New opening

• Hovarda brings the Aegean to Canary Wharf

  

  11/9/24 - updated with more information and the opening date

  We've already seen Marceline open on the top floor of the huge floating building next to Hawksmoor in Canary Wharf, now comes the loser floor as the new Hovarda gets ready to open. This is the Canary Wharf outpost of Aegean restaurant Hovarda, which has been serving up Med-style dishes in Soho for the past seven

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• The Peacock is Islington's latest new pub

  

  Islington has recently got a "new" pub on the high street, in the shape of The Peacock. It's opened up in a space that was once Wetherspoon pub The Angel, itself followed up by an independent pub The Junction. Now it's been taken over by the Urban Pubs & Bar group. They have some interesting sites under their umbrella and they happen to own the Salt Yard group.

  So there's reason to expect something relatively decent food-wise here,

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• The autumn London restaurant preview

  

  Autumn can be one of the busiest opening periods on the London restaurant calendar. We've already covered what's coming in September, now let's look at the big openings coming in the rest of the year.

• Tamila to open in Battersea, from the team behind The Tamil Prince

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  Islington-based The Tamil Prince has made life a whole lot more tasty for North Londoners, and now it’s South London’s turn. That's right, we're bringing you the exclusive news of the opening of Tamila in Battersea.

  Launching on the former site

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• Little Baobab is serving up Senegalese food at the Africa Centre

  

  Little Baobab has been serving up authentic Senegalese cuisine from its Peckham Levels hatch and other pop-ups across town (as well as quite a few music festivals) for a while. Now they're launching something different, settling in as the new long-term resident kitchen at the Africa Centre (in the space where Tatale used to be). 

  Adding something new from its regular offering,

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• Boxpark are taking over Buck Street Market in Camden

  

  6/9/24 - updated with more opening details

  Buck Street Market is a huge container village in Camden which has about 40 shops and restaurants contained within its mini maze of containers. However, it hasn't really had the same success as similar venues like Boxpark have seen. Now that's likely to change as Boxpark themselves are the new owners of the site. 

  This will

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• Chef David Thompson to bring Long Chim pop-up to Hovarda in Soho

  

  In news that should get your Thai-food taste-buds tingling, acclaimed Australian chef David Thompson is bringing a modern Bangkok-inspired menu to London, with the launch of Long Chim. Meaning ‘come and try’, Long Chim currently has outlets in Sydney, Perth and Dubai (and previously in Melbourne and Singapore).

  If this is all ringing vague bells for you, we reported a couple of years back that the London Long Chim ...

• Brazilian restaurant Maroto to open in Mayfair

  

  We bring news of a Brazilian restaurant all-change in Mayfair, with Maroto taking over the site formerly occupied by another Brazilian restaurant Bossa (which closed in February). But the plot thickens: if you think you’ve already seen Maroto in that location, you have. Sort of. There’s a bar by

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• Roji chefs to launch new Japanese izakaya Himi in Carnaby

   

  For the last two years, chefs Tamas Naszai and Tomoko Hasegawa have been running omakase restaurant Roji in Mayfair (which we thought was excellent). Now Roji is about to (temporarily) shut while the chefs launch a brand new restaurant in Carnaby.

• LIMA to open a third restaurant in London, inside Shoreditch’s Sun Street Hotel

  

  5/9/24 - updated with a new opening date. 

  Hang onto your ceviche, London’s favourite Peruvian restaurant is about to open a third site. LIMA Shoreditch will take wings inside the Sun Street Hotel, which opened in late 2022. We told you about the hotel’s previous restaurant when it

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• Upcoming UK restaurants - what's opening soon across the country

   

  

  Planning a trip outside the capital? Here's our guide to the very best restaurants opening soon across the entire country.

• 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, ...

• Home Kitchen taking over from Odette's in Primrose Hill will be a restaurant staffed by the homeless

  

  3/9/24 - updated with the opening date and menu

  Things move fast in the London restaurant world. Just over a week after we learned that chef Bryn Williams was closing his much-loved Primrose Hill restaurant Odettes after 16 years, a replacement was already lined up.

  Home

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• Panadera are opening a second bakery, next to Selfridges

  

  3/9/24 - updated with the opening date

  They're one of the best bakeries in London, so news that Filipino bakery Panadera was expanding was always going to be of interest. Now we know where they're opening their second place - right around the corner from Selfridges. The new home on Picton Place puts

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• Chef Akira Back will run the restaurants and bars at the new Mandarin Oriental Mayfair

  

  Updated 19/9/24 with Dosa photograph and opening date

  We've known for a while that Michelin-starred chef Akira Back was heading to London to open at the upcoming Mandarin Oriental Mayfair. Now the final details are emerging about what we can expect from the chef's restaurants and bars at the hotel.

  Back is going to be responsible for two restaurants, a bar and a rooftop 'experience' at the hotel when

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