New opening

• Wine bar Finch heads to Brixton Village, specialising in English Wines

  

  Updated 27/10/23 with opening date and launch offer

  The people of Brixton Village have a new reason to celebrate, they’re about to get a brand-new wine bar, and one that champions English wines, no less.

  It’s called Finch and while it will feature a curated selection of world wines, they’ll be focusing on small and experimental winemakers, whether you fancy a

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• From Spain via the Ukraine, Boca a Boca will serve up tapas on Charlotte Street

  

  War may be ravaging their country, but Ukrainians are still getting up every day and going to work and that includes opening new restaurants. And one that opened its doors in Kyiv last year is getting ready to expand to London. Boca a Boca was set up by Ukrainian entrepreneur, Andrii Nikonov, who wanted to open somewhere in Kyiv to share his love of Spanish food.

  Now he's bringing Boca a Boca to London where

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• Louie Louie is gone but Saint Louie has risen in Walworth

  

  It's been a while since the dark days of Covid, but the pandemic's effect on London's hospitality trade is still being felt. Popular South East London cafe Louie Louie was the most recent victim, having to close its restaurant on Walworth Road "mainly due to our landlord's intransigence by insisting on 100% of the rent throughout lockdown."

  But when one door closes another opens, and for the Louie Louie

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• Bar Levan wine bar takes over from Larry's in Peckham

  

  Larry's may be gone, along with chef Nicholas Balfe who is concentrating on his restaurant Holm in Somerset, but Bar Levan is rising in its place. That's coming from Levan co-founders Mark Gurney and Matt Bushnell and will be their new Peckham wine bar. 

  Taking over the old Larry's spot, right next to Levan, they say they're inspired by Parisian bars like Aux Deux Amis and Septime La

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• Dalla will serve up homestyle Italian dishes in Hackney

  

  25/10/23 - updated with the opening date

  Last week we brought you news on what was going to be taking over the old Bright site in London Fields. Now we've got the scoop on what's going in the group's other defunct restaurant site, Peg, on Morning Lane. Dalla sees three

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• Ixchel Mexican restaurant and tequila bar comes to the King's Road

  

  25/10/23 - updated with the opening date

  London's Mexican dining scene continues to get ever better with the upcoming restaurant Ixchel in Chelsea. 

  Headed up by chef Ximena Gayosso Gonzalez, previously at Brat, Ella Canta and Dulce Patria in Mexico City, it features ceviches, tacos and tostadas among other dishes like:

  • Sauteed prawn
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• The Mamasons team are opening Donia at Kingly Court in Carnaby

  

  Two years after opening their hugely popular Filipino bakery Panadera in Kentish Town, the powerhouse duo behind that and Mamasons, Bintang and Guanabana are heading to Carnaby for their next restaurant.

  Donia is taking over the space in Kingly Court left vacant by Imad's Syrian Kitchen's departure. Hot Dinners tracked down co-founder Florence Mae Maglanoc, who's in charge of this particular project, to

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• The Wolseley City prepares to open in the heart of the City of London

  

  Updated 24/10/23 with opening date

  Twenty years after Messrs Corbin & King turned a former car showroom into one of London's best-known restaurants, the Wolseley is getting ready to welcome a sibling restaurant to the fold. The Wolseley City will be the second new opening from The Wolseley Hospitality Group (created after Corbin and King's departure), after Manzi's opens in

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• Ottolenghi comes to Hampstead

  

  They opened in Chelsea back in January 2022, so it's been a while since their last opening, but now a new Ottolenghi is on the way, this time coming to Hampstead. 

  Taking over the space that was once Kojo, the new location should be fairly similar in approach to the other Ottolenghis. So

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• Tarn Bakery sees ex-Pophams and Flor baker opening on the Archway/Highgate border

  

  Lucky North Londoners are about to get a hot new bakery opening in their neighbourhood. Tarn Bakery is currently crowdfunding to open just off the Parkland Walk in the bit where Archway hits Highgate, taking over the old Trattoria Terra space.

  The folk behind it are Florin Grama and Felix Ortona Coles who met while working at St Barts restaurant in Smithfield. Florin is the baker with a career that includes time at

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• OshPaz is bringing Uzbek dumplings and plov to Regent Street

  

  You may have already tried his food at Seven Dials Market or the recent World Halal Food Festival (where Big Zuu really, really loved it) but now chef Muzaffar Sadykov is bringing his Uzbek food right into the West End. OshPaz will open on Regent Street, offering a handy place to grab and go for breakfast and lunch and then

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• Gaucho City is reopening after a big revamp - take a first look inside

  

  Gaucho in the City has just had a complete overhaul. Take a first sneak peek inside the new-look steak restaurant. 

• Ex-Fat Duck executive chef Ashley Palmer-Watts has big plans for The Garden Cobham

  

  He spent 20 years with the Fat Duck Group during which time The Fat Duck won a third star with him as head chef. He also opened Dinner by Heston which won two more. Now Ashley Palmer-Watts is getting ready to open a restaurant that's all his own.

  However, as befits a chef with that kind of top-level background, he's not just opening one restaurant he's opening a cluster of them. Palmer-Watts has

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• Searcys Champagne Bar comes to Battersea Power Station

  

  Updated 18/10/23 with opening date and launch offer

  The big refit of Battersea Power Station that we've seen over the past few years isn't finished yet. Next up for the station is a brand-new Champagne bar. 

  It comes from Searcys, whose most well-known bar is the one that aligns the Eurostar platform at St Pancras. They'd previously popped up at Battersea with

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• Ladbroke Hall sees art and dining collide in Notting Hill

  

  17/10/23 - Updated with a look inside and details of the menu

  Back in 1903 the UK's first purpose-built car factory and showroom opened in Notting Hill. In the intervening years, the building has had many other uses including, most recently, operating as a photography studio. Now it's in its most recent iteration as Ladbroke Hall, a self-styled 'arts stage' which brings together

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