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They've become big in Ireland and now grilled toastie shop Griolladh (pronounced "Grill-Ah" in case you were wondering) is making its way to London, opening in Clapham first (as spotted by @bestofbattersealdn).

Like many places in the UK, they started during the pandemic, first working out of a trailer in their garden before opening their standalone shops. You'll now find them across Dublin, as well as Cork, Limerick and Kildare (not our second home of Galway, though, which is

London is not immune to the celebrity-opens-restaurant phenomenon, but there are definitely two categories they fall into. First, you have the kind of place that you know the celebrity hasn't an idea of setting foot in the place, let alone eating the food (we're looking at Naomi, Cindy et al with the Fashion Cafe). Then there's the person who's genuinely into food and for whom opening a restaurant has long been the dream.

Hasan Semay (the presenter best known as Big Has) is a YouTuber turned BBC judge and cookbook author. It's fair to say that he's long been talking the talk and

Updated 13/11/26 with the actual opening date

They're called hg here in the UK but are much better known under their European name Honest Greens. And having gone down an absolute storm with their first healthy dining restaurant in Soho, the group are gearing up for a second opening in London.

Their second opening is in a coworking space right beside Victoria Station. And it looks to be a pretty decent-sized restaurant too, taking over the corner to the south of the station, with room for more than 200 diners. 

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A superteam that comes from the man behind Hector's, alongside Hill & Szrok and Planque alumni, is getting ready to take charge of Mirrors, a new restaurant and wine bar opening inside the ICA.

Taking the space over are Jimmy Stephenson (who owns the very popular Hoxton wine bar Hector’s), Emily Masters (previously Hill & Szrok and The Eagle) and Cavan Power O’Keeffe (previously senior sous chef at Planque and Brawn). So it's a notably strong team in charge. 

Mirrors will be a cafe during the day and in the evening transition into a restaurant, with Cavan

We're still waiting for them to open in Battersea (apparently "soon", but they have been promising it for a year), but while we do, Noodle Inn really slowing down at all. Next up for one of London's most popular noodle bars is a restaurant in Angel. 

They're taking over a corner space that's been empty for a while, on the corner of St John Street and Goswell Road/City Road. 

As for what you can expect there, it'll be a very similar set-up to their other restaurants (although they are highlighting that this one will be fully halal). So you can expect to see the

E17 folk aren't short of a place, or 10, to go for a good pint of beer. And this month Beer Mile is going to have another new pub that's going to be worth checking out.

East London Brewing Co opened their huge new brewery to the north end of the mile this spring, and before the year is over they'll have crowned it with a brand new pub. The Black Horse Tap is the latest addition to their huge space here, which already has a taproom and events space. But this is fully a pub, rather than another taproom, with a wide range of beers, wines and spirits alongside a compelling food

We first wrote about Ergon House coming to Covent Garden back in 2024, but things went very quiet after that. Now, somewhat out of nowhere, they're actually getting ready to open this month. 

That will be the London outpost of Greek boutique hotel group Ergon House, and it's taking over a refurbished listed building on King Street (where the Covent Garden Carluccio's used to be). It's a mix of hotel rooms and "residences", but it's also bringing with it a new restaurant and store. 

Things have changed somewhat since the original announcement. Back then, we heard

Earlier this year, Australian frozen yoghurt shop Yo-CHi came to Notting Hill and it proved to be VERY popular. The early buzz for their arrival in London was already big, but nothing could have prepared us for the size of those queues on opening week. 

But if those very queues have been putting you off heading over to Notting Hill, another Yo Chi is imminent. This time they're opening in Clapham, just around the corner from Clapham Common station. Although as there are a lot of Australian ex-pats in Clapham, this could be an even bigger hit than Notting

Jamie Allsopp (who's behind Allsopp's Brewery) has had a lot of success with his first pub, The Blue Stoops in Notting Hill (at the time, Giles Coren called it "brilliant little pub trying out great new things"). Now he's getting ready to follow that up with a big new project, The Warrington Hotel in Maida Vale. 

Although it's called a hotel, it's really a pub and 10-room hotel, located in an extremely impressive Grade II listed building, built back in 1857. After Allsopp took it over, he closed it last month for a complete renovation, which will include both

Clapham folk hankering after somewhere they can go for a bowl of pasta on the way home from work, or drop in for spritzes and arancini after a bracing walk on the common, will soon have Adelia to check out. It's a new pasta restaurant currently getting ready to open in the old Bistro Union space.

Certainly, the man behind it, former longtime Abbeville resident Thomas Texido, has plenty of form when it comes to working on restaurants that Londoners love. He's previously been in the ops team at both the Big Mamma Group and MJMK who are behind Caso do Frango and recent opening

Whether you're an ex-pat looking for a slice of home (and pumpkin pie) or just fancy getting in on the pre-festive season celebrations, here's our pick of the Thanksgiving events happening in London.

Beefbar only recently moved from its Chelsea restaurant to the Broadwick hotel in Soho, and now a new restaurant is already getting ready to take over its former Chelsea home. 

Lucca is a Mediterranean restaurant - yes, we've had quite a few of those in London over the past year. Lucca does come with a little bit of history though, as they also have a restaurant in Istanbul, which opened back in 2004 (and used to have a seaside offshoot in Bodrum too). 

The original Lucca's menu appears to go some way beyond a more traditional Mediterranean restaurant, as you'll

This week, Canary Wharf gets what looks to be a stunning new floating restaurant, there's a new bakery from Dusty Knuckle and the Three Sheets team open a new martini bar.