Carnaby

• Viral Basque cheesecake folk La Maritxu are heading to Carnaby

  

  I think we can safely say that anyone opening a Basque cheesecake shop in London right now is on to a good thing. Certainly, that was the experience of La Maritxu which went down a storm with its original cake shop in Connaught Village. Within days there were queues down the road and a slew of videos on TikTok rhapsodising about it. 

  Now the three Spanish sisters behind this one dish wonder are

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• Roji chefs to launch new Japanese izakaya Himi in Carnaby

   

  For the last two years, chefs Tamas Naszai and Tomoko Hasegawa have been running omakase restaurant Roji in Mayfair (which we thought was excellent). Now Roji is about to (temporarily) shut while the chefs launch a brand new restaurant in Carnaby.

• Goldies is the Blanchette team's new live fire restaurant in Carnaby

  

  We've known for a while that the folk behind popular Soho spot Blanchette were planning to open a place in Carnaby's Kingly Court. But they've moved faster than anticipated and Goldies is now open.

  Billed as a "wood-fired dining experience" the focus of the restaurant is that grill. They'll be serving up a selection of small and large plates where the key connection is that smoky flavour that live fire cooking

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• A second Donutelier is coming, to Carnaby

  

  Step this way, doughnut fans. Following the success of Donutelier’s launch on Charing Cross Road last year, comes news of their second London outlet, which will open in Carnaby St for all those must-find-munchies-in-Soho moments.

  There’ll be a range of Danish pastries and

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• Test Driving The Counter Soho - a burst of Mediterranean hospitality in the heart of Carnaby

  

  Having already scored a hit in Notting Hill chef Kemal Demirasal has brought his Mediterranean and Levantine dishes to Carnaby. We went to check it out.

• The Little Violet Door brings the house party to Carnaby

  

  17/5/24 - Updated with the opening date

  There are already Orange, Yellow, Scarlet and Blue Little Doors bars across London, and now a Violet one is about to join them, this time in Carnaby. 

  The Little Violet Door, like its siblings, will be set up like a fictional house party (if someone you knew just so happened to have a massive basement flat in the centre of

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• Test Driving Donia - the best of British produce with Filipino flair in Carnaby

  

  Donia in Kingly Court takes inspiration from Filipino food, using British produce with European flourishes. We went down to see how that translates in practice. 

• The Mamasons team are opening Donia at Kingly Court in Carnaby

  

  Two years after opening their hugely popular Filipino bakery Panadera in Kentish Town, the powerhouse duo behind that and Mamasons, Bintang and Guanabana are heading to Carnaby for their next restaurant.

  Donia is taking over the space in Kingly Court left vacant by Imad's Syrian Kitchen's departure. Hot Dinners tracked down co-founder Florence Mae Maglanoc, who's in charge of this particular project, to

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• Treats Club are popping up with a Carnaby dessert bar

  

  Lungi Mhlanga's Treats Club, known for their freshly made filled doughnuts, is coming into Central London for a six-month doughnut-laden dessert bar pop-up in Carnaby. 

  The filled doughnuts on offer at the Carnaby Treats will include their strawberry white chocolate, churros horchata and cornflake cereal milk and their do-ssaint will be making an appearance (yes, that is a

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• Imad’s Syrian Kitchen goes bigger and better in Soho’s Kingly Court

  

  14/6/23 - updated with the opening date

  If you’re already a fan of Imad’s Syrian Kitchen, which found a permanent home in Soho’s Kingly Court in 2021, then things are about to get even bigger and better. The restaurant is reopening in a larger space at Kingly Court and will also serve Syrian

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• El Pollote are bringing their Latino fried chicken to Carnaby

  

  You'll probably know them from various Kerb markets, including Seven Dials, but now the Venezuelan team behind El Pollote are getting ready to open their first standalone restaurant. They'll be opening up in the heart of Carnaby on Ganton Street in a space big enough for 40 diners which will also have room for a small terrace too.

  If you haven't had the pleasure, El Pollote has built up a reputation for using the best

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• Asma Khan's Darjeeling Express is back where it started in Carnaby's Kingly Court

  

  Updated 4/2//23 with a look inside

  Asma Khan and her Darjeeling Express team have returned to Carnaby and Kingly Court, where they first opened five years ago.

  "We are returning to our spiritual home- and in a bigger space!" she originally announced on Instagram. "This was where we began our journey five years ago- an #AllFemaleKitchen serving the food of our families. It is a joyous

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• Test Driving Bar Kroketa - a hugely appealing slice of Spain in Carnaby

  

  Carnaby has an appealing new Spanish bar celebrating croquetas. We went to work our way through the list...

• Pizza Pilgrims are opening a Nutella Ring Pizza kiosk in Carnaby

  

  Kingly Court's always a busy old place but we predict that a new opening from the Pizza Pilgrims will make it just that bit harder to get a seat there.

  From next week they'll be running what they're describing as a Nutella Ring Pizza Café from the kiosk outside their pizza restaurant in Carnaby.

  In the morning they'll kick things off with £1 espressos which you can pimp up with a spoon of Nutella

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• Bar Kroketa is a tapas spot in Carnaby devoted to croquetas

  

  We'd like to think we know a thing or two about croquetas, having been a judge at the Croquetas Challenge for a good few years now. So we're pretty excited at the prospect of a restaurant devoted to the tapas opening in London.

  Bar Kroketa is a spin-off from Spanish restaurant group Brindisa

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