New opening
- England's Grace brings a mix of Australian and European food to St John's Wood
The people behind Terra Moderna in Belsize Park are coming to St John's Wood with a new Antipodean-inspired modern European restaurant.
England's Grace is going to be focusing on Australian-style brunch dishes during the day, while adding more Modern European fare in the evening, all led by Head Chef Rafal Jakubczyk. So for breakfast and brunch, you'll find
... - Taca Tacos finds a new home on Peckham's Rye Lane
More tacos are coming to Peckham as Taca Tacos gets ready to open its second site in the area. You may have seen them in Peckham's Brick Brewery (as well as Deptford's Market Yard) but this has them getting a place all to themselves (taking over the space from Two Hundred Rye Lane).
The usual favourites will be on offer, including their beef birria (6-hour braised brisket, with Mexican guajillo, ancho and pasilla chilies), served in a
... - Chuo's sushi monorail has arrived in Shoreditch
What to do when mere conveyor belts are no longer a sufficiently exciting food delivery system? As once declared on The Simpsons "Well sir, there's nothing on earth like a genuine, bona fide electrified monorail" and now there's one in Shoreditch serving up sushi.
How does
... - Eight Hundred Flavours will serve up dumplings and BBQ skewers in Chinatown
It's all change for the Barshu group who have been tinkering around with what restaurant to put in their Little Newport Street spot for a while. Having started life as Baiwei and then Dot Line Noodles, they've now gone into partnership with Chef Ming who used to run the Rocking Horse restaurant in Birmingham to open Eight Hundred Flavours.
The menu is inspired by the chef's childhood growing up on a farm in the
... - The big new London restaurants opening in August 2023
The last month of summer, August, sees the London restaurant scene quieten down a little. But there are still some very promising new openings this month - here's what's coming your way.
- Geode restaurant to open for ‘vibe-dining’ in Knightsbridge
When you’ve worked at Mayfair’s Novikov it’s fair to say that you've probably dealt with plenty of folk for whom budgeting is an alien concept. That’s the background of duo Salvatore Broccu and Marios Louvaris who are behind Knightsbridge’s next big opening, Geode.
Spanning three floors of a Georgian townhouse and including a sculptural cocktail bar at entry level, a mezzanine conservatory with an
... - The Breakfast Club and Greggs open up at Gatwick Airport
If you've flown out of Gatwick this summer you may have noticed a few new spots to eat and drink in the airport. We thought it might be handy for us to round up all the new openings for you.
The most recent debut is that of The Breakfast Club which opened in Gatwick's North Terminal last week. It's the group's first restaurant in any kind of travel hub and if you fancy getting their signature The Full Monty
... - Forza Wine are coming to the National Theatre
Be it galleries or theatres, it seems that big London institutions have realised that it's now good sense to have an in-house restaurant that's a draw all in itself. Jose Pizarro at The Royal Academy, ...
- Wild Notting Hill is a Wild Tavern spin-off
23/9/23 - updated with the opening date
Four years after they opened Wild Tavern in Chelsea, the team behind that is opening Wild Notting Hill. It is, as you'll have guessed from the name, in the heart of W11, having taken over the space left by popular brunch spot 202 on Westbourne Road.
There will be a lot of similarities, Hot Dinners was told, between the OG Wild Tavern and the Notting Hill
... - Red Vine brings a British menu and Welsh wines to Clapham
A new restaurant has opened up in Clapham that happens to be from the family behind a Welsh vineyard. Red Vine is a neighbourhood restaurant with a modern British via the Med menu and, as you can expect, they'll have something of a focus on wine too.
The menu features British dishes with a twist and on that, you'll find:
- Poached duck egg with truffle oil and
- Souvlaki Street to open Evi's, its first permanent London site in East Dulwich
25/7/23 - updated with the opening date
If thoughts are turning to sunny Greek getaways, then we have the ideal warm-up for you in the form of Athens-inspired food in a new London location. After almost 10 years in business, popular street-food market stall Souvlaki Street is opening its first bricks-and-mortar home on East Dulwich’s North Cross Road. The restaurant will
... - Is Jeremy King's next restaurant just opposite The Wolseley?
We recently heard news of Jeremy King's much-anticipated return to the London restaurant scene with The Park. At the same time, the legendary restaurateur let it drop that it was not the only restaurant he was looking to open in the near future - with his sights next set on
... - Wagamama’s Noodle Lab has returned to Soho
Good news for fans of Wagamama’s Noodle Lab. Having closed in Soho’s Dean St in 2020, citing pandemic business-viability reasons, before resurfacing in Old Street in 2021, it’s back to Soho again, this time to Wagamama’s Great Marlborough St restaurant location.
You’ll consider it worth chasing around town if you’re the kind of person who wants to be first to try the restaurant’s brand-new creations as
... - TikTok chef Thomas Straker is opening Flat Bread at Arcade Battersea
TikTok darling and Notting Hill restaurateur Thomas Straker is expanding his empire. Today he announced that he'll be opening a new food concept at the upcoming Arcade Battersea.
Flat Bread uses the chef's burnt chilli mussel butter flatbread at his West London restaurant as a springboard. Inspired by the dish's popularity he's added five more flatbread options all of which will be available
... - Five Star Chef winner Dom Taylor opens The Good Front Room at The Langham
If a Caribbean getaway this summer is feeling a little too…well, hot, in the current climate, we have the next best thing. The Langham, London has transformed its Palm Court into a six-month Caribbean-inspired restaurant pop-up called The Good Front Room. Running it is chef Dom Taylor, fresh from winning Five Star Kitchen: Britain’s Next Great Chef on Channel 4 (and Netflix) last week.
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