New opening

• Tian Tian Market have opened a massive Asian supermarket in Aldgate

  

  Anyone searching for food shopping nirvana during lockdown should make an instant beeline for Aldgate. That's because a new branch of Tian Tian Market has opened there, and it's freaking massive.

  The Asian supermarket's first branch opened in South Quay five years ago and it stocks a wide variety of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese food. But the new one in Aldgate, which opened this week, is properly next

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• Butcher & Brew arrive in Islington for steaks, beer & more

  

  Butcher & Brew have been established in Streatham for a few years, and now they've also just opened on the opposite side of London on Islington's Upper Street.

  Their new N1 spot opened briefly before we were plunged into the current lockdown but now it's back again,

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• Schnitzel Forever moves from delivery-only to restaurant in Stoke Newington

  

  Starting life as a delivery-only place during lockdown, this new venture is getting ready to open as a bricks and mortar restaurant in Stoke Newington.

• Clapham and Ealing are the latest spots for Yori Korean barbecue

  

  It's restaurants numbers four and five for Yori, who are opening their latest place in Clapham and Ealing. Expect their usual reinvented approach to Korean cuisine.  

• Bicester's Shan Shui restaurant to open in London

  

  Up until now, Shan Shui has had just one location in Bicester Village and it must be doing quite nicely there as they're making the jump to London.

• Cincinnati Chilibomb brings chili-filled brioche and chili oil-filled syringes to Shoreditch

  

  Tim Brice is bringing his own chilli recipe to Shoreditch and serving it in the middle of a brioche bun, before injecting chilli oil into it...

• The French Market brings patisserie and wine to Whetstone

  

  Three years after opening their successful French wine shop and deli in Tufnell Park, the team behind Authentique Epicerie & Bar have opened a second French food spot in North London.

  The French Market sees owners Alexandre, Amaury & Matthieu, who met having worked at various London wine merchants, this

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• Empire Biryani is Gunpowder's new delivery service

  

  On a grey day in February in Lockdown what better news could we bring you than the arrival of a new home delivery biryani service? Better still, it comes from the founders Harneet Baweja and Devina Seth, who gave us Indian restaurant Gunpowder.

  This new delivery restaurant centres around Dum Biryani with a range of other dishes from Northern India. Made fresh every day, the signature biryani

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• Panadera is a Kentish Town bakery from the people behind Mamasons

   

  Mamasons are best known for their Filipino “dirty" ice cream stores (that's the nickname used to describe ice cream made in a steel drum with ice and salt). But now they're changing gear for their new place, a bakery in Kentish Town, Panadera, which has opened two doors down from their current spot.

  Selling an array of Filipino baked goods, you can expect pandesal

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• 28-50's next wine bar will be in Chelsea

  

  The next wine bar from 28-50 (the third in the group) will be on the King's Road. Expect European food alongside a strong selection of European wines - many of them available by the glass. 

• Indian restaurant Heritage Dulwich gets ready to open for dine-in

  

  Coming from an ex-Tamarind chef, Heritage aims to cook "nostalgic family-taught dishes and unusual foods from lesser-known Indian regions and communities".

• Yield N1 wine bar and shop is coming to Islington's St Paul's Road

  

  We've been watching the development of a property on Islington's St Paul's Road with interest for a few weeks. Mainly because it's at the end of our road on the way to the shops and secondly because it was really shaping up into something food-related. And now we have the answer - Stoke Newington's Yield has opened a second location just off Highbury Corner. 

  It's taken the place of an

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• Pascor Aegean restaurant comes to Kensington (for delivery)

  

  This Aegean restaurant focuses on cuisine from Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Turkey.

• BookBar on Blackstock Road will be a bookshop, winebar and meeting space

  

  The mid-section of Blackstock Road is becoming quite the food and drink hub. There's Patron (currently delivering lovely French dishes across town), Shop Cuvee selling natural wine and cheese, and Grin and Beer it with their craft beer.

  Joining their ranks, whenever hospitality businesses are allowed to reopen, will be BookBar which couldn't be more a product of the times.

  This combo space will be a wine bar, coffee shop,

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• Hot Stone is expanding with a second restaurant, in Fitzrovia

  

  Exquisite sushi, top-level Kobe beef and ishiyaki cooking is on the way for Fitzrovia residents.