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24/8/26 - Updated with news that the permanent restaurant isn't happening.  

After hearing news from multiple sources that Barang was getting ready to open a permanent restaurant, it seems that that's no longer happening. The restaurant was supposedly going to be taking on the space that once held Darjeeling Express in Kingly Court, but we're now told that there are currently no plans to open a permanent Barang site. 

The modern Cambodian-inspired restaurant comes from Tom Geoffrey (previously a chef at Kiln) and has had successful pop-ups over the

For a while now, we've known that the Wild Group have been planning a pub in the City. But they're only now ready to reveal the details. If you know where Wild Izakaya is on Old Jewry, they've taken over the former Browns site. And we haven't been this excited about a new pub opening in London since The Devonshire. Why? Well, once you know who's behind it, you'll get the gist.

First up is the restaurant group's back catalogue. George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya Demichev are behind

If you're deeply partial to an egg tart, honey butter toast or freshly baked char siu bun, then we have just the new bakery for you to try. Bakery HOKO comes from the same team who brought you their Hong Kong Cha Chaan Teng on Brick Lane and a wonton noodle stall in Seven Dials. This time, as the name suggests, it's all about baked goods.

Owners Nicole Ma and Ryan Leung say they want to introduce Londoners to Hong Kong culture and food. This latest opening, they say, "takes inspiration from the neighbourhood bakeries found throughout Hong Kong public housing estates." But it's

Professor Green has always been a bit of a foodie (we've seen his comments pop up on our reels for years) and cemented that by opening PG Proper Good in Glasgow earlier this year. Now he's following that with a second opening in London, right in the middle of Soho. 

He's taking over a space on Soho Street (one that hasn't been a restaurant before) for the second Proper Good, something that he brought to life with the same team that launched Sides by The Sidemen. Assuming you haven't tried it in Glasgow, it's a fast food restaurant where you build your own meal. Those meals

From starting small as a restaurant on Exmouth Market (which is still going strong), Caravan have been getting bigger and bigger over the years, and now have seven restaurants in London. Next up they're about to open their eighth, this time inside the Southbank Centre. 

We're not 100% sure which site this is taking over (if any of our readers know, do tell us). But it is apparently going to be the largest Caravan yet. As part of the work, they're going to reconstruct two railway arches and there are

Just over a year since he closed his best-known (but also most contentious) venue, the faux worker's cafe Norman's in Tufnell Park, Elliot Kaye is back in the game again with Marrion's. He's taken on the space on Morning Lane that's been home to a series of interesting openings over the years (remember FIX and Bar Kino?) and more recently Nest, then the shorter-lived Big Night.

It's being described as a neighbourhood bar, "nothing too pretentious". To that end, the cocktail list will be a classic one with a rotating house martini and a wine list with bottles from popular importers

Tom Kerridge's restaurant at Corinthia London (his first opening in London) opened back in 2018 and now, eight years later, it's on the cusp of a big relaunch. Once known as "Kerridge's Bar and Grill", it's now about to be split into two, and the bar's getting a much bigger footprint than before. 

Taking that bar first, that's going to become Georgie's Bar (named after Tom Kerridge's old boxer dog). It'll have much more of the overall Kerridge's space than it used to, and from the details we've been given, it sounds like this is going to be the main event. So much so that the

19/8/26 - Updated with full details of what's planned for Edmondo

Back at the beginning of 2025, we brought you news that Big Mamma were getting ready to open in the City. Since then, they've opened Barbarella in Canary Wharf, but now we're finally getting news about what their City plans are going to be. 

The next Big Mamma restaurant will be called Edmondo, a restaurant that's set to be inspired by, in their words, "1930s Milanese glamour". There is already an Edmondo by Big Mamma in Hamburg, but they have said that the London restaurant will only share the

19/8/26 - updated with launch details and the opening date

Anna Higham's Islington bakery Quince is, quite rightly, lauded as one of this city's best bakeries. So the news that she's getting ready to open her own cafe should make North London residents sit up and pay attention. Clementine will be an all-day cafe, opening up across the road from the bakery, serving up brunch and lunch. She's taking over a space that has previously been a pub in various incarnations,

18/8/26 - Updated with full details and the opening date

Back at the end of 2025, we reported that the restaurant that was once Simpson's Tavern (which had been going through a fight for survival) had been taken over. The team who are taking on the Grade II listed site is the one behind Cloth in Farrington (also in an 18th-century building). They planned to launch Cloth Cornhill.

After that, things went a little quiet, but now, almost a

He's had a lot of acclaim for Belly, and now Omar Shah (with his Maginhawa Group) is about to open a second restaurant in Kentish Town. 

He's launching the all-day Bunso, which will be a bakery by day and turn into a pizzeria in the evening, with both parts focusing on bringing in Filipino flavours. So during the day there will be laminated pastries, savoury bakes and coffee and in the evening freshly made pizzas alongside a concise menu of crudo, kinilaw, salads and pasta. Precisely what's on the menu is being kept under wraps at the moment, so we'll have more

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Eight years on from her first stall at Maltby Market, crumble has become a big thing for founder Kim Innes. She's even had the Prince and Princess of Wales in an apron helping out at the brand's Borough stall. And now she's about to open outside of a market (her other London sites are at Spitalfields, Borough and Camden). She's heading into the West End, having chosen St James Street for her new central London shop.

If you haven't been to a Humble Crumble before, the clue is in the name - it's all about crumble in every form. The classic is their most popular, an apple and

Up until now, La Maritxu has had a bit of a monopoly as far as Basque-style cheesecakes go, but now a contender has entered the ring. Gaztela has just opened in Notting Hill and they have one version that you'll have to try. 

Gaztela comes from Inna and Ignacio, a Spanish-Ukrainian couple who met studying hospitality in Spain. It's all about Basque cheesecake, but they say theirs is a more modern take on the dessert, with an extra creamy, barely set centre, using their own blend of hard and soft cheeses. Having spent lots of time refining the recipe, they launched on