Islington

Islington is starting to do very well indeed when it comes to great bakeries. We already have Jolene and Pophams, Quince opened only a couple of months ago and now there's the arrival of Sourdough Sophia, who's just unveiled her second bakery, on Essex Road. 

Taking over what used to be a Costa

Fourteen years after opening their doors in Islington, popular Punjabi restaurant Delhi Grill announced this weekend that it was closing its doors for good.

Posting on Instagram they said: "With a heavy heart we would like to announce the closing of our little dhaba. It has been an incredible journey and we couldn't have done it without the support from our loyal customers and our team. But it is now time to

Islington readers who've been wandering up and down Chapel Market recently may have spotted the under-the-radar arrival of a new seafood spot on the market. Head up to the Penton Street end of the street and you'll find Chapel Market Kitchen.

The man behind this new oyster bar and grill is chef Maoz Alonim who for many years had a huge reputation for his restaurant Basta in Carmel Market in Tel Aviv. In recent years

Deep-dish Detroit pizza is becoming a bit of a thing again. We've had Ria's in Notting Hill and Kin Pizza in Notting Hill while Detroit Pizza, already a big deal in Spitalfields, has just opened its second restaurant, in

Updated 8/2/24 with opening date

Lucky Islington residents will have a very interesting new bakery on their doorstep. Quince Bakery is the brainchild of baker Anna Higham. She ran the bakery at Flor before becoming Executive Pastry Chef at The River Café. So it's fair to say she knows a thing or two about baked goods. 

As for the bread she'll be baking, it'll be sourdough breads

Updated 1/2/24 with the launch date

Gregg Boyd has been on a one-man mission to spread the joy of Scottish food to Londoners. He started as a stallholder Auld Hag in Dalston selling bowls of haggis, neeps and tatties. Now he's about to open a permanent 'shoap' - that's Scottish slang for shop - in Islington.

"When I moved to London I couldn't believe Scottish food wasn't readily available," he explains.

Bad Manners (formerly Quarter Kitchen) have been a big deal in Hackney since launch, with their take on Mexican food forging quite the fan base. And now they've just launched a spin-off in Islington (as first spotted by London on the

Up until this week, some of the best-known places for breakfast in Islington were probably The Breakfast Club on Camden Passage or maybe Ottolenghi on Upper Street. But following the explosion of interest in the World Darts Championship and, more specifically, the teenage finalist Luke Littler, a very different kind of N1 cafe has stolen the limelight.

Cafe Millennium on Chapel Market turned

The Tamil Crown sees the same team behind The Tamil Prince reviving another classic Islington pub with an excellent Indian menu. 

A new  Vietnamese restaurant has just appeared on Islington's Upper Street and it looks like it could be worth checking out. Dzo! Viet Kitchen has taken over the space that used to be the sports bar Valderrama's and has given it quite the makeover.  

As for the menu, there are summer and spring rolls (pork and prawn, seafood and taro and mung beans) and banh mi which include

12/12/23 - updated with the opening date

Over the past three years, MUST Wine have been growing their wine bar empire, having opened first in St Albans in 2019, followed by Hampstead and Wanstead in quick succession. They're big on wine tastings and serve up over 70 wines by the glass in their bars; you can also ask for their Little Red Book which features what they call the "really, really special wines". Now

If, like us, you live around Islington and have been wondering what's taking over the big site that used to be Rudy's Vegan Diner then wonder no more. Getting ready to open there is Philippe Conticini. 

If that name sounds familiar, it's because you might have come across his work at the café in South Kensington or Camden's Buck Street Market. Or perhaps it's because

24/11/23 - updated with new pics

Like many people, one of the things we love about Christmas is the return of pigs in blankets. If, like us, you think you can eat an awful lot of them, Aldi is about to put that to the test. For two days only, they're launching a bottomless pigs in blankets restaurant. 

Set in Islington's Camden Passage, there's a

5/11/23 - updated with the opening date

We have some exciting (and exclusive) news for fans of South Indian food. Following the successful 2022 launch of The Tamil Prince in Islington, the owners are bringing a second restaurant to the neighbourhood – just a

Once known for its particularly strong Sunday lunches, chef and owner Adam Hardiman was forced to close Madame Pigg in Dalston after the particularly tough pandemic years. But now he's back, resurrecting Madame Pigg in Islington.

It's part of the pub that used to be The Library (and still has