New opening

• The Mamasons team are opening Donia at Kingly Court in Carnaby

  

  Two years after opening their hugely popular Filipino bakery Panadera in Kentish Town, the powerhouse duo behind that and Mamasons, Bintang and Guanabana are heading to Carnaby for their next restaurant.

  Donia is taking over the space in Kingly Court left vacant by Imad's Syrian Kitchen's departure. Hot Dinners tracked down co-founder Florence Mae Maglanoc, who's in charge of this particular project, to

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• The Wolseley City prepares to open in the heart of the City of London

  

  Updated 24/10/23 with opening date

  Twenty years after Messrs Corbin & King turned a former car showroom into one of London's best-known restaurants, the Wolseley is getting ready to welcome a sibling restaurant to the fold. The Wolseley City will be the second new opening from The Wolseley Hospitality Group (created after Corbin and King's departure), after Manzi's opens in

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• Ottolenghi comes to Hampstead

  

  They opened in Chelsea back in January 2022, so it's been a while since their last opening, but now a new Ottolenghi is on the way, this time coming to Hampstead. 

  Taking over the space that was once Kojo, the new location should be fairly similar in approach to the other Ottolenghis. So

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• Tarn Bakery sees ex-Pophams and Flor baker opening on the Archway/Highgate border

  

  Lucky North Londoners are about to get a hot new bakery opening in their neighbourhood. Tarn Bakery is currently crowdfunding to open just off the Parkland Walk in the bit where Archway hits Highgate, taking over the old Trattoria Terra space.

  The folk behind it are Florin Grama and Felix Ortona Coles who met while working at St Barts restaurant in Smithfield. Florin is the baker with a career that includes time at

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• OshPaz is bringing Uzbek dumplings and plov to Regent Street

  

  You may have already tried his food at Seven Dials Market or the recent World Halal Food Festival (where Big Zuu really, really loved it) but now chef Muzaffar Sadykov is bringing his Uzbek food right into the West End. OshPaz will open on Regent Street, offering a handy place to grab and go for breakfast and lunch and then

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• Gaucho City is reopening after a big revamp - take a first look inside

  

  Gaucho in the City has just had a complete overhaul. Take a first sneak peek inside the new-look steak restaurant. 

• Ex-Fat Duck executive chef Ashley Palmer-Watts has big plans for The Garden Cobham

  

  He spent 20 years with the Fat Duck Group during which time The Fat Duck won a third star with him as head chef. He also opened Dinner by Heston which won two more. Now Ashley Palmer-Watts is getting ready to open a restaurant that's all his own.

  However, as befits a chef with that kind of top-level background, he's not just opening one restaurant he's opening a cluster of them. Palmer-Watts has

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• Searcys Champagne Bar comes to Battersea Power Station

  

  Updated 18/10/23 with opening date and launch offer

  The big refit of Battersea Power Station that we've seen over the past few years isn't finished yet. Next up for the station is a brand-new Champagne bar. 

  It comes from Searcys, whose most well-known bar is the one that aligns the Eurostar platform at St Pancras. They'd previously popped up at Battersea with

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