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• My Favourite Sandwich will serve up Monster Munch sarnies and lunchtime Cosmos in Shoreditch

  

  From Dom's Subs to Sandwich Sandwich, London's sandwich game is getting better all the time and now a new contender is incoming.

  My Favourite Sandwich comes from Ross Clarke Collective (led by a chef who has previously worked at the Fat Duck Experimental Kitchen) which has worked on restaurants like Dirty Bones, Señor Ceviche, The Rum Kitchen and Foley's. Their aim here is for

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• Sabor's Nieves Barragán to open Legado in Shoreditch

  

  Seven years after opening the wildly successful (and Michelin-starred) Sabor on Heddon Street, Nieves Barragán is getting ready to open her next restaurant. According to Restaurant website,

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• Filipino bakery and cafe Panadera is opening in Soho

  

  A few weeks back, we wrote about how Filipino bakery Panadera was being forced to close in Kentish Town. Owner and co-founder Florence Mae faced a combination of "landlord difficulties and operational challenges" but while that bakery has now closed down, another is now getting

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• How hot new Shoreditch restaurant Bone has gone old school viral

  

  Doing something different in the UK restaurant scene is hard. Breaking into it with what looks like no big backing or tonnes of marketing spend is even harder but one new London restaurant is doing just that (or what appears to be that). BÔNE is a weekend-only, reservations-only restaurant with just 20 seats a night. Their first TikTok went up just six days ago, but garnered 50k views and a slew of bookings off the back of

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• Bleecker Burger's next stop is at Baker Street

  

  They make what is one of our favourite burgers in London and now Zan Kaufman's Bleecker, is about to get bigger. Soon after opening in Seven Dials and London Bridge, Bleecker is ready to expand again, this time opening on Baker Street.

  It's planned to be their biggest Bleecker yet, fitting in 28 seats (as well as having takeaway, of course). It also happens to be opening directly opposite a Five Guys (no

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• The Lavery sees South Kensington getting a destination restaurant and cafe

  

  South Kensington does very well for classic restaurants like Ognisko and Daquise, but it hasn't been somewhere you'd cross town for to eat for quite some time. That makes the arrival of The Lavery there this spring of real interest to us.

  The events space, restaurant and cafe is taking over what used to be Cromwell Place, right opposite the Natural History Museum. The restaurant is the first place to open and the team

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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, a new food court opens in Paddington, Trullo heads to Knightsbridge and Kricket starts breakfast in Shoreditch.

• Giorgio Locatelli is opening Locatelli at The National Gallery

  

  It pays to keep an eye on Giorgio Locatelli because a lot of what the chef does that's considered breaking news is something he's already flagged up months before. Just as he talked about closing Locanda Locatelli in articles months before it 'suddenly' closed, the chef has been chatting

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• The big new London restaurants opening in March 2025

  

  As we finally get to springtime, new openings include Patrick Powell's restaurant above Knave of Clubs, a new wine bar and kitchen for Bethnal Green, a Kricket breakfast and more...

• Upcoming UK restaurants - what's opening soon across the country

  

  Planning a trip outside the capital? Here's our guide to the very best restaurants opening soon across the entire country.

• 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.

• All the new London restaurants - recently opened restaurants in London

  

  Here's a complete guide to all the new London restaurants that have opened...

• Pizza by Jagua brings a West African spin to a Marylebone pizzeria

  

  Many things open under the radar in London, and this newish pizzeria that opened in Marylebone is one of them that we're only catching up on now. Pizza by Jagua is in Marylebone (near the currently closed Chiltern Firehouse) and is billed as a vermuteria and pizzeria. However, it tries something quite different in that the pizzas are West African-inspired. Not many details have been

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• 27 Old Compton Street is aiming to be Soho's hot new pasta bar

  

  He already has two more Italian restaurants in Soho named after the street they're in, so when restaurateur Nima Safaei came around to giving his latest opening a moniker he stayed true to form, naming it after its address on Compton Street. But while this new restaurant may share a naming convention with its sibling restaurants, it's going to be quite a different beast.

  The new spot is focusing on quick pasta - think of

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• Darkhorse team open Templar, a new wine bar and restaurant for Stratford Cross

  

  One of Stratford's most popular restaurants, Darkhorse, now has a sibling. Modern European wine bar and restaurant Templar has opened in Stratford Cross, one of the area's newer developments. It's all part of what they're calling Stratford's new "cultural hub" with Sadlers Wells and the V&A also opening there. 

  Heading up the restaurant is chef Richard

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