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  • Max Halley at the Hippodrome sees Max's Sandwiches come to Leicester Square

    Max Halley at the Hippodrome sees Max's Sandwiches come to Leicester Square

    If you haven't yet made it out to Crouch Hill to Max's Sandwich Shop then get ready to try Max Halley's sandwiches in a much more central location. He's teamed up with none other than The Hippodrome for the new Max Halley at the Hippodrome.

    It might at first seems a rather strange place for him to open - but they say it links back to the origins of the sandwich itself.

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  • Gaucho is opening a new steakhouse in Covent Garden

    Gaucho is opening a new steakhouse in Covent Garden

    12/5/23 - updated with the opening details

    It's been a while since we had a brand new Gaucho in London, the steakhouse from Martin Williams (who also runs M Restaurants) - over a decade, it turns out. But now they have a new restaurant coming to Covent Garden.

    It's landing in a familiar site too. It's where Wahlburgers spent a few months pre-pandemic and where the great ...

  • Little Kudu is coming to Peckham (while Smokey Kudu moves to Chelsea)

    Little Kudu is coming to Peckham (while Smokey Kudu moves to Chelsea)

    12/5/23 - updated with the opening date for Little Kudu

    If you’re a big fan of the South-African flavours of Kudu, then we have some good news for you - their new restaurant Little Kudu is on the way. 

    Kudu first arrived on the

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  • Little Pizza Hicce has arrived in Islington

    Little Pizza Hicce has arrived in Islington

    They only opened Hicce Hart on Chapel Market late last year, but Hicce have already expanded across the road in Islington with Little Pizza Hicce. They'd already trialled the pizza offshoot with a popup at Goodness Brewery (whose beer is available at Hicce Hart) but this is the

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  • Meat The Fish sees the team behind Mayha opening in Chelsea

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    Having stormed the Marylebone scene with their sushi spot, Mayha, the Lebanese restaurant group behind that are now gearing up to open Meat The Fish in the heart of Chelsea.

    Picked out by the World's 50 Best Discovery list and praised for their amazing sandwiches, Meat The Fish is a grocery delivery service turned restaurant chain that's hoping to serve London with dishes made using the best premium

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  • Sticks'n'Sushi are heading east, opening on Shoreditch High Street

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    Popular sushi company Sticks n Sushi are getting ready to open in Shoreditch. What will be their ninth London restaurant is taking over the restaurant space that was previously Goddard & Gibbs at the One Hundred Shoreditch hotel.

    It's a pretty big space - with room for over 200 to peruse their menu of sushi, sashimi and yakitori sticks. We're told that the new Shoreditch restaurant will have a large central bar and a

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  • Crunch are bringing their banging brioche sandwiches to Spitalfields

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    A Hot Dinners exclusive

    Last summer, a trio of sandwich obsessives began making a name for themselves with the Crunch pop-up in Shoreditch. The group comprises Alexandre Yonan and Michael Medovnikov, who'd met at college, and chef Joni Francisco. Francisco trained under Alexis Gauthier at Gauthier Soho and Nuno Mendes at Chiltern Firehouse before becoming executive chef for the Experimental Group. It took a

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  • BAO Mary is the BAO group's take on a Taiwanese dumpling house beside Selfridges

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    2/5/23 - Updated with the opening date

    Oxford Street shoppers are going to have a handy new pitstop to drop into this summer. BAO are opening up BAO Mary on James Street. They've taken over the space next to Patty & Bun (where Sidechick used to be) and this latest restaurant of theirs will focus on dumplings.

    BAO Mary, as it'll be known, will have an open kitchen, with handy

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  • 20 Berkeley is coming to Mayfair

    20 Berkeley is coming to Mayfair

    2/5/23 - updated with the opening date and details of the menu

    The group behind Sumi and the recently opened Humo have a new restaurant on the horizon - 20 Berkeley. 

    It's taking over a space on the corner of Berkeley Street and being billed as offering "a sophisticated dining

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  • The Campaner at Chelsea Barracks sees Barcelona's Martinez team take on London

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    Updated 2/5/23 with new opening date

    In Barcelona, Terraza Martinez is best known for being the place to enjoy a seafood paella overlooking the sea from their position on the slopes of Montjuic. So it's going to be very interesting to see what the team behind that do with their first London restaurant.

    The Campaner (the name means bell ringer in Spanish) is taking over the

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  • Sarap's Budgie Montoya brings Filipino BBQ skewers to Market Halls Oxford Street with Apoy

    Sarap's Budgie Montoya brings Filipino BBQ skewers to Market Halls Oxford Street with Apoy

    Filipino restaurant Sarap finished its run on Heddon Street at the end of 2022 and, since then, the restaurant has been looking for a permanent home. In the meantime, after an appearance on Great British Menu, chef Ferdinand ‘Budgie’ Montoya

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  • The team behind Camden's Black Cow are opening Epicurus, an American and Middle Eastern diner

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    Ex-Palomar chef Shiri Kraus and Amir Batito have already built a following for their popular Camden steakhouse, The Black Cow. Now the duo are about to open a new diner in Camden's North Yard. Epicurus will be an American diner with Middle Eastern influences. What does that mean exactly? Well, think sloppy bureks rather than sloppy joes and the beef short rib rack is glazed with pomegranate molasses and date

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  • Homies on Donkeys are taking tacos to Leytonstone

    Homies on Donkeys are bringing tacos to Leytonstone

    25/4/23 - Updated with the opening date

    Homies on Donkeys picked up a big reputation for their tacos at their original Walthamstow location, but they moved on at the end of 2022, and were looking for a new location. Now, according to The Leytonstoner, they've found

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  • Grill 88 serves up luxury surf and turf over at The Biltmore Mayfair

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    It's been almost a year since chef Jason Atherton announced he was parting ways with The Biltmore Mayfair hotel on Grosvenor Square. Since then the hotel has been running the Cafe Biltmore that he opened there. But now they've got a brand new restaurant to shout about.

    Grill 88 is all about surf and turf - so that'll be Lake District Sirloin Steaks alongside Japanese Wagyu ribeyes, Australian full-blood

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  • The big new London restaurants opening in May 2023

    The big new London restaurants opening in May 2023

    May sees a notably large amount of big-name openings, including the latest from The Marksman and Patrick Powell in King's Cross. Here's our round-up of what to watch for in May.