New opening

• Broken Eggs is London's first tortilla restaurant

  

  London's already got a restaurant devoted to croquetas, so perhaps it isn't surprising that someone's now decided to open a Spanish restaurant specialising in tortilla.

  Siblings Gabriel and Marta are the brains behind Broken Eggs which has been doing delivery for the past year. Now they're getting

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• Revamped pub the Earl of Derby and Gengelly's are coming to New Cross

  

  With lots of news about pubs closing, it's always good news to hear of those getting a little more love. From Telegraph Hill, New Cross, news reaches us of such a promising pub overhaul. 

  The Earl of Derby is getting a proper restoration by a team who are looking to bring it back to its Victorian finest. The pub has been taken over by Parched, an independent group that also

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• A preview visit to The Campaner at Chelsea Barracks

  

  We took in an early doors preview of this new SW1 restaurant, tucked away in the Chelsea Barracks.

• Brazilian restaurant Bossa coming to London from a World’s 50 Best chef

  

  22/5/23 - updated with opening details

  Alberto Landgraf, chef patron of two-Michelin-starred Oteque in Rio de Janeiro, ranked 47 on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, is bringing some Brazilian flavours to London with a new restaurant called Bossa. We'd been waiting to hear more about the

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• Wonderland hope to keep carnivores and vegans happy with their Soho burger restaurant

  

  Updated 26/6/23 with opening date and launch info

  You've got to really stand out to make a dent in London's burger scene, so the founders behind new Soho spot Wonderland are hoping that they've got what it takes. Brothers Alex and Oliver Santoro certainly have the background for it. Their grandfather founded Smithfield butchers Direct Table Foods back in the 1950s. In spite of, or maybe of that, the pair

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• Sam's Kitchen sees Sam Harrison launch a cafe in Hammersmith

  

  22/5/23 - Updated with the new opening date

  The Sam Harrison empire in west London is expanding. He's only recently launched Sam's Larder, has Sam's

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• Leo's sees the Juliets team and chef Giuseppe Belvedere opening a restaurant in Clapton

  

  Updated 22/5/23 with booking details and opening date

  The team behind Juliet's Quality Foods have something big planned. Owners Julian Porter and Lauren Johns have teamed up with chef Giuseppe Belvedere for a new bar and restaurant in Clapton called Leo's.

  Belvedere had previously been one of the guest chefs at P Franco before moving on to

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• Empire Empire brings Indian food and disco to Notting Hill

  

  17/5/23 - updated with more details about the menu

  Notting Hill continues to go from strength to strength and the latest to enter the fray there is the man behind popular Indian restaurant Gunpowder. Empire Empire is on the way. 

  Led by Gunpowder's Harneet Baweja, it's actually planned to be a mix of Indian food and disco music, with a focus on the seventies music scene in

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• Casa do Frango pick Victoria as the next home for their Piri-Piri chicken

  

  They've had great success with their Piri-Piri chicken around London and now Casa do Frango are getting ready to open their next big restaurant, this time in Victoria (taking over the space left by Jason Atherton's Hai Cenato). 

  As you might expect, the menu will be primarily all about the Frango Piri-Piri chicken, the heart of the menu which takes its inspiration from

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• House of Ming Chinese restaurant comes to London via New Delhi

  

  House of Ming is a Chinese restaurant that's big in New Delhi - and now it's opening in London. Like its Indian sibling, the restaurant is opening in a Taj Hotel, The St James's Court (you'll find that in Westminster). 

  With a focus on Sichuan and Cantonese cuisine, it looks like being a luxury affair with a menu that includes:

  • Prawn truffle siu
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• Soft & Swirly are now selling their amazing soft serve at Netil Market

  

  Last summer they teamed up with Rambutan for a successful popup in Borough Market.  And this summer soft serve purveyors Soft & Swirly have hit up another market - Netil Market.

  Over the intervening months, Sam Lowry (ex-Leilas) and Farah Kezouh have been busy working on tubbed ice cream with various folk including those at Postcard Teas and that series is now on sale at their stall in Netil consisting

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• Max Halley at the Hippodrome sees Max's Sandwiches come to Leicester Square

  

  If you haven't yet made it out to Crouch Hill to Max's Sandwich Shop then get ready to try Max Halley's sandwiches in a much more central location. He's teamed up with none other than The Hippodrome for the new Max Halley at the Hippodrome.

  It might at first seems a rather strange place for him to open - but they say it links back to the origins of the sandwich itself.

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• Gaucho is opening a new steakhouse in Covent Garden

  

  12/5/23 - updated with the opening details

  It's been a while since we had a brand new Gaucho in London, the steakhouse from Martin Williams (who also runs M Restaurants) - over a decade, it turns out. But now they have a new restaurant coming to Covent Garden.

  It's landing in a familiar site too. It's where Wahlburgers spent a few months pre-pandemic and where the great ...

• Little Kudu is coming to Peckham (while Smokey Kudu moves to Chelsea)

  

  12/5/23 - updated with the opening date for Little Kudu

  If you’re a big fan of the South-African flavours of Kudu, then we have some good news for you - their new restaurant Little Kudu is on the way. 

  Kudu first arrived on the

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• Little Pizza Hicce has arrived in Islington

  

  They only opened Hicce Hart on Chapel Market late last year, but Hicce have already expanded across the road in Islington with Little Pizza Hicce. They'd already trialled the pizza offshoot with a popup at Goodness Brewery (whose beer is available at Hicce Hart) but this is the

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