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  • Bone Daddies are bringing their ramen to Leicester Square

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    Updated 2/10/23 with opening date and launch offer

    Just over a decade since they first served up a steaming bowl of ramen to Londoners Bone Daddies are gearing up to open their eighth restaurant. The new place will be just opposite Leicester Square tube station making it a super handy spot for shoppers and tourists alike.

    Taking over two floors of a site between Leicester Square and

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  • Milan's Paper Moon comes to London as part of The OWO on Whitehall

    Milan's Paper Moon comes to London as part of The OWO on Whitehall

    2/10/23 - Updated with details of the menu and new images

    Paper Moon is the first restaurant to open at The OWO that's outside of the main Raffles hotel. The high-end Italian restaurant hails from Milan, with the original opening there in 1977 and they also have restaurants in Doha, The Algarve, Hong Kong and more. They say that the space in London has been designed around the

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  • LULA sees chef Paul Delrez giving Med vibes in Queen's Park

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    Over the summer, Queen's Park residents have had an early look at a brand new restaurant on Lonsdale Road. LULA has been running residencies and private events for the past month or so, gearing up to today's opening. Describing themselves as an 'all-day dining Modern European restaurant' the really interesting thing about this place is the executive chef they've brought in.

    Paul Delrez may not be a household name here,

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  • Here are all the restaurants and bars opening at The OWO

    The New Raffles London at the Old War Office will have a lot of new restaurants

    Many of London's well-known historic buildings have been turned into hotels (work is also apace on Admiralty Arch and the

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  • The Som Saa duo are opening Kolae Thai bar and grill in Borough Market

    Som Saa duo are opening Kolae in Borough Market

    28/9/23 - updated with the opening date and menu details

    We knew way back in 2019 that the people behind Som Saa, Mark Dobbie and Andy Oliver, had a successful crowdfunder for a new restaurant. But with the pandemic messing up the timing a little, things went quiet - until now. The

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  • Phil Howard's Notto pasta bar is coming to Covent Garden

    Phil Howard's Notto pasta bar is coming to Covent Garden

    28/9/23 - updated with the opening date

    Last year, top chef Phil Howard (of Michelin-starred Elystan Street) got into London's ever-growing fresh pasta scene with Notto, just off Piccadilly Circus. In our original story, we asked "will there be more of them to come" and the answer to that seems to be yes, as new reaches us of a second Notto pasta bar that's being planned for Covent

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  • Breddos Tacos are coming to Stoke Newington

    Breddos Tacos are coming to Stoke Newington

    We've seen a sudden influx of new taco restaurants of late. Two have been from footballers and another incoming taco joint is from a Hollywood star. So it's actually something of a change to see one of London's OG taco restaurants open a second location - and that's what we have

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  • Bambi takes over the Bright site in London Fields

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    27/9/23 - updated with the opening date

    If you've been wondering what's going to take over the old Bright space in Netil House then we have the story for you. It's been bought by James Dye - the co-owner of Frank’s Café in Peckham and The Camberwell Arms. He's opening it as Bambi which is being described as a music-led wine bar and restaurant.

    The name isn't a nod to Disney but

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  • SideChick mixes cocktails and American soul food in an old Brixton pie and mash shop

    SideChick mixes cocktails and American soul food in an old Brixton pie and mash shop

    A new cocktail bar is coming to Brixton that looks like it will be well worth your attention. 

    It all comes from April Jackson, owner of Wood and Water and who you might have seen on The Apprentice and more TV besides. She's previously opened bars with partner Lee Tan in Pop Brixton, but this is their first permanent cocktail

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  • Honey & Co Daily in Bloomsbury is the latest restaurant from Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich

    Honey & Co Daily in Bloomsbury is the latest restaurant from Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich

    Updated 27/9/23 with imagery and menu details

    A new Honey and Co is on the way from Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich. It's their second time in Bloomsbury as they get ready to open Honey & Co Daily. 

    Almost halfway between Honey and Spice and their main Honey and Co restaurant, the new space is just off Tottenham

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  • Colonel Saab's second Indian restaurant is off Trafalgar Square

    Colonel Saab's second Indian restaurant will be off Trafalgar Square 

    They must be doing very well in Holborn, because the team behind Colonel Saab are about to unveil a second restaurant. 

    Opening about two years after they launched the first place, they've taken over the space that was Les Deux Salons near Trafalgar Square. That's been empty for a while, so it'll be good to see something back up and running in there. The

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  • Il Gattopardo is a new high-end Italian for Mayfair by the group behind Zuma and Amazonico

    Il Gattopardo is a new high-end Italian for Mayfair by the group behind Zuma and Roka

    Updated 25/9/23 with opening date and menu details

    A new high-end Italian restaurant is heading to Mayfair. This time, it's the turn of Il Gattopardo, a restaurant that they say is inspired by 1960s Italy. 

    It's got something of a pedigree, however, coming from the same restaurant group that brought us Bar De Pres, Zuma, Roka and

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  • Bébé Bob is Bob Bob Ricard's spin-off Soho restaurant

    Bebé Bob is Bob Bob Ricard's spin-off Soho restaurant

    23/9/23 - Updated with the opening date

    It's been almost 15 years since Bob Bob Ricard first opened their restaurant in Soho, with its infamous "press for Champagne" buttons. Since then, the glitzy restaurant has launched a second Bob Bob Ricard in the City, but is returning to Soho for its third opening, Bébé Bob (taking over from what used to be Folie on Golden Square). 

    This marks

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  • Café Lapérouse is coming to London, opening at the OWO in Whitehall

    Café Lapérouse is coming to London, opening at the OWO in Whitehall

    23/9/23 - Updated with the opening date

    It's all hotting up at the OWO. The massive revamp of the Old War Office, adds a new Raffles hotel to London not to mention upcoming restaurants from Mirazur's Mauro Colagreco as well as the arrival of

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  • Fowl sees the Fallow team launching a pop up chicken shop

    Fowl sees the Fallow team launching a chicken shop

    We've heard murmurings of something new coming from Fallow but while we wait to hear about that, they've a new offshoot that's almost next door to their St James restaurant.

    Inside St James's Market, they've taken over what was The Beau Brummell, a relatively short-lived pub from Cubitt House. The pop up is called Fowl, and is promising to be a "chicken shop like no other" and in keeping with their

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