Italian

• Dalla will serve up homestyle Italian dishes in Hackney

  

  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

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• Indegno is bringing Bolognese street food to Brick Lane

  

  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:

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• Brasseria Brompton is taking over the old La Brasserie site on Brompton Cross

  

  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

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• Super trendy Paris spot Daroco is heading to London's Soho

  

  3/10/23 - Updated with opening details

  We've already had the successful launch of Milk Beach and Kapara at the new area of Soho that is Ilona

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• Test of time - we return to Angela Hartnett's Murano to check out its new look, menu and head chef

  

  To celebrate its 15th birthday Angela Hartnett's Murano has had a makeover and brought in a new head chef. We went to check it out.

• Milan's Paper Moon comes to London as part of The OWO on Whitehall

  

  2/10/23 - Updated with details of the menu and new images

  Paper Moon is the first restaurant to open at The OWO that's outside of the main Raffles hotel. The high-end Italian restaurant hails from Milan, with the original opening there in 1977 and they also have restaurants in Doha, The Algarve, Hong Kong and more. They say that the space in London has been designed around the

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• Test Driving Brunswick House - a restaurant where the food and vibe are pitch perfect

  

  Jackson Boxer's Vauxhall restaurant not only looks like a beautiful film set, but the food is Oscar-worthy too. 

• Il Gattopardo is a new high-end Italian for Mayfair by the group behind Zuma and Amazonico

  

  Updated 25/9/23 with opening date and menu details

  A new high-end Italian restaurant is heading to Mayfair. This time, it's the turn of Il Gattopardo, a restaurant that they say is inspired by 1960s Italy. 

  It's got something of a pedigree, however, coming from the same restaurant group that brought us Bar De Pres, Zuma, Roka and

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• Test Driving Forza Wine - an instant smash hit overlooking the Thames

  

  Forza Wine have made an impressive jump from Peckham to the South Bank. We head out to their terrace to see how they've settled into the National Theatre.  

• Magenta, the modern Italian restaurant in King's Cross that you need to know about

   

  Magenta in King's Cross is turning out a menu of excellent modern Italian cuisine - we went down to try it for ourselves.

• Bocconcino Italian restaurant is coming to Soho

  

  Updated 10/9/23 with soft launch info

  It feels like only yesterday we were telling you about Mayfair’s Bocconcino opening a new restaurant on The Strand, but we’ve just heard it has been rescheduled until later in 2024. Hold onto your Bellinis, though, there’s a new

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• Aqua's next is Italian restaurant and cafe Luci in Covent Garden

  

  9/8/23 - Updated with the opening date

  They opened Shiro in Broadgate only late last year, but the Aqua Restaurant Group already have another restaurant lined up called Luci. They've taken over a space in The Yards section of  Covent Garden (once held by a Jack Wills store

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• Forza Wine are coming to the National Theatre

  

  Be it galleries or theatres, it seems that big London institutions have realised that it's now good sense to have an in-house restaurant that's a draw all in itself. Jose Pizarro at The Royal Academy, ...

• The Piccadilly Cicchetti is moving to a much bigger Grade II listed building

  

  Cicchetti must be doing rather well for themselves. Owned by the San Carlo Group (the same people who run the Selfridges rooftop restaurant), the Piccadilly Cicchetti is getting ready to move to a much bigger space - just down the road. 

  They're moving to part of the Grade II listed Piccadilly Arcade. It's a two-floored part of the arcade that will be double the

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• Lavo Ristorante heads to London from LA with its giant wagyu meatballs

  

  Is there room for another glitzy Italian restaurant in London? We ask because news reaches us of an American import, LAVO Ristorante, which is coming our way from America. It's part of the TAO Restaurant group which now also owns Hakkasan and Yauatcha, and this will be the group's first LAVO in Europe - they have several dotted across the states and one in Singapore.

  The London restaurant will be part of the new

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