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  • The Savoy's Beaufort Bar is becoming a wine bar with a bespoke charcuterie trolley

    Wine bars really have made a huge comeback in the past few years and this next opening really highlights that trend. One of the Savoy's main cocktail bars is about to get a complete relaunch as The Beaufort Wine Bar. 

    The bar is set almost at the centre of the hotel's ground floor and has been subject to quite a few revamps over the years. The latest sees it getting a 250-bottle list, with about half of that available by the glass, as they'll be making good use of the Coravin system. Head Sommelier Romain Audrerie will be in charge. He opened Chiltern Firehouse and most

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  • The Admiral's Mess sees the Mr Fogg's team opening a bar inside Admiralty Arch

    We already knew that both Clare Smyth and Daniel Boulud were opening at the big new Waldorf Astoria at Admiralty Arch, but now we also know who will be joining them. It's the latest bar opening from the Inception Group, also behind Mr Fogg's, Cahoots, Control Room B in Battersea and more. 

    Called The Admiral's Mess, it's going to be a standalone bar for them (similar to the Control Room B approach inside Battersea Power Station), although it will be one

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  • New restaurants and bars opening in London this week

    The new restaurants and bars opening in London this week

    This week, the September opening rush continues with the latest from the Dorian team, an LPM spin-off, a City pub from the Goodman/Wild team and more...

  • Romy Gill takes over The Pem in St James, which is shifting to regional Indian cooking

    7/9/26 - updated with the opening date

    Just over a year ago, Sally Abé left The Pem, the restaurant she launched at The Conrad St James, four years before (she's since opened the very successful Teal). While her OG restaurant had been running well since then, it's been without a named chef at the helm, and that's now changing. 

    Taking over is Romy Gill, a chef who has actually cooked there before, once teaming up with Sally Abé as part of their "The Pem Presents" series. In recent years, she's been best known for her bestselling cookbooks, and this will be

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  • Endo Kazutoshi comes to Chelsea with his ENDO omakase restaurant and Moga listening bar upstairs

    7/9/26 - updated with the opening date

    Endo Kazutoshi has had a very busy time of late. Following a fire, he relocated Endo at the Rotunda to Annabel's for five months, and he's also getting ready to launch a new Sumi restaurant in Marylebone.

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  • At new restaurant Pardeh in Bethnal Green everything starts with Persian hospitality

    Where one door closes, another opens. And as chef Gabriel Waterhouse prepares to resurrect his former Water House Project restaurant in another Bethnal Green space, we already know what's taking over his old space. Iranian-born chef Yma Apa was behind The Drunken Butler restaurant in Clerkenwell. Now he's teamed up with restaurant owner Sahar to open Pardeh.

    Talking to Hot Dinners, he said that while the restaurant's name (and inspiration) is Persian - it means

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  • One of Puglia's best dishes, riso, patate e cozze will be on the menu at Pino, opening in Stokey

    We've seen a lot of restaurants pivoting into something new recently, and a subset of that is the team change. That's when the restaurant changes, but some of the original team stay on to run its new incarnation. A recent example of that was Sesta, which saw the head chef of Pidgin launch a restaurant in the same place (which is now Sally Abés Teal). 

    Now there's another one to look out for. Last weekend, Bianca's in Stoke Newington, from the same team as Michelin-starred Casa Fofo, announced it was closing. However, it wasn't quite the end as two members of the team are

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  • Din Tai Fung are opening in King's Cross, with an eye on Soho too

    Updated 3/9/26 with opening date

    We only recently wrote about Dishoom lining up another opening on the South Bank before its latest in London Bridge had even opened the doors, and now it looks like Din Tai Fung are pulling off a similar trick. They're opening in King's Cross, but it seems they already have plans to follow that with a restaurant in Soho

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

    2/9/26 - updated with the opening date

    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 Conduit was also up for a revamp. Now we know what it's going to be, as the chef is opening Nettle up there. 

    It'll be a different approach to the ground floor, with ever-popular fire-led cooking being

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  • Manna have found a standalone home for their smash burgers in Marylebone

    It really is the time to launch a new burger bar, it seems. Last week we had a new Bleecker in Camden.This week Dumbo is coming to Soho. And now it's the turn of Manna. 

    Up until now, Manna have been behind smash burger bars that have been exclusive to the Arcade Food Halls in Battersea, Soho and Covent Garden. But for the first time, they're going standalone (in

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  • Dishoom's next south London restaurant is going to be on the South Bank

    We're still waiting for the opening date for the new Dishoom close to Borough Market, but now it turns out they already have another opening lined up, and it's not too far away.

    First reported by hospitality website Caterer, they're taking over what was once a Las Iguanas restaurant in Royal Festival Hall. That's the corner section facing the river and also has a pretty extensive terrace, so it's certainly one of the prime sites in the area. The reason the news is breaking now is because they're planning a big overhaul to that terrace, most importantly adding a retractable roof.

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  • Now London is getting a second tiramisu shop, with Giuseppe's Tiramisu opening in Shoreditch

    You know how it is. You wait ages for a shop devoted to tiramisu, and then two come along at once. Hard on the heels of Marrone in Soho comes Giuseppe's Tiramisu, which is about to open up at Boxpark Shoreditch. The man behind it, Giuseppe Federici, hasn't worked in hospitality before, but it's most definitely in his blood with his Sicilian grandparents having an Italian restaurant in Stoke on Trent and his parents running an ice cream business.

    What's different about Giuseppe's

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  • It's poutine and the Premier League for Kensington at new Canadian sports bar LaCage

    Back in the 1920s, it was built as a branch of Woolworths. Now, a hundred years later, instead of an American retail giant, we've got a Canadian brand taking over the space on Kensington High Street. LaCage is a Montreal institution that's the place to watch hockey games. Here in London, it's taking a broader approach to the types of sports shown, but the food is going to be broadly the same.

    The London branch (their first outside Canada) is a massive space, set across two floors and with space designed to show a whole range of sporting fixtures whether you're into footie, rugby,

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