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- Yum Bug are opening an edible insects restaurant in Finsbury Park
Back in the autumn, a pop-up in Shoreditch created genuine buzz for a new brand, Yum Bug. The principal was simple - they were going to introduce the London dining scene to the joy of edible crickets. And it worked, with the whole thing being a complete sell-out.
Now the team behind that, entomologist Aaron Thomas and designer Leo Taylor, are getting ready to open a permanent restaurant in Finsbury Park. As
... - Veg & Tings Caribbean vegetarian restaurant in Brixton is next up from Brian Danclair
He already has Fish, Wings & Tings and Danclair's Kitchen, and now Brian Danclair is getting ready to open his third restaurant in Brixton - Veg & Tings.
As you might expect from the name, this is a similar affair to Fish, Wings & Tings but with the focus on Caribbean vegetarian food. On the menu you can expect doubles - street food from
... - The Ducksoup team are opening Camille in Borough
2/2/24 - Updated with opening details
The SE1 dining scene is totally on fire right now. Hard on the heels of Kolae and Akara opening comes another upcoming restaurant that'll cement Borough's reputation for hot new openings. Camille is the place in question and the team behind it are Clare Lattin and Tom Hill, founders of Ducksoup and Little Duck and, most recently, Emilia down in
... - Auld Hag are opening The Shoap - a Scottish shop and deli at Angel
Updated 1/2/24 with the launch date
Gregg Boyd has been on a one-man mission to spread the joy of Scottish food to Londoners. He started as a stallholder Auld Hag in Dalston selling bowls of haggis, neeps and tatties. Now he's about to open a permanent 'shoap' - that's Scottish slang for shop - in Islington.
"When I moved to London I couldn't believe Scottish food wasn't readily available," he explains.
... - Mayfair's Chancery Rosewood is lining up Le Caprice and Carbone as its restaurants
The new Chancery Rosewood hotel in Mayfair is a pretty huge endeavour, taking over the space of the old US Embassy (and retaining the Brutalist look). We've been wondering what they're going to do for restaurants, given that they have to compete with a fair few high-end hotels opening of late, and it seems they're going big.
Mere days after it was revealed
- Lita brings live fire cooking to Marylebone
Ever since a reader brought our attention to an Instagram account for a new restaurant opening in Marylebone called Lita, we've been digging behind the scenes to find out more. First up, we learned that the chef involved, Luke Ahearne, has a strong London background having previously most recently worked at Gordon Ramsay restaurants and before that was Head Chef at Corrigan's Mayfair.
Next, we have the group of people
... - The big new London restaurants opening in February 2024
February sees the Borough Market scene get better than ever, the return of a Singapore restaurant and a classic British restaurant relocates to St James.
- Giancarlo Caldesi to open new Caldesi in Belsize Village
Just before Christmas, Neighbourhood restaurant Calici closed its doors in Belsize village, but it'll be back soon under a new name. It turns out, as first reported by the Ham and High, that celeb chef Giancarlo Caldesi will be taking on the space, making it the second Caldesi restaurant in London (there's another in Bray as well as a
... - RAI omakase restaurant returns, this time in Bloomsbury
RAI, from the same people behind Islington's Hot Stone, originally launched in Fitzrovia before closing last year. But now the restaurant is back again in a different location, just up the road in Bloomsbury.
The food is once again led by Executive Chef Padam Raj Rai (previously at Nobu, Sake no Hana and Tsukiji) and it'll be an omakase-only restaurant, with dishes in the
... - Grasso is a genuine family-run Italian American restaurant that's just landed in Soho
It isn't often that a restaurant manages to open in the middle of Soho in a fashion that's so completely under the radar we have to wait for a reader to let us know about it. But that's the case with Grasso which threw open its doors on Dean Street just before Christmas. Even rarer, this is a restaurant that's entirely independent and family-owned.
The family in question are the McCaffreys. Seanie runs the restaurant,
... - Yiqi Pan Asian restaurant opens with bamboo tube rice and wagyu mousse in Chinatown
The latest restaurant to hit Chinatown is Yiqi, billed as a Pan-Asian restaurant with dishes from all over West and Southeast Asia. In charge of the kitchen is Chef Lum Wah Cheok who comes via Hakkasan and Yauatcha making this a potentially very interesting opening.
The menu looks intriguing too. A taste of it includes fried cordyceps flower salad,
... - Claude Bosi is opening Lyonnaise restaurant Josephine in Chelsea
Updated 23/1/24 with a new opening date
It's been quite the year for chef and restaurateur Claude Bosi. He began with the opening of his bistro Socca in Mayfair with Samyukta Nair and then followed that up with the unveiling of his glamorous rooftop restaurant
- Hyde London City hotel is opening on Old Bailey, complete with a modern Turkish restaurant
Just when you thought the city couldn't possibly fit any more upmarket hotels, another new opening is on the horizon. This time it's the turn of boutique hotel brand Hyde, themselves part of Ennismore, the people behind the Hoxton hotels. They're opening Hyde London City on Old Bailey.
It's not the first time that this particular building has been a hotel.
... - Amsterdam live fire restaurant Nela is coming to The Whiteley in Bayswater
We already knew that plans were afoot to bring Whiteleys, now renamed The Whiteley, back to its former glory (albeit this time as a hotel, apartments and restaurants). The people behind Pachamama are opening Effie there and now we have news of another
... - The Rex Delicatessen by Larry Jayasekara and Tim Jefferies opens in Mayfair
We've known for a while that Larry Jayasekara is opening The Cocochine with gallery owner Tim Jefferies in Mayfair. That restaurant should see the light of day this spring, but it's not the only project they've been working on. On the
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