New opening

1/5/26 - Updated with full details about the opening.

A modern Indian restaurant that started life in Dubai (before opening in Mumbai too) is coming to London. 

Trèsind describes itself as a "modernist Indian dining experience", so it's a high-end affair. The Dubai menu features dishes like scarlet prawns crudo and A5 wagyu striploin pathar kebab. However, it seems that they're doing something a little different in London. 

In Mayfair, it will be a tasting-menu-only affair. Overall, the menu is led by Tresind's Chef Himanshu Saini, while the kitchen in

May is another busy month in the London restaurant calendar with a lot of very promising new openings throughout the month. There's a new restaurant from Uncle Roger, a Great British Menu Finalist, a two-Michelin-starred chef, the latest from Jackson Boxer and a whole lot more. Here are the ones we think you need to focus on so you can start planning your May now...

We're still waiting for the upcoming Battersea Noodle Inn to throw open its doors, but while we wait, they've just announced another opening. This time it's back close to where they started in Soho (just 10 minutes' walk away) as they're opening in Covent Garden. 

They're taking over a space that used to be a Gordon Ramsay Street Burger, so we'd call that a definite trade-up for Covent Garden. Other than that, little has been announced about the restaurant, apart from the fact that it's likely to open before their Battersea outpost does. 

As for what to expect, it'll be

29/4/26 - Updated with full details about the opening

When one door closes, another opens, and that's very much the case with the closure of an East Dulwich institution, Franklin's. After 26 years in business, owner Rod Franklin decided that he was ready to retire. In a eulogy for the restaurant, critic Jay Rayner dubbed it "a marvellous place, the model of what you want a local place to be".

But before SE22 locals get all in a tizzy about losing their happy place, the good news is that plans are already afoot for what's going to replace it. As Rod explained in a

The Doghouse Distillery is in Battersea but now they're also opening a brand new bar, just a mile away, that's just off Clapham Common. They actually popped up there for a short while back in December, but since the beginning of the year, they've been changing the space into a proper permanent bar for the local distillery. 

The main distillery itself mainly focuses on gin, vodka and "moonshine", the latter of which is their version of an American-style whisky. And that's going to be used in what they're claiming is "London’s largest Old Fashioned menu", which will also include Old

We love a single-item shop as much as the next food-obsessed person in London, so the news that the bakery specialising only in Basque cheesecakes is opening in our neck of the woods (ish) is a moment of joy. La Maritxu first opened in Connaught Village back in 2021 and, since then, has branched out to Greenwich and Soho.

Now the group are heading to North London, opening up in Coal Drops Yard behind King's Cross station. Here they're opening a cafe and bakery so you can also sit in to enjoy cakes, coffee and matcha. If you haven't been before, La Maritxu sells those baked Basque

Updated 30/4/26 with booking info

Having enjoyed a barnstorming success with their first restaurant, LUPA, in Highbury, the team behind that are gearing up for a second opening. Actor Theo James, restaurateur Ed Templeton and chef Naz Hassan (pictured above with sous chef Sandro) are getting the band back together to try their luck in Hackney next.

They've settled on Wilton Way, where they've taken over the site that used to be Fran's for their new restaurant, Ornella. That's making the road a bit of a hot spot at the moment, with