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They've been a mainstay of Brixton Village for the past eight years, now the same team behind Guzzl deli are opening Guzzl Canteen, a gourmet hot dog and rum bar.

Keeping it local, the team are working with top Forest Hill butcher Henwens on the sausages. The final mix is a combination of British beef and chicken and a mixture of herbs and spices. You then get to top it with all manner of what they're

Until now, the team behind Mr Bao and Daddy Bao have been mainly south of the river (Westfield outlet notwithstanding) and solely about Taiwanese cooking. But now they're coming to London Fields, and this is their first Cantonese restaurant. 

Wonton Charlie's main focus is right there in the name - it's going to be all about wonton soup. Everything for that soup will be

Updated 21/10/25 with opening date

Following the closure of their two Covent Garden restaurants, we've been wondering what the Petersham Nurseries team were going to do next. Now we have our answer, of sorts. The baton has moved to the family's next generation of restaurateurs who are about to open a Florence-inspired trattoria and bar called Trogolo on Westbourne

21/10.25 - updated with the opening date

It's been big in Thailand and now Khao-Sō-i is coming to Fitzrovia, bringing its Northern Thai soul food menu. 

The restaurant started in Chiang Mai (before expanding to Bangkok) and its titular dish, the coconut curry soup Khao Soi is what brought the restaurant acclaim. It's opening in a space

20/10/25 - updated with a name and more details

In recent months, there had been a flurry of activity on the riverbank at Richmond where the old Pitcher & Piano used to be. It's a huge site, with gardens leading down to the river. So naturally locals were wondering what's opening there next.

We reported back in August, that the folks behind

After a few fallow years, Shoreditch's food scene has come roaring back. We've had the likes of One Club Row, Singburi and Angelina open there. Now, hoping to make a similar impact, is a high end deli that's more concept store than city centre supermarket. Nekter Deli.

The store's the passion project of US wine importer Jon Davey who supplies everyone from The Clove Club to Ynyshir. As you might imagine, wine is a core

The team behind Faber (Hammersmith) and Somers Town Coffee House (King's Cross) have just opened a new restaurant above their Mile End "seafood gastropub" The Victoria. Completely separate from the pub downstairs, it's appropriately called Above.

Described as both a restaurant that brings together some of their favourite dishes of the past 20 years of

A modern Indian restaurant that started life in Dubai (before opening in Mumbai too) is coming to London. 

Trèsind describes itself as a "modernist Indian dining experience" so it's a high-end affair. The Dubai menu features dishes like scarlet prawns crudo, with Kashmiri chilli xo, prawn papad, and beluga caviar alongside a menu of premium

As you may know, what was once London's In and Out Club on Piccadilly, Cambridge House, is getting a huge makeover at the moment and is due to launch as a new hotel sometime in 2026. If you're not quite familiar with that space, it's on Piccadilly with its gated driveway leading to the front door making it one of the most impressive-looking properties on the street. 

The original information about the hotel said that it would include a "brasserie-style" restaurant and now we know what that's going to be. There had been murmurings that Major Food Group, the team behind the

It's all happening on Chiltern Street at the moment. The Hart has just opened its doors. Work is underway at reopening Chiltern Firehouse after the fire. And now Melody Adams, the restaurateur behind Spanish restaurants Lurra and Donostia, is getting ready to open her third restaurant in Marylebone.

Her previous ventures have taken their lead from the

Sushinoya are going big in London. The first outpost of this new high end grab-and-go sushi spot opened in King's Cross and while we still have to wait for them to open in Moorgate, their flagship store is opening imminently in Chinatown. 

As with their first opening, all the sushi is made on-site daily, sourced from whole fish. This branch of Sushinoya will have a

If there was ever a new restaurant guaranteed to look and feel good, it should be just-opened Haggerston spot Jiāonest. Chef and owner Hua Yang came to London from China to study spatial design. But compelled to explore her culinary identity through a series of supperclubs, she's ended up opening a restaurant in East London instead.

As Hua explained to Hot Dinners she's serving up "Modern Chinese

They've been popping up across town and now nose-to-tail, live-fire cooking experts Whole Beast are about to open their own permanent place in Brixton. 

Taking over the space that was Shrub and Shutter, founders Sam and Alicja Bryant are promising a restaurant that really makes the most of their nose-to-tail approach or, as they say, "doing cool sh*t

14/10/25 - updated with the opening date

Bringing something new to Soho is TANGRA, a new late night Indo-Chinese restaurant on Frith Street. It takes its name from the Tangra neighbourhood of Kolkata, with the menu influenced by the Hakka Chinese community there. 

Perhaps its most useful feature is that they're looking to cater for the late-night crowd,

A short walk from Liverpool Street station, a brand new live-fire restaurant is coming to the City and it's from someone best known for his pubs. 

Rob Star, the man behind the Electric Star Pubs (The Star of Kings, Star of Bethnal Green and many more), is opening Firestarter right next door to his City pub, The Star by Liverpool Street. He's teamed up