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- The Barletta team are opening Sète wine bar and restaurant in Margate
A Hot Dinners exclusive. Updated 28/9/22 with opening date
Down in Margate, the food scene seems unstoppable with loads of interesting places opening up to look after locals and entice Londoners down for the weekend.
This summer will see the opening of Sète by Jackson Berg & Natalia Ribbe, the team behind well-established restaurant Barletta at Turner Contemporary. The launch will be in two
... - Din Tai Fung bring their dumplings to Centre Point
Ever since the first UK Din Tai Fung opened back in late 2018, there was always talk of a second restaurant that would be coming to Centre Point. But years passed with no further developments (as the work at developing the rest of Centre Point seemed to drag on). So long, in fact, that they managed to open
- Celebrity hangout Scott's is opening in Richmond
Updated 26/9/22 with photos
He's already had a lot of success with expanding his Ivy restaurant group across the country. Now Richard Caring is getting ready to do the same with Mayfair classic seafood restaurant, Scott's. And the first place he's expanding to is south of the river, in Richmond.
Announced earlier this year, Caprice Holdings has revealed a little
... - Casa do Frango bring piri piri to Mayfair
23/9/22 - updated with the opening date
Next up for popular Portuguese piri-piri restaurant Casa do Frango - they're coming to Mayfair.
Taking over what used to be Ice Bar on Heddon Street, the restaurant will be their biggest yet (fitting in 200 people). As well as the main dining room, they'll have a terrace and two private rooms.
As for the food, that'll focus
... - King's House in Chelsea sees MasterChef winner Dhruv Baker serve up Basque steaks and more
Back in the day, The Jam Tree was quite the King's Road institution. Now its former owner, Ashley Letchford, is back in charge along with Riding House Cafe's Clive Watson. They're relaunching it as new restaurant and bar, King's House.
Anyone who knows the space well (most recently it was The Lost Hours) will remember that one of the big draws is the massive garden at the back. That's now been given a total
... - The new Bunsik in Camden will add bubble teas to its Korean corndog menu
Having already torn up the scene in Chinatown and Charing Cross, the stupidly popular Korean corndog vendors Bunsik are heading to North London. For their third opening they've found a space on the high street where Camden locals can enjoy all their usual corndogs and a whole lot more.
The Camden branch will, it seems, have more to offer on its menu than the first two branches. So there'll be
... - Patron Next Door in Kentish Town will feature a speakeasy lounge and secret garden
26/9/22 - Updated with photos
Kentish Town's popular French restaurant Patron has found an easy way around the problem of too many customers and not enough room - knock through into the shop next door.
Having taken over the old vape shop next door to them on Fortess Road they've expanded into that. There's more dining space at the front (the renovations revealed some beautiful details from when the space was a
... - Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House opens its Piazza restaurant to all
22/9/22 - Updated with photos of the restaurant
If you’re looking for a restaurant rooftop view that your mates aren’t talking about yet, then plan a little cultural jaunt to Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House. But if culture is not your thing, worry not. For the first time, you won’t need to be in possession of opera or ballet tickets to gain access to the Piazza
... - Good Things sees The Good Egg folk opening a bagel shop in Stokey
Updated 20/9/22 with opening date
N16 residents may have noticed the hoardings going up on Stoke Newington Church Street for a promising-sounding bagel shop. Turns out Good Things is going to be a standalone bagel and deli counter from the folk behind The Good Egg.
As they explained to Hot Dinners, their own love affair with bagels grew during lockdown when their delivery kits kept the business afloat.
... - Sons + Daughters sandwiches hit up Borough
Updated 20/9/22 with opening date
If inventive, towering sarnies stacked with the best ingredients are your thing, then we bring you good news indeed. The folks behind Sons + Daughters sandwiches in Coal Drops Yard are expanding. They're taking over the old 26 Grains site on Stoney Street at Borough Market for their second sandwich shop.
"After a long search we couldn’t be more pleased
... - BKC (Biyrani Kebab Chai) brings Awadhi cuisine to Marble Arch
A new restaurant that's all about Indian cuisine from the Awadhi region is coming to Marble Arch.
Setting its stall out quite clearly with the name BKC - which stands for Biryani Kebab Chai - the restaurant is from Executive Chef Arsh Thakur, who's teamed up with Subjahit Mitra, the man behind East London's Coupette.
As the name suggests,
... - The Holland pub sees Oxalis pop-up chef go permanent
A new pub that quietly opened a couple of months back has just appeared on our radar with its official opening today.
The Holland (it used to be the Princess Victoria but it is very close to Holland Park) comes from chef Max de Nahlik, who previously co-ran popular pop-up Oxalis, and was most recently at The Duke of Cambridge in Islington. He's billing his menu as “unpretentious and fun” and
... - Kung Fu Noodle serves up hand pulled noodles in Chinatown
There's been a new round of openings in Chinatown and it includes the first live hand-pulled noodle restaurant within the official Chinatown area (Lanzhou Lamian Noodle Bar is apparently just outside the boundary).
Kung Fu Noodle specialises in dishes from China's Gansu province in the North West of the country. On the menu, you'll find a range of hot, cold and soup noodle dishes
... - Mr Ji head to Camden for their next restaurant, adding a Sunday roast
13/9/22 - updated with the opening date
Soho's Mr Ji got a brand new lease of life when the team behind TĀ TĀ Eatery, Zijun Meng and Ana Gonçalves, took over the kitchen. Adding more dishes to the menu, with a little TA TA twist, it became a big Soho Hit and
... - Sides by Sidemen is coming to Boxpark Croydon
They're huge on YouTube and their delivery service is pretty popular too (apparently they have over 100 kitchens globally including India and the USA). Now The Sidemen are getting ready to unveil their second real-life venue, this time in Boxpark Croydon.
This is their second spot, following on from the original Boxpark
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