New opening

• Caravan comes to the City with its Bloomberg Arcade restaurant

  This is the latest Caravan to come to London. Part of Bloomberg Arcade, it's bringing new dishes and a brand new brunch menu along with it. 

• Cubé Restaurant and Kakurega Bar opens on Blenheim Street in Mayfair

  The new spot serves sushi upstairs and has a downstairs hideaway bar serving Japanese cocktails

• The Lampery at Tower Bridge is inspired by London’s history

  History buffs can celebrate the days gone by with the British-themed food and drink at The Lampery, a new restaurant that draws inspiration from Samuel Pepys’ favourite foods, who was a former resident on the same street.

• Time travel to the 1920’s at the Evans & Peel Pharmacy’s secret bar in W4

  Evans & Peel are building off their Earl’s Court venue to create the Pharmacy, a new bar in Chiswick where visitors will be led through a secret entrance way into the hidden bar. There’ll be passwords, classic American grub and of course, Old Fashioneds.

• Host Coffee are bringing sustainable but fun coffee to Covent Garden's Henrietta Street

  Covent Garden gets a new coffee shop from a duo that started their business as an Old Street pop-up

• MAM in Notting Hill will be the new barbecue restaurant from the Salvation in Noodles team

  Colin Tu is branching out from his North and East London Salvation in Noodles restaurants with a new Vietnamese restaurant in Notting Hill

• Trolley service - we Test Drive Magpie on Heddon Street

  London has its first British small plates restaurant with trolley service, but what's it actually like to dine there?

• Mahiki Kensington's South Sea restaurant Pufferfish looks to reel in the A-listers

  Central London's legendary nightclub Mahiki is getting a sister venue in Kensington, with a Polynesian-themed restaurant inside called Pufferfish. But will its tableside-seared salmon, champagne-topped treasure chests and tropical cocktails reel in the celebs like its Mayfair branch?

• James Cochran N1 is coming to Islington's Angel Central

  Following up from the success of James Cochran EC3, the chef is bringing his N1 incarnation to Islington's Angel Central. 

• Bloomberg Arcade brings a new Koya, Brigadiers from the people behind Gymkhana and more

  

  We've had a lot of food quarters opening up all over town of late, from Broadgate to King's Cross to Nova in Victoria. Now another is on the way to Bloomberg's new London hub and they've lined up some pretty special new restaurants. And it's all bang in the centre of the City too.

  There will be ten new restaurants in all - under a "covered pedestrian arcade" and Bloomberg's own Richard

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• Hong Kong’s Serge et Le Phoque comes to London with The Mandrake hotel

  After enjoying Michelin-starred success in Hong Kong, two of the chefs behind Serge et Le Phoque are bringing their ingredient-led French cuisine to London, including their signature scallop with anchovy and fried leek root.

• Taka brings authentic Japanese to Shepherd Market

  Shepherd Market, Mayfair's charming 18th century square, has yet another good place to eat and drink thanks to  the arrival of Taka, a Tokyo-born restaurant and cocktail bar with tataki, tempura, and other traditional cuisine on offer, plus sake cocktails in the basement bar, if you can squeeze yourself in... 

• Cub is Mr Lyan's new boundary-pushing low-waste cocktail bar and restaurant in Hoxton

  “We want to keep pushing boundaries,” said Mr Lyan about his new concept bar and restaurant. No problem there then - his new restaurant uses very (and we do mean *very*) creative ingredients in a special all-in-one kitchen and bar, reducing waste and keeping guests on their toes. Expect ambergris, Japanese knotweed and smoked compost carrot on the weekly changing menu.

• The George & Dragon in Fitzrovia brings The Truscott Arms' chef Aidan McGee back to the kitchen

  Irish chef who made a name for himself at the late lamented Truscott Arms is back cooking at another London pub

• Peckham Rye's Coal Rooms will have meat, coffee and a coffee-cured bacon sandwich

  What do you get when you mix a team of coffee entrepreneurs with a barbecue expert? Coal Rooms, where red eye gravy is made in a coffee-deglazed pan, and there's more than enough meat for you to pour it over…