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- Islington is home to Mother Clucker’s new fried-chicken restaurant
Get your chicken puns ready, Mother Clucker is setting up a restaurant in Islington, having previously found fame as a street-food truck in 2013 and then a UK-nationwide delivery service in 2021.
You may recall we reported on their first bricks-and-mortar home back in 2018, when Mother Clucker set up shop in Exmouth
... - The Rooftop at One Hundred Shoreditch is the latest roof for drinks and views
With rooftop bars suddenly becoming destination de rigueur for Londoners eager to make the most of spring weather (or perhaps everyone just read our recent feature), comes news of another that has just launched in Shoreditch.
You can now head up to the top of the
... - Le Cordon Bleu launches its first London restaurant: CORD
25/5/22 - updated with new opening plans
If you’ve not heard of Le Cordon Bleu you must have been living in some kind of cryogenic culinary time capsule. The famed culinary arts and hospitality institute has celebrated over 125 years of teaching some of the world’s greatest chefs. And now it’s also opening its first fine-dining restaurant in London. Except it’s much more than a
... - The Little Scarlet Door brings the house party to Soho
24/5/22 - Updated with launch details
They've opened little yellow, blue and orange doors around town and now the same people are bringing The Little Scarlet Door to Soho. It's part of the big renovations on Greek Street which have created the new Ilona Rose House (so you can see where they got the inspiration for the colour choice).
If you're yet to visit any of the
... - Compton Restaurant is opening in the old Modern Pantry space
We've already had the news that The Modern Pantry is making a return to London - but what about its original location? We had previously thought it was becoming a co-working space/property agency but it turns out that it's actually going to be a restaurant
... - Shiok! will be TV chef Cherish Finden's new patisserie in Bishopsgate
She's best known to TV audiences as the oh-so-exacting judge from Bake Off: The Professionals. But now Cherish Finden is realising her dream of opening her first standalone patisserie in London.
SHIOK! (it's pronounced Shook) will be a Singapore-influenced patisserie located in the new Pan Pacific hotel in Bishopsgate. It's something of a homecoming for Finden who first worked at the Pan Pacific in
... - Gladwin Brothers to open The Black Sheep in Wimbledon Village
19/5/22 - Updated with the opening date
There was some concerned murmuring in Wimbledon Village when much-loved French restaurant The White Onion announced its closure on Instagram just last week. The good news is the site won’t be empty long, with the Gladwin Brothers to open their latest venture, called The Black Sheep.
If you’re new to the Gladwin story, as the
... - Mezcalito Mexican bar and restaurant comes to Newington Green
18/5/21 - Updated with the opening date
They've been popular in Chelsea (they even got a visit from Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston) and now Mexican restaurant and bar Mezcalito is heading to Newington Green.
Food-wise, it'll be the same as the original - a mix of tacos, quesadillas, burritos and small plates. That includes:
- Mexican Bao - Mexicanised Bao
- The Tamil Prince is a new Islington pub from ex-Roti King team
The people behind Tamila in Hackney, Chef Prince Durairaj and Glen Leeson (both ex Roti King), are heading to Islington for their next opening - The Tamil Prince.
They're taking over what used to be The Cuckoo pub in the middle of Barnsbury and are transforming it into a pub showcasing South Asian cuisine, which they say is underrepresented in the area (as locals,
... - Lina Stores expands its pasta empire to The City and Marylebone
18/05/21 - updated with Marylebone opening date
Fans of Lina Stores, the distinctive pistachio-green pasta restaurant and deli, are being rewarded with a couple of new openings.
First up (and open now), Lina Stores City has taken over the Bloomberg Arcade site that was previously
... - Berenjak heads to Borough Market for their next restaurant
18/5/22 - Updated with the opening date
We only heard a few weeks back about the closure of Flor in Borough (although they do still have their bakery in Bermondsey) but a replacement has been lined up already. Flor was backed by JKS so it's no real surprise to see another JKS restaurant is poised to fill the gap, Berenjak.
Berenjak, if you're unfamiliar, is all about
... - Glasshouse is a new panoramic rooftop bar for Holborn
London really seems to love rooftop bars at the moment. Recently we've had Wagtail open in the City and another in Covent Garden on the roof of the Amano
... - Riding House Cafe is coming to Bloomsbury
Another Riding House Cafe is on the way - this time to Bloomsbury. They've already been pretty successful over in Fitzrovia for over ten years and also with the Rail House Cafe in Victoria. As with those before it, the new Riding House Cafe will be a modern brasserie and will find its home in the Brunswick Centre and they're aiming for a club-like feeling with this one (no membership needed, of course).
- The Ivy Asia Mayfair comes to North Audley Street
Updated 10/5/22 with opening date and booking info
The Ivy Asia might have had a problematic history, but it's still continuing to expand in London. The brand, which in some ways is a slightly more affordable version of the same group's Sexy Fish, is opening its next
... - Modern Malay Mambow returns, this time to Market Peckham
Chef Abby Lee's first foray into the restaurant world, Mambow, didn't have the best timing, opening in Spitalfields just weeks before the first lockdown. But now she's ready to hit the ground running with her second attempt, this time in Peckham.
Lee is opening at Market
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