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- Mareida will showcase Chilean cuisine in Fitzrovia
It previewed at Carousel last year and now Chilean restaurant Mareida is getting ready to open, not too far away from Carousel in Fitzrovia.
It's founded by Prenay Agarwal (pictured above) who has lived in Chile for a year and wants to showcase that country's cuisine to London. To that end, he's brought in Head Chef Trinidad Vial Della Maggiora to run things in the kitchen who is, in turn, supported
... - New Chelsea bakery Reemies is all about the banana bundt
Reemies, by Reem Abusamra, started life as a cake delivery business and over the years has found itself a huge following, Now, the first Reemies bakery is getting ready to open.
The cake business started back in 2018 with Reem originally baking cakes in her own flat and gradually expanding to a larger kitchen in Vauxhall and a much bigger business. Over that period she also built up
... - The new restaurants and bars opening in London this week
Our regular weekly guide to what to expect from the week ahead in London, with the restaurants, bars and more opening their doors across town. This week, there are two new sandwich shops, a new old-school pub for Islington, the start of a three-month Guinness pop-up and more...
- Bluebird City sees the Chelsea favourite opening in Moorgate
For over two decades, Bluebird Chelsea has been a stalwart of the SW3 restaurant scene, appearing in more scenes of Made in Chelsea than we care to remember. Now it's about to make the move east. The team behind it are opening a second restaurant in the City at South Place Hotel where they're taking over the hotel's former 3SP dining space.
Fans of the Chelsea original will be pleased to hear that plenty of signature
... - Passyunk Avenue's cheesesteaks have arrived in Kensington
There are certainly a lot of high-end openings around Kensington of late (we very much enjoyed the recent Krokodilos opening). But now there's something that's a little bit more affordable and certainly worth your time as a new Passyunk Avenue has launched, the first that's firmly in West
... - Traders revealed for Boxhall City, a new spin-off food hall at Liverpool Street from Boxpark
14/3/25 - updated with opening date and traders
The Metropolitan Arcade at Liverpool Street, an Edwardian shopping arcade once saved from demolition during the 80s, is now being reinvented as a food hall for the 2020s. It's going to be part of a series of spin-off concepts from Boxpark called BoxHall. They've been promising to open it for a while (it was first
... - Lilli by Akira Back sees the chef already lining up his second hotel restaurant in London
14/3/25 - updated with opening date
Seemingly not happy with having two restaurants in the nearby Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, chef Akira Back already has another hotel restaurant lined up, barely a 15-minute walk away.
This time, it's in the revamped The Montcalm hotel in Mayfair, now renamed Montcalm Mayfair. The restaurant
... - Marjorie's is a new contemporary wine bar and French restaurant for Soho
As longstanding Hot Dinners readers should know, we do love a good wine bar. So we're very interested in combo wine bar and French restaurant Marjorie's which is opening in Soho soon.
It comes from a duo that are new to hospitality, Michael Searle & Josh Anderson but who have brought in someone very interesting on the food side, head chef Giacomo Peretti (ex-Le Gavroche,
... - Jikoni's Ravinder Bhogal and Nadeem Lalani Nanjuwany to open new restaurant at V&A East Museum in Stratford
There have been some very interesting developments in Stratford recently and the good news is that there are more to come next year. The team behind Jikoni in Marylebone, Ravinder Bhogal and Nadeem Lalani Nanjuwany are taking on a new restaurant, this time one that is launching as part of the upcoming V&A East Museum.
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... - 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. - All the new London restaurants - recently opened restaurants in London
Here's a complete guide to all the new London restaurants that have opened...
- Fortune Fried Chicken brings Thai chicken to Spitalfields from a Gunpowder and ex-Begging Bowl team
For his next restaurant, the man behind Gunpowder, Harneet Baweja, is heading in a new direction. This time he's launching a Thai fried chicken restaurant in Spitalfields Market.
Fortune Fried Chicken sees him teaming up with Executive Chef Jane Alty, one of the founders of The Begging Bowl in Peckham. Inspired by a fried chicken dish that
... - Sandwich Sandwich's second London shop is upon us
12/3/24 - updated with the opening date
They only launched their first London sandwich shop last year, but Sandwich Sandwich already have their next place ready to go. And this time they're going big.
When they revealed the opening, they rather
... - Fink's are opening a bakery on Blackstock Road
Last year, eagle-eyed fans of North London cafe group Fink's spotted that they'd taken over a cafe site on Blackstock Road. However, dreams of a new space to sit in were dashed when they revealed they were simply using the space as a prep kitchen. But now their plans have changed. They've just launched a crowdfunder to help them transform the space into a "full-scale bakery. This will allow us to add freshly baked bread and
... - Noodle & Beer pick Chinatown for their second spicy Sichuan noodle joint
7/3/25 - updated with the opening date
Noodle Inn may be the place everyone's currently queueing for, but it might soon have some competition coming its way. Noodle & Beer first opened in Spitalfields back in 2020 but it's been such a success that the owner is now opening a second restaurant, this time in the heart of Chinatown.
If you haven't tried the original in East London, then the clue to what
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