Chelsea

Beefbar only recently moved from its Chelsea restaurant to the Broadwick hotel in Soho, and now a new restaurant is already getting ready to take over its former Chelsea home. 

Lucca is a Mediterranean restaurant - yes, we've had quite a few of those in London over the past year. Lucca does come with a little bit of history though, as they also have a restaurant in Istanbul, which opened back in 2004 (and used to have a seaside offshoot in Bodrum too). 

The original Lucca's menu appears to go some way beyond a more traditional Mediterranean restaurant, as you'll

It was this time last year that restaurateur Martin Kuczmarski revealed he was about to open a new, naughtier sibling to the Dover, the Dover Street Counter (as well as his first Chelsea restaurant, Martino's). And for this year's early Christmas present, he's rather stealthily opened a second version of Dover Street Counter in Chelsea.

The Chelsea Counter is, like its Mayfair counterpart, channelling the counter dining scene of 1950s Los Angeles. The menu, as Martin has said, is inspired by luxury hotel in-room service, so a happy mix of everything from French dip burgers to

Since opening back in 2021, Toklas Bakery (which is a few doors down from the restaurant) has established itself as one of London's best bakeries. However, over in Temple, it may not be in one of the handiest places to get to (even though St Clement has turned the area into something of a hot spot). 

Now, according to hospitality website Propel, that's about to change. A second Toklas bakery is getting ready to open, this time all the way across town in Chelsea. 

Apparently, they'll be taking over the old Bread Ahead site on Pavilion Road. Bread Ahead themselves

Back in 2022, Willows opened in Clapham, and it must be doing well, as they're getting ready to open a second restaurant and wine bar in Chelsea. 

They're taking over a site next to the Saatchi Gallery (opening near Cafe Linea), and like the original, ot will be an all-day affair with a particular focus on breakfast and lunch. That's mainly because they have their"smorgasbord concept", which essentially lets you build your own breakfast or lunch platters. So at breakfast, your options range from banana bread with clementine mascarpone to scrambled tofu, seasonal kimchi

In the heart of Chelsea, there isn't much in the way of rooftop dining, so expect the arrival of Beatrix on the King's Road to be a hit when it opens. Taking over the top floor of the new The Gaumont building opposite Chelsea Town Hall, this new modern British brasserie will boast a wrap-around terrace that has been fully weatherproofed. That's useful to know, particularly given its expected winter opening date.

It's from the same team behind popular Mexican spot Ixchel, further down the road. Running the kitchen is chef Eamon Reis, who was acting Head Chef at Straker's in Notting

7/9/26 - updated with the opening date

Endo Kazutoshi has had a very busy time of late. Following a fire, he relocated Endo at the Rotunda to Annabel's for five months, and he's also getting ready to launch a new Sumi restaurant in Marylebone.

At the beginning of last year, a fancy new pub opened in Belgravia in the shape of The Prince Arthur. It offered something genuinely different on the London gastropub scene, specialising in a menu of Basque cuisine; they even had their own-brand caviar. It was definitely not your typical pub, but quickly found an audience, and we were also impressed. 

Since then, the same team didn't have as much luck with their second opening, the trio of  Arthur's Market, ASA and

From longstanding neighbourhood favourites to more glitzy, new establishments, this part of town has it all. We pick out the best restaurants in Chelsea, both on and off the King's Road. 

7/4/26 - updated with the opening date

After seven years on Pavilion Road, fishmonger and wine bar The Sea The Sea is getting ready to move to a bigger spot - but it's only moving just across the road. 

They'll be taking over the space that used to be Wulf & Lamb, and that's giving them a whole new room upstairs that's going to be their new seafood bistro. In charge of the bistro is chef Nick Marsden, whose previous credits include Dovetale, Pitt Cue and The Laughing Heart. Up there, things kick off with oysters, to which you'll be able to add caviar for £1 a

We've been hearing murmurings about changes at Chelsea pub The Botanist for a while, and now we have confirmation. After 18 years of being run by the ETM group, it's being taken over by Wren pubs, the people behind The Walmer Castle, The Surprise, and The Carpenter's Arms.

The new pub won't be called The Botanist any more, but they also haven't decided on a name yet. The plan is to start a refurb in June, and return it to being a proper neighbourhood pub (something Sloane Square could really benefit from). As such, it's a little early to discover just what the plans are for the

For some people, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show will be all about the amazing floral displays and examples of horticultural excellence. Others will view it as a fabulous garden party with a rather nice flower show attached. Having been many times now, we reckon we sit somewhere in the middle, loving all the show gardens but also being very partial to enjoying the show's top-tier catering.

For many years now, the centrepiece of the show's food and drink offering was run by the dynamic duo of the late Skye Gyngell and Jose Pizarro. This year, following Gyngell's untimely death, her

New Chelsea restaurant Beef & Bass focuses on serving up two key ingredients really well. We went to the King's Road to see if they delivered on their promise. 

As the follow-up to The Dover, expectations were high for Martino's (or would have been but for the stealth opening). Luckily, Martin Kuczmarski has used this to prove  he's not a one-hit wonder.

If you're a Chelsea resident you may have spotted a lot of work going on in the former Hugo Boss store on the corner of Sloane Square, right opposite the tube station. But what's been kept on the QT till now is that this is the new restaurant Martino's, from the man who made The Dover the coolest restaurant in London in 2025.

It's an all-day Italian affair, kicking off with a breakfast menu that includes

We were fans of Fantomas when it first opened in Chelsea, late in 2024. It was part of a trio of restaurants that opened in a short period of time by the group behind Wild. Krododilos and Pinna were