High-rise

• London is getting a hot new rooftop bar ABar Rooftop at the Mandarin Oriental Mayfair

  

  It may not be the optimum time of year in London to be unveiling a new rooftop bar, but that's not stopping the folks at the Mandarin Oriental Mayfair. They're about to throw open the doors to the Abar Rooftop at their hotel just off Hanover Square.

  The new bar boasts views across Mayfair, an area not all that blessed with good rooftop drinking spaces, and there'll be room for 50 indoors along

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• Gordon Ramsay is opening London's highest restaurants at 22 Bishopsgate

  

  Updated 10/10/24 with more details

  It's big news when Gordon Ramsay reveals he's opening five (FIVE!) new restaurants at 22 Bishopsgate next year. The skyscraper in the City of London is the UK's tallest office building and Ramsay will have a number of restaurants and bars right at the top.

  The biggest reveal is that the 60th floor of the

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• The best high-rise restaurants in London, with great views across town

  

   

  Along with having some of the best restaurants in the world, we think London's also blessed with some of the best high-rise dining options too. Here's a run-down of some of the best out there. 

• Endo at the Rotunda is reopening with three important changes

  

  It's one of the most highly-rated sushi restaurants in London. But when Endo at the Rotunda reopens next month following a five-month closure for refurbishment there are going to be some key changes you need to know about.

  The first is that it's going to be even harder to get a reservation. Before there were seats for 11 guests up at the omakase counter. Now that it's been reduced in size to increase intimacy between the

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• Shanghai Me is the new rooftop restaurant at The London Hilton on Park Lane

  

  22/7/24 - Updated with an official announcement

  Ever since the Galvin Brothers announced back in April that they were closing their rooftop restaurant at the London Hilton on Park Lane after 18 successful years, there was speculation on what was going to take its place. Hot Dinners was the

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• Decimo

  High-rise King's Cross Mexican/Spanish restaurant

• Chef Kerth Gumbs takes over at high rise City restaurant Fenchurch at Sky Garden

  

  It's all change at high rise City restaurant Fenchurch at Sky Garden, with the arrival of Kerth Gumbs as Head Chef.

  Gumbs, you may recognise from his stints as a finalist on the Great British Menu (back when he heading up the kitchens at Ormer in Mayfair). He's also due to get a lot of screen time next year when he joins BBC Three's new Young MasterChef as a judge.

  It's a good move for Sky

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• M Restaurants bring Wagyu steaks to Canary Wharf

  

  26/8/22 - Updates with opening details

  If you’re out and about in Canary Wharf or looking for reasons to head that way, M Restaurant is opening what they call another of their ‘gastro-playgrounds’ there, following successful launches in The City and Victoria. This latest opening has been in the works for quite a while - we first wrote about it all the way back in

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• Duck & Waffle turns into the Polar Express for the festive season

  

  Some London restaurants are happy to put up a few baubles and bits of tinsel in the run-up to Christmas and consider themselves fully decorated.

  Then, there are the places who truly understand the assignment and go all-out.

  High rise City restaurant Duck & Waffle is definitely the latter type of place. For the festive season they've quite literally transformed the restaurant and bar into a scene from the

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• Duck & Waffle is back open for 24-hour bookings

   

  We may be some way off from knowing when the Night Tube is ever coming back, but there's at least one good sign that late-night eating and drinking in London is back on the cards. 

  For the first time since the very first lockdown, Duck & Waffle is back to its original 24 hour opening hours. So if you're back at work in the City and really fancy some of their BBQ spiced crispy

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• Test Driving 14 Hills - where the views aren't the only thing creating a buzz

  

  The City's latest high rise restaurant looks pretty amazing, but having a top chef in the kitchen means there's more to Insta than just selfies of yourself and those views.

• Madera at Treehouse London will be a Mexican restaurant with amazing views

  Taking over the old Saint George's Hotel by the BBC's Broadcasting House, on Langham Place is the American Treehouse hotel group and they've brought in the high-end Mexican restaurant group to open high-rise restaurant Madera at Treehouse London.

• Test Driving Decimo - classy high-rise dining in King's Cross

  

  He already has a Michelin star in Bristol and now Peter Sanchez-Iglesias has arrived in London, with the flagship restaurant Decimo at the top of The Standard hotel in King's Cross. We went down to check it out. 

• Test Driving Seabird - What's that in the sky? London's hottest new restaurant.

  

  We head up to the 14th floor of the Hoxton Southwark and fall hopelessly in love with this high rise seafood spot where the decor is pure Miami but the vibe is all London.

• Test Driving Allegra - Stratford goes up in the world with this elegant new restaurant

  

  Taking over the seventh floor of The Straford, this high rise restaurant sees the former Head Chef of Chiltern Firehouse launch his solo vision in East London.