New opening

• Whole Beast find a permanent Brixton home for their nose-to-tail live-fire cooking

  

  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

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• TANGRA comes to Soho and it's all about late-night Indo-Chinese cuisine

  

  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,

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• Firestarter sees the Electric Star Pubs team launching a live-fire restaurant in the City

  

  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

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• Dara Klein picks Columbia Road as the home of Tiella Trattoria & Bar

  

  For a small pub residency, Tiella at The Compton Arms got a lot of column inches. There was something about chef Dara Klein's cooking that reflected the places she'd worked in London (Brawn, Trullo, and Sager & Wilde) and her background that included a childhood spent both in Emilia Romagna and New Zealand. Her cooking was different, exciting yet deeply hospitable.

  Now, like The

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• Sartoria Launceston Place marks the start of the restaurant group's expansion

  

  Late last year the much-loved Launceston Place restaurant closed its doors with the restaurant group (then named D&D London) pledging to find the right chef to bring on board.

  Well it turns out that the group - now named The Evolv Collection - has had something of a change of heart. Instead, they're bringing their Savile Row Italian restaurant Sartoria to Kensington.

  And it seems that the

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