Fitzrovia

• Monica Galetti is opening Mere restaurant on Charlotte Street

  

  06/02/17 - Updated with opening date and menu details

  She's currently best known as a MasterChef Professionals judge and before that, Monica Galetti was the senior sous chef at Le Gavroche, where she'd been for 2 years. Next up is her own restaurant called Mere in Fitzrovia.

  Here's what we know:

  • It's a joint production between Monica Galetti and her sommelier husband David Galetti - so
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• Lokhandwala Indian small plates restaurant and cocktail bar opens on Charlotte Street

  

  What: Lokhandwala

  In a nutshell: Indian tapas in Fitzrovia

  Summing it all up:The folk behind India's biggest food festival have launched this Indian small plates restaurant and cocktail bar

• Adam Rawson settles in for a residency at The George & Dragon in Fitzrovia

  

  This winter, you’ll be able to tuck into award-winning burgers and a whole host of British pub classics at The George & Dragon pub, where YBF Chef of the Year Adam Rawson will take the reigns for his first long residency. He's been popping up in various places over the last few months but this sees him setting up shop at The George and Dragon for three

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• Pilau’s Indian wraps find a permanent home on Goodge Street (with Soho to come)

  

  Pilau is the newest in a flurry of roving food vendors to find a home for just in time the winter. After a series of successful residencies, the Indian street food seller has opened its first permanent site in Fitzrovia, and will shortly be taking over another space in Soho before Christmas.

  Those visiting their new Goodge street premises will be able to get your hands on a their hearty Indian wraps, choosing

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• A steak and wine pop-up is coming to the Newman Arms

  

  We're very much liking the sound of an imminent pop-up coming to the Newman Arms in Fitzrovia. The whole thing has come about as a partnership between Matt Chatfield (Cornwall Project) will supply the beef and veg, Zeren Wilson the wine and front of house will be Jon Cannon-Gierth (ex Simon Rogan & Tom Sellers). 

  The whole thing has come about as a partnership between Matt Chatfield - he's supplying the beef and

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• The Remedy launches a new all-day menu - start your day with a small tipple

  

  Breakfast wine, deep-fried oyster baguettes and vermouth gelato - The Remedy is launching a new all-day menu, and it’s an absolute corker. 

  So what's on offer? While the fresher-faced among us will be able to grab everything a conscientious worker would want first thing - flakey pastries, homemade granola, freshly pressed juices and coffee - they’ll also be serving "breakfast tipple in

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• Foley's World food inspired small plates and cocktails in Fitzrovia
• Pisqu to bring Amazonian cuisine to Rathbone Place

  

  Hot on the heels of the flurry of South American restaurant openings in London comes Pisqu, a Peruvian restaurant dishing up cuisine native to its capital city, Lima.

  Boasting Japanese, Spanish and Chinese influences, Pisqu’s menu is a tribute to natural ingredients indigenous to the Andes and Amazon. There’ll be aji peppers, yuca, Peruvian potatoes and a whole host of South American herbs we’ve barely even heard of - camu and cedron, or maca and achiote

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• Test Driving Foleys - a Fitzrovian restaurant inspired by world food

  New Fitzrovian restaurant Foley's has a former Palomar chef in the kitchen and it shows

• Patty&Bun's next burger joint will be on Goodge Street

  

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  It seems fitting that we have more burger news the day before National Burger Day. We just had word that Patty&Bun have confirmed that they're opening their next place on Goodge Street.

  All the usual favourites will be making their way to Goodge Street, including the mighty Ari Gold (Beef patty, Cheese, Lettuce, Tomato, Pickled onions, Ketchup, Smokey P&B mayo,

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• Test Driving Clipstone - flatbreads and a lot more from the people behind Portland

  We take a look at Clipstone, the latest restaurant from the people behind Portland, and discover some pretty amazing flatbreads...

• New bao buns, milkshakes and more - Test Driving the new Bao in Fitzrovia

  Yes there are new dishes, and there's still a queue (but not if you plan accordingly)- we give Bao's new Fitzrovia restaurant a go.

• Samarkand Uzbeki restaurant to take over the Fino site on Charlotte Street

  

  Updated 26/7/16 with soft launch details

  It was a sad day indeed when Fino shut its doors, but things change and now an Uzbeki restaurant called Samarkand will be opening on its site.

  Taking influence from the restaurant's founder Sanjar Nabiev’s childhood, dishes on the menu are going to be a modern take on Uzbek cusine. If, like us, you have no idea what

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• ROKA Charlotte Street launches a kaiseki cocktail pairing menu

  

  We've long had wine pairing and then there was beer pairing - now London is seeing a new-ish trend for restaurants to pair food with cocktails. We recently tried the cocktail pairing menu at the Clove Club Bar. And now there's another intriguing combination in Fitzrovia with Rokas Shochu launching a Kaiseki Cocktail Pairing Menu next week.

  The seven course menu of small dishes has been worked on by the ches in conjunction with the bar team. Diners

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• Calcutta Street, Bengali restaurant by Shrimoyee Chakraborty is heading to Fiztrovia

  

  Best known for setting up successful pop-up events cooking Bengali cuisine at home, Shrimoyee Chakraborty is now getting ready to open her first permanent spot, Calcutta Street, in Fitzrovia. 

  There are two sides to Calcutta Street. First, there's the ground floor no-reservations restaurant which is more of a casual affair with a central bar. But downstair is the (bookable) dining

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