New opening

• Heritage is a Swiss-inspired restaurant in Soho (there will be fondue)

  This Soho restaurant has a Swiss-inspired menu that means quite a lot of tableside theatre will be involved - from Raclette dips to fondues and grill-your-own-food charbonnades. 

• Pastorcito is the latest from El Pastor at Centre Point

  

  Following El Pastor and, more recently Casa Pastor, the Harts Group are getting ready for another Mexican kitchen, this time as part of the new Arcade Food Theatre in Center Point. 

  As one of six kitchens in the Arcade, one of the main focuses will be around their corn tacos. And included in them will be:

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• 14 Hills will be the new high-rise restaurant at 120 Fenchurch Street

  The prolific D&D restaurant group (who own Blueprint Cafe, German Gymnasium, Quaglinos and more) are gearing up for their next opening. Fen will be near the top of a big new building on Fenchurch St.  

• Nathan Outlaw is opening Siren restaurant at The Goring

  Nathan Outlaw is changing his London base of operations. He's opening a new restaurant at The Goring in Belgravia - a more casual seafood-led affair that's the hotel's first new restaurant in over 100 years. 

• Centre Point's Arcade Food Theatre has TA TA, Oklava, Pophams, Pastor and more

  

  Plus Flat Iron, Casa do Frango and Chotto Matte. Some of London's best restaurants are getting together at the end of Oxford Street.

• Robin Gill's Dairy team opening Great Scotland Yard Hotel restaurant, cocktail bar, tea room and more

  Next up from Robin Gill and The Dairy team is the new Great Scotland Yard hotel in Mayfair. He and the team will be in charge of the food, cocktails, bakery and more. 

• Radio Alice are bringing their pizzas to Canary Wharf

  After successful restaurants in Hoxton and Clapham, Radio Alice are next bringing their pizzas out east to Canary Wharf. Expect all the pizzas from the original, all made with organic ingredients. 

• Pophams Bakery are bringing patisserie and pasta to Hackney's Richmond Road

  Expect all the carbs at Pophams Bakery's new Richmond Road space - with the open kitchen turning out viennoiserie by day and pasta by night.

• Moncks of Dover Street is a new Mayfair brasserie from the Park Chinois team

  This Mayfair brasserie comes from the same people who are behind Park Chinois. Expect a classic European brasserie in plush settings. 

• Jason Atherton is opening The Betterment at The Biltmore hotel in Mayfair

  We hear that Jason Atherton has been lined up to run all the food side of things at this new London hotel - right opposite his old boss Gordon Ramsay's new restaurant

• Sub Cult's award-winning sandwiches get a permanent City spot

  They've been street food legends for five years and now Sub Cult are getting a much-deserved permanent place in the City. With brand new subs along with the classics, this looks like your new City lunch spot. 

• Honest Burgers come to London Bridge's Tooley Street

  

  The latest restaurant to come to London Bridge, after its huge facelift, is the newest Honest Burgers in town. They've just opened off Tooley Street, bringing all their famed burgers with them. All the usual burgers will be there, paired with their rosemary salted chips. And as with the other branches, there's a monthly special (they've teamed up with Brindisa at the time of writing for a Bravas burger) and the vegetarian and

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• Vagabond wine bar has arrived in Paddington

   

  There's have been changes afoot at Paddington Central recently (that's the space by the canal near the Hammersmith and City line). We've had the recent opening of The Grand Duchess, and now we've just learned of a brand new Vagabond wine bar that's opened in the area, immediately becoming the areas first wine bar. 

  If you're unfamiliar with Vagabond, let us enlighten you. The whole operation is

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• Pasta Nostra serves up fresh pasta and more on Old Street

  Two young chefs have brought their passion for pasta to East London, opening up this small plates and pasta restaurant which aims to do a few dishes very well.

• Bank House Wine Bar and Kitchen in Chislehurst comes from Stuart Gillies, ex Gordon Ramsay CEO

  He was chef and eventually CEO of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants and now Stuart Gillies is opening his own place. It's a wine bar that's taking over a Victorian building (that used to be a bank) on Chislehurst High Street.