New opening

• No 29 Power Station West - a new bar for the revitalised Battersea Power Station area

  It's all go at Battersea Power Station as this neighbourhood bar with an industrial feel (echoing the station) opens its doors. 

• Seasonal brasserie Neighbour opens on Kentish Town Road

  300 Kentish Town Road has just been taken over again, this time by seasonally focused brasserie Neighbour, who’ll be catering for locals and visitors to The Forum with lunch, brunch, dinners and drinks above ground, plus cocktails in basement bar Jukes.

• Smoking Goat is coming to Shoreditch - Ben Chapman tells all...

  

  One of Soho's most popular and successful restaurants, The Smoking Goat, is coming to Shoreditch. They're taking over a big place that - ahem - used to be a "strip-pub" (yes exactly what it sounds like) so expect

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• Mediterranean pinchos come to Broadway market with Tuyo

  Tuyo is a new restaurant devoted to small sharing plates with a Spanish twist. Essentially tapas, but not as you know it.

• Macellaio RC Italian steakhouse hits Battersea's Northcote Road

  Fans of Macellaio RC’s other branches can now head to their new Battersea base, where beef will be butchered and dry-aged aged on site. The new branch will be of particular interest to wine fans too, given the impressive collection of unique bottles of regional Italian vino on offer.

• The Mint Gun Club is Stokie’s new cocktail hotspot from an award-winning bartender

  There'll be tea and more in the deli, but the cocktails are the REAL draw at Stoke Newington's Mint Gun Club, the newest project from cocktail master Rich Hunt.

• Copenhagen's Mother Pizzeria is coming to London

  Italian meets Danish with the arrival of Mother to Battersea. Best known in its native Denmark, this is their first spot out of that country and they'll have a big outdoor space too.

• Clare Smyth to open Core in Notting Hill, her first solo restaurant

  The former Chef Patron of Gordon Ramsay Royal Hospital Road is opening her first solo venture and it's going to be one of London's biggest openings.

• Suvlaki is bringing their Greek kebabs to Brick Lane

  When the sun’s out, we love food that makes us feel like we’re on our summer hols. This new Greek restaurant in Shoreditch looks just the job, complete with an open plan kitchen and robata charcoal grill for that oh-so-summery BBQ smell.

• Crab, crab and yet more crab at Marylebone’s Fancy Crab

  Fans of shellfish will be keen to get to this new all-day concept restaurant in Marylebone where red king crab is the order of the day, every day.  If that's not enough to lure you in, then there’ll be other seafood delicacies and two bars as well.

• Bufle is bringing bubble waffles and cocktails to Soho

  Bubble waffles are probably the trendiest dessert around at this moment, and Bufle is the latest spot to dish them out to Londoners. Expect matched cocktails too. 

• P.F. Chang's comes to London with their Asian Table in Covent Garden

  They're pretty huge in the States and now P.F. Chang's is coming to London with their new concept. Expect an Asian brunch and drinks from the people behind Worship St Whistling Shop. 

• Hammerton Brewery have opened House of Hammerton on Holloway Road

  Islington beer folk Hammerton Brewery have opened their own pub on the Holloway Road

• India's best restaurant Indian Accent is coming to London

  It's opened in New Delhi and New York and now Indian Accent's coming to London - taking over from Chor Bizarre (owned by the same restaurant group). AND the original is on the World's 50 Best List. 

• Bang Bang Oriental is an Asian food court in Colindale

  

  Update - check out our Bang Bang Oriental Test Drive.

  What: Bang Bang Oriental

  In a nutshell: A huge new Asian food hall/restaurant/community space/shopping centre, with 33 kiosks and room for 450

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