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• Cavita in Marylebone will be Mexican chef Adriana Cavita's first solo restaurant

  

  Mexican-born chef Adriana Cavita is taking inspiration from her family and childhood in Mexico with her first solo venture in London, complete with basement mezcaleria

• Apricity will be Chantelle Nicholson's sustainable Mayfair restaurant

  

  11/3/21 - updated with opening details

  She closed Tredwells, but now Chantelle Nicholson is gearing up for her next opening - Apricity. 

  That name stands for "regeneration, warmth, generosity and light" and that's due to be reflected in the new restaurant which will continue the ethos of her recent Hackney pop-up "...

• St Martin’s House takes over the old Tredwells site in Covent Garden

  

  If you were wondering what the plan was for the former Tredwells site in Seven Dials, near Covent Garden, then wonder no more. Having been closed since September 2021, it will re-open as St Martin’s House: a three-floor venue, housing a ground-floor bar, with an all-day restaurant spanning the first and basement levels.

  It’s brought to you by Aspirational Brands, also

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• Umbrella Workshop is a tiny new Shoreditch bar from the Discount Suit Company team

  

  If you like to be the one in your group who always knows where the hot new bar is, then you should have Umbrella Workshop, which has just opened its doors in Shoreditch, on your radar.

  The tiny bar - there are just 12 seats - is from the team who run The Sun Tavern and Discount Suit Company and it's attached to their cocktail shop The Umbrella Project. So you can try anything they sell in the shop and - if

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• VQ, the 24-hour restaurant is coming to Islington

  

  24-hour restaurant specialists VQ (which stands for "Vingt Quatre") have a brand new site lined up - they're coming to Islington. 

  Taking over the space that used to be Comedor, they'll be right on Upper Street and you can expect the same kind of menu as the other VQs (in Chelsea, Bloomsbury and Aldgate). The main event is their "Breakfast Any Time" which, as you might expect, means that you

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• Mano Mayfair sees Luciana Berry bringing Nikkei cuisine to Heddon Street

  

  Updated 7/3/22 with soft launch info

  There's a lot of change around Heddon Street at the moment. We've had the launch of Sarap, there's a David Bowie pop-up shop and we're waiting to see what's happening with the Momo

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• Social Pantry to open Design Restaurant at Chelsea Harbour's Design Centre

   

  They have a couple of cafes across London - at Lavender Hill and Crane's Kitchen in Peckham - and now Social Pantry are coming to Chelsea Harbour for their first full-blown restaurant. 

  They're teaming up with the Design Centre there, and will be setting up shop in what used to be the Dome Café. As with their other cafés, they'll source from a small

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• New London restaurants opening in March 2022

  

  With spring firmly here, London's restaurant openings are really heating up in March with some big new openings on the horizon.  

• The Westbury is becoming The St Regis London, adding a new restaurant

  

  London's run of fancy new hotels is continuing apace. Alongside One Hundred Shoreditch, there are also big plans for Admiralty Arch,

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• Provisions is bringing cheese and wine to Hackney with their second shop

  

  28/2/22 - Updated with more info and the opening date

  Here at Hot Dinners, we've long been fans of the Holloway Road cheese and wine shop Provisions, which kept us well supplied in pâté and Dusty Knuckle potato sourdough throughout most of the lockdowns. So we're so pleased to hear that they're expanding, opening a second shop in Hackney.

  "The second

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• Tattu Chinese restaurant comes to London in a revamped Denmark Street

   

  2/3/22 - updated with more opening details

  We've already had Six by Nico and the upcoming Mowgli, now another out-of-town restaurant group is looking to make a stamp on

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• The Princess Royal in Notting Hill is a new pub for Cubitt House and Ben Tish

   

  28/2/22 - Updated with the opening date and menu details

  Recently Ben Tish left his Fitzrovia restaurant Norma and joined up with pub group Cubitt House to completely revamp their food offering (in a role not too dissimilar to the one he had at Salt Yard). As part of this, he's been overhauling the food in pubs like The Coach Makers Arms in Marylebone (together with

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• Flesh & Buns head to Kensington for their latest restaurant

  

  25/2/22 - updated with launch details

  Flesh & Buns are heading west for their third restaurant, opening up their latest just off High Street Kensington. Taking over what was previously Sticky Fingers on Phillimore Gardens, the new site will be their biggest yet and will offer Flesh & Buns’ usual Japanese izakaya and Nikkei-inspired dishes, along with whisky, sake, and beers for the full

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• Lisboeta is Nuno Mendes' new Lisbon-inspired Charlotte Street restaurant

  

  25/2/22 - updated with the opening date

  There have been rumblings for some time that top chef Nuno Mendes was fully returning to the London restaurant scene. Since leaving his previous Shoreditch restaurant, Maos, he's been popping up from time to time (like doing brunch at The Scolt Head) but we've been eagerly waiting for a new

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• Butchies bring their buttermilk chicken to Ealing Filmworks

  

  If the source of your happiness lies in eating the perfect fried chicken sandwich and you live in West London we bring you joyful - if waistline-thickening - good news. Butchies are heading your way with their buttermilk fried chicken.

  The growing food group - they have spots all over London now from Shoreditch to Clapham - will be taking a space in the new Filmworks development, along with a huge new Picturehouse

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