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- Jiāonest heats up the Haggerston restaurant scene with its modern Chongqing cooking
If there was ever a new restaurant guaranteed to look and feel good, it should be just-opened Haggerston spot Jiāonest. Chef and owner Hua Yang came to London from China to study spatial design. But compelled to explore her culinary identity through a series of supperclubs, she's ended up opening a restaurant in East London instead.
As Hua explained to Hot Dinners she's serving up "Modern Chinese
... - TANGRA comes to Soho and it's all about late-night Indo-Chinese cuisine
14/10/25 - updated with the opening date
Bringing something new to Soho is TANGRA, a new late night Indo-Chinese restaurant on Frith Street. It takes its name from the Tangra neighbourhood of Kolkata, with the menu influenced by the Hakka Chinese community there.
Perhaps its most useful feature is that they're looking to cater for the late-night crowd,
... - Ling Ling's is the next residency at Islington wine pub Godet with Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean influences
Last seen at The Bluecoats in Tottenham, Ling Lings have another long-term residency lined up, this time in Islington. They're taking over the kitchen at wine-led pub Godet.
It's led by chef Jenny Phung, with a menu that draws both on her Chinese heritage and her time in her own parents' takeaway restaurant. On the menu here, you'll find Chinese cooking
... - Poon's is back, opening at Somerset House
1 October 2025 - updated with an estimated opening date
Since the original Poon's closed, one of London's legendary Chinese restaurants, Amy Poon has been following in her family's footsteps with a series of pop-ups and selling a range of her products (with a store recently opening in Bermondsey). But now she's getting ready to open her own restaurant called, of course,
... - Get 40% off food at Mulan Noodle in Clapham
Enjoy hand pulled noodles and sharing plates at this new Clapham restaurant and save 40% on food with this Hot Dinners reader deal.
Offer: 40% off food only
Where: 192 Acre Lane, London SW2 5UL
When: 6–12 October 2025
- Test Driving Teo Hotpot, a Chinese restaurant with the best British beef and hotpots you don't have to share
Bringing a taste of Chaosan to London's Bloomsbury, Teo Hotpot turns out to be a hotpot restaurant that's all about the quality from its British grass-fed beef to clear broths.
- Canary Wharf has a shiny new handpulled noodle spot courtesy of JMD Lamian Noodle Bar
If you were at Canary Wharf over the weekend, you'll probably have spotted the epic queues on Bank Street. Turns out Londoners can get very excited about the launch of a new noodle restaurant. The place in question is JMD Lamian Noodle Bar, a Chinese halal restaurant that also has a very popular branch at Liverpool Street.
If you haven't been before, then the big selling point here are the noodles, which you can
... - Test Driving Shanghai Me, high-rise in Mayfair meets high-end prices
The restaurant at the top of the Park Lane Hilton has transformed into the high-end pan-Asian Shanghai Me. We popped up to the 28th floor to see just how the new restaurant and bar are settling in.
- Joyeta Ng is bringing her take on Cantonese cooking to a residency at "mu"
As you'll know from our guide to London's best pop-ups and events, there are some excellent residencies all over London right now. But one in Dalston deserves particular highlighting, we thought.
Joyeta Ng has a very impressive list of restaurants in her CV, including two two-Michelin-starred restaurants, Den in Tokyo and Kitchen Table in London as well as The
... - Duck and Rice is opening a new place in Battersea on its tenth anniversary
Updated 16/6/25 with opening date
It's been almost 10 years since Alan Yau took over a Soho pub and transformed it into Duck and Rice. A decade on, it seems it's time to expand as it's the latest place to find itself making its way to Battersea Power Station with a new location.
If you're unfamiliar with the Soho original, they describe themselves as a "Soho
... - Dumplings' Legend are opening Love Dumplings Legend on Chancery Lane
Holborn office folk working from home on Friday may have missed the news in the Standard that a new spin-off restaurant of Dumplings' Legend was coming their way. But they'll need to get up to speed quickly as Love Dumplings Legend is opening its doors
... - Belgravia gets in on the London noodle trend with a new noodle bar at The Peninsula London
Not wanting to be left out of the general London obsession with noodles, super luxe hotel The Peninsula London is getting in on the trend. They've just opened up a noodle bar that serves up a tight menu of noodle dishes alongside Gweilo beers from Hong Kong and the bar's own cocktail list.
The chefs behind the menu are the multi-award-winning Hou Yurui who has worked on the concept with Jonnie Liang,
... - London is about to get another must-try new noodle shop as Songhelou arrives in Soho
Central London is firmly in the grip of a noodle craze - the queues outside Noodle Inn aren't getting any shorter and there's the new Noodle & Beer in Chinatown too. Now, here's news of a third hot new noodle restaurant coming to the area. Songhelou is a Chinese restaurant that has real history, having first opened in Suzhou back in 1737.
The dish to have features their famous Suzhou-style noodles. Think slim noodles
... - Noodle & Beer pick Chinatown for their second spicy Sichuan noodle joint
7/3/25 - updated with the opening date
Noodle Inn may be the place everyone's currently queueing for, but it might soon have some competition coming its way. Noodle & Beer first opened in Spitalfields back in 2020 but it's been such a success that the owner is now opening a second restaurant, this time in the heart of Chinatown.
If you haven't tried the original in East London, then the clue to what
... - Din Tai Fung is coming to Canary Wharf
6/2/24 - updated with the opening date
They already have three restaurants in central London, but Din Tai Fung are heading east for their fourth opening, to Canary Wharf. The restaurant group best known for its perfectly pleated xiao long bao will be up and running in Crossrail Place early next year.
It's the smallest of the four (although that's relative as there will still be room for 112 diners)
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