expanding to nearby Brompton Road too. Formerly the site of the late (lamented by some) and very idiosyncratic La Brasserie, the new

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• Pascor Aegean restaurant comes to Kensington (for delivery)

  

  This Aegean restaurant focuses on cuisine from Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Turkey.

• Phil Howard's Elystan Street, Kitchen W8, and Church Road combine for a delivery service

  

  Phil Howard and Rebecca Mascarenhas co-own three very popular restaurants across west and south London - Elystan Street, Kitchen W8, and Church Road. Rather than open each restaurant, for the moment they're all uniting under one roof at Elystan Street and are delivering to the areas surrounding the three restaurants.

  Phil Howard is cooking and Kitchen W8's Mark Kempson is

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