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- Be the first to try Elephant Hackney with 50% off your food bill
Hot Dinners readers are invited to be the first in to check out new East London pub Elephant Hackney serving up Southern Italian food and more, with a 50% discount on their food bill.
Offer: 50% off the food bill
Where: 43 Lower Clapton Rd, Lower Clapton, London E5 0NS
When: Dinner only 2-3 July. Lunch and dinner 4-6 July 2025.
- Duck and Rice is opening a new place in Battersea on its tenth anniversary
Updated 16/6/25 with opening date
It's been almost 10 years since Alan Yau took over a Soho pub and transformed it into Duck and Rice. A decade on, it seems it's time to expand as it's the latest place to find itself making its way to Battersea Power Station with a new location.
If you're unfamiliar with the Soho original, they describe themselves as a "Soho
... - Tom Kerridge's Butcher's Tap is being relaunched as The Chalk Freehouse
Earlier this week, there was news that Tom Kerridge's Chelsea pub, The Butcher's Tap and Grill was closing, with the team behind it saying it gave them "an opportunity to regroup, rethink and rebuild".
It turns out that they didn't need that much thinking time, because there are already plans to reopen it as a new pub, The Chalk Freehouse.
The new pub will be
... - The team behind The Pelican are opening The Hart beside Chiltern Firehouse
It's been a busy few months for The Public House Group. The company, who are behind The Pelican and The Hero pubs, pulled a double in Notting Hill, opening Canteen and The Fat Badger there in quick succession.
Now we hear that they've set their sights on a new pub much closer to the centre
... - Molly Mc's singing pub is coming to Southwark
9/4/25 - updated with new pics and an opening date
You may have spotted videos on your social (or maybe it's just our algorithm) of a rise in London pubs offering proper sing songs, whether that's trad Irish tunes or music with a broader appeal. Now it's Southwark's turn as the team behind Mc & Sons in Borough and Vauxhall are opening their very first singing pub in Southwark.
Molly Mc's is
... - A Cornish fisherman's pub has landed in London outside The Ambassadors Theatre
Covent Garden has a new pub, but this isn't any ordinary pub. It's a little slice of Cornwall come to town, themed with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button play currently on at The Ambassadors Theatre.
The Pickled Crab is a custom-built Cornish pub that can be found in the street outside the theatre, and is based on the fictional boozer on the Cornish coast where Benjamin "meets the only woman he will ever
... - Alfie's at Belgravia pub The Alfred Tennyson will offer tableside theatre and a 'black book' of wine
2025 continues to be a year of dining well in London pubs. The latest central London boozer to take things up a notch is Belgravia pub The Alfred Tennyson, which is just getting ready to unveil a new upstairs dining room.
Alfie's will offer a very different menu to the general pub food downstairs, with a series of dishes created by the pub's Executive chef Ben Tish and Head Chef Stevie Phillip
... - The Pocket pub in Canonbury is the new pub from The Southampton Arms team
London's pub scene is thriving in 2025 and this latest news from Islington is very good indeed. If you're a north Londoner you'll probably know of The Southampton Arms in Kentish Town. It's a gorgeous, old-school (and tiny) spot up near Parliament Hill that specialises in ale and cider.
Well. the same team behind that are responsible for taking over a long-closed site on Canonbury Lane in Islington, where they're
... - Test Driving The Knave of Clubs - an instant-hit pub arrives in Shoreditch
A classic Shoreditch pub is reborn in the modern age, backed up with a great pub menu from ex-Allegra chef Patrick Powell. We tried out The Knave of Clubs (and didn't want to go home).
- The Baring team to open The Kerfield Arms pub in Camberwell
The team behind highly-rated Islington pub The Baring, are heading south of the river for their second opening, The Kerfield Arms in Camberwell.
Taking over what was The Crooked Well, which closed at the end of last year, it sounds like they'll be taking a lot of what worked very well at the Baring (it was the highest new entry in the Top 50 Gastropubs list last year) and bringing
... - Test Driving The Prince Arthur - the fresh prince of Belgravia
The Prince Arthur is a new pub in Belgravia that's doing things a little differently, with a Basque food menu and lots of (own brand) caviar on offer. We went along to check it out.
- UK's Top 50 Gastropubs announced - Unruly Pig at no 1, The Devonshire straight in at no 2
The first big awards of the 2025 season are here as the Top 50 UK Gastropubs list has been revealed. For the second year in a row (and its third time in total), Suffolk pub The Unruly Pig has claimed the top spot. We visited The Unruly Pig last year and can definitely see what all the fuss is about -
... - The Knave of Clubs brings in chef Patrick Powell for this Shoreditch pub revival
We hinted in our 2025 preview feature that former Midland Grand and Allegra chef Patrick Powell had some interesting projects on the horizon for this year. Now we're in a position to be able to tell you more. Turns out he's teamed up with a group of hugely talented hospitality folk to work on the revival of a
... - The Dark Horse in Camden sees Le Bab running a pub
The Farrier in Camden closed late last year, but it hasn't taken long for another new pub to spring up in its place. The Dark Horse takes over the site in the old Camden stable area and also happens to come from the same people as Le Bab.
The food won't be a repeat of Le Bab or Kebab Queen, however, as it'll instead focus on traditional pub classics. So you can expect their own take on fish
... - Test Driving William IV - a perfect example of a good pub dining room
We should all be so lucky to have a pub Dining Room like the William IV in our neighbourhood.
