Soho

• Chin Chin are launching a spring treat for lemon lovers

  

  They say a picture paints a thousand words and if that's true, what this picture of CHIN CHIN Dessert Club's latest creation is telling us, is that our life would be immeasurably better having tried it.

  The dessert folk, who are probably best known for their nitro ice-cream treats, have come up with a spring special that we very much need to order. The Lemon Meringue Baked Alaska features Amalfi

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• Firebird comes to Soho bringing cooking over fire from St Petersburg restaurateurs

  

  New Soho restaurant Firebird is taking over the spot where Corazon used to be. It's from two restaurateurs who hail from St Petersburg, Madina Kazhimova and Anna Dolgushina where their Wong Kar Wine restaurant has been a real success. With the London restaurant name as a clue, it'll focus a fair bit on cooking over fire, using both charcoal and wood (with a bit of

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• Test Driving Dai Chi - deep-fried skewer action in Soho

  

  The people behind Dalston's Angelina have come to Soho with Dai Chi, a restaurant that's all about deep-fried skewers. We went down to try it out. 

• Fuwa Fuwa bring their Japanese soufflé pancakes to Soho

  

  If you're on Food Tok you'll know that Japanese souffle pancakes are A Big Thing. There are countless videos of the fluffy delights being flipped on the grill before being topped with all manner of sweet delights.

  There are two big players right now on the scene, Hefaure in Chinatown and Fuwa Fuwa at the Brunswick Centre. And now Fuwa Fuwa has moved into town, having opened their second store in the heart of Soho just a few weeks

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• The Wong Kar Wine team are heading to London from St Petersburg

  

  We were sad to see the back of Corazon, Soho's popular taco spot which failed to make it out of lockdown. Now there's news of what's going to take its place. It'll be a new restaurant from the team behind St Petersburg's Wong Kar Wine. Madina Kazhimova and Anna Dolgushina are the brains behind the operation which opened in St Petersburg back in 2014.

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• Yolk brings egg pots and sandwiches to Soho

  

  After a first glance at the name, you might expect Yolk to be the latest of London's trend of egg-based restaurants. And while eggs are indeed on the menu, it's actually also about sandwiches or, as they put it, "fine fast food". They've already opened two places in the city in New Street and Broadgate and their latest is coming to Soho's Golden Square. 

  Eggs are available at breakfast in the shape of

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• Dai Chi sees the Angelina team deep frying skewers in Soho

  

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  The people behind Angelina are getting ready to launch something a bit different in Soho. It's taking over the spot they previously opened as the bar Golden Gai, which is now going to be transformed and relaunched as their second restaurant - Dai Chi.

  Dai Chi will be all about bringing Osaka's kushikatsu dining to Soho (that's kushi for

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• The Little Yellow door is coming to Soho, door colour TBD

  

  The Little Door company have been a big hit in Notting Hill with The Little Yellow Door (as well as having opened Little Orange Door in Clapham and the Little Blue Door in Fulham). Now they're opening their latest in Soho. 

  There's no word on whether the team have settled on a door colour at the time of writing - but we do know a few things. The first is that the bar is

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• Test Driving The Seafood Bar - huge seafood platters in Soho

  

  The Seafood Bar has made the trip from Amsterdam to open in Soho. We went to try their huge seafood platters... 

• Louche is a new late night bar for Soho, with its eye on Soho's past

  

  A new bar is heading to Soho, taking over the space that used to hold 68 & Boston on Greek Street. From the same people behind the Records bars (Venn St, Northcote and Eastcheap) Louche is looking to be inspired by the Soho of the 1920s and beyond. 

  What does that mean in practice? Lots of wood panelling for a start, but also apparently "hidden peep shows" (it is old school Soho they're

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• Rita's Soho is opening

  

  Rita's are on the up again. Bodega Rita's closed and then resurfaced in Clerkenwell and now, 10 years after their first pop-up, they're opening a restaurant in Soho.

  They've been open as a terrace restaurant for a few weeks, but now they're ready to open the main event. The menu will be

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• Soho is getting a croissant-only cafe Criss Cross

  

  If layers of flaky pastry are your thing, then you'll be wanting to know about Criss Cross. Opening in Soho this month, this new cafe and shop is devoted to one thing and one thing only - the croissant.

  They'll be selling gorgeous looking savoury and sweet pastries. The team behind it are hospitality folk connected to Novikov and Mnky Hse including Criss Cross's chef Roberto Guzzi who also heads up the

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• The Seafood Bar from Amsterdam lands in Soho

  

  This sustainability-focused restaurant first opened in Amsterdam and has found a space in Soho for its London debut (taking over the space that was The Ref Fort). Expect towers of shellfish and lots more.

• Vasco & Piero's are coming back to Soho

  

  There was much consternation earlier this year when the news broke that Soho legendary Italian Vasco and Piero's Pavilion was to shut because of rent issues. But we then learned pretty quickly from an Instagram post that it wasn't a complete goodbye as they were already on the hunt for a new

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• Test Driving Sucre & Abajo - the hot new Latin American bar and restaurant in Soho

  

  London's restaurant scene just got a whole lot brighter with the arrival of this gorgeous new restaurant and bar from a Latin American powerhouse team. We went along to marvel at it all.