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Updated 31/10/22 with the opening date

More details are being revealed about Richard Caring's next big Mayfair project, Bacchanalia. 

The Greek and Italian restaurant certainly sounds like it'll be as eye-popping as Caring's other more recent openings, like Sexy Fish and The Ivy Asia. Artist Damien Hirst, who's worked with Caring on Sexy Fish and The Brasserie of Light, is

They've been successful in Clapham and now Berberè Pizza have gone north for their next restaurant, opening in Kentish Town. 

Berberè comes from Calabrian brothers Matteo and Salvatore Aloe and the Kentish Town site will once again focus on their sourdough pizzas, where their aim has been on creating a particularly crunchy crust. Traditional pizzas like the Marinara, Margherita and Napoli will

It's the partnership that brought us such sartorial delights such as the Greggs clogs this summer, now Primark have gone on step further and opened a Greggs cafe in their Oxford Street shop.

Tasty by Greggs will, they say, be "the most Instagrammable’ Greggs in the world". That sounds like hyperbole until you hear that it has a Greggs Sausage Roll swing. It's the second such cafe to open in

We're always keen to hear about new wine bars opening in London. The arrival of 56 Smithfield in Farringdon couldn't be more handy in these cash-pressed times, particularly when you hear that this new spot is selling all the wines at their original, local winery prices. If you fancy drinking in, then just add a fiver as a corkage fee.

The folk behind it are the family who run organic vineyard Château De La

The team behind Soho's Robata is expanding - they're coming to Old Street with Edo Izakaya (taking over the space that used to be Flamboree, next to Officina 00)

The name comes from the inspiration for the menu, the Edo period of Japan (1603-1867), in which izakayas began to become prominent. Food-wise traditional-style and new-style sushi rolls, hand rolls and nigiri

Tucked in between Moorgate and Liverpool Street a luxury boutique hotel has just opened its doors. Sun Street Hotel is part of a new City development called One Crown Place. And, as you might expect, they've got a restaurant and bar they want everyone to know about.

Restaurant at Sun Street is going to be a modern British affair run by chef Stuart Kivi-Cauldwell who comes here via Gordon Ramsay's The

Canary Wharf's food revolution continues apace. While we wait for the launch of Dishoom, another popular restaurant is opening. This time it's the turn of Zia Lucia, the pizzeria that's been a hit all over London. 

As with their other pizzerias, it's all about the 48-hour-fermented dough,

21/10/22 - opening date added

Here at Hot Dinners, we're always up for a good lobster roll and it sounds as though Mayfair should have a new place serving up just that before the end of the year.

Saltie Girl is a popular Boston restaurant that's taking over what used to be Prezzo on North Audley Street, next to The Mayfair Chippy.

For their London opening they've brought in

"We should have been open months ago," says Maresco's owner Stephen Lironi in the bright but slightly punchdrunk way of anyone trying to open a restaurant in London in the current climate. Apparently, energy supplies have been the last remaining piece in the puzzle for this Spanish, by way of Scotland, seafood restaurant that's just getting ready to open its doors in Soho.

The whole project has actually been five

19/10/22 - Updated with news of the opening and what's on the menu

Have you moved somewhere in London and thought it could really do with a few more restaurants? Well, you could do what Genevieve Sparrow is doing in Tottenham and just open your own.

Genevieve worked in restaurants for years (including for the ETM Group and Quality Chop House) and moved to Tottenham a few years back. After

Just a few short months after opening his first branch of Miznon in London, Tel Aviv chef Eyal Shani is heading across town to work on a kiosk version of Miznon for West Londoners.

Described as a kiosk but with seating inside for 40 pita lovers and a decent sized terrace, the Notting Hill Miznon will serve all the London specials that Eyal debuted in Soho along with a new exclusive pita that he's currently working

If you’ve been looking for somewhere new to dine while waiting for a delayed train at King’s Cross, then the answer is here: RAILS. It’s the relaunch of former Plum + Spilt Milk, the restaurant within the Great Northern Hotel.

Frequent Eurostar travellers will be aware that the Great Northern Hotel opened in the final stages of the ...

Updated 20/10/22 with opening date

Before he launched Sam's Riverside in Hammersmith, Sam Harrison ran Sam's Brasserie in Chiswick for 10 years. Well, now he's back in Chiswick - albeit in a slightly different guise. 

Sam's Larder is the second version of a food store that opened alongside Sam's Riverside and managed to make quite a name for itself locally,

Skulking around Hackney and feeling a bit peckish? Then let us nudge you in the direction of Eline, a new restaurant not far from Hoxton Overground Station.

Named after the grandmother of co-founder and chef Alex Reynolds, Eline offers a touch of French-inspired food along with natural and low-intervention wines. Reynolds has spent the past decade cooking in London restaurants, such as

19/10/22 - updated with the opening date

One reason to go underground this year is the news that the vaults of London’s historical Royal Exchange will be transformed into The Libertine, a drinking and dining destination that has been in the planning since pre-pandemic.

You may have enjoyed a bit of luxurious shopping and dining in The Royal Exchange, without