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- The big new London restaurants opening in 2024
As another year begins, here's our guide to the very best new restaurants that will be opening in London throughout 2024.
- Bellazul brings the Med to Marylebone
If the current dire weather has you dreaming about summer sunshine on the Med then the arrival next month of Bellazul in Marylebone might be the cure to your winter blues. Taking over the old Il Baretto site on Blandford Street this sees head chef Simone Serafini running the show having previously been Head Chef of Cecconi's Mayfair and 5 Hertford Street.
Simone's inspirational trawl around the
... - Big Night restaurant is taking over the old Nest place on Morning Lane
When Hackney restaurant Nest announced its move from Hackney to Shoreditch, their old space on Morning Lane suddenly became available and a new restaurant duo have taken it over. Jack O'Connor and Joshua Ralphs both met while working at Larry's in Peckham where Jack was head chef. Their combined CV is a tour of London's hippest restaurants like Flor, Lasdun and Jolene, so news that they're opening their own
... - Tabisca Italian steakhouse opens in Chelsea
Opening very under the radar between Christmas and New Year in Chelsea is Tabisca, an Italian restaurant which started in Lecce. The original restaurant over there describes its offering as "dishes with particular attention to the flavours of Salento and Puglia".
The restaurant has an enormous menu featuring everything from crostini to meat and cheese platters. But the main focus is meat with
... - Stevie Parle is opening a new restaurant in the West End
It's been eighteen months since chef and restaurateur Stevie Parle was forced to close his fabulous pop-up Joy at Portobello Dock. Problems with the lease and landlord, followed by protracted efforts to regain that lease eventually ended in failure, leaving Parle's many fans with only the chef's
... - Dzo! Viet Kitchen arrives on Islington's Upper Street
A new Vietnamese restaurant has just appeared on Islington's Upper Street and it looks like it could be worth checking out. Dzo! Viet Kitchen has taken over the space that used to be the sports bar Valderrama's and has given it quite the makeover.
As for the menu, there are summer and spring rolls (pork and prawn, seafood and taro and mung beans) and banh mi which include
... - Iné is a new Japanese (and omakase) restaurant in Hampstead from the Taku team
14/12/23 - Updated with the opening date
Can London have too many omakase restaurants? It appears not, as the people behind Taku in Mayfair are getting ready to open a restaurant with its own omakase counter in Hampstead (taking over what used to be Goldfish).
Iné will have an eight-seater omakase counter alongside booth seating if you want to pop in for
... - Must wine bar heads to Islington's Camden Passage
12/12/23 - updated with the opening date
Over the past three years, MUST Wine have been growing their wine bar empire, having opened first in St Albans in 2019, followed by Hampstead and Wanstead in quick succession. They're big on wine tastings and serve up over 70 wines by the glass in their bars; you can also ask for their Little Red Book which features what they call the "really, really special wines". Now
... - Pockets are opening a permanent pitta shop in London Fields
They became hugely popular during their stint at Netil Market. Now plant-based filled-pitta merchants Pockets are about to go permanent, opening a new shop just down the road.
On Mentmore Terrace, the new place brings together their bakery and kitchen so those pittas are going to be even fresher than ever before. If you haven't yet made the pilgrimage, they're known for their falafel pittas, mixing up that falafel with cabbage slaw,
... - Bar du Champagne takes over from Avobar in Covent Garden
Should we read something into the fact that Covent Garden visitors' tastes are leaning away from smashed avos and more towards Champagne? That's one conclusion to be drawn from the closure of Avobar which has been replaced by Bar du Champagne from the same owner (although Avobar is apparently moving to a central London location next year).
This new bistro and bar is taking up two floors of the
... - Kebhouze brings the UK's biggest kebab house to Oxford Street
Is a massive kebab house the one thing that Oxford Street really needed? Kebhouze seems to think so.
They're a big kebab chain restaurant mainly with outposts in Italy, including Rome and Milan, but also in Ibiza. Here in London, they're taking a big corner side on Oxford Street, just a few doors down from Marks and Spencer, taking over what used to be a souvenir and vape shop
... - Philippe Conticini are bringing their giant croissants to Islington
If, like us, you live around Islington and have been wondering what's taking over the big site that used to be Rudy's Vegan Diner then wonder no more. Getting ready to open there is Philippe Conticini.
If that name sounds familiar, it's because you might have come across his work at the café in South Kensington or Camden's Buck Street Market. Or perhaps it's because
... - Farm Shop is Artfarm's swanky new deli in Mayfair
Updated 5/12/23 with opening date
Having had huge success with the opening of The Audley and Mount St. Restaurant, the team behind Artfarm are gearing up to open Farm Shop further along the same street in Mayfair. Described as a farm shop, butcher and wine cellar, the London shop will be a follow-up to their existing store at their farm in Bruton in Somerset.
The shop in Mayfair will run
... - New York Italian The Dover comes to Mayfair
A new restaurant has quietly opened in Mayfair, sneaking in before the end of the year. The Dover has taken over the space that was Moncks of Mayfair, which itself closed at the onset of the pandemic back in 2020 (after less than a year in business).
As for this
... - Whyte Rushen goes permanent with Whyte's restaurant in Hackney
Updated 4/12/23 with opening date
Whyte Rushen, once chef at top places like Brat, Scully and Kerridge's, has been running sell-out pop-ups up all over town, teaming up with places as varied as Quo Vadis and Jollibee but now he's settling down in Hackney.
It's early days on what to expect from the place and his cooking so far has been extremely varied. A taste of what's been at
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