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It's been almost a decade since we last encountered the cooking of chef Alex Craciun in London. Back then, the chef had taken on the head chef position at Jason Atherton's Sosharu, for which he...

Updated 28/7/25 with launch offer They're rated the world’s 6th best artisan pizzeria chain by the 50 Top Pizza list and now Berberè are getting ready to expand more. They're opening their fourth...

One of the recent additions to the competitive socialising market in London is Fairgame, which opened its first grown-up funfair in Canary Wharf a few years back. That tirned out to be a big success and...

Food courts are very much a thing in London once more, and a new one has opened on Edgware Road that promises a shift away from the usual mix. The Food District is calling itself a "global food...

He's best known for being a Syrian chef and refugee who moved from pop up to permanent with Imad's Syrian Kitchen, where he's played host to King Charles. Now chef and restaurateur Imad Alarnab is...

We were big fans of the bar at The Clove Club when it was open. It was a great opportunity to try the food and a few cocktails there without signing up for the pricey tasting menu (the dinner menu...

It's been big in Thailand and now Khao-Sō-i is coming to Fitzrovia, bringing its Northern Thai soul food menu.  The restaurant started in Chiang Mai (before expanding to Bangkok) and its titular dish,...

Updated 24/7/25 with more details and imagery.  Jeremy King is definitely on a roll at the moment. He's opened The Park near Hyde Park, relaunched Le Caprice as Arlington and next he's going to be...

It's all change at one of Soho's longstanding Thai restaurants Patara, which has undergone a full 21st-century reimagining and emerged as Platapian. The new look and menu is the result of...

Popular pizza spot Alley Cats is on the expansion trail again - this time to the area that it seems everyone's trying to break into, Notting Hill.  Announcing the opening on their Instagram story...

The City has a brand new Italian worth checking out this summer. Campanelle is from the same team behind such classic London restaurants as Manicomio in Chelsea and Canto Corvino in Spitalfields...

If there's one thing London loves at the moment, it's a new local bakery. One of the more popular is Notting Hill's Layla Bakery, launched by Tessa Faulkner. And now we hear that they're looking to go...

After 12 years of giving the people of East London amazing homemade pasta, the folks at Burro e Salvio are calling it quits. But in the run up to their closure they've decided to go out with a bang,...

It would appear that London simply does not have enough smash burger restaurants as Junk is getting ready to open its second burger bar in Marylebone.  The first Junk (which hails from France) opened in...

Islington's about to get a new sushi restaurant, this time via Amsterdam. Sushi Fanatics, billed as a "hidden sushi izakaya", will be taking over the space from Hot Stone on Chapel Market.  The original...

There have been plenty of rumours of this in the mix for months now, but it looks as though the plans for the Crisp Pizza team to expand into central London have just got a step closer to reality. For...

There are some London restaurants whose closure is announced, accompanied by a sense of "well it was on the cards". That's definitively not the case with Victor Garvey at the Midland Grand, which...

18/7/25 - updated with the opening date Seven years after opening the wildly successful (and Michelin-starred) Sabor on Heddon Street, Nieves Barragán is getting ready to open her next restaurant. She'll be...

18/7/25 - updated with more details Just after Lisa Goodwin-Allen rejoined Northcote, after making a surprise departure announcement just two months prior (being sold to new owners helped with...