Clapham

The Doghouse Distillery is in Battersea but now they're also opening a brand new bar, just a mile away, that's just off Clapham Common. They actually popped up there for a short while back in December, but since the beginning of the year, they've been changing the space into a proper permanent bar for the local distillery. 

The main distillery itself mainly focuses on gin, vodka and "moonshine", the latter of which is their version of an American-style whisky. And that's going to be used in what they're claiming is "London’s largest Old Fashioned menu", which will also include Old

What better way could there be to launch your first solo venture as a chef than being crowned Champion of Champions on Great British Menu the day before you make the big reveal. Chef Nikita Pathakji may have had a tricky path to winning this year's show (she wasn't in the running for the final at all, until rival Corrin Harrison had to pull out for personal reasons) but she more than proved herself and now she's immediately switching things up by opening a restaurant in Clapham.

MAAI is going to be very much a family affair with Nikita's mother Rima and sister Isha both playing a

It might seem like an absolutely no-brainer to open an Aussie-style cafe in Clapham given how many expats live there, but it's taken until this year for the Daisy Green group to get the memo and take their all day cafe group to the area. Owners (and fellow Aussies) Prue Freeman and Tom Onions have just opened Margot Green in Clapham Old Town and they're hoping for a big hit.

The new restaurant has taken over the old

They nabbed second place at this year's UK's Best Pizza Awards and now Rudy's Pizza Napoletana are gearing up to open their first neighbourhood restaurant in London. The Neapolitan pizzeria is taking over the old The Diary space right beside Clapham Common, making this their first foray outside central London (they already have restaurants in Soho, Shoreditch, Tottenham Court Road, Spitalfields, Queensway and

Anyone working from home in Clapham is going to have a hot new place to hit up for sandwiches when the new sandwich truck at Trinity opens up. Called Outside by Trinity, it's taking over the Michelin-starred restaurant's terrace, so you can eat it there although it's primarily a takeaway.

Heading up the project is Trinity chef India, who's been working on this in the run-up to leaving Trinity in January

Back at the end of November 2023, the ground floor of the redeveloped Arding & Hobbs building at Clapham Junction reopened as Botanica Hall. Now the upper part of the building is getting ready to open, and this part is being billed as "Clapham’s first private members club", The Arding Rooms.

Inside, it looks like the design will benefit from the restored domed atrium of the

A Hot Dinners exclusive

Islington-based The Tamil Prince has made life a whole lot more tasty for North Londoners, and now it’s South London’s turn. That's right, we're bringing you the exclusive news of the opening of Tamila in Battersea.

Launching on the former site

18/3/24 - Updated with the opening date

This year, Crispin had their biggest success yet with Bistro Freddie (which we thought was pretty good too). Now they're heading to Clapham, taking over the restaurant at Studio Voltaire

They've been a success in Chelsea for 18 years, and now Mexican restaurant Azteca has decided it's time for a second restaurant. They're heading over to Battersea for the follow-up, Azteca Öme.

In Battersea, they're moving more towards a menu that mixes in Japanese cuisine with Mexican, while also using British produce. So that means adding dishes like tacos of grilled miso

A new restaurant is gearing up to open in Clapham, taking what they describe as a 'permanent residency" inside the Aquum nightclub on the high street. Franklin & Baines is going big on steaks and has employed the services of Fernando Lerroude, previously Master Griller at The Gaucho group, as a consultant chef to show they mean business.

They'll be offering all manner of cuts including flat iron,

4/11/23 - updated with the Botanica Hall opening date

If you’ve been wondering what’s in store for Arding & Hobbs, the beautiful Grade-II-listed department store in the heart of Clapham Junction that’s been somewhat quiet since the collapse of Debenhams, we have some promising food (and drink) news. Botanica Hall is on the way: an all-day

A new restaurant has opened up in Clapham that happens to be from the family behind a Welsh vineyard. Red Vine is a neighbourhood restaurant with a modern British via the Med menu and, as you can expect, they'll have something of a focus on wine too. 

The menu features British dishes with a twist and on that, you'll find:

• Poached duck egg with truffle oil and

2/6/23 - updated with the opening date

If you've been wondering what was going to take the place of the old site of St Clair in Clapham, wonder no more - it's going to be the latest opening by Lina Stores.  

This outpost is being billed as a neighbourhood restaurant, so you're not going to get the deli add-on that some of the other Lina Stores have. Instead, it's an Italian restaurant

The team behind Other Side Fried are trying something very different for their latest opening - a neighbourhood restaurant and wine bar in Battersea. We went down to try it out.  

As the year winds down, we're hearing about the odd restaurant that didn't appear on our radar before and one of them is Willows in Clapham.

The restaurant opened in late November and is something they're defining as a "deli-to-restaurant" affair that's inspired by Scandinavian ‘smörgåsbords’. So that means they serve brunch boards all day, and then cheese and charcuterie in the