New opening

• Take a first look inside the new Fink's Clissold Park at Clissold House

  

  Earlier on this summer, we brought you the news that popular North London cafe and bakery group Fink's was taking over all the food and drink side of things at Clissold House. Now we're giving you the first look inside their new Stoke Newington empire.

  The first thing to know is that

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• Forza Wine's next stop will be Soho

   

  Following up on their rooftop original and the very successful National Theatre follow-up, Forza Wine are gearing up for their next big launch.

  This time they're opening in Soho, taking over the Daroco site (which, to be honest, we hadn't realised had closed a few months back). That's a big old space and, importantly, has a pretty extensive terrace, something which has proved to be pretty useful at Forza

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• Raved-about Cafe Mama Pho is coming to Bloomsbury next

  

  18/9/25 - updated with the opening date

  Family-run business Cafe Mama Pho got a namecheck in this week's My Manor when new Bodean's chef Richard Turner raved about their phở and fish sauce chicken wings. But they've also got some new opening news to share too. In addition to their OG cafe

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• OTT Paris restaurant Il Bambini Club is coming to London's Hoxton hotel

  

  18/9/25 - updated with the opening date

  Il Bambini Club is an Italian restaurant, known for its extravagant design, but originating in Paris and with a giant lemon meringue pie on the menu. While this might sound a bit like Big Mamma, it's definitely got more of a high-end reputation in Paris, and you'll be able to check it out for yourself soon, as they're gearing up to open in London.

  The restaurant,

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• Heard heads to Soho with its burgers from a two Michelin-starred chef

  

  18/9/25 - updated with the opening date

  Just six months after he graduated from slinging burgers in a food truck to opening a burger restaurant in Borough, chef Jordan Bailey is already planning an expansion of his burger empire. The chef who won two Michelin stars at his now-closed Irish restaurant Aimsir had a slew of great reviews for his smash burgers at Heard. But now he's expanding both the restaurant and menu with

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• Dalston's pie and eel shop gets a new life as The Black Eel pub

  

  For years, it was best known as F Cooke eel, pie and mash shop. Then it became a Chinese karaoke joint and, most recently, was cocktail and board game spot Draughts. Now, one of the best-known frontages on Kingsland High Street (and a Grade II listed site to boot) is about to turn into a pub.

  The Black Eel comes from Exale Brewing, who also run the William the Fourth in Leyton and

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• Guru Guru sees sees Amsterdam sushi izakaya Sushi Fanatics opening in Islington

  

  Islington has a new sushi and grill restaurant, this time via Amsterdam. Sushi Fanatics, billed as a "hidden sushi izakaya", will be taking over the space from Hot Stone on Chapel Market and hare opening it as "Guru Guru".

  The original Amsterdam location has built up something of a fanbase over there for their compact restaurant serving up various options of nigiri, maki, donburi

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• The Lavery opens a café that's just as beautiful as the main restaurant and very handy for museum visits

  

  The Lavery in South Kensington has been winning a lot of fans of late, such as Grace Dent, who called the space "not only beautiful, but useful", being so close to the museums. In her review,

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• MasterChef: The Professionals winner Alex Webb is opening his own restaurant Orion in Wimbledon Village

  

  He had a very successful long-term pop-up at The Inercontinental, but now former MasterChef: The Professionals winner Alex Webb is getting ready to open his own place. 

  Orion is opening in Wimbledon Village (taking over the space that used to be The Light House). He's pitching the restaurant as a British/French sharing-style restaurant,

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• Sandwich Sandwich are heading to the West End with their first late night sandwich shop

  

  You can hardly have escaped the arrival of Bristol sandwich kings Sandwich Sandwich in London with their huge layered sarnies and equally huge queues. Now the family-run business is moving into the West End, and this time they're hoping to make an impact on London's evening market.

  Nick and Josh Kleiner's third London store is just being fitted out on Tottenham Court Road and it sounds like they're pretty stoked about it. "

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• Liverpool Street Chop House is serving Guinness in tankards and steaks with your choice of knife in the City

  

  Since becoming Evolv Group, what was D&D has been going through something of a quiet revolution, led by its new CEO Martin Williams (who used to head up the M group of restaurants). Now they're ready to reveal their big next step, opening Liverpool Street Chop House & Tavern, taking over what was the New Street Grill site.

  It's not the

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• From The Clink to his own restaurant, 2210 by NattyCanCook will serve up refined Caribbean classics in Herne Hill

  

  For a restaurant origin story that has a full redemption arc, look no further than upcoming Herne Hill opening 2210 by NattyCanCook. The chef behind it, Nathaniel Mortley has gone from working in Michelin-starred restaurants, then to prison and finally to his own opening in a little over a decade. 

  Born and raised in Peckham, Mortley's

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• The folks behind Chelsea's Marta are hoping their new opening Martina will be as big a hit

  

  To corrupt a phrase, necessity is the mother of reinvention, and that's a lesson that London restaurants know well. From Orasay turned Dove in Notting Hill to the wholesale reworking of the Pachamama group, London restaurateurs that keep their offering fresh and interesting are always going to do well.

  The latest to follow in their footsteps is the group who've found recent success with their Marta pizzeria. They've

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• US celeb-loved chicken shop Raising Canes is hitting London (taking over Leicester Square’s Angus Steakhouse)

  

  Across the pond its celebrity fans include Post Malone, Snoop Dogg and Cynthia Erivo. Now the chicken finger fast food giant that is Raising Canes is coming to London. And they've launched their campaign to win British hearts in a bombastic fashion, taking over the space that was for years the flagship site of Angus Steakhouse in the West End.

  If, like us, you weren't

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• Robin Gill stretches out at Darby's with Bar Brasso café and aperitivo bar

  

  It's recently been home to Darby's Next Door, with support from Ruben's Ruebens, but now chef and restaurateur Robin Gill is turning the space next door to his Nine Elms restaurant into an all-day cafe and aperitivo bar, called Bar Brasso.

  For his latest venture Gill has been looking to both San Sebastian and Venice for inspiration. Things start off with the cafe, where

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