Italian

• Dara Klein picks Columbia Road as the home of Tiella Trattoria & Bar

  

  For a small pub residency, Tiella at The Compton Arms got a lot of column inches. There was something about chef Dara Klein's cooking that reflected the places she'd worked in London (Brawn, Trullo, and Sager & Wilde) and her background that included a childhood spent both in Emilia Romagna and New Zealand. Her cooking was different, exciting yet deeply hospitable.

  Now, like The

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• Sartoria Launceston Place marks the start of the restaurant group's expansion

  

  Late last year the much-loved Launceston Place restaurant closed its doors with the restaurant group (then named D&D London) pledging to find the right chef to bring on board.

  Well it turns out that the group - now named The Evolv Collection - has had something of a change of heart. Instead, they're bringing their Savile Row Italian restaurant Sartoria to Kensington.

  And it seems that the

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• After 50 years Sale e Pepe is expanding with Sale e Pepe Mare at The Langham London

  

  It's been a troubled few years at The Langham, which has struggled to find a solid proposition for its main restaurant space since Roux at the Landau closed back in 2023. They did try to follow that with Mimosa from French group Moma, but that folded after a scant five months of service.

  But news today suggests that a new lease of life for the restaurant may be just around the corner. The Thesleff Group, who run Los

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• Get a free glass of Prosecco with the new lunch menu at Agrodolce in Fitzrovia

  

  Try the new set lunch menu at Roman restaurant Agrodolce and get a free glass of Prosecco when you dine using this Hot Dinners deal.

  Offer: Free glass of Prosecco for every person dining on the set lunch menus

  Where: 67 Charlotte St, London W1T 4PH

  When: 9 October - 9 November 2025, lunch only

• Passione Vino are opening a new wine bar in Clerkenwell

  

  For more than two decades, Luca Dusi's vibey wine bar in East London has built up a reputation for being a fabulous place to sit and sip good wine. And now the team behind it are gearing up to open a brand new wine bar and restaurant in Clerkenwell. They've taken over an old tattoo parlour on Exmouth Market.

  As with their original bar in Shoreditch, the Clerkenwell branch will focus exclusively on great Italian wine

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• Francesco Mazzei's Mezzogiorno is opening at Corinthia London

  

  6/10/25 - updated with the name and more details

  London's top hotels do like getting a named chef to run their restaurants, from Jean-Georges at The Connaught and The Emory to Tom Kerridge at Corinthia London's Kerridge's Grill. Now, the Corinthia London has announced a shake-up for its second restaurant. What's was The Northall is about to get a full overhaul by Italian chef

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• OTT Paris restaurant Il Bambini Club is coming to London's Hoxton hotel

  

  18/9/25 - updated with the opening date

  Il Bambini Club is an Italian restaurant, known for its extravagant design, but originating in Paris and with a giant lemon meringue pie on the menu. While this might sound a bit like Big Mamma, it's definitely got more of a high-end reputation in Paris, and you'll be able to check it out for yourself soon, as they're gearing up to open in London.

  The restaurant,

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• A focaccia window has just opened for business in Southfields

  

  London already has a secret tiramisu window, now a second Italian food window has opened, this time in South London. La Finestra is the brainchild of Italian-born Stefano who's been in London for 10 years working in the hospitality industry. Having worked his way up to GM at Electric Shuffle in Canary Wharf he

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• Test Driving Campanelle, classic Italian fare in a Grade II listed City building

  

  Campanelle sees the team behind Canto Corvino and Manicomio heading into the City with a classic Italian menu inside a Grade II listed building. We went to check it out.

• The folks behind Chelsea's Marta are hoping their new opening Martina will be as big a hit

  

  To corrupt a phrase, necessity is the mother of reinvention, and that's a lesson that London restaurants know well. From Orasay turned Dove in Notting Hill to the wholesale reworking of the Pachamama group, London restaurateurs that keep their offering fresh and interesting are always going to do well.

  The latest to follow in their footsteps is the group who've found recent success with their Marta pizzeria. They've

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• New York's Carbone is coming to London

  

  Carbone is definitely coming to London. Recently submitted planning information shows that the famous New York restaurant is the second restaurant to open in the Chancery Rosewood next year. 

• The Manicomio team are behind new City Italian restaurant Campanelle

  

  The City has a brand new Italian worth checking out this summer. Campanelle is from the same team behind such classic London restaurants as Manicomio in Chelsea and Canto Corvino in Spitalfields. They've taken over the restaurant in a Grade II listed building between Fenchurch Street and Leadenhall Market.

  The City has a brand new Italian worth checking out this summer. Campanelle is from the

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• Burro e Salvia is closing up shop in Shoreditch

  

  After 12 years of giving the people of East London amazing homemade pasta, the folks at Burro e Salvio are calling it quits. But in the run up to their closure they've decided to go out with a bang, culiminating in a few weeks of last-minute lunches, workshops and sales.

  "We've been more than a pastificio," they said in a post on Instagram, "many of our team found their true calling here, and some customers discovered

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• Angela Hartnett's latest Cafe Murano is opening in Marylebone

  

  Updated 5/7/25 with soft launch info

  It's been some time since Angela Hartnett opened the last Cafe Murano (over five years ago in Bermondsey) but now she's getting ready to open a new branch, this time in Marylebone. 

  The latest cafe is opening on Dorset Street (taking over the old AOK Kitchen site). Expect it to be similar to the others, serving up a short,

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• Harry's is opening its flagship restaurant right on the piazza in Covent Garden

  

  Having rolled out The Ivy to pretty much everywhere (the latest of those in Battersea), it looks like Richard Caring's Caprice Holdings has started focusing on Harry's as their next big brand. They opened in Victoria last year and in King's Cross earlier this summer. All that was building up to what's going to be the restaurant group's flagship site, which gets its big launch this winter in Covent

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