New opening

• The Westbury is becoming The St Regis London, adding a new restaurant

  

  London's run of fancy new hotels is continuing apace. Alongside One Hundred Shoreditch, there are also big plans for Admiralty Arch,

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• Provisions is bringing cheese and wine to Hackney with their second shop

  

  28/2/22 - Updated with more info and the opening date

  Here at Hot Dinners, we've long been fans of the Holloway Road cheese and wine shop Provisions, which kept us well supplied in pâté and Dusty Knuckle potato sourdough throughout most of the lockdowns. So we're so pleased to hear that they're expanding, opening a second shop in Hackney.

  "The second

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• Tattu Chinese restaurant comes to London in a revamped Denmark Street

   

  2/3/22 - updated with more opening details

  We've already had Six by Nico and the upcoming Mowgli, now another out-of-town restaurant group is looking to make a stamp on

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• The Princess Royal in Notting Hill is a new pub for Cubitt House and Ben Tish

   

  28/2/22 - Updated with the opening date and menu details

  Recently Ben Tish left his Fitzrovia restaurant Norma and joined up with pub group Cubitt House to completely revamp their food offering (in a role not too dissimilar to the one he had at Salt Yard). As part of this, he's been overhauling the food in pubs like The Coach Makers Arms in Marylebone (together with

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• Flesh & Buns head to Kensington for their latest restaurant

  

  25/2/22 - updated with launch details

  Flesh & Buns are heading west for their third restaurant, opening up their latest just off High Street Kensington. Taking over what was previously Sticky Fingers on Phillimore Gardens, the new site will be their biggest yet and will offer Flesh & Buns’ usual Japanese izakaya and Nikkei-inspired dishes, along with whisky, sake, and beers for the full

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• Lisboeta is Nuno Mendes' new Lisbon-inspired Charlotte Street restaurant

  

  25/2/22 - updated with the opening date

  There have been rumblings for some time that top chef Nuno Mendes was fully returning to the London restaurant scene. Since leaving his previous Shoreditch restaurant, Maos, he's been popping up from time to time (like doing brunch at The Scolt Head) but we've been eagerly waiting for a new

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• Butchies bring their buttermilk chicken to Ealing Filmworks

  

  If the source of your happiness lies in eating the perfect fried chicken sandwich and you live in West London we bring you joyful - if waistline-thickening - good news. Butchies are heading your way with their buttermilk fried chicken.

  The growing food group - they have spots all over London now from Shoreditch to Clapham - will be taking a space in the new Filmworks development, along with a huge new Picturehouse

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• The Standard adds Sweeties cocktail bar to its tenth floor

  

  While there's already Decimo up on the tenth floor of The Standard hotel in King's Cross, they're about to get a neighbour up on the same floor with the launch of the hotel's new cocktail bar - Sweeties. 

  The new bar is aiming for "early 1970s Hollywood opulence" which is translating to lots of velvet sofas. mirrored tables and what they're referring to as "a six-foot antique phallic

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• Battersea Power Station announces the restaurants that'll be inside London's iconic building

  

  Over the years of its redevelopment we've written a number of stories about restaurants, cafes and bars opening in the vicinity of Battersea Power Station. Now it's the turn of the building itself to welcome in a whole slew of food and drink places.

  The only thing is they're - whisper it - not the most exciting

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• The Twenty Two in Mayfair sees old Picture restaurant duo reuniting

  

  We're quietly excited about the upcoming all day restaurant that's part of The Twenty Two opening on Grosvenor Square. There hasn't been a lot revealed so far but it does see a reunion on two chefs that last worked together at the much-loved Picture.

  Alan Christie has taken the role of Executive chef while his former partner Colin Kelly will be Head Chef of the restaurant at this Mayfair spot. Given

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• Caravel is a floating restaurant on Regents Canal from The Spiteri brothers and Studio Kitchen

  

  We do like a floating restaurant (the Cheese Barge is a thing of wonder) and this latest restaurant on the water sounds like another very promising addition to Regents Canal. Caravel comes from brothers Fin and Lorcan Spiteri who have taken over a restored barge next door to Studio Kitchen (on the canal between Hoxton and Islington) and converted it into a

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