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- Pasta Evangelists in Greenwich are giving away free wine to customers
You'll probably be aware of them as a pasta delivery service. But fresh pasta company Pasta Evangelists are also getting into the London restaurant game. First, they teamed up with Michelin-starred chef Giancarlo Perbellini for a spot in the Harrods Dining Hall. Next, they opened a standalone restaurant in Richmond. Clearly that must have worked for them because they've just opened a second South London spot, this time in
... - Francesco Mazzei is opening a new restaurant at Corinthia London
London's top hotels do like getting a named chef to run their restaurants, from Jean-Georges at The Connaught and The Emory to Tom Kerridge at Corinthia London's Kerridge's Grill. Now, the Corinthia London has announced a shake-up for its second restaurant. What's currently The Northall is about to get a full overhaul by Italian chef Francesco Mazzei.
Mazzei is probably
... - Moi et Toi is a London meets Paris bakery opening up in Notting Hill's Empire Empire
Now this is a clever idea. If your restaurant is more of a dinner place but you want to make the space pay for itself during the day, then why not team up with a cafe/bakery? That's what Empire Empire's owner Harneet Baweja is about to do. But the restaurateur hasn't chosen just any old bakery to team up with, he's joining forces with Edward Delling Williams, founder of super hip Parisian bistro Le Grand Bain and bakery Le
... - Lil' Nashville are taking line dancing and Southern BBQ to Chiswick
A Hot Dinners exclusive
It may not seem like the most likely place to open up a honky tonk bar, but Chiswick folk will need to slap on a stetson and find their cowboy boots when Lil' Nashville arrives on the scene. The Nashville-inspired offering has been recently popping up at Dingwalls in Camden where hordes of adoring fans have been partaking in line dancing, listening to country music and enjoying
... - Hovarda brings the Aegean to Canary Wharf
11/9/24 - updated with more information and the opening date
We've already seen Marceline open on the top floor of the huge floating building next to Hawksmoor in Canary Wharf, now comes the loser floor as the new Hovarda gets ready to open. This is the Canary Wharf outpost of Aegean restaurant Hovarda, which has been serving up Med-style dishes in Soho for the past seven
... - The Peacock is Islington's latest new pub
Islington has recently got a "new" pub on the high street, in the shape of The Peacock. It's opened up in a space that was once Wetherspoon pub The Angel, itself followed up by an independent pub The Junction. Now it's been taken over by the Urban Pubs & Bar group. They have some interesting sites under their umbrella and they happen to own the Salt Yard group.
So there's reason to expect something relatively decent food-wise here,
... - The autumn London restaurant preview
Autumn can be one of the busiest opening periods on the London restaurant calendar. We've already covered what's coming in September, now let's look at the big openings coming in the rest of the year.
- Tamila to open in Battersea, from the team behind The Tamil Prince
A Hot Dinners exclusive
Islington-based The Tamil Prince has made life a whole lot more tasty for North Londoners, and now it’s South London’s turn. That's right, we're bringing you the exclusive news of the opening of Tamila in Battersea.
Launching on the former site
... - Little Baobab is serving up Senegalese food at the Africa Centre
Little Baobab has been serving up authentic Senegalese cuisine from its Peckham Levels hatch and other pop-ups across town (as well as quite a few music festivals) for a while. Now they're launching something different, settling in as the new long-term resident kitchen at the Africa Centre (in the space where Tatale used to be).
Adding something new from its regular offering,
... - Boxpark are taking over Buck Street Market in Camden
6/9/24 - updated with more opening details
Buck Street Market is a huge container village in Camden which has about 40 shops and restaurants contained within its mini maze of containers. However, it hasn't really had the same success as similar venues like Boxpark have seen. Now that's likely to change as Boxpark themselves are the new owners of the site.
This will
... - Chef David Thompson to bring Long Chim pop-up to Hovarda in Soho
In news that should get your Thai-food taste-buds tingling, acclaimed Australian chef David Thompson is bringing a modern Bangkok-inspired menu to London, with the launch of Long Chim. Meaning ‘come and try’, Long Chim currently has outlets in Sydney, Perth and Dubai (and previously in Melbourne and Singapore).
If this is all ringing vague bells for you, we reported a couple of years back that the London Long Chim
- Brazilian restaurant Maroto to open in Mayfair
We bring news of a Brazilian restaurant all-change in Mayfair, with Maroto taking over the site formerly occupied by another Brazilian restaurant Bossa (which closed in February). But the plot thickens: if you think you’ve already seen Maroto in that location, you have. Sort of. There’s a bar by
... - LIMA to open a third restaurant in London, inside Shoreditch’s Sun Street Hotel
5/9/24 - updated with a new opening date.
Hang onto your ceviche, London’s favourite Peruvian restaurant is about to open a third site. LIMA Shoreditch will take wings inside the Sun Street Hotel, which opened in late 2022. We told you about the hotel’s previous restaurant when it
... - BAO City is coming, with bonus karaoke
It’s a good day for fans of steamed milk buns, with the news that BAO London is opening its new BAO City outlet. This will be the seventh restaurant from the Taiwanese group that has an extraordinary reach across London, with outlets in Soho,
- Home Kitchen taking over from Odette's in Primrose Hill will be a restaurant staffed by the homeless
3/9/24 - updated with the opening date and menu
Things move fast in the London restaurant world. Just over a week after we learned that chef Bryn Williams was closing his much-loved Primrose Hill restaurant Odettes after 16 years, a replacement was already lined up.
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