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Just over a year after opening in Notting Hill, the team behind Zima are changing tack. And what was a caviar and dumplings restaurant is now becoming Sova, a wine bar focusing on Eastern and Central Europe.

To help the switchover, they've brought in consultant sommelier Cristian Vega, who's behind the list at St James stalwart Wilton's, along with local hotspot Pollini at Ladbroke Hall. He's put together a low and no-intervention wine list with interesting wines, including a Ukrainian-style fizz, Serbian Pinot Grigio, Hungarian Riesling and, as you might imagine, a strong showing

Italian sandwiches have become a big thing in London of late - we even have a guide to the best. And the sandwich shop that has been leading the charge, Dal Fiorentino, is going west for the first time.

Best known for their enormous focaccia sandwiches, there are lots of options to choose from. There's the Fiorentina (fennel salami, pecorino cheese, truffle honey, extra virgin olive oil), the Machiavelli (Tuscan pancetta, stracciatella cheese, nduja cream, grilled courgettes)

4/3/26 - updated with the opening date

The problematic fried chicken giant Chick-fil-A is gearing up for its first London restaurant opening and they've picked Kingston.

It's the fast food company's second go at the UK following two attempts in 2019 in Reading and Aviemore. Both of those branches ended up closing after campaigns highlighting the company's anti-LGBTQ+ stance, illustrated by their charitable support of two very conservative Christian charities.

Since then, things have moved on. Chick-fil-A stopped funding those two particular charities and

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3/3/26 - updated with the opening date

Gordon Ramsay is on a role at the moment, coming off the back of his very successful show Being Gordon Ramsay on Netflix. He's already announced that high high-rise Bread Street Kitchen is opening in May, and now he's revealed that the first Hell's Kitchen in the London is opening the month before. 

This is all part of a team-up with The Clermont Hotel Group and the first result of that will be the arrival of Hell's Kitchen in Marble Arch. 

Opening at The Cumberland Hotel, this will be the first Hell's Kitchen in the

Updated 3/3/26 with opening date

Mid last year, the Shoreditch expansion of Nobu quietly drew to a close. And what was the Nobu hotel has now become the London home of Aethos hotels. However, even though the new hotel opened back in October, they were holding back on what was going to replace the space that housed the Nobu restaurant. But now we know what's coming. 

The new restaurant will be called Mitsu, which will be a Japanese restaurant that they say will be "capturing the spirit of East Tokyo's izakayas", albeit with something of an East London approach. So

2/3/25 - updated with the opening date

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 Preston, the latter who's the man behind the design of Kiln, Smoking Goat and Brat. Expect lots of "concrete pillars juxtaposed with polished veneers"

The Public House Group are known for launching new openings with little fanfare (like The Hart, Canteen and The Fat Badger), and that's the case once again with their latest, CeCe's.

Unlike their recent openings, this isn't a pub, although they are taking over a space that was once a pub, so it's not a massive departure. It's being billed as an Italian with a "hint of Hollywood". So it sounds like it's going for the glam kind of Italian restaurant that Martin Kuczmarski has been so successful with at The Dover and Martino's. The full menu is yet to be revealed, but dishes

Here are all the new restaurants to look forward to in the coming week. This week is one of the busiest for new openings in 2026 so far. The chef behind Trullo comes to Covent Garden, Taqueria in Notting Hill gets a big revamp, Sale e Pepe opens its first new restaurant in 50 years and lots more besides. 

The Spiteri family have been making waves on London's hospitality scene for a while, and now they're about to launch a new pub, in North Kensington.

Jon Spiteri is a legendary restaurateur and front-of-house man, with The French House, St. John,  Sessions Arts Club and many, many more behind him. Jon's ex-wife Melanie Arnold is the co-founder of Rochelle Canteen. Their sons Lorcan and Fin Spiteri were behind the houseboat success of Caravel, and sister Molly is Business Development Lead at Koya.

That's a pretty impressive range of experience all wrapped up in one family,

It's been a week of big coffee wins for the City of London with the arrival of one much-vaunted opening, and the reveal that there's another interesting place on the way.

First up is the opening of WatchHouse Millennium Bridge. If you know this group, you'll know that the aesthetics are second to none. Their brand new riverside coffee spot has been designed by CAKE, who were also responsible for various Krickets and A Bar with Shapes for a Name. Sadly, it doesn't actually have riverside views, but as it's practically on the bridge, there's no reason why you can't grab a cup of

London's boom of interesting new restaurant openings continues for March with an iconic restaurant reborn, the promise of a glamorous hotel seafood spot and a hotly-anticipated restaurant from an ex-Kiln head chef.  

If you've been watching the Being Gordon Ramsay documentary on Netflix, you'll know that one of the key storylines has revolved around the chef's multiple openings in the 22 Bishopsgate skyscraper in the City. In the opening episode (spoiler), you see his dismay to hear that of the various restaurants planned, Bread Street Kitchen on the 59th floor, is going to be delayed by months. Given that the rest of the operation opened back in February last year, the opening ended up being delayed a full 15 months in total.

Clearly, the team behind it must be feeling bullish as they've just

Just outside St Ives in Cornwall, as part of the Carbis Bay resort, there's an absolutely spectacular restaurant space with a completely uninterrupted sea view. Until last year, that was the home for Adam Handling's Ugly Butterfly, which we took a Test Drive of ourselves. And soon, it's going to be the Cornwall home of Restaurant Story's Tom Sellers, called MOR.

Sellers had already popped up there in pre-Covid times, so it's a space he's familiar with.