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- 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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... - Panadera are opening a second bakery, next to Selfridges
3/9/24 - updated with the opening date
They're one of the best bakeries in London, so news that Filipino bakery Panadera was expanding was always going to be of interest. Now we know where they're opening their second place - right around the corner from Selfridges. The new home on Picton Place puts
... - Chef Akira Back will run the restaurants and bars at the new Mandarin Oriental Mayfair
Updated 19/9/24 with Dosa photograph and opening date
We've known for a while that Michelin-starred chef Akira Back was heading to London to open at the upcoming Mandarin Oriental Mayfair. Now the final details are emerging about what we can expect from the chef's restaurants and bars at the hotel.
Back is going to be responsible for two restaurants, a bar and a rooftop 'experience' at the hotel when
... - Brother Marcus are taking their Eastern Med plates to Covent Garden
1/9/24 - updated with the opening date
Brother Marcus, which has already opened in Islington, Spitalfields, Borough and Kensington, are getting ready to open their fifth restaurant. This time, it's in Covent Garden and will be the latest opening in The Yards development. They'll be taking over the site that was Miscusi and more recently hosted the Prelude by Oriole
... - Stoke Newington is getting an empanaderia and vinyl wine room courtesy of De Nadas
Stokey locals who fancy grabbing an empanada will soon have somewhere on their doorsteps to do just that. De Nadas who already have two empanaderias in London are opening on Stoke Newington Church Street and this sounds like their biggest place yet. In addition to the general bakery space with 20 seats there's also going to be a vinyl wine room at the back where you can sit in, enjoy some tunes and wine along with your
... - Wildflowers comes to Pimlico from ex-Elystan Street chef
5/6/24 - updated with the opening date
A new development has arrived in Pimlico, Newson's Yard, that is bringing with it a very promising new restaurant. Wildflowers is the development's food and drink element and comes from chef Aaron Potter, who most recently was Executive chef at Maria G's and before that head chef at Elystan Street.
Described by Elystan Street's Phil
... - The big new London restaurants opening in September 2024
As autumn approaches, the London food scene always starts to get a little bit busier. This month sees another new restaurant from Jason Atherton, the return of chef Selin Kiazim, a Pidgin replacement, a brand new Barbary and lots more.
- Jeremy Clarkson is opening The Farmer's Dog pub in Burford in the Cotswolds
Updated 21/8/24 with opening date and pub name
Having had his plans to run a restaurant at his farm scuppered by local planning restrictions, presenter Jeremy Clarkson has responded by buying a pub instead. Announcing the news in his weekly column for the Sunday Times Clarkson said he's just bought The Windmill - a pub/wedding venue just outside the picture-postcard town of Burford.
The
... - Tofu Vegan is bringing vegan Chinese food to Fitzrovia
27/8/24 - updated with the opening date
It quickly became a local hit when opening in Islington in 2021 and now a new Tofu Vegan is opening, this time in Fitzrovia.
Since the Islington launch, the group - which is backed by Zhang Chao of Xi’an Impression - has opened in Golders Green and Spitalfields but this is their most central location yet, taking over from what
... - Café Francois sees the Maison Francois team opening in Borough Yards
Updated 23/8/24 with opening date and address
They've been big in Mayfair and now Maison Francois are the latest to head over to the growing food mecca that is Borough Market, opening Café Francois in Borough Yards where the Paul Smith shop used to
... - Sesta takes over from Pidgin - here's what to expect
9/9/24 - updated with a first look inside
Pidgin has now closed its doors for good, but something new is rapidly taking its place.
Sesta sees the former Pidgin head chef Drew Snaith teaming up with former Pidgin GM Hannah Kowalski to launch their own restaurant. They'll be bringing the rest of the Pidgin team (minus founders Ramsden and Herlihy, of course) with
... - The Barbary is opening in Notting Hill
22/8/24 - updated with the opening date
When they last opened a new restaurant, The Barbary team just went next door, but for their third opening, they're heading across town to Notting Hill.
Opening on Westbourne Grove (taking over what was Maddox Gallery), the
... - Istanbul confectioner Hafiz Mustafa chooses Knightsbridge for its first London store
For over 150 years, the Istanbul sweet and dessert giant Hafiz Mustafa has been a place of pilgrimage for sweet-toothed Turks (and tourists). Now the giant, which has stores all over Turkey and in Dubai is heading to London. They're opening a massive shop in a prime spot opposite Harrods.
Not only will the shop sell their famous baklava and rock candy, but there will also be room to sit in and
... - Bleecker Burger arrive at London Bridge
They're known by many (including us) for being one of London's best burgers (you can even smell them on the Circle line platform at Victoria) and this week there's another place to try them. Bleecker are coming to London Bridge.
Just in time for National Burger Day, they're opening on Tooley Street
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