Chelsea

• Chelsea’s The Botanist gets a refurb alongside a new chef

  

  Sloane Square's The Botanist has just reopened after 10 weeks of refurbishment.

  The upmarket all-day bar and eatery will have more Champagne and botanical cocktails - always good news - plus a new all-day brasserie menu from the new executive chef, Ameya Bhalekar (The Savoy, Caprice Holdings’ 34 Mayfair, Soho House’s Road House).

  New dishes will include lighter ones like sea bass ceviche with citrus, pickled onion, jalapeño and sweet potato

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• Vegan restaurant Wulf and Lamb lands in Sloane Square

  With help from Franco Casolin, formerly of famous veggie Vanilla Blacks, Wulf & Lamb is bringing creative vegan cuisine to Sloane Square, where ackee fruit meets burritos and Ruby's of London provides animal-product free doughnuts.

• Get a taste of Bahrain in Chelsea with Villa Mama’s

  After a successful first opening in her home country, Bahraini chef Roaya is now opening the second branch of Villa Mama’s all the way over in London. 

• The Roasting Party brings Aussie snacks and coffee to Chelsea's Pavilion Road

  Australian coffee roasters are the latest opening on Chelsea's Pavilion Road, serving up toast with vegemite and top notch coffee

• Bill Granger is bringing Granger and Co to Chelsea's Pavilion Road

  

  12/6/17 - updated with opening date

  What: Granger & Co

  In a nutshell: Aussie all-day spot

  Summing it all up: Bill Granger brings his all day Aussie cafe to the Pavilion Road development in Chelsea

• Stecca brings fresh, simple Italian food to Chelsea’s Hollywood Road

  Stefano Stecca is keeping it simple in his latest project by using top grade ingredients to create traditional Italian cuisine, including Crudi - a raw fish dish made with freshly caught Cornish fish. Perfect for the warmer months.

• Has the Ed Stone been discovered at the Ivy Chelsea Garden?

  So this is a rather wonderful story. Yesterday morning a story hit Twitter that was almost too good to be true. It began when BBC News journalist Jack Evans tweeted that he and the Spectator's Political Editor, Katy Balls, had made one hell of a discovery.

• Clodagh McKenna pops up at Cheyne Walk Brasserie for the Chelsea Flower Show

  

  We're about to hit the point at which London finds floral inspiration in everything for the duration of the Chelsea Flower Show. And London's restaurants just love the opportunity to put their gardening gloves on and come up with flowery dishes and drinks.

  One such event worth seeking out will be Irish chef and writer Clodagh McKenna's pop-up at the Cheyne Walk Brasserie in West London. Her lovely-sounding menu will feature floral focused delights including roast

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• James Lowe teams up with Linton Hopkins for a Dine with Delta menu at Stamford Bridge

  If you're lucky enough to be enjoying the hospitality boxes at Stamford Bridge this season there's a hot new menu coming your way.

• ‘Best steak in the world’ is now available in Chelsea

   

  Meat-lovers pay attention: the best steak in the world has arrived in London, or at least according to Spanish meat master José Gordón, who’s spent his whole life in the quest for the perfect cut.

  Following his stint at Meatopia last year, where he brought his renowned beef steaks to the UK for the first time, José Gordón will be now be serving his legendary carpaccio, flank steak and more in Chelsea’s The World’s End Market.

  It’s a rare

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• Natoora open their first central London store on Sloane Square

  

  We were pretty excited last month by the news that superlative fruit and veg folk Natoora had opened a space in Selfridges, but they've gone one step further this week, opening their own standalone shop in Sloane Square. It's the second store for the company (they already have a store in Chiswick and a stall down near Maltby) but it's their first in central London and

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• Test driving Elystan Street - Phil Howard ditches Michelin for casual Chelsea style

  Phil Howard's new Chelsea restaurant is a total treat - lucky Elystan Street residents

• Vineet Bhatia London brings an Indian set menu to a Chelsea townhouse with VBL

  

  Vineet Bhatia is back in town. The former owner/chef of Michelin-starred Rasoi, is back at the same address with Vineet Bhatia London (aka VBL), creating a luxury five-course tasting menu that follows Vineet Bhatia’s evolution as a chef.

  At Vineet Bhatia London, diners will be taken on a sort of culinary journey through the past three decades of the Michelin-starred chef’s life. It will include a nod to the

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• Test Driving Bluebird - a Chelsea classic gets a big overhaul

   We Test Drive Chelsea's Bluebird restaurant, to see what changes a massive refurb and a new chef have brought.

• Phil Howard is opening Elystan Street in Chelsea

  

  Updated 16/9/16 with booking details

  He only left the two Michelin-starred The Square in March 2016, but Phil Howard already has another restaurant lined up. In his words "I still have unfinished business with food". He's opening Elystan Street in September - again teaming up with Rebecca Mascarenhas (they have Kitchen W9 and Sonny's Kitchen).

  It's early days for info, but what we do know is it'll

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