New opening

• Over Easy all-day-brunch comes to Marylebone

  

  Brunch continues to be a Big Thing in London restaurants, so the arrival of a new all-day brunch spot should go down very well. Over Easy is from the same people behind Opium and Salvador and Amanda and is opening just around the corner from Selfridges. So it'll be a handy shopping retreat.

  On that brunch-heavy menu will be:

  • Sweetcorn Doughnuts with Jalapeño Jelly (£3)
  • Baked Eggs - spiced tomato ragout,
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• Deptford gets a new gastropub The Brookmill

  

  Down in Deptford the food scene is going great guns - and now there's a cracking new gastropub to entice locals. The Brookmill, which opens just after the August bank holiday, is the sister pub to The Great North Wood.

  For a gastropub its foodie credentials are impeccable with the kitchen headed up by chef Olly Marlowe who was previously sous chef at the Michelin-starred The Glasshouse and Chez Bruce.

  Olly's menu sounds pretty amazing with sample dishes

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• Chick n Sours is coming to Seven Dials

  

  16/8/16 - updated with an opening date and LOTS more of the menu.
  

  We unashamedly LOVE Chick 'n' Sours. Everything we've had there from the AMAZING Szechuan aubergine dish to the massive deep fried whole chicken hasn't failed to thrill. Our only regret is not making it out to Dalston enough - so

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• The Frontline restaurant in Paddington is getting a major facelift

  

  Giles Coren once called it "a staggering find: big, grown-up, lots of wood, but light and jolly with just a hint of foreign battles". Now Paddington's famous Frontline restaurant is having a major facelift.

  If you haven't heard of the place before, it may be because this is the restaurant of a member's club (although it's always been open to the public). The Frontline Club is, as they describe themselves, "an internationally regarded watering hole for well-

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• inamo is opening its third restaurant at Mornington Crescent

  

  Hot on the heels of Kerb opening its latest marketthere, Camden is going to be the home of the next venue for the interactive dining company inamo. Expect interactive tableclothes where you can rate your dishes and doodle as you dine as well as a street food style bar menu.

  The Camden branch, which will open this Autumn opposite Morning Crescent tube

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• Absurd Bird brings chicken and moonshine cocktails to Soho

  

  Opening in Soho today is London's latest chicken shop - the second restaurant from fledgling group Absurd Bird. The food's the same for anyone who knows their existing restaurant in Shoreditch- waffle cones with popcorn chicken, buffalo wings, jalapeno mac and cheese and really a whole lot of ethically sourced free-range chicken.

  Cocktail lovers should head downstairs to their basement bar which they've done out like an old southern saloon with a cocktail

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• Yosma mangal and raki bar is bringing meyhane vibes to Marylebone

  

  Updated 11/8/16 with soft launch details. 

  This summer there's going to be meyhane in Marylebone. Nope that's not a typo. Apparently, a meyhane is a Turkish tavern - which is what Yosma, a new mangal and raki bar in Marylebone is basing itself on. And it's got some rather interesting folk involved.

  Executive chef Hus Vedat is of Turkish heritage. He comes here via Barbecoa and the Caxton Grill and was in the launch team for Ceviche Old Street. His menu

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• The Franklin Hotel reopens in Knightsbridge with Michelin-star chef Alfredo Russo restaurant

  

  Over in Knightsbridge the multi-million pound renovation of The Franklin Hotel has come to an end with the hotel reopening today. The property was closed for a year while it was done up by new owners the Italian group Starhotels, who brought in Anouska Hempel to oversee the new-look.

  The 35 room hotel overlooking Egerton Gardens now has a restaurant with a well known Italian chef in charge. Alfredo Russo is best known for his Turin restaurant Dolce Stil

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• Test Driving Rok Islington - North London's new smoking hot restaurant

  Rok have opened their second restaurant in Islington - we went to try it out

• The Latin American MNKY HSE comes to Dover Street

  

  The Dover Street Wine Bar may have gone, but there's news about what will be rising in its place. It'll be a Latin American restaurant and bar called MNKY HSE. Not sure where they've mislaid their vowels.

  In charge of the kitchen is Pablo Peñalosa Nájera - he's previously been at Four Seasons in Bogotá and Morimoto in Mexico City, and this is his first time opening in London. We're promised contemporary Latin American food and

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• Test Driving Clipstone - flatbreads and a lot more from the people behind Portland

  We take a look at Clipstone, the latest restaurant from the people behind Portland, and discover some pretty amazing flatbreads...

• Milk Train Cafe are doing a candyfloss soft serve in Covent Garden

  

  When they say a picture's worth a thousand words this one really is. I mean soft serve ice-cream on top of a cloud of candy floss, what more is there to say?

  This new ice-cream spot in Covent Garden is brought to you by the couple who did Nice Ice shaved Japanese ice. They're serving up three types of soft serve - vanilla, matcha and hojicha (green tea). Oh and they're putting it on a whole heap of candyfloss.

  Milk Train Cafe is open at 44 Bedford

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• New bao buns, milkshakes and more - Test Driving the new Bao in Fitzrovia

  Yes there are new dishes, and there's still a queue (but not if you plan accordingly)- we give Bao's new Fitzrovia restaurant a go.

• Denmark's top bakers Ole Kristoffersen and Steen Skallebæk to open in London at St James's Market

  

  We've already been really impressed with the quality of the restaurants that'll be in London's St James's Market development. Now, joining the likes of Anzu (from Tonkotsu), Veneta (from the Salt Yard Group) and US hit Aquavit is a new concept from a top Danish bakery.

  Ole Kristoffersen and Steen Skallebæk's much loved Lagkagehuset bakery chain has more than 50 bakeries in Denmark. But their planned opening for London will be their first restaurant and a completey new

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• Samarkand Uzbeki restaurant to take over the Fino site on Charlotte Street

  

  Updated 26/7/16 with soft launch details

  It was a sad day indeed when Fino shut its doors, but things change and now an Uzbeki restaurant called Samarkand will be opening on its site.

  Taking influence from the restaurant's founder Sanjar Nabiev’s childhood, dishes on the menu are going to be a modern take on Uzbek cusine. If, like us, you have no idea what

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