Bloomsbury

• Raved-about Cafe Mama Pho is coming to Bloomsbury next

  

  18/9/25 - updated with the opening date

  Family-run business Cafe Mama Pho got a namecheck in this week's My Manor when new Bodean's chef Richard Turner raved about their phở and fish sauce chicken wings. But they've also got some new opening news to share too. In addition to their OG cafe

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• Test Driving Honey & Co Daily - the team has another hit (and lots of cake)

  

  Honey & Co's latest place is part deli (filled with amazing breads and patisserie) and part restaurant. We went along to try out their new evening menu. 

• RAI omakase restaurant returns, this time in Bloomsbury

  

  RAI, from the same people behind Islington's Hot Stone, originally launched in Fitzrovia before closing last year. But now the restaurant is back again in a different location, just up the road in Bloomsbury. 

  The food is once again led by Executive Chef Padam Raj Rai (previously at Nobu, Sake no Hana and Tsukiji) and it'll be an omakase-only restaurant, with dishes in the

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• Honey & Co Daily in Bloomsbury is the latest restaurant from Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich

  

  Updated 27/9/23 with imagery and menu details

  A new Honey and Co is on the way from Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich. It's their second time in Bloomsbury as they get ready to open Honey & Co Daily. 

  Almost halfway between Honey and Spice and their main Honey and Co restaurant, the new space is just off Tottenham

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• Hot Dinners celebrates The Murphia List 2023 with a party at The Bloomsbury Hotel

  

  The approach to St Patrick's Day marks that time of year again when we release our annual Murphia List - Hot Dinners' celebration of the Irish who work in London's hospitality industry. We always love to throw a bit of a party for its launch so

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• The best restaurants near the British Museum

  

  If you've been visiting the huge British Museum, you're definitely going to be needing some refueling afterwards. We've picked out some of the very best restaurants within 10 minutes walk from the museum. 

• Test Driving Honey & Co's new Bloomsbury home on Lamb's Conduit Street

  

  After ten years on Warren Street, Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich have moved their popular Middle Eastern restaurant Honey & Co to Bloomsbury. We went to pay them a visit in their new home. 

• Riding House Cafe is coming to Bloomsbury

   

  Another Riding House Cafe is on the way - this time to Bloomsbury. They've already been pretty successful over in Fitzrovia for over ten years and also with the Rail House Cafe in Victoria. As with those before it, the new Riding House Cafe will be a modern brasserie and will find its home in the Brunswick Centre and they're aiming for a club-like feeling with this one (no membership needed, of course). 

• Anime-themed restaurant Uzumaki is heading to Bloomsbury

  

  Last year you may have spotted the arrival of London's first anime-themed ramen restaurant, Uzumaki. It popped up on High Holborn serving a selection of ramen, sushi and bubble team in a Naruto-themed restaurant. And when we say anime themed, we really mean anime-all-in because the restaurant became known for its cosplay and ramen promotions where customers were encouraged to turn up dressed as their

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• Honey & Co are opening in Bloomsbury

  

  There was more than a little surprise when the news was revealed that Honey & Co was closing on Warren Street in April after 10 years. But now we have much better news, in that it's reopening fairly close by, in Bloomsbury. 

  They're taking over what used to be Cigala on Lamb's

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• Punk Pasta brings vibrant plant-based pasta to Bloomsbury's Brunswick Centre

  

  There's a lot of change afoot at Bloomsbury's Brunswick centre at the moment, we've had new openings like Tian Tian supermarket and now they're about to get a new plant-based pasta restaurant, Punk Pasta. 

  It comes from Erich Ribeiro, best known for

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• Test Driving Cafe Deco - a Bloomsbury delight of thoughtful cooking

  

  Anna Tobias' first solo venture Cafe Deco has been quietly building a fanbase in Bloomsbury. It was definitely time to make a visit. 

• Galvin brothers to open Galvin Bar & Grill at the Kimpton Fitzroy on Russell Square

  

  There's a changing of the guard at the Kimpton Fitzroy hotel on Russell Square as hotel restaurant experts the Galvin Brothers get ready to take over the space where Neptune was.

  Where there used to be seafood served up, the menu will now take inspiration from ethically sourced meat as Chris and Jeff are teaming up with Head Chef Adam Gray who was part of the launch team of The Ethical Butcher.

  Galvin

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• Tian Tian Market's next Asian supermarket is in Bloomsbury

  

  The hugely popular Tian Tian Market is once again expanding - and this time it's heading to Bloomsbury (in The Brunswick centre). They're taking over what was the New Look store.

  If you've yet to encounter them, they first opened at South Quay and expanded to Aldgate for a frankly huge (and hugely popular) store earlier this year. They specialise in a range of Chinese,

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• Test Driving WC Bloomsbury - a subterranean wine bar that's big on charm

  

  We descend into the depths of a Grade II listed Victorian water closet to discover a bar that's big on charm.