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Smithfield Market is about to see a major new influx of foodies this winter with the opening of the Museum of London in its new home. The reason? Well, there's going to be a restaurant, bar, cafe and rotating residency spot, all of which sound worth a look.

The museum's contract was won by catering company Green & Fortune, who have brought in chef Robin Gill and expert mixologist Ryan Chetiyawardana (aka Mr Lyan) to give some serious heft to the food and drink offering. They're also using top restaurant designers Russell Sage Studios to do the interiors. So, here's your guide

Big Kid Ice Cream, which launched in 2022, has quickly become one of the best places for ice cream in London. Now, perfectly timed for the summer season, they're taking things one step further with Whippies, their new soft-serve outlet in Seven Dials Market. 

Behind it all will be their new Vanilla Whippy, a signature serve made with organic milk, brown butter and real Madagascan vanilla, which already sounds great on its own. That's then being used in an array of fabulous sundaes, including:

• Solero Knickerbocker - Peaches, mango

A new wagyu-led restaurant that originates in Fukuoka, Japan, is getting ready to bring late-night wagyu steaks to Fitzrovia.

Wagyu Yakiniku USHIO is taking over the site that used to be Palms of Goa, which itself closed last year, after over 30 years on Charlotte Street. It's based on Fukuoka restaurant USHIO Haruyoshi Bettei, and the head chef from the original restaurant is coming over to launch the London outpost. 

Open only for dinner, everything here is led by lean cuts of Japanese Akami Wagyu, which is a little less marbled than you might expect wagyu to

The roll-out of new restaurants and bars at the huge Battersea Power Station development continues with the reveal last week that one of the next openings will be a pub. The Hero's Return sees the same group behind pasta restaurant Bancone, moving into the pub market. And they've brought an interesting chef into the mix to help them.

Jonathan Woolway will be the pub's executive chef, looking after the menu here. He's also the chef patron of the highly rated restaurant The Shed in Swansea and, before that spent a formative 17 years at St John. He and his team are promising the

This week, The Crusting Pipe is reborn as a new bar, Coppa Club takes up a prime riverside space and a new matcha bar arrives in Soho.  

We were the first to tell you about the arrival of the Korean matcha house Tokkia in Covent Garden. And we were there on day one to check out their drinks and salt breads and stick with them on the ride to the position they have now with a perma-queue outside.

Founder Sooji Im really found a gap in London's often saturated drinks market with her elevated take on matcha and the popular seasonal blends she offered. Most recently the cafe did a sellout range in

Updated 17/7/26 with opening date and menu details

For over a year now, there have been rumblings that Mayfair hotel, The Beaumont, was gearing up to open a second restaurant. That would add to their existing offering, Rosi, by the hotel's Culinary Director Lisa Goodwin-Allen.

Now we can reveal that plans for Pearl are fully underway, with the restaurant taking over the elevated section of Brown Hart Gardens in front of the hotel. On the food front, it might not surprise you to learn that the menu here is going to be Mediterranean-led, like so many new openings in

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16/7/26 - Updated with more about the food and drink and an opening date. 

Recently, there have been a lot of fancy new Mayfair hotels opening, from the Chancery Rosewood on Grosvenor Square to the upcoming St Regis Hotel, taking over what used to be The Westbury. Also planned for a while, but finally due to open is The Shepherd Mayfair, which is more of a boutique affair.

The hotel has taken over what used to be the Park Lane Mews

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 founder of Note in Dublin

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. 

That's pretty much all that's been revealed about

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