Fitzrovia

• Monica Galetti's Mere to close

  

  It's been a year of pretty high-profile restaurant closures, particularly in the famous chef/high-end side of things. We've already had the closure of Marcus Wareing's Marcus and Michel

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• All’onda in Fitzrovia is all about risotto

  

  A new restaurant called All’onda is coming to Fitzrovia and it's all centred around risotto. 

  Founded by Cordula Schulz, whose apparent passion for risotto drives the restaurant, she's brought in Andrea Granzarolo as head chef. He brings with him a wealth of experience, having been at Helene Darroze for six years, as well as The Square and The Greenhouse. 

  The menu, of course,

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• Out and In restaurant will have London's first faux-fresco space

  

  Update: You guessed it, this was our 2024 April Fool. To see all the April Fool stories we've ever run, click here.

  Now that spring is officially here and the clocks have gone forward, the next thing that happens here at Hot Dinners HQ is the arrival of a deluge of press releases announcing the opening of terraces and

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• Charlotte Street is getting an Alsatian wine bar and restaurant called July

  

  Updated with the opening date

  Opening in the spring but confusingly named after a summer month, July is going to be an Alsatian-inspired restaurant and wine bar hitting up Charlotte Street. And while this is the first hospitality venture for the pair behind it, they've brought in a team that shows they know what they're doing.

  French-Swiss food writer Solynka Dumas and Julian Oschmann are the

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• Carmel is expanding from Queen's Park to Oxford Circus

  

  12/3/24 - updated with the opening date

  The team behind Carmel, Berber & Q and Shawarma Bar are heading into the West End to open a second Carmel restaurant just off Oxford Circus. They've taken over the site on Market Place that was previously La Rampa (and before that a string of other restaurants, so here's hoping this venture breaks the curse).

  As with their Queen's Park restaurant, Carmel's

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• Mortimer House Kitchen goes Italian under Nessa chef Tom Cenci

  

  After success launching Nessa in Soho, chef Tom Cenci is also taking on another restaurant by the same group, Mortimer House Kitchen. It'll be different to Soho's British menu though, with Mortimer House being a strictly Italian affair. 

  The menu is apparently influenced by Cenci's family summers on the Amalfi coast and includes:

  • Zucchini caesar with parmesan and
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• From Spain via the Ukraine, Boca a Boca will serve up tapas on Charlotte Street

  

  War may be ravaging their country, but Ukrainians are still getting up every day and going to work and that includes opening new restaurants. And one that opened its doors in Kyiv last year is getting ready to expand to London. Boca a Boca was set up by Ukrainian entrepreneur, Andrii Nikonov, who wanted to open somewhere in Kyiv to share his love of Spanish food.

  Now he's bringing Boca a Boca to London where

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• Test Driving Chishuru - Adejoké Bakare's West African restaurant shines in Fitzrovia

   

  Adejoké Bakare's Chishuru has made the move from Brixton to Fitzrovia. We head down to see what the West African restaurant is cooking up in its bigger, central London home.

• Poon's Wontoneria extends its residency with a new menu

  

  Updated with extension to opening dates

  We've been hearing very good things about Poon's Wontoneria which has taken over the 12 Charlotte Street pop-up space that's part of Carousel in Fitzrovia. It comes from Amy Poon, whose father was behind the original Poon's, a legendary Chinese restaurant, and who's brought the name back for this "wontoneria". 

  The residency is getting an extension to February, and that

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• Must & Lees head to Warren Street for their second wine bar and shop

  

  Updated 13/9/23 with opening date

  Two years after opening their wine shop and tasting room in Islington, Must & Lees are expanding. Their second place will open this autumn on Warren Street, taking over Miel Bakery's old site.

  Owner Chris and his team are aiming to jump straight into Fitzrovia community life, joining the likes of Miel, Honey & Co and Bang Bang on the street. So while their

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• Test Driving 64 Goodge Street - a boutique French bistro in Fitzrovia

  

  The group behind Clipstone and Portland have opened another restaurant in Fitzrovia with 64 Goodge Street. This time it's all very French indeed. We head down to take a look. 

• Test Driving Studio Gauthier - the French chef takes his vegan food to a new audience

   

  Studio Gauthier sees chef Alexis Gauthier bring some of the extremely accomplished (and Michelin-starred) cooking from his Soho restaurant to a more casual affair in Fitzrovia. We went down for a look. 

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

  

  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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• 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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• The Gurkhas is a modern Nepalese restaurant opening in Fitzrovia

  

  Nepalese cuisine isn't something that we have too much of in London (although there are a few classic establishments dotted about) but a new restaurant is looking to change that. 

  The Gurkhas comes from the same group that's behind Hot Stone and the upcoming ...