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When one door closes, another opens, and that's very much the case with the closure this week of an East Dulwich institution, Franklin's. After 26 years in business, owner Rod Franklin decided that he was ready to retire. In a eulogy for the restaurant, critic Jay Rayner dubbed it "a marvellous place, the model of what you want a local place to be".

But before SE22 locals get all in a tizzy about losing their happy place, the good news is that plans are already afoot for what's going to replace it. As Rod explained in a post on Instagram, "a small group of long-time customers have

Chef Will Devlin runs a series of restaurants across Kent, under his Acre group, that have a big focus on sustainability and farm-to-table cooking. Of those, The Small Holding and Birchwood are the most well-known and now the chef is bringing the latter to London, opening Birchwood - The Conduit.

As that name suggests, this is going to be part of The Conduit club, but it will be a part that's open to the public, not just members. It's kicking off with a cafe and wine bar in summer, and they'll be following up with a rooftop restaurant in the autumn. Part of us wonders whether that

The team behind The Prince Arthur Belgravia, as well as Arthur's Market in Chelsea, are getting ready to open their next restaurant. This time around, they're going back to Belgravia and are teaming up with boutique hotel The Lowndes Hotel to launch Avi Bistrot. 

This will be a French/American brasserie, with a fair bit of showing from the caviar that was liberally used over at the Prince Arthur. At Avi, you'll find it on dishes like their New York fried chicken & caviar as well as caviar fish and chips. Elsewhere on the menu, you'll find the LA brioche noire lobster roll,

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The Queen Adelaide pub in Shepherd's Bush closed last summer, but the pub is now returning under a new guise, called The Talli Queen. 

It comes from chef Avi Shashidhara, who previously worked at Claude Bosi's Hibiscus and then had a long stint at The River Cafe before launching the kitchen at Pahli Hill Bandra Bhai in Fitzrovia. He also won the starter section of Great British Menu in 2023, so you might also remember him from that series.

It's the latest pub to relaunch with a strong focus on Indian food, much like The Tamil Prince (and Crown) in Islington. They say that

Jimmy Garcia is now into his tenth year on the South Bank with Jimmy's BBQ Club. For something that was originally billed as a pop-up, that's one hell of a run. But as he hits the decade mark, he's decided to change things up. So he's getting ready to launch Rotate by Jimmy, and as that title might clue you in, this time it's all about rotisserie cooking. 

Rotisserie chicken will be the main deal here, and they'll be front and centre in the restaurant so even if you're just strolling down the South Bank, you'll be able to see the chickens in the oven. We can see that tempting in

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Only a few weeks after helping to relaunch TAQ in Notting Hill, Jackson Boxer already has a new restaurant nearly ready to go. The chef, best known for Dove in Notting Hill and Brunswick House in Vauxhall, will be opening Vesper in Exmouth Market next. 

There's actually a link with TAQ here too, as Vesper is opening in what used to be the Exmouth Market outpost of Taqueria. Vesper, however, sounds more like it's going to be an East London version of Dove, with a bistro-style menu. Just how they're categorising the menu itself seems a little vague, with it being described like

A few weeks ago, we got the news that French brasserie Marceline had closed the doors of its floating restaurant in Canary Wharf. That building was empty for a long time before Marceline took it on, but it's not staying empty this time around as there's already a replacement lined up, Tattu. 

This will be the second Tattu in London, following the first on Tottenham Court Road, and it's a restaurant that originates in Manchester. The same group behind it has only just opened

Malika Green and Paschelle Brown have been running All Roads as sold-out supperclubs for three years. That's along with working a wide variety of restaurants, including Patty & Bun, Daddy Bao, Chotto Matte, Burger & Beyond, Soho House, Lai Rai and lots more besides. And now they're taking the next step and launching All Roads as a permanent restaurant in Brixton. 

The menu at All Roads will continue the style of their supperclubs - comfort food that's inspired by their shared Caribbean heritage, as well as British, European and Southern American influences. So you'll find

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 co-owner

They already own two dim sum restaurants in Wimbledon and Ealing as well as Tao Tao Ju in Chinatown, but now the folks behind the Good Fortune Club are coming into the centre of town with a hot new prospect.

Banquet 88 is being described as "a premium Cantonese dining experience". What that means is that it'll be just as good a spot to host business clients as to have one of those epic family dim sum lunches on the weekend. Think big tables, big menus, and a whole load of dim sum to choose from.

They're promising Cantonese classics like whole Peking duck, roast suckling

Pizzas might be having their time in the sun right now, but London has plenty of room for more smash burgers, it seems. Junk Burger are already gearing up for their third launch in London, this time inside Spitalfields Market. 

The smash burger restaurant originated in Paris (not to be confused with that other Parisian smash burger joint, Dumbo) before opening in Soho first and then Marylebone, just off Oxford Street. This third restaurant hasn't been officially announced at the time of writing, but a big hoarding outside the restaurant in Spitalfields rather gives the game away.

For a while, we've been waiting for an official announcement on the latest Arcade food hall, and now we finally have it. And it's all opening sooner than you might think. 

The food hall is taking over what used to be a particularly large TGI Friday's site in Covent Garden. It's a big corner site opposite the local Nando's, and while it's 12,500 sq ft and seats 385, it's still going to make this the smaller of the three Arcades.

Inside the new Arcade, there will be seven new food spaces, with those announced so far being:

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