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- Krept & Konan are opening Saveways supermarket in Croydon
Rap duo Krept and Konan are diversifying their brand, getting into the supermarket business for the first time. More specifically they're opening a huge store in Croydon called Saveways which they say will celebrate "cultural diversity through food while setting a new standard for halal and world food retailing in the UK."
It's a genius business idea too, catering for the area's diverse community which they estimate to
... - Bar Valette in Shoreditch is the next opening from The Clove Club's Isaac McHale
Updated 15/1/25 with opening date
Recently, Isaac McHale parted ways with the other founders of The Clove Club, Johnny Smith and Daniel Willis, with each side talking about the promise of new restaurants to come. McHale, who hung onto The Clove Club, is not getting ready to open his first restaurant since the split.
He's opening a more casual
... - Duck and Rice is opening a new place in Battersea on its tenth anniversary
It's been almost 10 years since Alan Yau took over a Soho pub and transformed it into Duck and Rice. A decade on, it seems it's time to expand as it's the latest place to find itself making its way to Battersea Power Station with a new location.
If you're unfamiliar with the Soho original, they describe themselves as a "Soho pub with a world-class Chinese kitchen". As for the
... - Björn Frantzén parts ways with Harrods as The Grill on Fifth takes over
Just over two years after the glitzy opening of Björn Frantzén's much-vaunted restaurant at Harrods, the Swedish chef has very quietly closed the doors on that partnership. The announcement was made on Boxing Day on Studio Frantzén's Instagram feed, so understandably most of us missed it. Kudos then to restaurant guide
- Marta pizzeria in Chelsea is all about thin Roman-style pizzas
In the run-up to the end of last year, we were so focused on the recent openings of Alley Cats and Zia Lucia in Chelsea that we missed another very promising new Chelsea pizza opening, called Marta.
It opened on Fulham Road (taking over the space from L'Artigiano) and it shifts away from the predominant Neapolitan focus of many London pizzerias and instead is all about Roman pizzas. Those are large,
... - Sourdough Sophia is heading to Highgate for her next bakery
Having started during lockdown in Crouch End and now with a fully fledged bakery there and in Islington, the North London baker Sophia Handschuh and her husband Jesse Sutton-jones are gearing up to open their third place.
The pair revealed the location of their next bakery in a cryptic post on Instagram, asking followers if they could work out where it was. And it took fans a few hours to track
... - The Great Indian is Archway's new Indian gastropub
Londoners love their pubs and love a good Indian, so the growth of Indian-based pubs in the City isn't altogether surprising. Arriving off the back of the huge success of The Tamil Crown and Prince comes new Archway gastropub The Great Indian. If the name rings a bell it's because owner Aman Dhir also runs an Indian takeaway in Hackney under the same name. Up in Archway he's taken over the old Prince Alfred pub, just off the
... - West African restaurant Shakara arrives in Marylebone
New West African restaurant Shakara opened quietly just before Christmas, but it has some impressive names behind the scenes. In the kitchen is Victor Okunowo, previously from Talking Drum and a semifinalist of MasterChef: The Professionals. He's been helped with his initial menu by Ayo Adeyemi, formerly of Akoko, who was involved as a consultant.
Taking over the space that was Indian
... - Roji chefs to launch new Japanese izakaya Himi in Carnaby
10/1/24 - Updated with the opening date
For the last two years, chefs Tamas Naszai and Tomoko Hasegawa have been running omakase restaurant Roji in Mayfair (which we thought was excellent). Now Roji is (temporarily) shut while the chefs launch a brand new restaurant in Carnaby.
Taking
... - Tamila's next destination is King's Cross
8/1/25 - Updated with full opening details.
The casual rotis and curries restaurant Tamila (from the people behind the Tamil Prince and Tamil Crown) first opened in Battersea late last year, but they're already gearing up for their second restaurant. This time it's a little closer to The Tamil Prince, opening around the corner from King's Cross station.
As with the first Tamila, there's a
... - Alba restaurant aims to bring a taste of Amalfi to Knightsbridge
Updated 9/1/25 with new opening date and photos
Just in case you were thinking that London may have just reached Italian restaurant saturation, a new restaurant is banking on the fact that the city's desire for lovely Italian food is always a thing. Alba is a new Italian restaurant in Knightsbridge, opening right opposite Harrods, that's on a mission to bring a little bit of the Amalfi
... - Gura Gura team to open casual Indian Oorja on Shaftesbury Avenue
Indian restaurateur Gobind Chona's first London restaurant Gura Gura must have been a hit because he's getting ready to open his second quite close by.
Oorja is opening on Shaftesbury Avenue (next to the McDonald's that's been there for an age) and it's being billed as a casual Indian restaurant based on Northern Indian cuisine. A taste of that menu includes:
- Berenjak brings its Persian cuisine to Mayfair
They have restaurants in Soho and Borough Market (not to mention as far afield as Doha and Dubai) and next up for Berenjak is Mayfair. As revealed on their own Instagram page, they're taking on a space on Duke Street right next to The Barley Mow (it's a new development so there hasn't been a restaurant there before).
If you're unfamiliar with Berenjak, they bill themselves as "home-style
... - Ukrainian restaurant Tatar Bunar is coming to Shoreditch
Two Ukrainian restaurateurs, Alex Cooper and Anna Andriienko, are getting ready to open their first London restaurant, Tatar Bunar, in Shoreditch.
The duo have multiple restaurants in Ukraine and throughout the war, they've been using these as food distribution points to help those most affected by the conflict, like the elderly. Alex has had to stay in Ukraine to manage this
... - The top new London restaurants to look out for in 2025
As another year gets underway, it's time to take a look forward to the most interesting new restaurants opening in London over the next twelve months.
