Carnaby

• Heard heads to Soho with its burgers from a two Michelin-starred chef

  

  Just six months after he graduated from slinging burgers in a food truck to opening a burger restaurant in Borough, chef Jordan Bailey is already planning an expansion of his burger empire. The chef who won two Michelin stars at his now-closed Irish restaurant Aimsir had a slew of great reviews for his smash burgers at Heard. But now he's expanding both the restaurant and menu with a new opening in Carnaby.

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• Alta will be a taste of Northern Spain in Carnaby when it opens at Kingly Court

  

  It's been a while since we reported on chef Rob Roy Cameron. Back in 2017 and 2018, he worked on two projects with mixologist Tony Conigliaro, Untitled in Dalston and Gazelle in Mayfair. And the reason we're talking about him now is that he's back in London and about to open a very interesting new restaurant, this time in Carnaby.

  ALTA takes as its culinary starting point open fire cooking and the food

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• Test Driving Himi, a neo-izakaya lighting up the Carnaby dining scene

  

  The founders of Roji have switched their attentions to this more casual Japanese affair just off Carnaby Street. We took a seat at the counter to check out what Himi has to offer. 

• Roji chefs to launch new Japanese izakaya Himi in Carnaby

  

  10/1/24 - Updated with the opening date

  For the last two years, chefs Tamas Naszai and Tomoko Hasegawa have been running omakase restaurant Roji in Mayfair (which we thought was excellent). Now Roji is (temporarily) shut while the chefs launch a brand new restaurant in Carnaby.

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• A second Donutelier is coming, to Carnaby

  

  10/11/24 - updated with the opening date

  Step this way, doughnut fans. Following the success of Donutelier’s launch on Charing Cross Road last year, comes news of their second London outlet, which will open in Carnaby St for all those must-find-munchies-in-Soho

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• Viral Basque cheesecake folk La Maritxu are heading to Carnaby

  

  I think we can safely say that anyone opening a Basque cheesecake shop in London right now is on to a good thing. Certainly, that was the experience of La Maritxu which went down a storm with its original cake shop in Connaught Village. Within days there were queues down the road and a slew of videos on TikTok rhapsodising about it. 

  Now the three Spanish sisters behind this one dish wonder are

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• Goldies is the Blanchette team's new live fire restaurant in Carnaby

  

  We've known for a while that the folk behind popular Soho spot Blanchette were planning to open a place in Carnaby's Kingly Court. But they've moved faster than anticipated and Goldies is now open.

  Billed as a "wood-fired dining experience" the focus of the restaurant is that grill. They'll be serving up a selection of small and large plates where the key connection is that smoky flavour that live fire cooking

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• Test Driving The Counter Soho - a burst of Mediterranean hospitality in the heart of Carnaby

  

  Having already scored a hit in Notting Hill chef Kemal Demirasal has brought his Mediterranean and Levantine dishes to Carnaby. We went to check it out.

• The Little Violet Door brings the house party to Carnaby

  

  17/5/24 - Updated with the opening date

  There are already Orange, Yellow, Scarlet and Blue Little Doors bars across London, and now a Violet one is about to join them, this time in Carnaby. 

  The Little Violet Door, like its siblings, will be set up like a fictional house party (if someone you knew just so happened to have a massive basement flat in the centre of

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• Test Driving Donia - the best of British produce with Filipino flair in Carnaby

  

  Donia in Kingly Court takes inspiration from Filipino food, using British produce with European flourishes. We went down to see how that translates in practice.