Chelsea

• The best restaurants in Chelsea

  

  From longstanding neighbourhood favourites to more glitzy, new establishments, this part of town has it all. We pick out the best restaurants in Kensington and Chelsea for your delectation. 

• The all-day European Cafe Linea is opening next to the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea

  

  A new cafe and restaurant is opening next door to The Saatchi Gallery (taking over what used to be the gallery's restaurant), called Cafe Linea. The new space is planned as an all-day opening, inspired by cafes in arcades across Europe. 

  Run by Greg and Felicity Godik (incidentally Greg's Dad Zeev is  the founder of Gaucho so he should know his way around

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• Josephine Bouchon

  Traditional country pub in South Ken

• Elystan Street

  Philip Howard's Chelsea restaurant is a more casual affair than before.

• Marta pizzeria in Chelsea is all about thin Roman-style pizzas

  

  In the run-up to the end of last year, we were so focused on the recent openings of Alley Cats and Zia Lucia in Chelsea that we missed another very promising new Chelsea pizza opening, called Marta. 

  It opened on Fulham Road (taking over the space from L'Artigiano) and it shifts away from the predominant Neapolitan focus of many London pizzerias and instead is all about Roman pizzas. Those are large,

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• The best restaurants in Kensington

  

  We've picked out the best restaurants in Kensington. From top Michelin-starred restaurants to glittzy fare from Big Mamma, here are the best places to eat out in the area.

• Test Driving Fantômas - Chelsea gets a sexy new restaurant where the food's as stylish as the surroundings

  

  Fantômas sees the power restaurant duo George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya Demichev teaming up with chef Chris Denney in Chelsea. We wandered down the King's Road to check it out

• Simon Rimmer and Tom Kerridge team up for a charity Sunday Brunch burger

  

  If you fancy trying the combined culinary efforts of a TV host and Michelin-starred chef then you'll need to head to Chelsea this month. Sunday Brunch host Simon Rimmer and chef Tom Kerridge have pooled their creative talents to create a burger that's being sold throughout November for charity.

  ‘The Everyday Sunday Brunch’ burger is a beast of a burger and features a patty topped with cheese, Lyonnaise

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• The Wee Sister is chef Anna Haugh's new wine bar in Chelsea

  

  Five years after throwing open the doors of her Irish restaurant just off the King's Road, chef and writer Anna Haugh is now in the process of unveiling her latest enterprise in the area. The Wee Sister is Haugh's new wine bar and it really is a close sibling, being right next door to the restaurant.

  The bar has taken over another wine space, Last Drop Wines. As Anna explained to us, "It's an Irish wine bar

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• Bottarga takes over from Chicama, shifting to the Mediterranean

  

  Recently Chicama, from the people behind Pachamama, closed in Chelsea. However, they've hung on to the space and are opening a new restaurant there pretty sharpish, called Bottarga. 

  This new opening will actually be closer to the group's restaurant in Notting Hill, Zephyr, albeit a more casual version, and will see them switch to a Mediterranean influence. The menu here also

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• Fantomas sees ex-Fiend chef Chris Denney join the Wild team in Chelsea

  

  19/9/24 - Updated with lots more detail about what to expect

  Restaurant duo George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya Demichev appear to be vying for the title of busiest restaurateurs in London. Having only very recently opened the hugely successful Lita and with places like Goodman, Wild and Belvedere under their belts, just to name a few, they're now getting ready to open

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• Alley Cats Pizza are heading to Chelsea

  

  Updated 15/7/24 with opening date

  They've been hugely popular in their first Marylebone location, with near-constant queues since they opened last year, but now Alley Cats Pizza are looking to open their second restaurant. 

  They've settled on Chelsea as their next location, opening on the King's Road (taking over from another pizzeria, Humble Pizza) where fans can

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• Birley Chocolate shop opens its doors in Chelsea

  

  Just over a year since Birley Bakery opened its doors on Chelsea Green the same team have now opened a chocolate shop and cafe on the same street. Birley Chocolate is ostensibly, as the name would suggest, a chocolate shop. But the new space has a proper cafe space at the rear of the store where they're going to be serving breakfast and lunch.

  On the menu there'll be overnight oats and croque madame croissants for breakfast

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• Dez Amore pick Chelsea for their first proper restaurant, that'll look like your Nonna's house

  

  You may have tried their pasta or burgers at one of their stalls across London - either at one of the Mercato Metropolitanos, dotted around Canary Wharf or at Camden Market and Crate Walthamstow. But now Dez Amore are going one step further, opening their first standalone restaurant.

  They're heading South West to Fulham Road where they'll be opening up a few junctions down from popular newbie Josephine.

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• Jason Atherton to open Three Darlings, a Chelsea neighbourhood bistro

  

  Jason Atherton has been rumoured to be opening quite a few restaurants of late, but the chef/restaurateur still manages to surprise us when he actually announces something. First, there was the launch of Mary's, taking over from Pollen Street Social. Then ...