Leicester Square

• Salt and its wagyu burgers opens on Leicester Square, but which Salt is it?

  

  Updated 21/5/24 with more information

  There were fanfares and fire jugglers at the grand opening of Middle Eastern burger joint Salt on Leicester Square this week, but a social media storm is still raging as to which Salt this actually is. The OG Salt was a Dubai food truck turned burger business run by two women Amal Al Marri and Deem Albassam. It became a huge hit for its signature wagyu

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• Bone Daddies are bringing their ramen to Leicester Square

  

  Updated 2/10/23 with opening date and launch offer

  Just over a decade since they first served up a steaming bowl of ramen to Londoners Bone Daddies are gearing up to open their eighth restaurant. The new place will be just opposite Leicester Square tube station making it a super handy spot for shoppers and tourists alike.

  Taking over two floors of a site between Leicester Square and

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• Greggs win right to sell late-night sausage rolls on Leicester Square

  

  Almost a year ago we reported that the dream of Greggs to be running a 24/7 restaurant on Leicester Square had come up against hard reality in the form of Westminster Council's licensing committee. Worried that a late night purveyor of sausage rolls and steak bakes would be a "hot spot for late night

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• Max Halley at the Hippodrome sees Max's Sandwiches come to Leicester Square

  

  If you haven't yet made it out to Crouch Hill to Max's Sandwich Shop then get ready to try Max Halley's sandwiches in a much more central location. He's teamed up with none other than The Hippodrome for the new Max Halley at the Hippodrome.

  It might at first seems a rather strange place for him to open - but they say it links back to the origins of the sandwich itself.

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• America's Angry Crab Shack arrives in London

  

  7/3/23 - updated with the opening date

  Hard on the heels of Boston's Saltie Girl opening in London comes news of another American seafood import.

  Angry Crab Shack is a restaurant group that was first opened in Arizona back in 2013 by former NFL player Ron Lou. It's billed as a 'bib up and

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• Stack & Still have opened a huge pancake restaurant on Leicester Square

  

  With perfect timing for the Christmas crowds, Scottish pancake purveyor Stack & Still has just opened its first London restaurant on Leicester Square. It's also their first opening outside Scotland and they've picked a massive site. The new restaurant has got room for 225 diners - that's a lot of pancake lovers.

  If you haven't heard of them before - and we'll admit we hadn't - the chain currently

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• Greggs is coming to Leicester Square

  

  14/7/22 - updated with launch info

  There's been a lot of development around Leicester Square of late - but this latest addition is the one that really matters. Yes, a flagship Greggs is opening in London's tourist centre and it's one of the biggest Greggs yet. 

  So if you're in the middle of town and craving a steak bake you'll know where to come (the hoarding even features

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• Burger King opens a meat-free restaurant on Leicester Square

  

  We'd been hearing that Burger King were going to be trying something new with the reopening of their Leicester Square restaurant - and they've certainly done that, going completely meat-free. 

  We've had meat-free Prets, and a recent meat-free Honest Burgers but we think this is the first of the big fast-food giants to take the plunge.

  This new restaurant adds fifteen new

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• Test Driving The Londoner - Leicester Square's new luxe hangout

  

  The arrival of luxe new hotel The Londoner on Leicester Square aims to transform the area's lacklustre reputation. We went to check it out.

• First look inside The Londoner 'super boutique' hotel on Leicester Square

  Leicester Square's food and drink scene gets an injection of cool with this upcoming hotel promising a rooftop bar with firepits, two Odeon luxe cinemas and a signature all day restaurant.

• Jollibee's Filipino Fried chicken is coming to Leicester Square

  

  30/4/21 - updated with the opening date.

  While we don't think the queues are going to be quite as long (over 10 hours) as the ones when they opened in Earl's Court, the news that Jollibee is opening on Leicester Square should

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• Gordon Ramsay's Street Burger takes over the Byron on Charing Cross Road

  

  Gordon's burger joint finds its first central London location, taking over the old Byron site on Charing Cross Road.

• Bosporus by Leicester Square is a taste of Turkey (via Dubai)

  London gets the first UK outpost of this popular Dubai chain which promises an authentic Turkish experience. 

• Other Side Fried are opening a takeaway chicken kiosk at Leicester Square

  

  They've been popping up everywhere from Camden to Brixton, but now the team behind fried chicken stall Other Side Fried are getting ready to open in the heart of London.

  Just before Christmas, they'll be throwing open the doors to their new takeaway space just outside the Leicester Square tube station. If they were looking for a place with great passing trade, they couldn't have chosen better.

  The menu at their kiosk will

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• The Halal Guys sees another US import coming to London

  They've been around for 27 years to date and expanded across the US. Now America's Halal Guys are bringing their gyros and platters to London.