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- Cantinetta Antinori comes to London with Florentine T-bones and fine wines
Updated 31/3/23 with more details
The Antinori family are arguably the most famous name in Italian wines, so it's fair to expect that their upcoming London restaurant will have a pretty decent wine list. Cantinetta Antinori will be an interesting team-up in Knightsbridge between the Italian winemakers and the Monaco family - the Giraudis - who opened Le Petit Beefbar in London last year.
The
... - Test Driving Jacuzzi - Big Mamma goes extra extra in Kensington
The latest restaurant from Big Mamma has arrived in Kensington and we got in early for a preview. Here's what to expect from Jacuzzi.
- Jacuzzi sees Big Mamma hit up Kensington High Street and go more extreme than ever
17 January 2023 - Updated with a look inside
Big Mamma never do things by halves but they're taking things one step further as they head west to Kensington for their next restaurant Jacuzzi.
It's their next big opening after Ave
... - Garum is top Roman chef Arcangelo Dandini's first London restaurant
Five years after popping up in London as part of food writer Daniel Young's Young & Foodish's Spaghetti Wednesday, top Roman chef Arcangelo Dandini is back, this time with a permanent restaurant.
Garum is the chef's 60-seater restaurant in Queensway which opened rather under the radar last month. With it, Dandini is hoping to share his devotion to Roman food with Londoners - "to bring the best ingredients in
... - Tozi Grand Cafe is opening at Battersea's new art'otel
The openings at Battersea Power Station are coming thick and fast. On the heels of the main opening last month, we're now hearing about a new Italian coming to the area. TOZI has long been one of the good places to eat down near Victoria station. Way before any of the Nova openings, this critically
... - US restaurant Sparrow Italia launches in Mayfair
19/9/22 - updated with images and menus
If Mayfair wasn’t already buzzing with forthcoming new restaurant openings, here is news of another. This time it’s by way of Los Angeles as well as the southern European coast. Allow us to explain.
Hospitality group Noble 33 first launched fine-dining Italian restaurant Sparrow Italia in downtown Los Angeles late last year and now they’re
... - Salt Yard have brought Mediterranean tapas to Borough
Salt Yard are growing again. They only recently expanded to Westfield and now the latest Salt Yard has opened in Borough.
As with their previous openings, it's a combo of Spanish and Italian tapas in a venue that's decked out with lots of exposed brickwork. The
... - Test Driving Maria G's - seasonal Italian excellence in Kensington
Maria G's is the latest restaurant from Robin Gill which sees the chef creating an Italian restaurant in Kensington. We went in to check it out.
- Lina Stores expands its pasta empire to The City and Marylebone
18/05/21 - updated with Marylebone opening date
Fans of Lina Stores, the distinctive pistachio-green pasta restaurant and deli, are being rewarded with a couple of new openings.
First up (and open now), Lina Stores City has taken over the Bloomberg Arcade site that was previously
... - Palazzo in Crystal Palace is an Italian bar and diner from the Made of Dough boys
A Hot Dinners exclusive
If you're a Crystal Palace resident wondering what's happening at the old Church Grill site on Church Road, well we have news for you. The space has been taken over by the team behind pizzeria Made of Dough and will reopen as Palazzo - an all-day Italian bar and diner.
Music is going to be at the heart of this new SE19 place. They'll have a record library and a regularly changing DJ
... - Cicchetti is coming to Knightsbridge
San Carlo already have two Cicchettis in London (and a few more restaurants too) and now they're gearing up for a third - this time in Knightsbridge.
As with their previous restaurants, it'll all centre around "contemporary Italian dining" with fresh pasta dishes, pizza, fish and meat-focused "carne" plates alongside a selection of fritti dishes. Here's a taste from their current
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High-end Italian in Covent Garden
- Emilia's Crafted Pasta is opening in Canary Wharf's Wood Wharf
Emilia's Crafted pasta gets ready to open its third restaurant, this time in the new Canary Wharf development Wood Wharf. Expect their much-loved fresh pasta dishes, new snacks, a bar with tabletop games and lots more...
- San Carlo have opened Isola in St Christopher's Place, and it's a looker
St Christopher's Place has upgraded its Italian restaurant offering. Taking over the space long held by Carluccios is Isola. It's the latest opening from the San Carlo Group (who run Alto on the rooftop at Selfridges and Signor Sassi Knightsbridge and Cicchetti Piccadilly among others).
Billed as a Sicilian Grand Café they've gone all out with the interiors bringing in design company Fettle who were
... - Test Driving Il Borro London - a Tuscan bistro Mayfair-style
The Ferragamo family have brought their Tuscan bistro to the heart of Mayfair. We went along for cocktails and pasta.
