Italian

• BOTTLES team up with SOOD Family for their Old Spitalfields wine bar

  Moving from one market to another Bottles & Battles from Mercato Metropolitano are opening their second site in Old Spitalfields Market and this time they're teaming up with pop-up SOOD Family for the food.

• La Mia Mamma brings a rotating series of Italian chefs to Chelsea

  La Mia Mamma is trying something different from your traditional Italian restaurant. They'll be focusing on specific regions of Italy at a time - and to help with that, they're importing Italians "Mammas" from the regions to create the menus.

• Morso brings grappa galore and homemade pasta to NW8

  The team behind Morso have been biding their time at their Bloomsbury and Holloway Road pop-ups, but now they’ve finally secured a permanent location in NW8 from which to dish out sharing plates, pastas, and cocktails made with their beloved grappa.

• Fresh pasta restaurant Bancone comes to Covent Garden with ex Locanda Locatelli talent

  The latest promising pasta spot heads to Covent Garden. Bancone features a chef who trained in Locanda Locatelli and plenty of 10-hour cooked ragus.

• Italian dinner at Selfridges' Alto brings over top Michelin-starred chefs

  

  If you don't have the budget or enough days holiday to take to do a gastro tour of Italy this year, an upcoming event at Selfridges will do the job instead.

  The newly-opened rooftop restaurant Alto by San Carlo is throwing one heck of a dinner in June where the chefs from five top Italian restaurants are popping up for just one night. All in all, there'll be seven Michelin-stars at the restaurant that night who have been gathered together by the Italian

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• Test Driving The Petersham - the Richmond nurseries bring their A game to Covent Garden

  One of two new restaurants opened up by the Boglione family in the heart of Covent Garden - this mixes British seasonal produce with an Italian aesthetic.

• San Carlo is coming to London - bringing their Italian restaurant to St James's

  They've already opened around the country and internationally too, and now San Carlo are bringing their main Italian restaurant to London. And id sounds like they've spared no expense.

• Test Driving Beck at Brown's - classic Italian given a Michelin twist

  Three Michelin-starred chef Heinz Beck is back in London and this time he's opened a more casual restaurant at Brown's in the heart of Mayfair

• Alto from the San Carlo group is Selfridges' new rooftop restaurant

  Building on their partnership in other stores, Selfridges' Oxford Street store is the latest to get into bed with the San Carlo restaurant group who'll be launching Alto in the store's iconic rooftop space.

• Test Driving Chucs at Harrods - the Mediterranean good life in Knightsbridge

  Chucs are expanding throughout London, hoping to bring their taste of the Med to more. We went to try their newly-opened branch in Harrods.

• Chucs are opening an all day restaurant at the Serpentine Sackler Galleries

  Chucs have chosen the Serpentine Sacker Galleries to open their fourth all day restaurant and this one will be the first to offer takeaway too - perfect for park picnics.

• Beck at Brown's will be Michelin-starred chef Heinz Beck's casual Italian restaurant at Brown's Hotel in Mayfair

  He may have a three Michelin-starred restaurant in Rome, but chef Heinz Beck's plans for his new Mayfair restaurant at Brown's Hotel are more casual - with British produce supplying the additional wow factor.

• Fat Tony's fresh pasta pops up for two months at Bar Termini Centrale

  

  Updated 3/4/18 with revised opening times

  Ahead of its permanent restaurant opening up in South London this summer, fresh pasta joint Fat Tony's is bringing fresh pasta to central London for two months. It'll be popping up at Tony Conigliaro's Italian Bar Termini Centrale on Duke Street.

  The man behind the brand is young, self-trained chef James Young. Young has been travelling around Italy for inspiration, stopping to do a stage at

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• Soho House are opening a Cecconi's Pizza Bar on Old Compton Street

  Soho House are taking the classic Italian restaurant and going for a more laid-back experience, serving up pizzas and cocktails

• Passo hosts famous LA chef Nancy Silverton for a one week residency

  

  Old Street’s big all-day Italian Passo is keeping busy since their November opening, with the arrival of huge LA chef Nancy Silverton for a short residency.

  The Michelin starred-chef (who Netflix addicts may have caught on Chef’s Table) will be rocking up for one week only to churn

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