South Kensington

• My Manor - Asma Khan's local guide to South Kensington

  

  Restaurateur, author and influential chef Asma Khan reveals her favourite South Kensington food and drink spots.

• Daisy Green is opening Glamarama Green in South Kensington

  

  Daisy Green's slow march across London continues with their latest opening, this time bringing them to Kensington. They've gone to town with the name too, calling it Glamarama Green. 

  They're opening just around the corner from South Kensington tube station,  taking over from Brown and Rosie on the lower end of Exhibition Road. 

  We're getting full details about the launch

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• Lina Stores is bringing fresh pasta and late night negronis to South Kensington

  

  18/3/24 - updated with the opening date

  If you're a South Ken resident wondering what was happening to the old Le Pain Quotidien site on Exhibition Road, then we bring you good news, particularly if you're a pasta lover. This is going to be the seventh restaurant opening for Lina Stores.

  Their South Kensington restaurant is going to be an all-day affair, opening in the morning for

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• Brasseria Brompton is taking over the old La Brasserie site on Brompton Cross

  

  Three years after the closure of La Brasserie on Brompton Road, a new owner is intending to breathe life into what was once a super-popular neighbourhood restaurant. Andrea and Alberto Fraquelli, who own La Brasseria Milanese in Marylebone and Brasseria Notting Hill are opening it as Brasseria Brompton. Taking on this restaurant space is particularly poignant for the brothers who used to come here with their

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• Petrossian chooses South Kensington for its London caviar cafe and deli

  

  30/1/23 - updated with cafe menu and images

  Francophiles and fans of fine caviar need not trouble themselves with Eurostar queues and delays any longer, Petrossian is opening their first London restaurant, deli and boutique. If you’re looking to indulge, or even for a nifty festive gift for the fussy foodie in your life, South Kensington is the place to be

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• Brother Marcus picks Kensington for its next Eastern-Med restaurant

  

  Their last restaurant opening in Spitalfields proved to be a big success, so Brother Marcus are moving onwards and upwards, getting ready to open their fourth restaurant - this time in Kensington. 

  If you're unfamiliar with them, their speciality is Eastern Mediterranean cooking and the weekend brunch is a very big deal. As with their other restaurants, it'll be open from

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• South Kensington is the latest stop for Cocotte's chicken

  

  They've already opened their rotisserie chicken restaurants in Notting Hill, Shoreditch, Parsons Green and Queen's Park and now the next Cocotte will be in South Kensington (where Squirrel used to be).

  As before - it's mainly about the chicken, cooked with Herbes de Provence as well as a secret spice mix before being served whole, halved or quartered. Alongside the chicken are extras

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• Old Brompton and Nocturne sees Xavier Rousset bring a wine and cheese bar and a basement cocktail bar to South Kensington

  

  Coming to South Kensington is Nocturne, a new underground cocktail bar, underneath a restaurant whose own opening was a little below the radar. 

  The wine bar first. That's Old Brompton, a wine and cheese bar from Xavier Rousset (Cabotte, Black Book, Cafe Comptoir and more) and Steve Pineau and opened this April.

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• Claude Bosi's Oyster Bar at Bibendum starts a weekend delivery menu

  

  We're still a little way off from London's Michelin-starred restaurants being reopened, but in South Kensington Claude Bosi isn't hanging around. While his two Michelin-starred restaurant upstairs in the Michelin building will have to wait - right now he's concentrating on the downstairs oyster bar. 

  From this week, they'll have a new set menu every day for collection - running from Thursday -

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• A wintry treat - we hit up Ognisko for caviar and vodka

  

  Polish restaurant Ognisko has put on a new vodka and caviar deal for the festive season. We went to get in the Christmas spirit.

• A new restaurant called SW7 will open in… South Kensington

  SW7 restaurant features Madrid chef Javier Rodrigo Alviz, opening at the Hotel London Kensington. At this new brasserie and bar in South Kensington, expect a fusion of Mediterranean and classic British cuisine.

• The Hunter's Moon is a brand new pub for South Kensington

  This new pub is the first for a new pub group. They've also brought in a Glasshouse/Chez Bruce vet to look after the menus in all their pubs and there's an ex The Coach chef in the kitchen.

• A new Chucs Cafe is coming to Kensington

  Chucs are back with a new restaurant. They're still running with a modern Mediterranean menu, but this time they're going for a more casual feel. 

• Remy Martin are opening a permanent bar at Bibendum with bar food by Claude Bosi

  Cocktails by Rémy Martin and bar food by Claude Bosi - sounds like a cocktail bar match made in heaven. Thankfully it's closer than that - taking over the downstairs bar space at Michelin House in South Ken.

• Claude Bosi unveils a new-look oyster bar at Bibendum

  

  Just over a year since he opened his restaurant at Bibendum, Claude Bosi has unveiled a new look Oyster Bar on the building's ground floor.

  The oyster bar was closed earlier this year for a bit of a do-over and the new design sounds tres chic. There's a six-seater oyster bar, as well as open kitchens and the ever-popular florist.

  At the oyster bar they'll be serving nine varieties of oyster from England, Ireland and France - from Dungarvan in Ireland to

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