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Levan has been a Peckham mainstay since 2018, with Bar Levan joining it next door in 2023. But if you haven't made it into the Peckham restaurant yet, the team behind it, Mark Gurney and Matt Bushnall, are about to open a place in the middle of town.

Cassette is opening in Covent Garden (taking over the Maiden Lane space from Grind). While its sibling restaurant in Peckham has a wider European menu, Cassette will be centred around French food, with a particular Parisian bistro influence. They've brought in Essa Fakhry as head chef (previously at Planque, and most recently Note in

Just a few weeks ago, chef Will Devlin opened the London outpost of his restaurant Birchwood at The Conduit in Covent Garden. But that was only part of his London plans, as the rooftop at The Conduit was also up for a revamp. Now we know what it's going to be, as the chef is opening Nettle up there. 

It'll be a different approach to the ground floor, with ever-popular fire-led cooking being the focus up on the roof. They're building a custom-made

Sumi in Notting Hill has been one of London's best sushi restaurants since it opened just over five years ago. And now a follow-up restaurant is incoming, this time to Marylebone. 

The original Sumi was opened by Endo Kazutoshi as part of the Creative Restaurant Group, which also includes Kioku by Endo and IGNI in Mayfair. They refer to Sumi as "the little sister to sushi master Endo Kazutoshi’s eponymous Michelin-starred White City restaurant, Endo at the Rotunda", and it's even named after his mother. 

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Not content with having Stable Wines, Godet and Hector's on their doorsteps, the folks of De Beauvoir now have a shiny new wine bar to check out.

De Beauvoir Wines has seen everyone's favourite local grocery store, the De Beauvoir Deli, give their former cafe a wine bar makeover. "It felt like the natural next step," says owner Harry Davies. "We wanted to create a place where you can drop in for a glass of wine after work and always feel looked after."

The wine list has been put together by the deli's manager Alex. "He wanted to create a wine list that reflects the kind of

After years of it seeming that the only places that could afford to open in Mayfair were huge, soulless international group restaurants, we're very pro the arrival of a new vanguard. Kickstarted by Martin Kuczmarski at The Dover, then followed by the likes of Lilibet's and, most recently, Brutes, this new Mayfair movement is much more about a stylish kind of hospitality.

Into the fray more recently has come Bar Finch, which opened slightly on the QT two months ago in the heart of Mayfair's art quarter, Cork Street, but has only just started telling people about itself. The man

In this packed week of openings, Queens Park and Clerkenwell get new wine bars, East Asian-influenced BBQ arrives in Hackney,  there are even more Japanese handrolls and lots more...

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London has its fair share of Sri Lankan restaurants. But the arrival of Isso in Canary Wharf this summer marks one of the first times a Sri Lankan-based restaurant group has opened in the city.

Owner Apinash Sivagumaaran happily admits he was obsessed with prawns from an early age. "You find chicken restaurants, crab restaurants, lobster restaurants, but there's no specialised prawn restaurants," he says. "and I personally as a kid loved prawns." All the prawns come direct from Sri Lanka, where as Apinash explains, "we support over 150 artisanal fishermen in Jaffna and Mannar who

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Last December, after over 30 years, Ryan's Bar closed its doors for good in Stoke Newington. But now the space has been relaunched as a brand new pub, The Mary Wollstonecraft (who, of course, has a fairly memorable sculpture in nearby Newington Green). 

The pub comes from Nick Bailey, who opened The Robin Ale & Cider House in Stroud Green back in 2023. An independent pub with a big focus on real ale, one of the main aims of The Robin was to be a proper neighbourhood pub, and that's what he has planned with his latest

Nikkei restaurant Bamboo Mat has been proving a big hit in Stratford - so much that it's gearing up for a second opening in Canary Wharf. 

Before moving to Stratford, the original Bamboo Mat opened in Leyton, where Grace Dent described it as: "It’s a smaller, cheaper and better Chotto Matte, without all the shouty people and art installations. What’s not to love about that?" As with the original, the new opening will

Three years after they opened their first bagel shop in Primrose Hill in 2023, the NYC-inspired bakery is expanding its North London footprint by opening in Hampstead. They'll hit up the high street there at the end of the summer.

As per their other three bakeries, their newest opening will serve a combination of grab-and-go bagels along with a mix of unfilled bagels topped with poppy or sesame seeds, garlic, onion, ‘everything,’ or just plain.

"We want to be the place people stop before a walk on the Heath, before school drop-off, or before a picnic on a sunny weekend,"

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Listening bars are all the rage right now, but what about listening bakeries? Well, Muswell Hill now has a genre-defining new bakery bringing together top-notch viennoiserie and hi-fi vinyl culture. Turntable Bakery opened last weekend, and both the counter full of bakes and curated soundtrack proved to be a big hit with locals who queued around the block ahead of opening in order to get a first taste of the food, music and vibes.

The story behind Turntable Bakery is a familiar one: Anca Zsifkov-Gavra was made redundant from her corporate job during the pandemic and started

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They're one of the most popular bakeries in London, beloved as much for their idiosyncratic take on croissants as for their innovative collab bakes. They even picked up London Bakery of the Year at the 2025 National Bakery Awards. So it stands to reason that queer-owned TOAD Bakery would be looking to expand.

All of this is good news for Deptford folks who are about to get a TOAD Bakery in their neck of the woods. For their second bakery, owners Rebecca Spaven and Oliver Costello have picked a former rectory on the high

They may have recently said goodbye to their head chef at Dorian, but the same team aren't slowing down. They're getting ready to open NAKIMUSHI, which is bringing together the chefs of two popular residencies, Urchin's Yuji Shimokawa Kelly and Robin Kosuge of Robin's Ramen. 

The pair are taking over all three floors of a townhouse near Notting Hill Gate. Inside, the two chefs will each be managing different space. So Robin Kosuge will be heading up the ground-floor ramen bar. On the menu here will be his signature lobster ramen as well as a charshu pork belly