In Paris and St Tropez they're responsible for a roster of hotter-than-hot restaurants, including Loulou and Girafe, and now the Loulou Groupe are heading to London for their first UK opening.
The team have taken over a Grade II listed building in the heart of Mayfair with plans for a fine dining restaurant. 16 Charles Street has quite the history as a party place. Back in the 1920s, it was owned…
Read more: Paris's Loulou Groupe heads to London with a fine dining restaurant in Mayfair
New restaurant and bar Boiler and Co is heading to Bankside and has a very interesting chef heading up the menu - Kerth Gumbs. Last seen at Ormer Mayfair, he also made a big splash in the final of Great British menu last year.
Here, he'll have a menu of small plates that will have references to his home of Anguilla with dishes like:
Read more: Boiler and Co in Bankside has Great British Menu finalist Kerth Gumbs in the kitchen
Piccadilly is getting a stunning new rooftop bar and restaurant.…
Read more: The Sky Bar & Lounge set to tower over Piccadilly on top of the Trocadero
Following their Covent Garden restaurant (which doubled in size after they opened it), Rob Hampton and Matt Lovell, aka The Oystermen, are getting ready to open their next restaurant. This time they're heading south to West Dulwich to launch Walter's.
Heading up the kitchen is Head Chef Khalid Hassan (previously at Social Eating House and Murano) and there will be a menu of British…
Read more: The Oystermen are opening Walter's in West Dulwich
Updated 26/11/21 with new opening details
When one door closes, another opens and Londoners have definitely got the better end of the deal with this particular restaurant changeover on Argyll Street.
Taking over the old Garfunkels site, beloved only of confused tourists, is the udon chain Marugame. It'll be Marugame's third opening in quick succession in the city, following their arrival in Spita…
Read more: Marugame Udon are opening at Oxford Circus and St Christopher's Place
During the pandemic, one of the restaurants to close was the long-running Bar Boulud, one of two key restaurants at the Mandarin Oriental (the other is Dinner by Heston).
But now they've just announced the successor - The Aubrey, which is being billed as "an eccentric Japanese izakaya experience". It's apparently the first Uk restaurant by Maximal Concepts, a Hong Kong restaurant group…
Read more: The Aubrey at the Mandarin Oriental is their new izakaya-style restaurant
Having stormed to success in its Heddon Street residency, Fallow has moved up the road to St James. We went to check out their new digs.…
They already have two London stores at the Westfield supermalls, but in the run up to Christmas you can now try all manner of sweet treats from My Cookie Dough's first central London popup.
This week they're opening up a festive popup on Charing Cross Road, just around the corner from Leicester Square. And, in addition to their usual flavours they're putting on two specials just for this spot.
Th…
Earlier this year, JKS (Gymkhana, Hoppers) and James Knappett (Kitchen Table) teamed up with publican Dominic Jacobs (The Running Horse) to re-launch The Cadogan Arms - but this wasn't a one-off. The same team are already opening their second pub - a relaunch of The George in Fitzrovia.
The pub is a three-storey Georgian building and, like the Cadogan Arms, has had a pretty extensive renova…
Read more: The George in Fitzrovia is the next JKS & James Knappett pub
Some London restaurants are happy to put up a few baubles and bits of tinsel in the run-up to Christmas and consider themselves fully decorated.
Then, there are the places who truly understand the assignment and go all-out.
High rise City restaurant Duck & Waffle is definitely the latter type of place. For the festive season they've quite literally transformed the restaurant and bar into a sc…
Read more: Duck & Waffle turns into the Polar Express for the festive season
Flesh & Buns are heading west for their third restaurant, opening up their latest just off High Street Kensington in January 2022. Taking over what was previously Sticky Fingers on Phillimore Gardens, the new site will be their biggest yet and will offer Flesh & Buns’ usual Japanese izakaya and Nikkei-inspired dishes, along with whisky, sake, and beers for the full experience.
The food me…
Read more: Flesh & Buns head to Kensington for their latest restaurant
24/11/21 - updated with info about Marylebone
Fans of Lina Stores, the distinctive pistachio-green pasta restaurant and deli will be delighted with the news that they are branching out and they have some significant plans. Brace yourselves, though; we have mixed emotions, given they’re taking over the premises of some pretty impressive London venues, which won’t be re-opening.
First up (and open…
Read more: Lina Stores expands its pasta empire into The City, Clapham and Marylebone
A Hot Dinners exclusive
There have been rumblings for some time that top chef Nuno Mendes was fully returning to the London restaurant scene. Since leaving his previous Shoreditch restaurant, Maos, he's been popping up from time to time (like doing brunch at The Scolt Head) but we've been eagerly waiting for a new restaurant.
For fans, like us, who have followed his career since the ear…
Read more: Lisboeta is Nuno Mendes' new Lisbon-inspired Charlotte Street restaurant
Chelsea has a new neighbourhood dining spot. Newly opened at The Cadogan, A Belmond Hotel, on Sloane Street is The LaLee.…
Read more: First look - we check out The LaLee at The Cadogan
After closing their Shoreditch restaurant during lockdown, the folks behind the Jones Family Project have bounced back again and are about to open in Covent Garden.
The Jones Family Affair takes over the large space that used to be home to Les Deux Salons on William IV Street. If you've been to either their Eccleston Yards space or the old Shoreditch spot you'll know that Jones Family restaurants…
Read more: The Jones Family Affair brings Ginger Pig steaks and more to Covent Garden
