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It's been in the planning stages for quite a while, but now ex-Kiln chef Meedu Saad has lined up his solo restaurant.

Called Impala, named after the car he drove around during summers in Egypt, it's a restaurant with a menu that centres around the charcoal grill, itself right in the middle of the dining room. That space has been designed together with Kiln's Ben Chapman and Dan Preston, the latter who's the man behind the design of Kiln, Smoking Goat and Brat. Expect lots of "concrete pillars juxtaposed with polished veneers"

The Public House Group are known for launching new openings with little fanfare (like The Hart, Canteen and The Fat Badger), and that's the case once again with their latest, CeCe's.

Unlike their recent openings, this isn't a pub, although they are taking over a space that was once a pub, so it's not a massive departure. It's being billed as an Italian with a "hint of Hollywood". So it sounds like it's going for the glam kind of Italian restaurant that Martin Kuczmarski has been so successful with at The Dover and Martino's. The full menu is yet to be revealed, but dishes

Here are all the new restaurants to look forward to in the coming week. This week is one of the busiest for new openings in 2026 so far. The chef behind Trullo comes to Covent Garden, Taqueria in Notting Hill gets a big revamp, Sale e Pepe opens its first new restaurant in 50 years and lots more besides. 

The Spiteri family have been making waves on London's hospitality scene for a while, and now they're about to launch a new pub, in North Kensington.

Jon Spiteri is a legendary restaurateur and front-of-house man, with The French House, St. John,  Sessions Arts Club and many, many more behind him. Jon's ex-wife Melanie Arnold is the co-founder of Rochelle Canteen. Their sons Lorcan and Fin Spiteri were behind the houseboat success of Caravel, and sister Molly is Business Development Lead at Koya.

That's a pretty impressive range of experience all wrapped up in one family,

It's been a week of big coffee wins for the City of London with the arrival of one much-vaunted opening, and the reveal that there's another interesting place on the way.

First up is the opening of WatchHouse Millennium Bridge. If you know this group, you'll know that the aesthetics are second to none. Their brand new riverside coffee spot has been designed by CAKE, who were also responsible for various Krickets and A Bar with Shapes for a Name. Sadly, it doesn't actually have riverside views, but as it's practically on the bridge, there's no reason why you can't grab a cup of

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London's boom of interesting new restaurant openings continues for March with an iconic restaurant reborn, the promise of a glamorous hotel seafood spot and a hotly-anticipated restaurant from an ex-Kiln head chef.  

If you've been watching the Being Gordon Ramsay documentary on Netflix, you'll know that one of the key storylines has revolved around the chef's multiple openings in the 22 Bishopsgate skyscraper in the City. In the opening episode (spoiler), you see his dismay to hear that of the various restaurants planned, Bread Street Kitchen on the 59th floor, is going to be delayed by months. Given that the rest of the operation opened back in February last year, the opening ended up being delayed a full 15 months in total.

Clearly, the team behind it must be feeling bullish as they've just

Just outside St Ives in Cornwall, as part of the Carbis Bay resort, there's an absolutely spectacular restaurant space with a completely uninterrupted sea view. Until last year, that was the home for Adam Handling's Ugly Butterfly, which we took a Test Drive of ourselves. And soon, it's going to be the Cornwall home of Restaurant Story's Tom Sellers, called MOR.

Sellers had already popped up there in pre-Covid times, so it's a space he's familiar with.

They only just opened their first London restaurant on Charing Cross Road last year, but Tigermilk have already lined up their second.

This time they're opening in Spitalfields, and it's a pretty huge endeavour, fitting in 280 people (230 inside, 50 on the terrace). That makes it the French-originating group's biggest place ever, out of the 13 restaurants they've opened across Europe so far. It's also certainly one of the largest restaurants in Spitalfields. Apparently, it won't all be one massive dining room, though, as it's being made as "a fully realised hacienda unfolding room

Since the closure of Koyn, restaurateur Samyukta Nair had said she would be looking for a new place to put Koyn Thai (which we loved when we visited). Now she's found that space - it's taking over the ground floor of MiMi Mei Fair and will be called MIKO Mei Fair. 

That lower-ground space had a distinctly different look from the rest of MiMi Mei Fair, so it does seem like a good fit. The kitchen here will be led by Soonthorn Apaipat, who was the Head Chef of KOYN Thai, so if you were a

If you had thought that London had reached peak hype pizza with the opening of Crisp Pizza in Mayfair, then you couldn't be more wrong. The arrival of Bar Etna on Newington Green this spring is going to set fire to the scene, given who's involved.

The pizzeria will be an innovative team-up between the Four Legs founder Ed McIlroy and Philadelphia chef and restaurateur Joe Beddia. Obviously, you'll know the former for their North London hype spots, The Plimsoll and Tollington's. As for Beddia, he's a Philadelphia-based pizza chef whose first opening in Philly, Pizzeria Beddia, was

You've got to hand it to Times restaurant critic Giles Coren. Somehow, he's managed to persuade one of his favourite London restaurants Med Salleh, to open a new restaurant right down the road from his home. If there was ever a shoo-in for a Times review it would surely be this one.

If you haven't been to either their Bayswater or Westbourne Grove restaurants then here's Coren's description to give you

At the time of writing, it might not seem like the time to start talking about rooftop restaurants, but come late spring there's a new opening to keep an eye on. Sabine has already opened a rooftop bar in the City with a great view of St Paul's and now they're getting ready to open a second.

This time, they're taking over a rooftop in Holborn at the top of the NYX hotel. There's been a rooftop bar there for a while, but so far the hotel has struggled to give it an identity, something that Sabine should be able to help sort out. While there is a terrace with retractable windows,