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- TANGRA comes to Soho and it's all about late-night Indo-Chinese cuisine
Bringing something new to Soho is TANGRA, a new late night Indo-Chinese restaurant on Frith Street. It takes its name from the Tangra neighbourhood of Kolkata, with the menu influenced by the Hakka Chinese community there.
Perhaps its most useful feature is that they're looking to cater for the late-night crowd, opening until 1.30am.
It all comes from
... - Dalston's pie and eel shop gets a new life as The Black Eel pub
For years, it was best known as F Cooke eel, pie and mash shop. Then it became a Chinese karaoke joint and, most recently, was cocktail and board game spot Draughts. Now, one of the best-known frontages on Kingsland High Street (and a Grade II listed site to boot) is about to turn into a pub.
The Black Eel comes from Exale Brewing, who also run the William the Fourth in Leyton and
... - The Lavery opens a café that's just as beautiful as the main restaurant and very handy for museum visits
The Lavery in South Kensington has been winning a lot of fans of late, such as Grace Dent, who called the space "not only beautiful, but useful", being so close to the museums. In her review,
... - The new restaurants and bars opening in London this week
It's another busy week in new openings, with high-end seafood, the return of a classic French restaurant, the arrival of a New York powerhouse and lots more besides...
- 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. - MasterChef: The Professionals winner Alex Webb is opening his own restaurant Orion in Wimbledon Village
He had a very successful long-term pop-up at The Inercontinental, but now former MasterChef: The Professionals winner Alex Webb is getting ready to open his own place.
Orion is opening in Wimbledon Village (taking over the space that used to be The Light House). He's pitching the restaurant as a British/French sharing-style restaurant,
... - Sandwich Sandwich are heading to the West End with their first late night sandwich shop
You can hardly have escaped the arrival of Bristol sandwich kings Sandwich Sandwich in London with their huge layered sarnies and equally huge queues. Now the family-run business is moving into the West End, and this time they're hoping to make an impact on London's evening market.
Nick and Josh Kleiner's third London store is just being fitted out on Tottenham Court Road and it sounds like they're pretty stoked about it. "
... - BOX are now the people opening that huge sports bar on Piccadilly Circus
For a long time new sports bar Blackwood was being previewed with huge hoardings in Piccadilly. It was supposed to be from the ETM Group, the people behind other sports bars like Greenwood in Victoria and Beechwood in Shoreditch. However, things went a little quiet on that front in recent months. Now it turns out that a sports bar is indeed coming to this space, but it's
... - Liverpool Street Chop House is serving Guinness in tankards and steaks with your choice of knife in the City
Since becoming Evolv Group, what was D&D has been going through something of a quiet revolution, led by its new CEO Martin Williams (who used to head up the M group of restaurants). Now they're ready to reveal their big next step, opening Liverpool Street Chop House & Tavern, taking over what was the New Street Grill site.
It's not the
... - From The Clink to his own restaurant, 2210 by NattyCanCook will serve up refined Caribbean classics in Herne Hill
For a restaurant origin story that has a full redemption arc, look no further than upcoming Herne Hill opening 2210 by NattyCanCook. The chef behind it, Nathaniel Mortley has gone from working in Michelin-starred restaurants, then to prison and finally to his own opening in a little over a decade.
Born and raised in Peckham, Mortley's
... - The folks behind Chelsea's Marta are hoping their new opening Martina will be as big a hit
To corrupt a phrase, necessity is the mother of reinvention, and that's a lesson that London restaurants know well. From Orasay turned Dove in Notting Hill to the wholesale reworking of the Pachamama group, London restaurateurs that keep their offering fresh and interesting are always going to do well.
The latest to follow in their footsteps is the group who've found recent success with their Marta pizzeria. They've
... - US celeb-loved chicken shop Raising Canes is hitting London (taking over Leicester Square’s Angus Steakhouse)
Across the pond its celebrity fans include Post Malone, Snoop Dogg and Cynthia Erivo. Now the chicken finger fast food giant that is Raising Canes is coming to London. And they've launched their campaign to win British hearts in a bombastic fashion, taking over the space that was for years the flagship site of Angus Steakhouse in the West End.
If, like us, you weren't
... - Robin Gill stretches out at Darby's with Bar Brasso café and aperitivo bar
It's recently been home to Darby's Next Door, with support from Ruben's Ruebens, but now chef and restaurateur Robin Gill is turning the space next door to his Nine Elms restaurant into an all-day cafe and aperitivo bar, called Bar Brasso.
For his latest venture Gill has been looking to both San Sebastian and Venice for inspiration. Things start off with the cafe, where
... - The autumn preview - six new restaurants that you need to know about
With over 40 new restaurants (that we know about) opening before the end of the year, we've drilled down and picked the top six that you really need to know about. You'll want to get a booking secured at all of these...
