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Robin Gill and Mr Lyan on the ticket for the London Museum's new home in Smithfield

Information: 21 July 2026

Smithfield Market is about to see a major new influx of foodies this winter with the opening of the Museum of London in its new home. The reason? Well, there's going to be a restaurant, bar, cafe...

Big Kid Ice Cream goes all-soft-serve with Whippies in Covent Garden

Information: 21 July 2026

Big Kid Ice Cream, which launched in 2022, has quickly become one of the best places for ice cream in London. Now, perfectly timed for the summer season, they're taking things one step further with...

Test Driving Tavern, a modern Shoreditch spot with foot-long pork scratchings and perfect dessert bites

Information: 21 July 2026

The team behind Michelin-starred Restaurant St Barts have turned their old Shoredith restaurant Nest into British bistro Tavern. We went to see how the makeover had changed things.

Wagyu Yakiniku USHIO is bringing late-night wagyu omakase to Charlotte Street

Information: 20 July 2026

A new wagyu-led restaurant that originates in Fukuoka, Japan, is getting ready to bring late-night wagyu steaks to Fitzrovia. Wagyu Yakiniku USHIO is taking over the site that used to be Palms of...

London's getting a huge new riverside pub with The Hero's Return opening at Battersea Power Station

Information: 20 July 2026

The roll-out of new restaurants and bars at the huge Battersea Power Station development continues with the reveal last week that one of the next openings will be a pub. The Hero's Return sees the...

New restaurants and bars opening in London this week

Information: 20 July 2026

This week, The Crusting Pipe is reborn as a new bar, Coppa Club takes up a prime riverside space and a new matcha bar arrives in Soho.

Popular Korean matcha house Tokkia is heading to Soho

Information: 20 July 2026

We were the first to tell you about the arrival of the Korean matcha house Tokkia in Covent Garden. And we were there on day one to check out their drinks and salt breads and stick with them on the...

Tasca's Portuguese/Spanish residency is back - this time in Shoreditch

Information: 17 July 2026

Chef Josh Dallaway and sommelier Sinead Murdoch's Tasca has been extremely well received in both its original appearance at (now closed) Cav and the follow-up residency at Giacco's. Now they're...

Tamila are popping up in London Fields for a weekend of roti wraps

Information: 17 July 2026

Tamila, the curry house spin-off from The Tamil Prince, has been doing great business at its three restaurants so far. But now they're trying something a little different and coming to London Fields...

Pearl will be The Beaumont's new restaurant taking over Mayfair's Brown Hart Gardens

Information: 17 July 2026

Updated 17/7/26 with opening date and menu details For over a year now, there have been rumblings that Mayfair hotel, The Beaumont, was gearing up to open a second restaurant. That would add to...

It's dinner on the dancefloor at the Ministry of Sound, thanks to Brad Carter and Ralph Lawson

Information: 16 July 2026

If you want your dinner to be more immersive and have a proper soundtrack, then it looks like Ministry of Sound have just the thing for you with Last Orders. For just two nights, the nightclub's...

Mayfair's new boutique hotel The Shepherd Mayfair reveals its food and drink spaces

Information: 16 July 2026

16/7/26 - Updated with more about the food and drink and an opening date. Recently, there have been a lot of fancy new Mayfair hotels opening, from the Chancery Rosewood on Grosvenor Square to the...

Test Driving Johnny Boy's, where LA diner food makes a big impression in Stoke Newington

Information: 16 July 2026

Johnny Boy's sees the chef behind Facing Heaven in Hackney opening an LA-inspired diner in Stoke Newington. We went in to try a taste of SoCal food in London.

Cassette sees the Levan team turning to France for their new Covent Garden restaurant

Information: 15 July 2026

Levan has been a Peckham mainstay since 2018, with Bar Levan joining it next door in 2023. But if you haven't made it into the Peckham restaurant yet, the team behind it, Mark Gurney and Matt...

10 Greek Street is closing after 14 years

Information: 15 July 2026

The ongoing parade of London restaurant closures continues with another longstanding restaurant about to close its doors. This time it's the turn of 10 Greek Street, from Cameron Emirali and Luke...

Chef Will Devlin takes to the rooftop to open Nettle at The Conduit

Information: 15 July 2026

Just a few weeks ago, chef Will Devlin opened the London outpost of his restaurant Birchwood at The Conduit in Covent Garden. But that was only part of his London plans, as the rooftop at The...

Rita's co-founder is part of the team behind the new Imagination Café at Selfridges

Information: 15 July 2026

It's all change down on the lower ground floor of Selfridges, where the store's Dolly's Cafe is being transformed. Next week it reopens under a new guise, Imagination Café, which will be "an...

SUMI, one of London's best sushi restaurants, is coming to Marylebone

Information: 14 July 2026

Sumi in Notting Hill has been one of London's best sushi restaurants since it opened just over five years ago. And now a follow-up restaurant is incoming, this time to Marylebone. The original Sumi was...

Bar crawl - Brutes is like an indie take on Duke's, in Mayfair

Information: 14 July 2026

Mayfair is firmly getting its mojo back and the arrival of cool new cocktail bar Brutes is a great example of that.

Dom Taylor, the chef behind The Good Front Room, has died

Information: 13 July 2026

Dom Taylor, the chef who was behind the successful Good Front Room restaurant, has died. Taylor ran a private chef business before taking part in the Channel 4 show Five Star Kitchen: Britain’s Next Great...

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