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- The Mildreds team are opening Mallow - a plant based restaurant at Borough Market
19/10/21 - updated with the opening date and menu
It's been 33 years since Mildreds first opened its doors in Soho, in a flash transforming London's vegetarian restaurant scene. Now they're getting ready to open their first brand new restaurant in over three decades.
Mallow is going to be a totally new restaurant from the team in Borough Market. Located in a building right opposite
... - Frank and Jackson Boxer launch Below Stone Nest, a dive bar on Shaftesbury Avenue
This is a turn up for the books. You don't normally think of Shaftesbury Avenue when you're looking for a cool place to drink in the West End. But a new dive bar being opened by the Boxer brothers, Frank and Jackson, sounds like it'll be the hottest place to be this autumn.
Below Stone Nest sees the brothers behind Brunswick House, Orasay and Frank's Cafe in Peckham, take on the bar space
... - The Little Yellow door is coming to Soho, door colour TBD
The Little Door company have been a big hit in Notting Hill with The Little Yellow Door (as well as having opened Little Orange Door in Clapham and the Little Blue Door in Fulham). Now they're opening their latest in Soho.
There's no word on whether the team have settled on a door colour at the time of writing - but we do know a few things. The first is that the bar is
... - Hithe + Seek at the Westin London City is London's newest riverside wine bar
There's one obvious USP at the wine bar opening up at the new five star Westin London City - the view. Hithe + Seek is right on the river with amazing views across the Thames to the Tate Modern and The Globe.
It's one of two eating and drinking spots at this new luxury hotel on the north bank's Queenhithe, a part of London so old it's thought to have been a Roman dock even before it got its current name back in the 11th
... - Gazette Chancery is a new trad French brasserie for Chancery Lane
City workers looking for a new place to have a business lunch or after work catch up should try out new French brasserie Gazette which has just opened up off Chancery Lane in the old Vanilla Black spot.
The restaurant comes from Walter Lecocq, who worked with Alain Ducasse and Gordon Ramsay and was GM at Richard Corrigan's Lindsay House before setting up Gazette with Pascal Even in 2007. Since then, the
... - Gas Station in King's Cross is a pub and beer garden from the people behind Mare St Market
Next up from the Barworks, the people behind Mare Street Market is Gas Station, taking over a prominent corner of King's Cross.
- The Gantry London at Stratford will feature a 18th floor sky bar and destination restaurant
Updated 15/10/21 with menu and opening date
With Allegra at The Stratford getting such good reviews, the owners of new Stratford spot The Gantry London will be hoping for similar success.
Their new hotel is part of the Curio Collection (a Hilton offshoot that also includes The Trafalgar and Lincoln Plaza). The 18 storey building was built by Ardmore who also did The Ned and Corinthia
... - Panton Yokocho is a new ramen bar coming to the Japan Centre
14/10/21 - updated with the opening date
Late last year, the people behind Japan Centre opened Heddon Yokocho, their spin-off ramen bar on Heddon Street. It must have been a success because they already have another lined up. They're opening Panton Yokocho on, you guessed it, Panton Street - very near the flagship Japan Centre store.
As with the previous restaurant, this will be
... - Must & Lees wine shop, tasting room and school opens in Barnsbury
If you're hoping to broaden your view on wine and maybe break a little bit of out your comfort zone, then the arrival of new Islington wine bar and shop Must & Lees is for you.
Newly-opened on Liverpool Road, this is the passion project of drinks expert Chris Cassell. Having worked in the booze industry for 15 years, doing everything from managing cocktail bars to working in the English wine industry, he
... - The Maine brings New England to London in a restored Georgian townhouse
Hanover Square is getting a very impressive-sounding new restaurant in the shape of The Maine.
It's part of a full redevelopment of a 18th-century Georgian townhouse, so it's going to look pretty special. They'll be fitting in 350 people across its three floors and outside terrace - so it's quite the endeavour. It's all part of the completion of the big Crossrail-related
... - Check out the brand-new Island Poké in Islington (plus save with our reader offer)
Try this new Island Poké with its taste of the Pacific on Islington's buzzy Upper Street.
- Fallow moves to permanent digs at St James's Market
Popular Heddon Street restaurant Fallow is on the move. Having started out life as a 12 week pop-up at 10 Heddon Street back in 2020 (and then extended well beyond that), they've finally found a place they can call their permanent home. The space the team have taken over is the old Duck & Waffle site on St James's Market.
This new restaurant will have room for 150 diners and allows them to offer all-day
... - El Norte is a new high-end Spanish restaurant for Mayfair
The people behind Kensington's Latin American restaurant Zuaya and Como Garden, the Italian restaurant next door, are looking to Spain for inspiration for their next restaurant, El Norte. This time they're moving a little further afield, to Mayfair's Dover Street, and the restaurant will be focusing on Spain's northern regions.
Although opening before the end of the year, info is
... - Langan's Brasserie gets ready to reopen following a major refurb
Updated 8/10/21 with menu details
Langan's Brasserie was one of the true legends of the London dining scene, with the restaurant being the place to be seen at back in the 70s and 80s. Originally launched by Peter Langan in partnership with Sir Michael Caine it was one of the main celeb hangouts of its day.
Since Langan's death in 1988 though, the restaurant slowly lost its lustre and it
... - Pall Mall gets a new underground champagne bar from Searcys
It's been a movie set for films like The Dark Knight, Gandhi and upcoming release Infinite, now 116 Pall Mall has thrown open its doors to the public with the opening of a new underground bar.
Called 116 Pall Mall Champagne Bar by Searcys (yes, it's a bit of a mouthful) the new bar, as the name suggests, is going to serve up a lot of fizz including one of the largest selections of magnums in London. There'll be a
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