High-rise

If you're looking for a new restaurant with a great view, this might be for you. A new high-rise restaurant is coming to Canary Wharf called Alto 19. 

This one comes from White Rabbit Projects, a restaurant group that has Lina Stores and Kricket under its umbrella, as well as restaurants in Locke hotels that include Nuno Mendes' restaurant in Lisbon. This latest opening is at the top of Locke Canary Wharf, and they've brought in Executive Chef Chris Dargavel to head it up. He's recently been head chef at Daphne's and before that was head chef of J Sheekey, as well as

Along with having some of the best restaurants in the world, we think London's also blessed with some of the best high-rise dining options too. Here's a run-down of some of the best out there. 

We've been aware for a while that Harvey Nichols were planning to sell their OXO Tower restaurants, at the top of one of London's most recognisable landmarks. There had also been rumours that the Aqua Group were looking at the site, but now we know who's really taking it over. It's the team behind Fallow and Roe, who have just announced that they've bought it.

They've previously opened at the foot of an impressive tower over in Canary Wharf with Roe, but this will be the first time the team have gone high-rise. The current OXO Tower restaurants (both the main restaurant and the

If you want to watch the solar eclipse in London in comfort, there are several high-rise London bars and restaurants that have a great vantage point of the celestial show. 

4/5/26 - updated with full details and a look at the new restaurant

If you watched the Being Gordon Ramsay documentary on Netflix, you'll know that one of the key storylines has revolved around the chef's multiple openings in the 22 Bishopsgate skyscraper in the City. In the opening episode (spoiler), you see his dismay to hear that of the various restaurants planned, Bread Street Kitchen on the 59th floor, is going to be delayed by months. Given that the rest of the operation opened back in February last year, the opening ended up being delayed a full 15 months in

After the restaurant got a very big push on his Netflix series, we decided it was time to take a proper look at High, Gordon Ramsay's high-rise Michelin-starred restaurant at 22 Bishopsgate. 

Updated 15/10/25 with opening date

One of the city's most well-known 24-hour restaurants in London is the sky-high Duck & Waffle in the City. But now it looks like another restaurant is getting in on the action, one that literally looks down on Duck & Waffle. 

We were the first to bring you the news, back in July, that there was a planning application put in

7/8/25 - updated with the opening date

When the swanky art’otel chain opened its second London outpost in Hoxton in 2024, we told you about its ground-floor dining experience Brush East London Grand Café. Well, the hotel has just announced its latest restaurant, and

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.

2/7/24 - Updated with the opening date

Ever since the Galvin Brothers announced that they were closing their rooftop restaurant at the London Hilton on Park Lane after 18 successful years, there was speculation on what was going to take its place. Hot Dinners was originally the first to

13/6/25 - updated with a look at the new restaurant's design

If you've ever watched Crazy Rich Asians and wondered what it was like dining at the top of that amazing hotel in Singapore, well you're soon going to get the next best thing. That's because CÉ LA VI, which is the restaurant, bar and club at the top of the famous Marina Bay Sands hotel, is opening in the rooftop space of the new Renzo Piano

Featuring the lunar cycle as its theme, this high rise omakase restaurant turns out to be a lot of fun for the dinner guests.

You may recall a few weeks ago we reported on the changes afoot at South Bank restaurant Hannah which was morphing into a claypot offering Donabe at the same time as moving their sushi operation to Stratford in the form of Kokin.

Now we can reveal exactly what they have planned for their foray into East London.

Los Mochis London City is offering an immersive experience where diners get to see a whole bluefin tuna broken down for an omakase dinner. We managed to get some seats at the sushi counter to see what exactly goes on at an evening like this.

We finish off the year trying a brand new happy hour meal with one of those jaw dropping views over London that still packs a thrill.