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- Jason Atherton moves into Harrods Dining Hall with his hot dog offering
Updated with opening date and full menu details
It's all change at Harrods for chef and restaurateur Jason Atherton. He's moving out of his current digs on the store's lower ground floor and heading to the Dining Hall. The plan is to open a 25-seat gourmet hot dog restaurant, Hot Dogs by Three Darlings. The Three Darlings bit alludes to his
- Medlar team to open rooftop restaurant Cornus in Pimlico
18/7/24 - updated with opening date and menu details
Fifteen years might be a long time between new restaurant concepts, but the team behind Medlar in Chelsea are finally ready to impress London with their next endeavour. It’s called Cornus and is opening atop the Ice Factory in Belgravia, an area surprisingly bereft of rooftop spaces.
They brought in Gary Foulkes as
... - Bonoo are bringing their Indian tapas to Muswell Hill
They're an award-winning Indian restaurant with legions of fans in Hampstead. Now Bonoo are expanding their North London empire with a move to Muswell Hill where they're about to open on Fortis Green. If you haven't been before, their concept is Indian tapas - so a series of small plates covering food from all over India.
Two years ago the restaurant picked up the best chef in North London Award from the London Curry
... - José Pizarro to open Lolo, his third Bermondsey restaurant
17/7/24 - updated with more details about the restaurant
This year, José Pizarro has been very busy. He's been celebrating his 25th Anniversary in London as well as receiving a big honour, the Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, from King Felipe of Spain. And next up, he's getting ready to open his fifth restaurant in London.
Called Lolo, it will also be
... - Jason Atherton's Mary's grill restaurant and burger bar replaces Pollen Street Social
Jason Atherton closed Pollen Street Social in July, but he's quickly replacing it with Marys and it's a big change from the fine dining the restaurant is known for.
It'll be essentially divided into three parts, with a light refit inside (to start with). Where the original bar was, there will be a version of his Blind Pig bar (previously seen
... - Oriole's permanent bar and restaurant comes to Covent Garden, mixing Latin American food with complex cocktails
It's been popping up as Prelude for the past few months but now award-winning bar Oriole is getting ready to move into its shiny new digs in Covent Garden. And like the pop-up, this permanent Oriole is as much a restaurant as it is a bar.
Split across two floors, the main restaurant and bar is in the basement, reminiscent of
... - Lussmanns returns to London after 22 years with Highgate Village restaurant
Hertfordshire residents will be familiar with Lussmanns (it already has five restaurants in the county), but longtime Londoners will need to dust off their memories, because a Lussmanns is returning to the capital after more than 20 years’ absence.
Taking over what was Côte Brasserie on Highgate High St, directly opposite Waterlow Park, Lussmanns sixth restaurant is
... - Alley Cats Pizza are heading to Chelsea
Updated 15/7/24 with opening date
They've been hugely popular in their first Marylebone location, with near-constant queues since they opened last year, but now Alley Cats Pizza are looking to open their second restaurant.
They've settled on Chelsea as their next location, opening on the King's Road (taking over from another pizzeria, Humble Pizza) where fans can
... - Uber Eats' Restaurant of the Year Sandwich Sandwich is coming to London
12/7/24 - updated with the opening date
They've been, literally, huge in Bristol and now the winners of the Uber Eats Restaurant of the Year award are getting ready to bring their massive sandwiches to London.
The person behind it is Josh Kleiner, who runs the sandwich business with his dad and brother, and they already have five sandwich shops in
... - Soul Mama sees YolanDa Brown bringing live music and fusion food to Stratford
Around this time last year, we were championing a new North London venue from YolanDa Brown OBE DL called Soul Mama that, thanks to some exuberant Kickstarting, was fundraising itself into record-breaking existence. Well, in terms of location, it now turns out that Islington’s loss
... - Ukiyo are serving up Japanese hand rolls in Covent Garden
It's been three years since London's first dedicated Japanese hand roll restaurant (Temaki, in case you're wondering) opened in Brixton. Now we've got a new one to try, this time in Covent Garden. Ukiyo is a counter dining spot in The Yards development in Covent Garden that's serving up temaki and sashmi. The chef behind it definitely knows what he's doing - Konstantin Tskhay used to be head chef at
... - Selin Kiazim is back with Leydi, a Turkish restaurant in the City
We already knew that the new Ennismore hotel, Hyde London City, was planning a new restaurant for when it opened, opposite the Old Bailey. Now we're able to reveal what was pretty much an open secret, that Selin Kiazim, the chef behind Oklava and Kyseri, is going to
... - The Hound is the next JKS pub, opening in Chiswick
9/7/24 - Updated with opening details
It's no secret that a lot of pubs are closing across the UK at the moment. However, we are seeing some of those snapped up and brought back to life. There's the upcoming The Pig's Ear (once The Chelsea Pig) which is being reopened by the
... - Kricket is opening in Canary Wharf
8/7/24 - Updated with an opening date
It's been a while since we've seen the last Kricket restaurant opening, over in White City in 2018, but they're now getting ready to open some more.
The first of these will be in Canary Wharf, opening in the North Dock area (close to the Elizabeth Line station there). If you're unfamiliar with Kricket, they describe themselves as "modern Indian
... - Birley Chocolate shop opens its doors in Chelsea
Just over a year since Birley Bakery opened its doors on Chelsea Green the same team have now opened a chocolate shop and cafe on the same street. Birley Chocolate is ostensibly, as the name would suggest, a chocolate shop. But the new space has a proper cafe space at the rear of the store where they're going to be serving breakfast and lunch.
On the menu there'll be overnight oats and croque madame croissants for breakfast
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