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• Frites Atelier have brought their cult loaded fries to Soho

  

  They're big in the Netherlands and Belgium, where they hoover up the tourist crowds looking for particularly extra punnets of chips, and now Frites Atelier have come to London, landing in Soho (taking over from Balans no. 34). People do seem to enjoy queuing for food in Soho, so expect this to be the big new viral hit in the run-up to Christmas. They have had Eating With Tod in already, after all...

  It was originally started by

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• Waterloo commuters now have a proper Grind coffee shop at the station

  

  Spare a thought for London's commuters, wearily trekking into and out of London every day. Now, at least the ones coming via Waterloo will have some decent coffee waiting for them when they get here.

  Grind are officially opening their newest coffee shop at Waterloo today. And while they've got shops close to London Bridge and Liverpool Street, this is their first to open actually inside a station. This one's a decent

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• New restaurants and bars opening in London this week

  

  Here are all the new restaurants to look forward to in the coming week. This week, so close to Christmas, things have really quietened down, but there's still room for very hot chicken...

• All the new London restaurants - recently opened restaurants in London

  

  Here's a complete guide to all the new London restaurants that have opened...

• Upcoming London restaurants - hot new openings coming soon

  All the latest news on every upcoming London restaurant that's going to be opening in the capital. The only Coming Soon list you need.

• Kith's new flagship store in London features a standalone restaurant Ronnie's and a Kith Treats bar

  

  Updated 12/12/25 with booking info

  For a while now clothing brand Kith and its treat store have been one of the best places to get soft serve in London. But the imminent opening of their flagship store on Regent Street is going to bring both a Treats bar and a standalone restaurant.

  Ronnie's New York, named after Kith founder Ronnie Fieg, will have its own entrance. It looks like a

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• The best new London restaurants of 2025

  

  As we approach the end of 2025, it's time to look and the best of the new openings of the year in London. Here are the restaurants that really made a mark. 

• Cheese toasties on the menu for City workers with the arrival of Melt at Boxhall City

  

  Lunch options for folks in the City just got a boost in the run up to Christmas with the arrival of cheese toastie folk MELT at the Boxhall City food hall. Melt have been trading at Old Spitalfields for the past couple of years; you'll probably have seen their signature oozy cheese toasties on your FYP at some point.

  On the menu at the new City location will be a range of toasties and dips for dunking. But they're also

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• Dara Klein reveals what to expect from Tiella Trattoria & Bar on Columbia Road

  

  11/12/25 - updated with details about the menu and projected opening

  For a small pub residency, Tiella at The Compton Arms got a lot of column inches. There was something about chef Dara Klein's cooking that reflected the places she'd worked in London (Brawn, Trullo, and Sager & Wilde) and her background that included a childhood spent both in

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• The Newman hotel to open in Fitzrovia, with Brasserie Angelica and atmospheric Gambit Bar

  

  Updated 10/12/25 with opening date

  We get a lot of information about new openings here at Hot Dinners, so it takes a lot to impress us. So when we say that an announcement about a new central London hotel made us sit up and take notice, that's a big thing. The illustrations about the restaurant and bar opening at The Newman, just north of Oxford Street, really caught our eye. This Fitzrovian boutique hotel

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• Osteria Vibrato sees the Laughing Heart's Charlie Mellor open an Italian in Soho

  

  Three years after closing The Laughing Heart in Hackney, Charlie Mellor is back with his latest venture. 

  Osteria Vibrato is the latest to join the recent trend of new Italian restaurants opening in town, this one with a menu created by Gaia Enria, founder of recently closed Burro e Salvia. Hoping to set themselves apart from the crowd, they're saying the menu

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• Claridge's Bakery sees world class baker Richard Hart doing British bakes in London

  

  9/12/25 - updated with more details and an opening date

  London bakery nerd alert - one of the world's best bakers is coming to town. Richard Hart hails from London but made his name far from home, having headed up the famous Tartine in San Francisco for seven years before co-founding Copenhagen bakery Hart Bagery with none other than René Redzepi of Noma. Now he's signed up to be the executive

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• Jamie's Italian is coming back from the dead

   

  When Jamie's Italian went under back in 2019, it was one of the most public closures possible, with coverage all over the press. But, the brand has managed to keep going overseas and, much to pretty much everyone's surprise, it's coming back to the UK too. 

  This time, the chef is spreading the risk about a bit as it's going to be a team-up with Prezzo and the first opening is going to be

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• Phil Howard's Notto is promising City folk fresh pasta for lunch

  

  8/12/25 - updated with the opening date

  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 already on Piccadilly and in Covent Garden, and a third is on the way to the City. 

  If you're as yet unfamiliar with the restaurant, ...

• Paris's Loulou Groupe heads to London with a brasserie and club planned for Mayfair

  

  Updated 8/12/25 with more details

  In France they're responsible for a roster of hotter-than-hot restaurants, and back in 2021 we were the first to let you know that the Loulou Groupe were heading to London for their first UK opening. Now, four years later, we have more details on what's being planned.

  The team have taken over a Grade II listed building in the

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