Chelsea

• The Trafalgar is the first new pub to be built on the King's Road in 100 years

  

  Chelsea's upcoming pub opening, The Trafalgar, has a few claims to fame. First the company behind it, the Three Cheers Pub Co, say theirs is the first new public house to be built on Chelsea's main shopping drag in more than a century. The building they're taking over also has its own history, having been designed by Sir Roger Blomfield who also built the UK Prime Minister's country pile, Chequers.

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• The best restaurants in Chelsea

  

  From longstanding neighbourhood favourites to more glitzy, new establishments, this part of town has it all. We pick out the best restaurants in Chelsea for your delectation. 

• Chelsea is getting a gorgeous new deli, handroll bar and pintxo restaurant courtesy of The Prince Arthur team

  

  Having already succeeded in showing what a high end pub experience could look like, courtesy of Belgravia's The Prince Arthur, the same team are now turning their attentions to the London food hall. To that end, they've taken on the space that used to be Le Deli Robuchon on the King's Road where

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• Corenucopia sees three-Michelin-starred chef Clare Smyth opening a "luxury bistro" in Chelsea

  

  We were already aware of Clare Smyth's plans to open a restaurant inside the new Admiralty Arch development next year, but it turns out she has something else planned too. 

  The chef, who has three Michelin stars at her Notting Hill restaurant Core, has revealed plans to open a new restaurant in Chelsea, called Corenucopia. She's billing the

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• My Manor, Bread Ahead founder Matthew Jones shares his favourite food and drink spots in Chelsea

  

  My Manor, Bread Ahead founder Matthew Jones shares his favourite food and drink spots in Chelsea

• Fantomas in Chelsea closes for a revamp after just nine months, with chef Chris Denney leaving

  

  It was one of the hottest new restaurants to open in Chelsea for a while, but now Fantomas has closed its doors and its chef has departed. 

  Chris Denney was the driving force behind Fantomas, which he launched together with Wild's George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya Demichev. The restaurant announced its closure (the last day was 3 August) on Instagram two

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• Test Driving Chalk Freehouse - Tom Kerridge's second try at breaking Chelsea

  

  Tom Kerridge is taking his Chelsea pub in a new direction, one which has more nods to his best-known pub, The Hand and Flowers. We went along to see what the change has brought about. 

• Kora brings London's Mediterranean trend to the King's Road

   

  It's been a big trend in London restaurants over the past couple of years, and another Mediterranean restaurant is on the way, this time to Chelsea. 

  Kora is opening in Beaufort House, taking over what was their brasserie space, transforming it into a restaurant that "takes timeless Mediterranean classics and reimagines them with creativity and modern flair." That translates as a

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• Tom Kerridge's Butcher's Tap is being relaunched as The Chalk Freehouse

  

  Earlier this week, there was news that Tom Kerridge's Chelsea pub, The Butcher's Tap and Grill was closing, with the team behind it saying it gave them "an opportunity to regroup, rethink and rebuild".

  It turns out that they didn't need that much thinking time, because there are already plans to reopen it as a new pub, The Chalk Freehouse. 

  The new pub will be

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• BookBar is expanding to Chelsea with its social offering for book lovers

  

  Four years down the road of having charmed the residents of Blackstock Road with their winning mix of books, coffee and wine, the founder behind BookBar is heading west. Making the announcement yesterday, founder Chrissy Ryan said that she'd be opening her second place over in Chelsea.

  If you haven't been before, the concept's pretty simple and is all about promoting the social side of reading. So the original Highbury branch

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• New Chelsea bakery Reemies is all about the banana bundt

  

  Reemies, by Reem Abu Samra, started life as a cake delivery business and over the years has found itself a huge following, Now, the first Reemies bakery is getting ready to open.

  The cake business started back in 2018 with Reem originally baking cakes in her own flat and gradually expanding to a larger kitchen in Vauxhall and a much bigger business. Over that period she also built up

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• The all-day European Cafe Linea is opening next to the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea

  

  A new cafe and restaurant is opening next door to The Saatchi Gallery (taking over what used to be the gallery's restaurant), called Cafe Linea. The new space is planned as an all-day opening, inspired by cafes in arcades across Europe. 

  Run by Greg and Felicity Godik (incidentally Greg's Dad Zeev is  the founder of Gaucho so he should know his way around

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• Josephine Bouchon

  Traditional country pub in South Ken

• Elystan Street

  Philip Howard's Chelsea restaurant is a more casual affair than before.

• Marta pizzeria in Chelsea is all about thin Roman-style pizzas

  

  In the run-up to the end of last year, we were so focused on the recent openings of Alley Cats and Zia Lucia in Chelsea that we missed another very promising new Chelsea pizza opening, called Marta. 

  It opened on Fulham Road (taking over the space from L'Artigiano) and it shifts away from the predominant Neapolitan focus of many London pizzerias and instead is all about Roman pizzas. Those are large,

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