Soho

• Kiln chef Meedu Saad unveils his plans for a new Soho charcoal grill restaurant Impala

  

  It's been in the planning stages for quite a while, but now ex-Kiln chef Meedu Saad has lined up his solo restaurant.

  Called Impala, named after the car he drove around during summers in Egypt, it's a restaurant with a menu that centres around the charcoal grill, itself right in the middle of the dining room. That space has been designed together with Kiln's Ben Chapman and Dan

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• Velvet Taco are bringing their fish & chip tacos to London

  

  Originally due to open in Soho, American taco restaurant Velvet Taco is now heading to the City instead (taking over the old Shoyru site). 

  If you've never thought about putting shepherd's pie or fish and chips in a taco, then you just aren't thinking out of the box enough. Because that's what's going to be on offer when US taco chain Velvet Tacos comes to London. They've picked the UK as the first country to

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• Ria's expands to Soho with its mix of Detroit pizzas and natural wine

  

  Since opening in Notting Hill a couple of years ago, Ria's mix of Detroit-style pizzas and natural wine has proved to be a winning formula. So much so that the people behind it, David and Ria Morgan-Ratcliffe, are getting ready to open a follow-up in Soho. 

  Opening just off Carnaby Street, the Soho Ria's will follow a similar approach to the original, although they're describing it as "the older sibling: same DNA, a

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• Forza Wine's next stop will be Soho

   

  Following up on their rooftop original and the very successful National Theatre follow-up, Forza Wine are gearing up for their next big launch.

  This time they're opening in Soho, taking over the Daroco site (which, to be honest, we hadn't realised had closed a few months back). That's a big old space and, importantly, has a pretty extensive terrace, something which has proved to be pretty useful at Forza

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• Heard heads to Soho with its burgers from a two Michelin-starred chef

  

  18/9/25 - updated with the opening date

  Just six months after he graduated from slinging burgers in a food truck to opening a burger restaurant in Borough, chef Jordan Bailey is already planning an expansion of his burger empire. The chef who won two Michelin stars at his now-closed Irish restaurant Aimsir had a slew of great reviews for his smash burgers at Heard. But now he's expanding both the restaurant and menu with

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• TANGRA comes to Soho and it's all about late-night Indo-Chinese cuisine

  

  Bringing something new to Soho is TANGRA, a new late night Indo-Chinese restaurant on Frith Street. It takes its name from the Tangra neighbourhood of Kolkata, with the menu influenced by the Hakka Chinese community there. 

  Perhaps its most useful feature is that they're looking to cater for the late-night crowd, opening until 1.30am. 

  It all comes from

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• Brother Marcus' latest Eastern Med opening sees them taking over Jason Atherton's former Soho home

  

  A few weeks ago, we reported on the team behind Brother Marcus taking over The Blind Pig in Soho for their new bar, Kamara. At the time, as that involved the upstairs area only, we said it seemed likely that downstairs, where Social Eating House

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• Thai restaurant Khao Bird goes permanent in Soho, opening in an ex adult cinema

  

  For the past year, Northern Thai restaurant Khao Bird (which originally started life as pop-ups in Brighton) has had a very successful residency above The Globe Tavern in London Bridge. However, now it's time for them to put down permanent roots, and they've chosen Soho for that, in a space that was apparently once Soho's last adult cinema. 

  Run by restaurateur

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• Test Driving MOI - a breakout star promising a good time (and even better food) in Soho

  

  Soho's restaurant scene just got measurably more interesting with the arrival of hot new Japanese restaurant MOI. We went in for a look at the restaurant, sushi counter and listening bar. 

• Napoli on the Road in Soho will offer London's first pizza tasting menu experience

  

  There are two things that have become very big trends in 2025 - smash burger bars and pizzerias. Napoli on the Road adds another pizzeria to London, but this one is doing something a little differently. 

  It'll be a two-floor approach where upstairs will be a more standard pizzeria, but the downstairs space will feature a tasting menu experience. They say that

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• Kamara sees Brother Marcus opening an Eastern-Med-influenced cocktail bar in Soho

  

  The team behind Brother Marcus (best known for their Mediterranean brunches) are trying something a little different for their next opening. They've taken over the bar space that was the original Blind Pig bar (above Jason Atherton's Social Eating House), and they're launching their own Eastern-Med-influenced cocktail bar. 

  They've teamed up with ...

• Platapian sees a second generation restaurateur take over from Patara in Soho

  

  It's all change at one of Soho's longstanding Thai restaurants Patara, which has undergone a full 21st-century reimagining and emerged as Platapian. The new look and menu is the result of second-generation restaurateur Nam Parama Raiva taking over the reins from her aunt Khun Patara Sila-On, who launched the Patara group with head chef Phayom Phimkrua three decades ago.

  Twenty years after it opened its doors on

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• A Mexican/Sri Lankan residency is coming to Paradise Soho

  

  Sri Lankan cooking, Mexican street food, a fun night out in Soho? You can tick all three off your wish-list at once, thanks to a pop-up called Miris y Maíz. It all takes place at Paradise Soho, and the cooking comes from Dom Fernando (the man behind

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• The Shaston Arms in Soho is being relaunched by The Watermans Arms team

  

  Back in 2023, the founder of Patty & Bun, Joe Grossmann, got into the pub business, opening The Watermans Arms in Barnes. It turned out to be an excellent pub, blessed with a fantastic view of the Thames and with a great menu by chef Sam

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• Austin's Nixta Taqueria is popping up in Soho at Truffle Burger

  

  Truffle Burger have been on something of a roll with their collabs and takeovers of late. They recently had Charles Pan Fried Chicken in a South Bank pop-up and next up is a taqueria takeover of their Soho restaurant. 

  The taqueria in question is Nixta Taqueria, which hails from Austin, Texas run by a chef with Michelin and James Beard awards under his belt. It takes the

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