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Although most of the current buzz around everyone's favourite Indian cafe, Dishoom, has recently been around their expansion to New York, they're also extending their London estate. Work is well underway for a new Dishoom at London Bridge, just around the corner from Borough Market.

The restaurant group are opening a restaurant at The Hop Exchange. They're not taking over an existing restaurant space, but creating a brand new one in the building's West Wing. It would be a pretty big Dishoom too, covering two floors and expanding out towards the back of the Hop Exchange with a

August can be one of the quietest months for new openings in London, what with holidays and everyone gearing up for the big autumn push next month. But there are still a fair few intriguing new restaurants coming your way in the month ahead. 

Mayfair isn't short of places to empty your wallet on a spendy steak, so it'll be interesting to see what new restaurant Cordelia's Mayfair brings to the table. The steakhouse has taken over the old L'atelier Robuchon restaurant site on Clarges Street, where they say they're bringing the theatre of live fire cooking to W1.

Carnivores will be well served by a menu that focuses on British cuts, all of which will have been aged in-house. But should you wish to wander the globe for your steak supper, they'll also serve up Galician beef and Finnish Sashi as well as (and this is a new

Updated 29/7/26 with menu details

They only just announced that the original Milk Beach is transforming into a wine bar.Now the same team is opening a new place in Soho. This time, they're joining the handroll craze that seems to be everywhere right now, although there are more than just handrolls on the menu here.  

The new place is Saltwater, a new takeaway sushi place on Berwick Street. The key difference here is that

Updated 29/7/26 with opening date and menu details

The Imperial Hotel in Bloomsbury is getting a (much-needed) overhaul at the moment, and a large part of that is focused on the roof. Up there, they're opening a brand new rooftop bar called Arcus. 

It's going to be pretty huge, as they'll be able to fit over 300 people and, given that Bloomsbury isn't quite as high-rise as other parts of town, you should be able to get some fantastic views. They're promising views of St Paul's, the London Eye and, much closer to them, a bird's-eye view of the British Museum.

One of London's best pizzerias is back as Lenny's is going permanent in Covent Garden. 

Back in 2024, Max Lewis set up shop inside the Bedford Tavern in Finsbury Park as Lenny's Apizza, a pizza residency with one mission - to bring authentic New Haven-style pizzas to London. For this new launch, he's teamed up with MJMK, the people behind Casa do Frango, AngloThai and more besides. 

The New Haven pizzas, also called "apizza", originate in Connecticut at Frank Pepe Pizzeria from all the way back in 1925 (and that pizzeria is still going strong today). Max

A year ago, French burger joint Dumbo arrived in London (from France), opening in a small space in Shoreditch. It quickly became one of the new must-have burgers to try, sitting alongside other crazes like Supernova. 

Now they're about to open a new Dumbo and this one will be both a lot more central and a little bigger too. They've taken over a site on Berwick Street that's already been known for its burgers, as it used to be the Soho branch of Tommi's Burger Joint. 

Do not expect any changes to the menu, though. There will still be the very simple menu of a

We're still waiting for London to hit its peak pizza moment, but in the meantime, we have a new independent pizzeria on the way to Bermondsey. This one sees the man behind Luna and Legare (Jay Patel) teaming up with the man behind Watchhouse (Roland Home), who have brought in an ex-Dusty Knuckle/Spring chef (Jack Ellingham). Together, they're opening Five Feet Pizza.

Starting with the pizza dough itself, they say that what differentiates them is their 1cm thick "aerated, fluffy dough", baked in black iron pans for a crispy edge. So, while not quite deep-pan, it's definitely

We know that Londoners have a sweet tooth. All you have to do is look at the popularity of La Maritxu and their Basque cheesecakes or the queues outside Arome for their honey butter toast. Well, now those of you who think that tiramisu is at the top of the dessert pyramid are getting their very own cafe.

Marrone in Soho comes from second-gen Italian Giancarlo Fanigliulo. He's figured out that enough of you are mad about Italian desserts to warrant opening a cafe devoted to tiramisu. For the launch, there will be three versions; Original using Estate Dairy cream and dark roasted

Since opening in a small site in Crouch End (she's recently moved to a much bigger space there), Sourdough Sophia has been launching very successful bakeries across town, but now she's turned her attention to central London. The next Sourdough Sophia will be in Neal's Yard in Covent Garden.

Founded by both Sophia and her husband Jesse, the bakery will be taking over the Barbary Next Door site. That site was, of course, once a bakery itself before becoming a Barbary spin-off. In there, you're going to find sourdough loaves, of course, as well as sweet pastries, which include

Endo Kazutoshi has had a very busy time of late. Following a fire, he relocated Endo at the Rotunda to Annabel's for five months, and he's also getting ready to launch a new Sumi restaurant in Marylebone. And now there's news about his next big opening, and

London has seen a lot of restaurant closures over the past year, and one of the higher-profile examples was The Water House project, which finished in May. That was because the lease of the restaurant was up, but it turns out that chef Gabriel Waterhouse, together with his wife Patricia Wakaimba, has already been able to line up a new space.

The pair will be opening in an old Victorian warehouse that's not too far from their old digs, and this time they're ditching the whole "project" bit as the restaurant and wine bar will be called Waterhouse. 

First up is

If you're a Clapton local, you'll probably already be acquainted with Uchi's game. By day, they're a bakery serving up beef curry buns, sandos and black sesame lattes. In the evening, that changes up to a Japanese diner. Now they're bringing the bakery element of their offering over to Islington.

Their new place will be on Camden Passage, a street which already has some interesting Japanese offerings from the Katsute 100 tea house and the exemplary Sushi Show to the newest Kanazawa curry bread kiosk.

At the new cafe, they have an extensive list of coffees, latte's, teas

The space that was once cafe and events space Hatch has, in the past few weeks, quietly been revived. It's returned as Nostra and is once again working as a cafe and events space - albeit with a few differences. 

First off is the cafe part. For this, they're bringing in rotating residencies and first up is Monella, which previously operated as a supperclub. Open every day from 10am-4pm, they'll be serving up a series of bakes that include a lemon and rosemary olive oil cake, banana bread, madeleines, Anzac biscuits and more. Those are being backed up by focaccia sandwiches,

Updated 23/7/26

We were the first to tell you about the arrival of the Korean matcha house Tokkia in Covent Garden. And we were there on day one to check out their drinks and salt breads and stick with them on the ride to the position they have now with a perma-queue outside.

Founder Sooji Im really found a gap in London's often saturated drinks market with her elevated take on matcha and the popular seasonal blends she offered. Most recently the cafe