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• If you loved Lurra and Donostia, Maset on Chiltern Street hopes to do the same for coastal French food

  

  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

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• Sushinoya's premium grab & go sushi spot opens in Chinatown

  

  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

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• Jiāonest heats up the Haggerston restaurant scene with its modern Chongqing cooking

  

  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

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• 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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• 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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• Cafe Seek in Canary Wharf is London's new must-try Japanese cafe

  

  You may have been able to tell if you're a long-time follower of Hot Dinners that we're complete Japanese bakery addicts here. So when news reached us of a new opening in Canary Wharf, we had to find out more.

  Cafe Seek is the project of two good friends Pinky Chan and Emily Leung, both Hong Kong expats who bonded in London over their burgeoning bakery businesses. Pinky was passionate about Japanese

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• BOX are now the people opening that huge sports bar on Piccadilly Circus

   

  Updated 13/10/25 with launch details

  For a long time new sports bar Blackwood was being previewed with huge hoardings in Piccadilly. It was supposed to be from the ETM Group, the people behind other sports bars like Greenwood in Victoria and Beechwood in Shoreditch. However, things went a little quiet on that front in recent months. Now it turns out that a

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• Here's everything you need to try at Tower Bridge's new food hall the Tower Bridge Collective

  

  With food halls in Sheffield and Manchester, Blend Family have moved down to London for their latest opening. Tower Bridge Collective features 13 traders and two bars in a spot that isn't currently blessed with that many street food options. They've taken over a space that's just off Shad Thames within steps of the southern side of the bridge.

  And with a food list that features both Northern and London-based

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• Humble Grape's latest wine bar is in a City of London 11th century crypt

  

  A new Humble Grape wine bar is on the way to the City, and this one has managed to grab a pretty special location. It'll be opening in the 11th-century crypt of St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside (taking over the space that used to be Café Below). 

• Battersea's Four Thieves pub is reborn as The Thieves, with Balans on food duty

  

  Since August, Battersea's Four Thieves pub has been undergoing a big renovation and now it's coming out the other end of that as a "new" pub, The Thieves. 

  In its previous incarnation, the pub had an arcade and was big on events and karaoke. Now it's really leaning into that, describing itself as "a playground for adults". The upstairs arcade, now called The

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• Kiln chef Meedu Saad unveils his plans for a new Soho charcoal grill restaurant Impala

  

  It's been in the planning stages for quite a while, but now ex-Kiln chef Meedu Saad has lined up his solo restaurant.

  Called Impala, named after the car he drove around during summers in Egypt, it's a restaurant with a menu that centres around the charcoal grill, itself right in the middle of the dining room. That space has been designed together with Kiln's Ben Chapman and Dan

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• After 50 years Sale e Pepe is expanding with Sale e Pepe Mare at The Langham London

  

  It's been a troubled few years at The Langham, which has struggled to find a solid proposition for its main restaurant space since Roux at the Landau closed back in 2023. They did try to follow that with Mimosa from French group Moma, but that folded after a scant five months of service.

  But news today suggests that a new lease of life for the restaurant may be just around the corner. The Thesleff Group, who run Los

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• Cô Thành to bring a taste of Southern Vietnam to Covent Garden

  

  9/10/25 - updated with the opening date

  If you were wondering what would replace Frenchie in Covent Garden we finally have the answer and it’s great news for fans of Vietnamese food: Cô Thành is coming. Inspired by the international legend that is the Lunch Lady, aka Mrs Nguyễn Thị Thanh (who sadly

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