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  • Greek-inspired Oma comes to Borough Market

    Kiln and Sabor chefs team up for the Greek-inspired OMA in Borough Market

    19/3/24 - Updated with the opening date

    Borough Market's restaurant scene continues to get better than ever. Following the arrival of both Kolae and Akara last year, two big chefs are teaming up for a new Greek-inspired restaurant (taking over the old Rabot 1745 space).  

    Oma comes from David Carter, the man behind Smokestak and Manteca, who's

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  • Borough Market’s Oma gets a sibling ground-floor restaurant called Agora

    Borough Market’s Oma gets a sibling ground-floor restaurant called Agora

    Borough Market shows no sign of slowing down with its exciting new restaurant openings. We recently told you about the forthcoming Greek-inspired Oma from David Carter and former Kiln and Sabor chefs. It just became even more interesting, with the news that

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  • The Pachamama Group are behind Effie restaurant opening at The Whiteley in Bayswater

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    It's always nice to see a landmark London building saved from falling into disrepair. Whiteley's on Bayswater had been closed for years but is now gearing up to reopen as a glamorous apartment block, complete with the UK's first Six Senses hotel and spa, an Everyman cinema and a new branch of Guillam Coffee House.

    Now the first restaurant in the development has been announced. Effie is by the Pachamama Group which

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  • Travel notes: dining with Greek chefs abroad at Elix, a Mar-Bella Collection hotel on the Ionian coast

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    Luxury Greek hotel Elix welcomed back a Greek chef who made his name in London this summer. We joined ex-Kiln chef Nick Molyviatis for three days of feasting by the Ionian sea.

  • Souvlaki Street to open Evi's, its first permanent London site in East Dulwich

    Souvlaki Street to open its first permanent London site in East Dulwich

    25/7/23 - updated with the opening date

    If thoughts are turning to sunny Greek getaways, then we have the ideal warm-up for you in the form of Athens-inspired food in a new London location. After almost 10 years in business, popular street-food market stall Souvlaki Street is opening its first bricks-and-mortar home on East Dulwich’s North Cross Road. The restaurant will

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  • Esti, a Greek-Australian restaurant, is opening at Shoreditch’s TT Liquor

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    What do you get when you mix Greek dining and British produce with Australian hospitality? You’ll find the answer at a new six-month residency at TT Liquor in Shoreditch, when esti brings its blend of fire-cooked casual Greek food (with bonus Aussie influences) to the Orangery on the bar's first floor.

    The name ‘esti’ is both an ancient Greek term that means ‘to do’ and a riff on ‘estiatorio’ (the

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  • Vori is hoping to transport Notting Hill residents with its Greek island cooking

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    Updated 6/1/23 with new opening date

    Who among us doesn't fancy a change of scenery every now and then? Trader turned restaurateur Markos Tsimikali was feeling the same way. Having closed his original Greek restaurant, Hungry Donkey in Spitalfields this year, he decided to cross town for his new venture.

    Vori, he's hoping, will transport Notting Hill residents to the tiny Greek beach it's

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  • Test Driving INO - a Greek gastrobar in Carnaby

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    Pull up a stool at the counter of this new Carnaby wine bar and restaurant and enjoy a glass of Greek wine and a range of interesting small dishes.

  • Azura is bringing a taste of the Aegean to Camden

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    It's all change in Camden where new Mediterranean restaurant Azura is getting ready to open in the old Inamo site on Mornington Crescent.

    We don't know too much about what's planned, but what we do know is that they're intending on "bringing the taste of Mykonos, Santorini, Bodrum and Alacati to London." Behind the restaurant is Andreas Kizoub who also owns Ormos in Notting Hill, and was previously head chef at Opso and

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  • Smashing Plates brings Greek street food to London Bridge

    Smashing Plates brings Greek street food to London Bridge

    We've only just written about a Greek restaurant opening in Crouch End and now there's news of a Greek street food restaurant, Smashing Plates, opening in London Bridge.

    Smashing Plates comes from Neofytos Christodoulou and is his take on Greek and Cypriot

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  • Kalimera moves from street truck to new Crouch End Greek restaurant

    Kalimera moved from street truck to new Crouch End Greek restaurant

    Moving up from street food truck and market stalls, Kalimera is launching as a restaurant in Crouch End. There will be modern interpretations of Greek and Mediterranean dishes and plenty of Greek wine.

  • INO is a new Soho Greek grill restaurant from OPSO

    INO is a new Soho Greek grill restaurant from OPSO

    OPSO's new restaurant in Soho is all about live-fire grilling over charcoal. Expect plenty of meat and fish grilling, alongside an ever-changing Greek wine list. 

  • Joan is a new Mediterranean restaurant for Shoreditch

    Joan is a new Mediterranean restaurant for Shoreditch

    This new restaurant in Shoreditch takes Mediterranean food (with an emphasis on Greece) as its starting point, headed up by an ex-Caravan chef.

  • The Athenian goes plant-based for their latest souvlaki deliveries

    The Athenian goes plant-based for their latest souvlaki deliveries 

    More and more restaurants are going delivery-only during the lockdown, but we haven't seen quite as many vegan restaurants make the move, so far. One that is shifting is souvlaki merchant, The Athenian. They're launching a whole new delivery service on Deliveroo called Athenian Plant-Based (really on-the-nose with the naming).

    On the menu, they'll have, available as a wrap or in a

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  • Test Driving Ampéli - Eastern Med food and Greek wines in Fitzrovia

    burikFitzrovia has a new Eastern-Mediterranean-inspired restaurant in the shape of Ampeli - and it has a pretty decent Greek wine list too. We head over to try it out.  

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