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• Former Sosharu chef Alex Craciun is behind casual by day, immersive by night Aces Foodcraft opening in Fitzrovia

  

  30/10/25 - updated with the opening date

  It's been almost a decade since we last encountered the cooking of chef Alex Craciun in London. Back then, the chef had taken on the head chef position at Jason Atherton's Sosharu, for which he received almost universal praise from the critics. Grace Dent said his was 'the best chicken

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• Chelsea Grill takes over from Fantomas in Chelsea

  

  We were fans of Fantomas when it first opened in Chelsea, late in 2024. It was part of a trio of restaurants that opened in a short period of time by the group behind Wild. Krododilos and Pinna were

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• Vagabond are opening London's biggest urban winery and bar at Canada Water

  

  30/10/25 - updated with the opening date

  If you live or work in the Docklands and have been wondering what's going to take over the space at the recently completed Dock Shed at Canada Water, then we're here to enlighten you. It's going to be an absolutely massive new wine bar and winery. The space has been taken up by Vagabond wine bars: if you haven't been to one before, they're the bars where all

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• All the new London restaurants - recently opened restaurants in London

  

  Here's a complete guide to all the new London restaurants that have opened...

• 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.

• London's version of a Guinness Storehouse, Guinness Open Gate Brewery in Covent Garden, is finally opening

  

  Updated 29/10/25 with the opening date, bar and restaurant details

  It's been on the cards for a very long time, but the Guinness Open Gate Brewery in Covent Garden is finally opening. Following in the footsteps of Dublin and Edinburgh, London is the latest capital city to get its own huge city-centre brewery/distillery. And it's a big project; Guinness has apparently spent £73 million on the

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• SOOM Korean BBQ, where you cook at your table, has arrived in Covent Garden

  

  They already have a Korean restaurant in Canary Wharf with 3KOBROS, and now the same team are coming to St Martin's Lane with SOOM. 

  The new restaurant, taking over the space that used to be The Theatre Cafe, will be all about Korean BBQ. So there will be individual stone tables, each with an electric BBQ grill and you'll be cooking your own meats and vegetables.

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• MA/NA sees the Los Mochis team head to Mayfair with a Japanese restaurant

  

  28/10/25 - updated with more details

  Mayfair residents wondering what's happening over at the old Ruya site on Upper Grosvenor Street, next to Corrigan's, should know that they'll have a new restaurant on their doorstep in the new year. It was bought by the Thesleff Group, which is behind Los Mochis in Notting Hill, Sale e Pepe in Knightsbridge and the Juno and Luna omakase

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• The big new London restaurants opening in November 2025

  

  It's another big month in London restaurant openings. We have the Crisp Pizza pub (with a little help from The Devonshire), the restaurant that's replacing Le Gavroche, a new Clare Smyth restaurant, award-winning burgers, and so much more. 

• New Mayfair opening Chargal is going to be a three storey Turkish restaurant and late night lounge

  

  Set firmly in the Mayfair triangle, new Turkish opening Chargal is hoping to woo Londoners in with three storeys of mezze, refined Turkish dining and a late-night club in the basement. It's taken over the spot vacated by Jeru on Berkeley Street and comes from restaurateur Serdar Demir, who's also behind The Mantl in Knightsbridge.

  Here at Chargal, he's hoping that whether you're after a more casual

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• Are Dishoom opening right beside Borough Market?

  

  Although most of the current buzz around everyone's favourite Indian cafe, Dishoom, has recently been around their planned expansion to New York, it seems they're also looking at extending their London estate. It looks like work is already underway for a new Dishoom at London Bridge, just around the corner from Borough Market.

  The restaurant group have been busy submitting plans to Southwark Council for a

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• The 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, we have Detroit-style pizzas in Soho, an ex-Launceston Place chef opening in Fitzrovia, late-night sandwiches in the West End and more...

• New Shoreditch spot 45 Curtain Road connects the trends as a Japanese and Mediterranean chophouse

  

  It's all change once more in Shoreditch, as the hotel that was formerly The Curtain and then The Mondrian has now transformed into 45 London. With the change in ownership comes a new restaurant (in the space that was Red Rooster followed by Bibo).

  45 Curtain Road has taken two of the biggest London restaurant trends this year and brought them together under one roof. It'll be a Japanese chophouse with a menu influenced by the

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• Award-winning Bristol pizzeria Pizzarova comes to Pop Brixton

  

  Pizzarova has four pizzerias in Bristol, having first opened back in 2013, and before that they had started life selling pizzas off the back of a landrover (which is where the name comes from). Now, for the first time, they're opening in London. 

  Their London pizzeria is opening inside Pop Brixton, and they'll be serving sourdough pizzas that are apparently made from a 70-year-old

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• Thai restaurant Khao Bird goes permanent in Soho, opening in an ex adult cinema

  

  24/10/25 - updated with the opening date

  For the past year, Northern Thai restaurant Khao Bird (which originally started life as pop-ups in Brighton) has had a very successful residency above The Globe Tavern in London Bridge. However, now it's time for them to put down permanent roots, and they've chosen Soho for that, in a space that was apparently once Soho's

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