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- The new restaurants and bars opening in London this week
Our regular weekly guide to what to expect from the week ahead in London, with the restaurants, bars and more opening their doors across town. This week, both Jason Atherton and Chris Denney open in Chelsea while a lunchtime-only restaurant opens in King's Cross.
- Chef Rohit Ghai is opening Vatavaran restaurant and cocktail bar in Knightsbridge
Six months after closing down 'vibe dining' destination Geode in Knightsbridge, Arrow restaurant team appear to be trying again in the same space. The group who also run Kutir and Manthan, are back with Michelin-starred chef Rohit Ghai for a third time in London, to open Vatavaran on Beauchamp Place.
The site in question is one of those multi-storeyed restaurants and here we're told that each level is going
... - Jeremy King to reopen Simpson's in the Strand
21/10/24 Updated with a new launch date
Jeremy King is definitely on a roll at the moment. He's opened The Park near Hyde Park, relaunched Le Caprice as Arlington and next he's going to be
... - All the new London restaurants - recently opened restaurants in London
Here's a complete guide to all the new London restaurants that have opened...
- Upcoming London restaurants - hot new openings coming soon
All the latest news on every upcoming London restaurant that's going to be opening in the capital. The only Coming Soon list you need. - Silva restaurant joins The Guinea and Bellamy's on Bruton Place
Bruton Place continues to grow as a notable, tucked-away food and drink haven in Mayfair. Down the street off Berkeley Square, you'll already find The Guinea, The Cocochine (and its sister deli The Rex) and Bellamy's among others. Now a new restaurant is joining them, called Silva.
Launched by Daria Grebenyuk, she's brought in some interesting talent to head up
... - Primark is launching in-store Lena Lu donut shops
Next time you need a sugar rush to get you through a Primark spree you won't need to leave the shop as they're launching in-store Lena Lu Donut bars.
Lena Lu started in Australia and currently has a shop in Riyadh, but soon there are going to be quite a few in the UK. They're starting in the Lakeside and Watford Primarks in October, but it looks like more will quickly follow. Following a little
... - Lina Stores Shoreditch is on its way, along with a second Bar Lina
Updated 15/10/24 with new opening date
Its pistachio-green and white-striped decor is instantly synonymous with cosy chic and extraordinary pasta, and now Lina Stores is bringing its eye-pleasing vibe to Shoreditch.
If you’ve somehow missed the proliferation of Lina Stores (there’s even one in Japan), this latest venture follows their seventh London venue opening in South Kensington in
... - Kêu will be serving up Vietnamese noodles and banh mis at London Bridge
London Bridge (alongside Borough Market/Yards and Bermondsey) has become one of London's most evolving food scenes of late, with some excellent new openings, including Oma/Agora, Kolae and Café Francois. Now a great new Vietnamese restaurant is coming too.
The Vietnamese Kitchen group (also behind Viet Grill and Cay Tre) are bringing their next Kêu restaurant to the area.
... - Breadstall takes its pizzas inside with a restaurant in Soho
For years, Sebastian Vince's Breadstall has been one of the most popular pizza places in Battersea and he's spent all that time operating out of a (very big) stall on Northcote Road. However, he's finally getting ready to expand in a very big way as Breadstall is coming to Soho. It'll be opening on Berwick Street (near the market).
Breadstall is known for its enormous biga
... - Other Side Fried in Brixton is becoming wagyu burger spot Buster's
The London restaurant scene is notoriously fickle and what's hot one day can be past its best the next. When that happens you need to be ready to pivot and that's what Matt Harris & Tommy Kempton, the duo behind chicken shop Other Side Fried (and Ploussard) have done. They're in the middle of turning their Brixton place into a burger restaurant. But not any burger restaurant - this one's going to be serving up
... - Velvet Taco are bringing fish & chip and shepherd's pie tacos to London
If you've never thought about putting shepherd's pie or fish and chips in a taco, then you just aren't thinking out of the box enough. Because that's what's going to be on offer when US taco chain Velvet Tacos comes to London. They've picked the UK as the first country to open outside of America.
If, like us, you hadn't heard of the company before, their USP is making tacos with "globally inspired flavours". That
... - New Brixton wine bar Vining Street Wine Club promises 'wine without the bullshit'
South West London wine lovers who are looking for a nice bar and bottle shop in their neighbourhood should make a note of the arrival of the Vining Street Wine Club in Brixton. It's the latest opening from the same team as the Crystal Palace Wine Club, who say they're "committed to breaking down the pretentiousness of the wine industry". Their slogan actually is "Wine without the bullshit".
To that end, they'll be
... - Santo Remedio's latest authentic Mexican restaurant is in Marylebone
It would have been hard to believe it could happen less than a decade ago, but these days London has some really great Mexican restaurants.
One of the restaurants that really helped to kick all this off is Santo Remedio, which first opened back in 2016 in Shoreditch. Run by Edson and Natalie Diaz-Fuentes it brought an authentic taste of Mexico to London. They soon moved
... - The Mayfair Chippy is bringing fish and chips to Knightsbridge
10/10/24 - updated with the opening date
There really aren't many proper fish and chip shops in the centre of town but of them, The Mayfair Chippy has a pretty decent reputation.
Just steps away from Oxford Street, their Mayfair restaurant has always been a draw for tourists but it helps that it manages to be good too. It might not be quite up to the standard of the average seaside
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