Italian

12/3/24 - updated with the opening date

Almost 70 years after opening their first Italian restaurant on Goodge Street, the family behind Spaghetti House is getting ready to open a brand new place. A Braccetto in Earl's Court is being billed as a modern Italian trattoria focusing on regional Italian dishes.

And while the OG Spaghetti Houses are fully old-school, this latest opening is

The people behind La Mia Mamma, Italian restaurants in Chelsea and Notting Hill which got a big push by featuring on Stanley Tucci's "Searching for Italy", are getting ready to try something different with their next opening. 

Opening next door to their Notting Hill restaurant, taking over what used to be the La Mia Mamma deli, is Fish & Bubbles. This

One of London's most beautiful spaces now has a restaurant team to do it justice. We popped into Holland Park to check out the glamorous Belvedere.

Having just celebrated its 15th birthday, Soho restaurant Bocca di Lupo is still knocking it out of the park. We headed for the counter to see why it's now such an integral part of Soho's restaurant scene.

Just before Christmas, Neighbourhood restaurant Calici closed its doors in Belsize village, but it'll be back soon under a new name. It turns out, as first reported by the Ham and High, that celeb chef  Giancarlo Caldesi will be taking on the space, making it the second Caldesi restaurant in London (there's another in Bray as well as a

It isn't often that a restaurant manages to open in the middle of Soho in a fashion that's so completely under the radar we have to wait for a reader to let us know about it. But that's the case with Grasso which threw open its doors on Dean Street just before Christmas. Even rarer, this is a restaurant that's entirely independent and family-owned.

The family in question are the McCaffreys. Seanie runs the restaurant,

Arriving in Soho via Paris, Daroco offers up an Italian menu that's backed up by a very promising basement bar. We went down to try it out.  

After success launching Nessa in Soho, chef Tom Cenci is also taking on another restaurant by the same group, Mortimer House Kitchen. It'll be different to Soho's British menu though, with Mortimer House being a strictly Italian affair. 

The menu is apparently influenced by Cenci's family summers on the Amalfi coast and includes:

• Zucchini caesar with parmesan and

Opening very under the radar between Christmas and New Year in Chelsea is Tabisca, an Italian restaurant which started in Lecce. The original restaurant over there describes its offering as "dishes with particular attention to the flavours of Salento and Puglia". 

The restaurant has an enormous menu featuring everything from crostini to meat and cheese platters. But the main focus is meat with

A new restaurant has quietly opened in Mayfair, sneaking in before the end of the year. The Dover has taken over the space that was Moncks of Mayfair, which itself closed at the onset of the pandemic back in 2020 (after less than a year in business). 

As for this

Opening in Covent Garden, this Italian cafe and wine bar is very much a family affair. 

Running things will be Gianluca Capilungo (former Bar Manager for Aqua) and Asia Capilungo (previously a chef at Soho House and Cubitt House) who've joined up with their uncle Luca Capilungo as well as Asia’s partner Huzefa Sajawal (co-owner and Executive Chef of Fatt

Does Mayfair need another glitzy Italian restaurant. Il Gattopardo would suggest it does, particularly one where both the food and vibes are given equal weight.

25/10/23 - updated with the opening date

Last week we brought you news on what was going to be taking over the old Bright site in London Fields. Now we've got the scoop on what's going in the group's other defunct restaurant site, Peg, on Morning Lane. Dalla sees three

London is getting its own version of an Italian street food snack shop designed to be the perfect drinking food. Crescentina are a dish from the Emilia Romagna region of Italy - they're fried dough crescents (hence the name) that are filled with savoury ingredients.

Now Indegno which has three branches in Bologna is gearing up to open its first UK restaurant in East London. On the menu will be:

• Indegna -

Three years after the closure of La Brasserie on Brompton Road, a new owner is intending to breathe life into what was once a super-popular neighbourhood restaurant. Andrea and Alberto Fraquelli, who own La Brasseria Milanese in Marylebone and Brasseria Notting Hill are opening it as Brasseria Brompton. Taking on this restaurant space is particularly poignant for the brothers who used to come here with their