Mediterranean

London's great Med takeover continues as Mour gets ready to open, coming to The Leonard hotel in the space that used to be Seymour's restaurant (we see what they did with the name there). 

Set within a Georgian townhouse, the space here is getting a major makeover from before, moving from a fairly old-school approach to a whole new look. They have also got a feature that makes them stand out from other venues in this part of town, with a covered, hidden courtyard that's part of the restaurant. 

For the food, dishes on the menu are going to range from tataki

3/5/26 - updated with the opening date

A few years back, we reported on the impending arrival of Mykonos restaurant Nammos, which was supposed to be heading to Knightsbridge. Now it turns out that those plans have changed and the restaurant is instead coming to Mayfair. 

They'll be taking over from Il Borro on Berkeley Street and are planning something subtly different to their Mykonos

We recently wrote about what's coming to the Arcade food hall in Covent Garden, but while most of those have already appeared elsewhere, there's one very interesting new addition that we can now exclusively reveal. Zylia is going to be a standalone taverna bringing together the best of Greek and Cypriot cuisine. 

It's headed up by two people, who each represent the two cuisines. On the Greek side, and Athens-born, is ex-Kiln Head Chef and the

7/1/26 - updated with the opening date and restaurant design

Tattu, the high-end Chinese restaurant with a view on the top of the Now Building, originally started as a group of restaurants in the North. Now the same team behind that are bringing another of their restaurants to London. This time it's the Mediterranean-inspired Fenix. 

Currently only in Manchester, Fenix will be taking over the space that was Henry's on Piccadilly (which closed mid 2024), a fairly big space next to Green Park station. From the plans (as we haven't actually been into Henry's

They've only just opened in Soho, but Brother Marcus are clearly on the expansion trail as they have another restaurant almost ready to go. This time, they're opening in Victoria, 

2026 will be Brother Marcus' tenth year, and this their eighth restaurant (don't be surprised if there's another before 2026 is done), taking over the space that was The Stoke House. 

The full menu has yet to be revealed for

Mediterranean restaurant Jul's started life in Ibiza in 2018 and the same team also opened Humain restaurant in Athens. Now the team are getting ready to bring Jul's restaurant to London, opening in St James. 

It's opening as part of one of the new developments in the area which, like other recent opening Aki, is inside an ex-bank. The restaurant comes from Chef Christos Fotos, who teamed up with Jem Akyuz, and his son Ilhan to launch this and the original Jul's. In London, the chef is bringing a menu that they're describing as "Greek-inspired yet unmistakably

The Farrier in Camden may be no more, but the team behind it have moved to Shoreditch to try something new. Opening just a couple of doors down from One Club Row and The Knave of Clubs, Clara's will be a cafe and deli during the day and a wine bar and bistro at night. 

From the deli side of things, you'll be able to find charcuterie, cheeses and butchery cuts, from

The Lavery in South Kensington has been winning a lot of fans of late, such as Grace Dent, who called the space "not only beautiful, but useful", being so close to the museums. In her review,

A few weeks ago, we reported on the team behind Brother Marcus taking over The Blind Pig in Soho for their new bar, Kamara. At the time, as that involved the upstairs area only, we said it seemed likely that downstairs, where Social Eating House

The team behind Pachamama have spent the last year moving their restaurants' culinary inspiration point from Peru to the Mediterranean. It's been an extremely successful transformation, with both Bottarga on the King's Road and Nina in Marylebone being big hits. Now, the final restaurant, Pachamama East, gets the Med makeover, being reborn as Lagana. 

This Greek-inspired

He's best known for being a Syrian chef and refugee who moved from pop up to permanent with Imad's Syrian Kitchen, where he's played host to King Charles. Now chef and restaurateur Imad Alarnab is expanding his empire with a second restaurant, at Somerset House.

Aram is the first part of the enterprise and that will be a daytime space open for breakfast and lunch. The space, which overlooks the building's river

It's been a big trend in London restaurants over the past couple of years, and another Mediterranean restaurant is on the way, this time to Chelsea. 

Kora is opening in Beaufort House, taking over what was their brasserie space, transforming it into a restaurant that "takes timeless Mediterranean classics and reimagines them with creativity and modern flair." That translates as a

One of the biggest draws of Claude Bosi's two-Michelin-starred Brooklands is the fantastic terrace, one of the best rooftop dining spaces in London. However, the stunning terrace perhaps isn't the ideal space for a fine-dining Michelin-level experience, and now it's getting something of a summer overhaul.

Taking over this space for the whole of Summer is a new pop-up

Nina in Marylebone is already blowing up on social. We booked in to see if lives up to the hype.

Over in Farringdon, what was once a branch of Itsu is getting what we'd definitely consider a glow-up, having been bought by the team behind CERU. They already have two restaurants in West London, in Kensington and Queensway, serving up a Levantine menu.

We presume that the menu here in East London is going to be the same as their other two restaurants, so expect a menu that roams through Turkey through to the Lebanon and over