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• The big new London restaurants opening in October 2023

  

  If September was a big month for restaurant openings, then October has gone completely insane. Here's our guide on everything from big-name Michelin-starred chefs to beak-to-tail restaurants that are coming your way this month.  

• Bone Daddies are bringing their ramen to Leicester Square

  

  Updated 2/10/23 with opening date and launch offer

  Just over a decade since they first served up a steaming bowl of ramen to Londoners Bone Daddies are gearing up to open their eighth restaurant. The new place will be just opposite Leicester Square tube station making it a super handy spot for shoppers and tourists alike.

  Taking over two floors of a site between Leicester Square and

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• Milan's Paper Moon comes to London as part of The OWO on Whitehall

  

  2/10/23 - Updated with details of the menu and new images

  Paper Moon is the first restaurant to open at The OWO that's outside of the main Raffles hotel. The high-end Italian restaurant hails from Milan, with the original opening there in 1977 and they also have restaurants in Doha, The Algarve, Hong Kong and more. They say that the space in London has been designed around the

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• LULA sees chef Paul Delrez giving Med vibes in Queen's Park

  

  Over the summer, Queen's Park residents have had an early look at a brand new restaurant on Lonsdale Road. LULA has been running residencies and private events for the past month or so, gearing up to today's opening. Describing themselves as an 'all-day dining Modern European restaurant' the really interesting thing about this place is the executive chef they've brought in.

  Paul Delrez may not be a household name here,

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• Here are all the restaurants and bars opening at The OWO

  

  Many of London's well-known historic buildings have been turned into hotels (work is also apace on Admiralty Arch and the

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• The Som Saa duo are opening Kolae Thai bar and grill in Borough Market

  

  28/9/23 - updated with the opening date and menu details

  We knew way back in 2019 that the people behind Som Saa, Mark Dobbie and Andy Oliver, had a successful crowdfunder for a new restaurant. But with the pandemic messing up the timing a little, things went quiet - until now. The

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• Phil Howard's Notto pasta bar is coming to Covent Garden

  

  28/9/23 - updated with the opening date

  Last year, top chef Phil Howard (of Michelin-starred Elystan Street) got into London's ever-growing fresh pasta scene with Notto, just off Piccadilly Circus. In our original story, we asked "will there be more of them to come" and the answer to that seems to be yes, as new reaches us of a second Notto pasta bar that's being planned for Covent

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• Breddos Tacos are coming to Stoke Newington

  

  We've seen a sudden influx of new taco restaurants of late. Two have been from footballers and another incoming taco joint is from a Hollywood star. So it's actually something of a change to see one of London's OG taco restaurants open a second location - and that's what we have

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