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• Sonora Taqueria are opening Mexa at Arcade Food Hall

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  Ever since top taco folk Sonora Taqueria dropped the news on Instagram that they were leaving their home in Netil Market, London's Mexican food lovers have been wondering when and indeed where they'll be getting their next Sonora fix from. Well we can now reveal what their plans are.

  From later this month, Sonora's co-founders Michelle Salazar de la Rocha and

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• Holloway Model Bakery sees East Finchley's Margot Bakery expand to Holloway

  

  Updated 31/8/22 with soft launch details

  It feels like we're living through a boom period of amazing neighbourhood bakeries opening in London. The next area to get a great bakery landing on their doorstep is Lower Holloway.

  Artisan baker Michelle Eshkeri opened Margot Bakery in East Finchley in 2016 and it's since become one of North London's most popular bakeries, winning Michelle plaudits for

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• Brother Marcus picks Kensington for its next Eastern-Med restaurant

  

  Their last restaurant opening in Spitalfields proved to be a big success, so Brother Marcus are moving onwards and upwards, getting ready to open their fourth restaurant - this time in Kensington. 

  If you're unfamiliar with them, their speciality is Eastern Mediterranean cooking and the weekend brunch is a very big deal. As with their other restaurants, it'll be open from

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• Cycene is the new restaurant from Blue Mountain School

  31/8/22 - updated with the opening date 

  Shoreditch's Blue Mountain School was once home to Maos, a Michelin-starred restaurant launched by Nuno Mendes and which had an experience primarily centred around a single dining table. The pandemic caused more than a few problems with that setup and while they tried to adapt the theme with a new-look space, the restaurant closed earlier this

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• Japanese restaurant Koyn is the latest opening from the team behind Jamavar and MiMi Mei Fair

  

  31/8/22 - updated with new opening date

  Samyukta Nair, the restaurateur whose group is behind other Mayfair hits Jamavar, MiMi Mei Fair and Bombay Bustle as well as the upcoming venture with Claude Bosi called Socca, is

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• Operation Falafel brings Middle Eastern street food to Camden from Dubai

  

  A new fast food import is coming to London, and this one hails from Dubai.

  Operation Falafel is not just about falafel, though - as it's billed as serving up "Middle Eastern street food using only the freshest ingredients". In practice, that means they'll be taking modern approaches to stuffed fresh-baked pitas with kofta meatballs as well as veggie, chicken or beef

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• Forza Win is coming back - this time to Camberwell

   

  Updated 30/8/22 with new opening date

  Peckham's much-loved Forza win is coming back! But it's not coming back to Peckham. 

  Back at the beginning of all the lockdowns, Forza was forced to close its original Peckham location ("complications with their landlord" are the reasons given). Since then, they've been looking for a new location and now they've finally found one.

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• New London restaurants opening in September 2022

  

  After a quiet couple of months, the London restaurant scene is really heating up again in September with some big new restaurant openings. Here's what you've got to look forward to. 

• The Eight is Shaftesbury Avenue's new Hong Kong style tea restaurant

  

  Just opened on Shaftesbury Avenue is Hong Kong-style tea restaurant, The Eight. It's apparently inspired by Hong Kong's 1950s-style tearooms - think greasy spoon meets diner. This new restaurant is serving up all manner of Hong Kong treats like:

  • Abalone wanton noodle
  • Rice wrapped in omelette with wagyu beef
  • Rickshaw noodles.

  “The tea rooms

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• Stratford gets a new restaurant, bar and distillery courtesy of Jim and Tonic

  

  Taking over The Print House site in Stratford is urban gin distillery Jim and Tonic who have a lot planned for the space on Sugar House Island. The gin company has not only opened a coffee shop, bar and restaurant on the site, but they've also got big plans for their riverside courtyard there.

  At the restaurant, the menu covers pizzas, burgers and Middle Eastern dishes. But it's outside that's maybe the

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• M Restaurants bring Wagyu steaks to Canary Wharf

  

  26/8/22 - Updates with opening details

  If you’re out and about in Canary Wharf or looking for reasons to head that way, M Restaurant is opening what they call another of their ‘gastro-playgrounds’ there, following successful launches in The City and Victoria. This latest opening has been in the works for quite a while - we first wrote about it all the way back in

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• Mayha omakase restaurant comes to Marylebone via Beirut

  

  New omakase restaurants are quite the trend in London at the moment. Recently, we've seen the openings of Roketsu and Roji and now comes Mayha, an omakase restaurant that first opened in The Middle East.

  It's from the Nothing But Love group, which started in Lebanon and who now have a number of restaurants in the Middle East alongside Mayha, including Meat the Fish, Maryool, and The

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• Dorian in Notting Hill features an ex-Kitchen Table and Core team in charge

  

  Crikey, Notting Hill really is becoming an interesting foodie destination. Hard on the heels of the openings of The Pelican and Caia comes news of an upcoming bistro, Dorian, with a stellar crew behind it.

  Founder Chris D'Sylva - who ran the first food residency at The Compton Arms and who also owns Notting Hill Fish + Meat Shop - is joined by head chef Max Coen who is ex-Kitchen Table. The final members of the dream team are

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• South East Asian restaurant Sunda Kitchen arrives in Covent Garden

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  Wahlburgers was in Covent Garden for a fleeting moment, and ever since its closure we've been wondering who would be taking over that prime Covent Garden space. Now we have the answer - it's Sunda Kitchen. 

  Sunda Kitchen is a South East Asian restaurant and after a little digging, we've discovered it's got some very interesting people

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• Temper's BBQ and steaks are coming to Shoreditch

  

  24/8/22 - updated with the opening date

  Temper, the steak and barbecue restaurant that has places in The City, Soho and Covent Garden is getting ready to open its fourth restaurant - this time in Shoreditch.

  It'll be taking over the space left by The Jones Family Project and will be pretty familiar if you've been to one of the other Tempers. 

  Originally

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