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- Kith's new flagship store in London features a standalone restaurant Ronnie's and a Kith Treats bar
Updated 12/12/25 with booking info
For a while now clothing brand Kith and its treat store have been one of the best places to get soft serve in London. But the imminent opening of their flagship store on Regent Street is going to bring both a Treats bar and a standalone restaurant.
Ronnie's New York, named after Kith founder Ronnie Fieg, will have its own entrance. It looks like a
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As we approach the end of 2025, it's time to look and the best of the new openings of the year in London. Here are the restaurants that really made a mark.
- All the new London restaurants - recently opened restaurants in London
Here's a complete guide to all the new London restaurants that have opened...
- Cheese toasties on the menu for City workers with the arrival of Melt at Boxhall City
Lunch options for folks in the City just got a boost in the run up to Christmas with the arrival of cheese toastie folk MELT at the Boxhall City food hall. Melt have been trading at Old Spitalfields for the past couple of years; you'll probably have seen their signature oozy cheese toasties on your FYP at some point.
On the menu at the new City location will be a range of toasties and dips for dunking. But they're also
... - Dara Klein reveals what to expect from Tiella Trattoria & Bar on Columbia Road
11/12/25 - updated with details about the menu and projected opening
For a small pub residency, Tiella at The Compton Arms got a lot of column inches. There was something about chef Dara Klein's cooking that reflected the places she'd worked in London (Brawn, Trullo, and Sager & Wilde) and her background that included a childhood spent both in
... - The Newman hotel to open in Fitzrovia, with Brasserie Angelica and atmospheric Gambit Bar
Updated 10/12/25 with opening date
We get a lot of information about new openings here at Hot Dinners, so it takes a lot to impress us. So when we say that an announcement about a new central London hotel made us sit up and take notice, that's a big thing. The illustrations about the restaurant and bar opening at The Newman, just north of Oxford Street, really caught our eye. This Fitzrovian boutique hotel
... - Osteria Vibrato sees the Laughing Heart's Charlie Mellor open an Italian in Soho
Three years after closing The Laughing Heart in Hackney, Charlie Mellor is back with his latest venture.
Osteria Vibrato is the latest to join the recent trend of new Italian restaurants opening in town, this one with a menu created by Gaia Enria, founder of recently closed Burro e Salvia. Hoping to set themselves apart from the crowd, they're saying the menu
... - Claridge's Bakery sees world class baker Richard Hart doing British bakes in London
9/12/25 - updated with more details and an opening date
London bakery nerd alert - one of the world's best bakers is coming to town. Richard Hart hails from London but made his name far from home, having headed up the famous Tartine in San Francisco for seven years before co-founding Copenhagen bakery Hart Bagery with none other than René Redzepi of Noma. Now he's signed up to be the executive
... - Jamie's Italian is coming back from the dead
When Jamie's Italian went under back in 2019, it was one of the most public closures possible, with coverage all over the press. But, the brand has managed to keep going overseas and, much to pretty much everyone's surprise, it's coming back to the UK too.
This time, the chef is spreading the risk about a bit as it's going to be a team-up with Prezzo and the first opening is going to be
... - New restaurants and bars opening in London this week
Here are all the new restaurants to look forward to in the coming week. This week, in the last big push before Christmas, Guinness finally launch their Covent Garden brewery, ex-Masterchef the Professionals winner Alex Webb opens his own place, a big new food hall opens on Leicester Square and much more...
- Phil Howard's Notto is promising City folk fresh pasta for lunch
8/12/25 - updated with the opening date
His main home may be Elystan Street, but Phil Howard's other business looks like it's doing pretty well. Fresh pasta bar Notto is already on Piccadilly and in Covent Garden, and a third is on the way to the City.
If you're as yet unfamiliar with the restaurant,
- Paris's Loulou Groupe heads to London with a brasserie and club planned for Mayfair
Updated 8/12/25 with more details
In France they're responsible for a roster of hotter-than-hot restaurants, and back in 2021 we were the first to let you know that the Loulou Groupe were heading to London for their first UK opening. Now, four years later, we have more details on what's being planned.
The team have taken over a Grade II listed building in the
... - 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. - A new wave Mexican seafood restaurant Cometa is taking over Carousel's wine bar on Charlotte Street
A quick look back at all the chef collabs that have taken place at Carousel over the past few years would reveal a distinct trend - they really love working with Mexican chefs. And at some point something on the team clearly asked the question, 'Why don't we open our own Mexican restaurant if we're so into it?' The net result is that Carousel founders, Ed and Ollie Templeton are currently working on
... - A high-end Korean matcha cafe, Tokkia, is opening in Covent Garden
If you were one of the many fans of the much-missed Korean tea shop be-oom on Exmouth Market, then we've got some news that should gladden your heart. Founder Sooji Im has another venture in the offing. She's moved into central London, where she'll be opening TOKKIA, a luxury Korean matcha house.
On offer will be finely whisked Korean matcha, paired with saltbreads - a traditional Korean roll that looks
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