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The latest pop-up to go permanent, on their tenth birthday no less, is British Afghan BBQ restaurant Cue Point. They're teaming up with The Garden Bar pub in White City to create their new restaurant, The Garden Bar Grill and Smokehouse by Cue Point London.

Run by Mursal Saiq and Joshua Moroney, Josh originally started his BBQ life at Smokestak, where he was pitmaster and head chef. He then left to create Cue Point with Mursal and they've had a number of very popular residencies all over town. 

The new restaurant will bring their signature Afghan flavours and Texas BBQ

Londoners' capacity to be excited by the arrival of a new bakery knows no bounds, so the arrival of a new one in Bethnal Green should be of interest. This will be the third opening by Burnt, a neighbourhood cafe and restaurant with branches in Shepherd's Bush and Bloomsbury. But this, their first East London venture, will also feature its own in-house bakery.

The bakery addition will mean that not only will East London folk be able to enjoy their popular pistachio croissant, but a whole load more bakes, including a rhubarb and apple chausson and - this one we're really intrigued

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After successfully making Julie's in Holland Park a big deal again, the same team are hoping to do the same with a Notting Hill pub.

The Prince Edward has been closed since February, and the Julie's team is planning to revamp it and relaunch it before the end of the year. The food will be again led by the Chef Patron of Julie's, Owen Kenworthy, but the menu will be quite different from the Holland Park restaurant. We're told to expect some elevated pub classics, seasonal pies, fish and chips, rotisserie chicken and more besides. They will, of course, have a Sunday

Having just had a very successful launch of The Grand Divan at Simpson's (with an early five-star review no less), Jeremy King is getting ready to put the cap on one of London's biggest openings in years. 

Romano's is the second main restaurant inside Simpson's, and you'll find it up on the first floor. Known as The West Room under the previous owners, it's been given its own identity by King as a new British

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Italian sandwiches have become a big thing in London of late - we even have a guide to the best. And the sandwich shop that has been leading the charge, Dal Fiorentino, is going west for the first time.

Best known for their enormous Tuscan schiacciata sandwiches, there are lots of options to choose from. There's the Fiorentina (fennel salami, pecorino cheese, truffle honey, extra virgin olive oil), the Machiavelli (Tuscan

It's been a while in the making, but the big revamp of Olympia is closer to getting its grand reveal. First to open is the new Pillar Hall, from ex-D&D's Des Gunewardena and his D3 Collective and there's quite a lot to it. 

The main space is Idalia, the restaurant, and it's pretty massive, seating 300 people. It's going to be a grand all-day dining room with a "garden-inspired" design that's based on a classic country house style. The kitchen here is led by Executive Chef Samantha Williams (who previously worked with Angela Hartnett) and it's being pitched as

Given the success of places like Maset and The Hart, leaving any space empty for a while on Chiltern Street seems crazy. But now, after being empty for a while, the corner space on the intersection of Chiltern and Paddington streets is gearing up to open. It's going to be Clio, and it'll be a modern Greek restaurant.

What's particularly interesting about this place is the people involved. The executive chef is Glen Ballis, who's spent a lot of time in Russia but most recently opened INA in Dubai. For this London opening, he's brought in Louis Korovilas who was previously head chef

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We've been hearing murmurings about changes at Chelsea pub The Botanist for a while, and now we have confirmation. After 18 years of being run by the ETM group, it's being taken over by Wren pubs, the people behind The Walmer Castle, The Surprise, and The Carpenter's Arms.

The new pub won't be called The Botanist any more, but they also haven't decided on a name yet. The plan is to start a refurb in June, and return it to being a proper neighbourhood pub (something Sloane Square could really benefit from). As such, it's a little early to discover just what the plans are for the

After just over a decade, and originally intending to open as just a pop-up, the end has come for Japanese izakaya restaurant Shackfuyu. But it's not a complete goodbye. The restaurant was originally set up as a spin-off of Bone Daddies by Ross Shonhan (who now runs Lilibet's in Mayfair) and back to Bone Daddies it will go as it becomes their second ramen bar in Soho.

The new Bone Daddies Old Compton Street will serve up all the ramen from the other sites, but

For seven years, Lady of the Grapes has been one of the best wine bars in Covent Garden. Now they're heading to Borough as part of one of the area's best-looking buildings, the Menier Chocolate Factory.

The new Lady of the Grapes SE1 will have the same focus on female winemakers as the original, but in a much larger space (it's the bottom right section of the image above). Each of the two levels of the bar will have a different approach.

On the ground floor, there will be the main restaurant, seating around 60, with 20 more on the terrace. Like the original in Covent

When you already run two Greek delis in London and represent a host of artisanal Greek food producers, then opening a full-blown restaurant is really the next logical step. So that's why ERGON, the group behind the ERGON delis off Regent Street and Westfield London, is about to open Taverna Ermou.

It'll be the first London outpost of a restaurant that they opened in Athens last year. Open all day, the breakfast menu will include koulouri bagels served with eggs, smoked salmon and Greek yoghurt, along with pancakes, cold-pressed smoothies and bougatsa with sweet or savoury

Taking over a space that was most recently Turkish restaurant The Counter, a new Berlin-inspired kebab restaurant is opening in Notting Hill (and no it's not another outpost of German Doner Kebab).

Kiez Kebab is taking the space and reinventing it with an awful lot of stainless steel, so it'll look quite unlike a traditional kebab shop. The menu here will focus on just three kebabs, served in pide - a choice of veal, chicken or a vegan option (it's still TBC on what the latter involves). Little else is known about the menu just yet, other than the base of the kebabs is "paired