Georgian

Georgian restaurant Aba-Ra opened on Brick Lane back in 2023, and it's clearly been doing well as its founder, Lia Walsh, is getting ready to bring the restaurant to Soho. 

It jumps on a Georgian trend that's doing numbers at the moment, with the success of DakaDaka in Mayfair and Kinkally in Fitzrovia. Soho already has the Georgian Violet's Cafe, but it's sounding like Aba-Ra is going to be a much bigger affair, taking over the space that used to be Inamo. 

They're introducing an open kitchen to the main dining room, where meals will kick off with

A talented team are behind buzzy new restaurant DakaDaka which hopes to introduce Londoners to the food and wine delights of Georgia. We went for own culinary tour, without having to leave Mayfair.

It's been a while since we've seen a new restaurant launch at 10 Heddon Street, the space that once held Manteca, Fallow and Sarap as residencies. The residency days are behind it now and instead, it's relaunching as a permanent Georgian restaurant, DakaDaka. 

It's the first restaurant from new hospitality group Berkeley Square Hospitality. That comes from Giorgi Mindiashvili and Mitz Vora, previously at Ennismore, where they helped launch restaurants like Eggbreak and Seabird. It will be a modern interpretation of Georgian cuisine and open-fire cooking