Italian

• Burro e Salvia is closing up shop in Shoreditch

  

  After 12 years of giving the people of East London amazing homemade pasta, the folks at Burro e Salvio are calling it quits. But in the run up to their closure they've decided to go out with a bang, culiminating in a few weeks of last-minute lunches, workshops and sales.

  "We've been more than a pastificio," they said in a post on Instagram, "many of our team found their true calling here, and some customers discovered

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• Angela Hartnett's latest Cafe Murano is opening in Marylebone

  

  Updated 5/7/25 with soft launch info

  It's been some time since Angela Hartnett opened the last Cafe Murano (over five years ago in Bermondsey) but now she's getting ready to open a new branch, this time in Marylebone. 

  The latest cafe is opening on Dorset Street (taking over the old AOK Kitchen site). Expect it to be similar to the others, serving up a short,

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• Harry's is opening its flagship restaurant right on the piazza in Covent Garden

  

  Having rolled out The Ivy to pretty much everywhere (the latest of those in Battersea), it looks like Richard Caring's Caprice Holdings has started focusing on Harry's as their next big brand. They opened in Victoria last year and in King's Cross earlier this summer. All that was building up to what's going to be the restaurant group's flagship site, which gets its big launch this winter in Covent

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• Test Driving Barbarella, as Big Mamma bring mirrored ceilings to Canary Wharf

  

  Big Mamma has arrived in Canary Wharf and they haven't held anything back for their latest Italian restaurant. We went to see just how wild they've gone with the design. 

• Test Driving Lupa, the new Highbury Italian co-owned by actor Theo James

  

  What do you get when an actor opens a local restaurant in London with two very experienced restaurant folk? We went to Highbury's Lupa to find out.

• Phil Howard's Notto pasta bar is coming to the City

  

  His main home may be Elystan Street, but Phil Howard's other business looks like it's doing pretty well. Fresh pasta bar Notto is clearly doing great business on Piccadilly and in Covent Garden, because a third is on the way to the City. 

  If you're as yet unfamiliar with the restaurant, our original Test

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• Test Driving Osteria Angelina, a restaurant with its finger firmly on London's pulse

  

  Already an instant hit from the word go, we visited Osteria Angelina, the new restaurant from the Angelina Dalston team, to see what the secret of their success is.

• Cicoria by Angela Hartnett brings a new restaurant and rooftop terrace to the Royal Opera House

  

  Big news for anyone heading for Covent Garden or looking for a proper dining experience to complement a cultural excursion: acclaimed chef Angela Hartnett OBE is opening a new restaurant at the Royal Opera House, Cicoria by Angela Hartnett.

  It’s turning into a busy year for Hartnett, as she only recently opened her new ...

• La Mia Mamma brings its mammas to Battersea

  

  They already have restaurants in Chelsea and Notting Hill (not to mention seafood spin-off Fish & Bubbles) and now La Mia Mamma has just opened its latest restaurant in Battersea.

  If you're not familiar, the idea behind the restaurants is that there are "real Italian mothers" in the kitchens, looking after the punters. The "mammas" have never worked in professional kitchens before, but they

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• Barbarella is going to be Big Mamma's sexy new Canary Wharf restaurant

  

  26/5/25 - updated with the opening date

  Almost a year ago we brought you the news that the Big Mamma group (Circolo Popolare, Gloria, Carlotta et al) were setting their sights on Canary Wharf. Now we've got the scoop on exactly what they have planned for their restaurant there.

  Barbarella is going to be a retro-inspired self-styled "wild and jungle-themed city pad". It's taken

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• Theo James joins Carousel co-founder Ed Templeton in opening Lupa restaurant in Highbury

  

  As Highbury locals ourselves, you'll have to forgive us for focusing more on the fact that actor Theo James is also apparently our neighbour, than the news that he's opening a restaurant here. But if we stop wondering why we've never seen the White Lotus star out and about in N5 and look instead at what he's actually involved in, then Lupa does sound rather interesting.

  First off, Theo's got himself a solid

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• Lina Stores pick Canary Wharf for their tenth restaurant

  

  18/5/25 - updated with the opening date

  After decades spent as a standalone store in Soho selling fresh pasta and Parma ham to Londoners, it's fair to say that Lina Stores is now a fully-fledged chain. They're currently working on their tenth opening, this time in Canary Wharf. This will be their third City space, following hard on the heels of a Broadgate branch which opened

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• Test Driving Duchy, taking the Leroy space in a great new French/Italian direction

  

  Two people who used to work at Leroy have taken over their former workplace and relaunched it as a new restaurant, inspired by the French/Italian Duchy of Savoy. We went down to see just how much has changed.

• Richard Caring is bringing a Harry's to King's Cross

  

  If you're a King's Cross resident, worker or commuter, you may have been wondering what was going to replace the old Vinoteca right outside the station. We can now enlighten you - it's going to be a Harry's. The Italian restaurant group is currently part of millionaire restaurateur Richard Caring's empire, along with the Ivy cafes and neighbouring King's Cross venture Granary Square Brasserie (although it's part of a

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• The best pizzas and pizzerias in London

  

  London remains the place to be in the UK for this country's and indeed Europe's (outside of Italy, of course) best pizzas. From traditional Neapolitan to crispy new Haven-style pizzas as well as the recent trend for deep dishes, here's where to find London's best.