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12/3/24 - updated with the opening date Almost 70 years after opening their first Italian restaurant on Goodge Street, the family behind Spaghetti House is getting ready to open a brand new place. A...

With the Michelin-starred Kol getting praise from all quarters, it was only a matter of time before Santiago Lastra got ready to open another place. For that second restaurant, he's chosen Heddon...

After nine months, things are changing at 20 Berkeley Street. The restaurant there originally opened as 20 Berkeley, a British-influenced brasserie from the Creative Restaurant Group, which runs...

After opening the last Ottolenghi in Hampstead, the group are going much further west with the next due to open in Richmond.  However, unlike their other openings, this one hasn't gone quite as...

If it's not enough for you to brag that you bagged a table at The Devonshire, we may have something to elevate that brag into full-blown restaurant geek status. Because you can now buy the steak...

Updated 18/2/24 with images London's hotel scene is seriously hot at the moment. The past 18 months have seen the opening of The Pensinsula, The OWO and 1 Mayfair and now the group behind Claridge's is...

They've been big in Mayfair and now Maison Francois are the latest to head over to the growing food mecca that is Borough Market, opening Café Francois.  It sounds like this Francois outpost will be...

If there's one date you want to open in time for if you're a new Irish pub, it's St Patrick's Day. So Shoreditch pub Nancy Spain's is coming in just under the wire with the intention of flinging...

The opening of Kol and Cavita gave a shot in the arm to London's high-end Mexican dining scene and it looks like another exciting chef from Mexico is on the way too.  Jesús Durón was the executive...

A new New York-inspired deli has just opened in Belsize Park, taking over the site that used to be Sunday. A family-run business, it comes from Jack Graham, who previously ran Raw Press in Chelsea,...

The people behind La Mia Mamma, Italian restaurants in Chelsea and Notting Hill which got a big push by featuring on Stanley Tucci's "Searching for Italy", are getting ready to try something...

Updated 15/2/24 with soft launch info Vivek Singh (also behind The Cinnamon Club and Cinnamon Kitchen) is bringing Cinnamon Bazaar south of the river as the restaurant gets ready to open in...

Hawksmoor have been doing rather well across the pond of late, with successful restaurant openings in New York and Chicago. And while they're not opening any new Hawksmoors in London (just yet),...

Last year, These Days opened their Aperitivo Bar on the Bermondsey Beer Mile and at the time of opening the food was mainly just snacks - bread, cheese and charcuterie. That's about to change as...

This weekend a new East London restaurant/wine bar opened its doors officially, and there are a number of reasons why you should have Yuki Bar on your radar. The key point of interest is the man...

Richard Caring may be looking to sell off his Ivy restaurants, but that doesn't mean he's out of the restaurant business. Just after we've heard about his plans to re-open Le Caprice, there are now...

A new restaurant is gearing up to open in Clapham, taking what they describe as a 'permanent residency" inside the Aquum nightclub on the high street. Franklin & Baines is going big on steaks and...

Deep-dish Detroit pizza is becoming a bit of a thing again. We've had Ria's in Notting Hill and Kin Pizza in Notting Hill while Detroit Pizza, already a big deal in Spitalfields, has just opened its...

Updated 8/2/24 with opening date Lucky Islington residents will have a very interesting new bakery on their doorstep. Quince Bakery is the brainchild of baker Anna Higham. She ran the bakery at Flor...

London has pretty much half the bars on this year's Top 50 Cocktail Bars list. Here's which of them made the grade.