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  • Restaurant and music venue Soul Mama coming to Islington from musician YolanDa Brown

    Restaurant and music venue Soul Mama coming to Islington from musician YolanDa Brown

    Everyone likes a positive story in these challenging times, and we can bring you something truly groundbreaking: a Kickstarter campaign that has set a new global record for restaurant fundraising. Jazz musician YolanDa Brown OBE DL along with music manager and entrepreneur Adetokunbo ‘T’ Oyelola are bringing a new restaurant called Soul Mama to Islington Square, thanks to

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  • Brat's Tomos Parry is opening Mountain in Soho

    Brat's Tomos Parry is opening Mountain in Soho

    11/7/23 - updated with the new photos

    We've been hearing for a while about an upcoming new Soho restaurant from Tomos Parry (the man behind Brat in Shoreditch) and now we've finally got some actual details. He'll be opening Mountain on Beak Street. 

    It's being described as a wood grill and wine bar, which they say reflects "Tomos' favourite meals from journeys across Spain over

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  • World Famous Gordos get ready to serve their pizzas at Netil Market

    world famous gordos netil market london

    8/7/23 - updated with the opening date

    Back in 2020, we reported on the arrival of an interesting new pizzeria in Dalston, going by the name of Gordos. It came from an ex-GM at Yard Sale, Jesse Elias. Well, the Dalston crowd loved their pies but the craziness of Covid

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  • Tendril (mostly) Vegan Kitchen & Bar goes permanent in Mayfair

    Tendril (mostly) Vegan Kitchen & Bar goes permanent in Mayfair

    7/7/23 - updated with the opening date

    Rishim Sachdeva has been popping up with his Tendril restaurant in a couple of spaces, but now he's getting ready to launch the restaurant in its permanent home. 

    He describes the restaurant as "mostly vegan" and that's coming through in the new name - Tendril (mostly) Vegan Kitchen & Bar. The permanent

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  • Sam Harrison to open Sam's Waterside in The Brentford Project, a restaurant, cafe and deli

    sam's waterside at the brentford project

    7/7/23 - updated with a new launch date

    Restaurateur Sam Harrison has been a busy man of late. In addition to his riverside restaurant Sam's Riverside, he's opened two deli concepts, Sam's Larder - in Hammersmith and Chiswick. Now, sticking with West London, he's signed up to be a leading part of a new housing development in Brentford.

    The Brentford Project is going to be a massive

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  • Market Place Peckham is reopening with a new look and new food

    Market Place Peckham is reopening with a new look and new food

    Good news if you’ve missed the Peckham outlet of the hugely popular Market Place food halls. After closing earlier this year for a revamp, Market Place Peckham is coming back, baby. It was the very first of the Market Place venues to open in London, spawning success stories with additional outlets in Hounslow, ...

  • The Avocado Show is coming to Covent Garden

    The Avocado Show is coming to Covent Garden

    5/7/23 - updated with the opening date

    Is Covent Garden ready for two avocado-based restaurants? There's already an Avobar near the Piazza, but now we hear news that The Avocado Show is getting ready to open there too. 

    The Avocado Show originally came from Amsterdam and set up its first restaurant in London ...

  • Four Hundred Rabbits Pizza comes to Battersea Rise

    Four Hundred Rabbits Pizza comes to Battersea Rise

    Breeding like…well, rabbits, the next London site for Four Hundred Rabbits Pizza has just been announced and it’s another win for South London; it’s in Battersea Rise. Already operating outlets in Crystal Palace, the ...

  • New Italian restaurant 64 Old Compton Street to open in Soho

    New Italian restaurant 64 Old Compton Street to open in Soho

    Struggling to find somewhere in Soho to eat on a sultry summer’s evening but everything is fully booked? Got a friend who can never find the restaurant location? We can help with both of these things, because we bring you news of a new dining destination that is helpfully the same name as its address: 64 Old Compton Street.

    It’s a sister site to 40 Dean Street (they’re on a winning

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  • Enter an enchanted world at new restaurant The Rosarium below Waterloo Station

    rosarium restaurant opens up underneath waterloo station

    Escape the crowds at Waterloo and discover the enchanted escapism of The Rosarium restaurant at The Sidings.

  • The big new London restaurants opening in July 2023

    The big new London restaurants opening in June 2023

    July sees some big restaurant openings from top chefs with Richard Corrigan, Tom Sellers and Tomos Parry all having new openings this month. 

  • Michelin-starred chef Paul Foster brings the beef-focused Grassfed to Camden's Hawley Wharf

    Michelin-starred chef Paul Foster brings the beef-focused Grassfed to Camden's Hawley Wharf

    Chef Paul Foster already has a Michelin-starred restaurant to his name in Stratford-Upon-Avon, called Salt, but now he's getting ready to open in London too. He'll be taking over a space in Camden's Hawley Wharf for Grassfed. 

    That name refers to the grass-fed beef that will have a big presence on the menu, with much of it cooked over hot coals. On that

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  • 64 Goodge Street is the latest opening from the team behind Clipstone and Portland

    64 Goodge Street is the latest from Quality Chop House's Woodhead Group

    It's been a while since we had a brand new opening from the people behind Quality Chop House, The Woodhead Restaurant Group. They're also the people who brought us Fitzrovia restaurants Clipstone and Portland and that area must be working very well for them because they're about to open a third restaurant nearby, 64 Goodge Street. 

    In charge of the space will be Head

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  • The Tate Modern is launching new riverside bar and cafe, Corner

    Tate Modern gets new riverside bar and cafe, The Corner

    London's galleries are shaking things up a little. We've only just had the reopening of The National Portrait Gallery with Larry's in the basement and Richard

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  • Estelle Manor is the latest Cotswolds opening to entice Londoners out of the city

    estelle manor opens in the cotswolds

    A few weeks back we brought you news of Aynho Park, a frankly epic undertaking opening in the Cotswolds with five new restaurants. Now we're back with details of a new place to entice Londoners out of the city, Estelle Manor. Twenty miles away from Aynho you'll find this seriously swanky new

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