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London has its fair share of Sri Lankan restaurants. But the arrival of Isso in Canary Wharf this summer marks one of the first times a Sri Lankan-based restaurant group has opened in the city.

Owner Apinash Sivagumaaran happily admits he was obsessed with prawns from an early age. "You find chicken restaurants, crab restaurants, lobster restaurants, but there's no specialised prawn restaurants," he says. "and I personally as a kid loved prawns." All the prawns come direct from Sri Lanka, where as Apinash explains, "we support over 150 artisanal fishermen in Jaffna and Mannar who

Nikkei restaurant Bamboo Mat has been proving a big hit in Stratford - so much that it's gearing up for a second opening in Canary Wharf. 

Before moving to Stratford, the original Bamboo Mat opened in Leyton, where Grace Dent described it as: "It’s a smaller, cheaper and better Chotto Matte, without all the shouty people and art installations. What’s not to love about that?" As with the original, the new opening will

Three years after they opened their first bagel shop in Primrose Hill in 2023, the NYC-inspired bakery is expanding its North London footprint by opening in Hampstead. They'll hit up the high street there at the end of the summer.

As per their other three bakeries, their newest opening will serve a combination of grab-and-go bagels along with a mix of unfilled bagels topped with poppy or sesame seeds, garlic, onion, ‘everything,’ or just plain.

"We want to be the place people stop before a walk on the Heath, before school drop-off, or before a picnic on a sunny weekend,"

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Listening bars are all the rage right now, but what about listening bakeries? Well, Muswell Hill now has a genre-defining new bakery bringing together top-notch viennoiserie and hi-fi vinyl culture. Turntable Bakery opened last weekend, and both the counter full of bakes and curated soundtrack proved to be a big hit with locals who queued around the block ahead of opening in order to get a first taste of the food, music and vibes.

The story behind Turntable Bakery is a familiar one: Anca Zsifkov-Gavra was made redundant from her corporate job during the pandemic and started

6/7/26 - updated with the opening date

They're one of the most popular bakeries in London, beloved as much for their idiosyncratic take on croissants as for their innovative collab bakes. They even picked up London Bakery of the Year at the 2025 National Bakery Awards. So it stands to reason that queer-owned TOAD Bakery would be looking to expand.

All of this is good news for Deptford folks who are about to get a TOAD Bakery in their neck of the woods. For their second bakery, owners Rebecca Spaven and Oliver Costello have picked a former rectory on the high

They may have recently said goodbye to their head chef at Dorian, but the same team aren't slowing down. They're getting ready to open NAKIMUSHI, which is bringing together the chefs of two popular residencies, Urchin's Yuji Shimokawa Kelly and Robin Kosuge of Robin's Ramen. 

The pair are taking over all three floors of a townhouse near Notting Hill Gate. Inside, the two chefs will each be managing different space. So Robin Kosuge will be heading up the ground-floor ramen bar. On the menu here will be his signature lobster ramen as well as a charshu pork belly

The husband and wife team behind popular south London seafood spots Sea Garden in Tooting's Broadway Market and Norbury are branching out. Natalie and Nuno Fecha's next venture will actually be on the water, as they've taken on the old Prince Regent narrowboat restaurant in Paddington Basin.

Their current restaurants serve up a seafood-focused menu, influenced by Portuguese & South African flavours. Brunches are a big deal, as are bottomless offerings and seafood boils. We've had a sneak peek at the menu and the seafood boil and surf & turf options are both on there as are

You may be familiar with the building on the corner of Geffrye and Cremer Street, just as you come out of Hoxton station. It's opened under a few guises in the past years, most recently Molly's Cafe, from the people behind The Anchor & Hope. But it's always been something of a tricky site, despite a relatively prominent position and being attached to the Museum of the Home.

Now it's just got a new lease of life, and that happens to be from the same people behind the camera-phobic bar, Space Talk in Farringdon. Up until now, they've been rather tight-lipped about what they've

This week, there's a new lobster/burger spot in Covent Garden, a residency kitchen arrives in Hackney and there's a new party flat in Shoreditch. 

6/7/26 - updated with menu details

The man behind the very successful Lita in Marylebone, Daniel Koukarskikh, has quietly unveiled his next London opening, but this one is a little different. Mardy's is a sandwich shop that's opened in Mayfair. 

Un until now, that's more or less all we've known. According to job advertisements, they refer to themselves as "a proudly British brand, straightforward, unpretentious, and grumpy about quality." That's backed up with a cartoon campaign featuring their grumpy lead character. 

However, now that it's

As Londoners in the know understand, if you want to try some of the really interesting new Asian food in town, you need to head over to London's emerging Chinatown in Bloomsbury. Which makes it the perfect spot for a new bakery to open its doors.

Rise & Fold comes from Chin Teow, the man behind dessert and matcha house brand Tsujiri. As he explained to Hot Dinners, "Rise & Fold isn’t about opening just another bakery. London already has plenty of excellent bakeries. What we felt was missing was a place that celebrates the exciting bakery culture emerging across Asia, while

The team behind Crudo in Covent Garden and Shoreditch and Tiny Wine in Fitzrovia are growing again. This time, they're opening in Hackney with Rocola, a rotating kitchen on Mare Street. In a similar approach to Carousel, Rocola is going to have a regularly changing series of guest chefs and residencies.

That's all kicking off with chef Nico Reynolds, whose menu is bringing together his Jamaican and Irish roots, mixed with time spent cooking in Buenos Aires. The food will include small plates like Prawn causa, Summer squash tiradito and Aji de gallina tostadas.

As we enter the second half of the year, new openings include the latest from the team behind Lagana, a high-end Italian that's been promised for a while, East Asian/Texas BBQ, a top bakery follow-up and much more...