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• Firestarter sees the Electric Star Pubs team launching a live-fire restaurant in the City

  

  A short walk from Liverpool Street station, a brand new live-fire restaurant is coming to the City and it's from someone best known for his pubs. 

  Rob Star, the man behind the Electric Star Pubs (The Star of Kings, Star of Bethnal Green and many more), is opening Firestarter right next door to his City pub, The Star by Liverpool Street. He's teamed up

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• 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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• Leicester Square's new food hall promises to be the biggest in London

  

  Once thought to have been dealt a killing blow by the lockdowns, the past couple of years have been a boom time for food halls. The latest to join the fray is the newest Market Place and it's easily their most central London location yet. 

  So far, they've opened in places like St Paul's, Vauxhall and Peckham (with a Baker Street outpost planned too). But their Leicester

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• London gets its version of a Guinness Storehouse in Covent Garden's Old Brewer's Yard, with restaurants now revealed

  

  Updated 13/10/25 with news of the restaurant spaces

  it's been a while coming but soon, following in the footsteps of Dublin and Edinburgh, London is the next capital city to get its own huge city-centre brewery/distillery. Guinness have apparently spent £73 million building Guinness at Old Brewer’s Yard in Covent Garden.

  As the name suggests, the arrival of a brewery on this particular

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• Cafe Seek in Canary Wharf is London's new must-try Japanese cafe

  

  You may have been able to tell if you're a long-time follower of Hot Dinners that we're complete Japanese bakery addicts here. So when news reached us of a new opening in Canary Wharf, we had to find out more.

  Cafe Seek is the project of two good friends Pinky Chan and Emily Leung, both Hong Kong expats who bonded in London over their burgeoning bakery businesses. Pinky was passionate about Japanese

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• The new restaurants and bars opening in London this week

  

  Here are all the new restaurants in London to look forward to in the coming week. This week features the last piece of The Chancery Rosewood puzzle, a new opening by the Prince Arthur team, a famous Vietnamese restaurant opening in Covent Garden and more...

• BOX are now the people opening that huge sports bar on Piccadilly Circus

   

  Updated 13/10/25 with launch details

  For a long time new sports bar Blackwood was being previewed with huge hoardings in Piccadilly. It was supposed to be from the ETM Group, the people behind other sports bars like Greenwood in Victoria and Beechwood in Shoreditch. However, things went a little quiet on that front in recent months. Now it turns out that a

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• 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.

• Here's everything you need to try at Tower Bridge's new food hall the Tower Bridge Collective

  

  With food halls in Sheffield and Manchester, Blend Family have moved down to London for their latest opening. Tower Bridge Collective features 13 traders and two bars in a spot that isn't currently blessed with that many street food options. They've taken over a space that's just off Shad Thames within steps of the southern side of the bridge.

  And with a food list that features both Northern and London-based

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• Humble Grape's latest wine bar is in a City of London 11th century crypt

  

  A new Humble Grape wine bar is on the way to the City, and this one has managed to grab a pretty special location. It'll be opening in the 11th-century crypt of St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside (taking over the space that used to be Café Below). 

• Battersea's Four Thieves pub is reborn as The Thieves, with Balans on food duty

  

  Since August, Battersea's Four Thieves pub has been undergoing a big renovation and now it's coming out the other end of that as a "new" pub, The Thieves. 

  In its previous incarnation, the pub had an arcade and was big on events and karaoke. Now it's really leaning into that, describing itself as "a playground for adults". The upstairs arcade, now called The

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• Kiln chef Meedu Saad unveils his plans for a new Soho charcoal grill restaurant Impala

  

  It's been in the planning stages for quite a while, but now ex-Kiln chef Meedu Saad has lined up his solo restaurant.

  Called Impala, named after the car he drove around during summers in Egypt, it's a restaurant with a menu that centres around the charcoal grill, itself right in the middle of the dining room. That space has been designed together with Kiln's Ben Chapman and Dan

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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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