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24/9/26 - Updated with the opening date

One of London's best pizzerias is back as Lenny's is going permanent in Covent Garden. 

Back in 2024, Max Lewis set up shop inside the Bedford Tavern in Finsbury Park as Lenny's Apizza, a pizza residency with one mission - to bring authentic New Haven-style pizzas to London. For this new launch, he's teamed up with MJMK, the people behind Casa do Frango, AngloThai and more besides. 

The New Haven pizzas, also called "apizza", originate in Connecticut at Frank Pepe Pizzeria from all the way back in 1925

They're one of our favourite local wine bars, with shops on Newington Green and Highbury Corner, and now Yield are consolidating their North London holding with a third opening, in Angel.

In a few weeks' time they'll be throwing open the doors to their Essex Road site. As they explained to Hot Dinners. "Our newest site, Yield Essex Road has the same vibe as our St Paul’s Road site, but a very different offering to our flagship in Newington Green, recently voted Coolest Neighbourhood 2026.

"We’ll do both eat-in/drink-in and takeaway, with wines to take away as well as to

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We love a busy roster and one chef who has a lot on her plate at the moment is Karla Knowles. The former head chef at Kiln is busy working on not one but two new restaurant openings over the coming months. To do that she's teamed up with Romain and Edouard Bourrillon who are behind the Maison Vivantes restaurant group and also own Cocotte and Casa Felicia.

They're starting with PAM in Farringdon. That's going to be Karla's first standalone restaurant. We don't know what's going to be on the menu there, but Karla's been running a series of collaborative supperclubs over the summer,

For more than 20 years the British restaurant Roast has lorded it over Borough Market, its dining room literally perched above the market floor. But now there's change on the horizon with plans to open a second branch, this time in Shoreditch.

The space they're taking on is the cavernous restaurant at the Virgin Hotels London Shoreditch. That was previously the Mondrian and you might remember either Marcus Samuelsson's Red Rooster or Dani Garcia's Bibo which were in this space before. Now we've moved from American and Spanish back to British, with Sunday roasts and proper Full

Soho is getting a new chicken and steak restaurant that you'll definitely want to check out. It comes from the team behind TA TA Eatery, but it's also something you might have come across before. 

There's been a Solis at one of the Arcade food halls in either Battersea or Tottenham Court Road for a while. But now it's the latest from Arcade (following Manna a few weeks back) to go it alone with a completely standalone restaurant. They're taking over a space on Kingly Street that

A few weeks back, we found out that one of our local Islington restaurants, Prawn on the Lawn, was closing after 13 years in London (and nine years in that particular location). The last time that site was vacated (when chicken restaurant LeCoq closed), it took four months before we knew what would be taking its place. But things have moved much more quickly this time around and a new restaurant has already opened there. 

Originally, we had heard that it was to become

Earlier this year, Patrick Williams and Amy Corbin moved from Peckham and Nunhead to launch their very successful new iteration of Kudu in Marylebone. But they haven't left South London for good, as what used to be Kudu Grill is about to be brought back to life as Braai Bird. 

Not straying too far from the "grill" part of its former life, Braai Bird is going to serve up wood-fired rotisserie chicken. That chicken is going to be slow-roasted "for maximum char" and paired with house-made South African sauces (like their Monkey Gland and Cape Malay sauces) and sides. The focus

Until now, Temper has been known mainly for its steaks and tacos in Soho and the City, but they're about try something different. They're opening a new wine bar called Temper Tantrums in Marylebone. 

They're taking on a space that was until very recently a Be At One bar that's pretty close to Oxford Street (it only just closed at the end of August). Under Temper, it's going to be a combo wine bar and live music space. It's also following the template we've seen from a few bars like this. So it's starting with coffee and pastries in the morning and changing into a wine bar as

This week, Levan comes to Covent Garden with the very French Cassette, the Faber team open a Canary Wharf pub, chef Will Devlin heads to the rooftop and more...

A couple of decades ago, there were advanced plans, if you can credit it, to demolish the lovely Victorian buildings that surround Smithfield Market. Happily, the whole area has now been protected as part of the new London Museum development, and to add to the general joy, we also have a new pub on the way.

The Poet comes from the same stellar team that are behind Sune in Hackney; so that's Spencer Large, Honey Spencer and Charlie Sims. It's a lovely corner site on Farringdon Road and the pub will also feature a first-floor dining room. In the kitchens is chef Charlie Tayler who

If you're looking for a new restaurant with a great view, this might be for you. A new high-rise restaurant is coming to Canary Wharf called Alto 19. 

This one comes from White Rabbit Projects, a restaurant group that has Lina Stores and Kricket under its umbrella, as well as restaurants in Locke hotels that include Nuno Mendes' restaurant in Lisbon. This latest opening is at the top of Locke Canary Wharf, and they've brought in Executive Chef Chris Dargavel to head it up. He's recently been head chef at Daphne's and before that was head chef of J Sheekey, as well as

Luke Farrell has had an impressive string of hits over the past few years, with both Speedboat Bar and Plaza Khao Gaeng becoming hugely popular Thai restaurants. Now the chef is getting ready to launch something new with Yai. 

He's taking on a space in Marylebone that was once Il Baretto, and this latest restaurant will be very different from his previous openings as it's going be a fine dining restaurant (although there's an emphasis on a relaxed approach to that). It'll be particularly focused on the food of Phuket and it also sounds like that'll stretch to the design

18/9/26 - Updated with new images and revised 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 Hotel, just