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- Sandwich Sandwich's second London shop is upon us
12/3/24 - updated with the opening date
They only launched their first London sandwich shop last year, but Sandwich Sandwich already have their next place ready to go. And this time they're going big.
When they revealed the opening, they rather
... - Fink's are opening a bakery on Blackstock Road
Last year, eagle-eyed fans of North London cafe group Fink's spotted that they'd taken over a cafe site on Blackstock Road. However, dreams of a new space to sit in were dashed when they revealed they were simply using the space as a prep kitchen. But now their plans have changed. They've just launched a crowdfunder to help them transform the space into a "full-scale bakery. This will allow us to add freshly baked bread and
... - Noodle & Beer pick Chinatown for their second spicy Sichuan noodle joint
7/3/25 - updated with the opening date
Noodle Inn may be the place everyone's currently queueing for, but it might soon have some competition coming its way. Noodle & Beer first opened in Spitalfields back in 2020 but it's been such a success that the owner is now opening a second restaurant, this time in the heart of Chinatown.
If you haven't tried the original in East London, then the clue to what
... - The Pocket pub in Canonbury is the new pub from The Southampton Arms team
London's pub scene is thriving in 2025 and this latest news from Islington is very good indeed. If you're a north Londoner you'll probably know of The Southampton Arms in Kentish Town. It's a gorgeous, old-school (and tiny) spot up near Parliament Hill that specialises in ale and cider.
Well. the same team behind that are responsible for taking over a long-closed site on Canonbury Lane in Islington, where they're
... - My Favourite Sandwich will serve up Monster Munch sarnies and lunchtime Cosmos in Shoreditch
From Dom's Subs to Sandwich Sandwich, London's sandwich game is getting better all the time and now a new contender is incoming.
My Favourite Sandwich comes from Ross Clarke Collective (led by a chef who has previously worked at the Fat Duck Experimental Kitchen) which has worked on restaurants like Dirty Bones, Señor Ceviche, The Rum Kitchen and Foley's. Their aim here is for
... - Sabor's Nieves Barragán to open Legado in Shoreditch
Seven years after opening the wildly successful (and Michelin-starred) Sabor on Heddon Street, Nieves Barragán is getting ready to open her next restaurant. According to Restaurant website,
... - How hot new Shoreditch restaurant Bone has gone old school viral
Doing something different in the UK restaurant scene is hard. Breaking into it with what looks like no big backing or tonnes of marketing spend is even harder but one new London restaurant is doing just that (or what appears to be that). BÔNE is a weekend-only, reservations-only restaurant with just 20 seats a night. Their first TikTok went up just six days ago, but garnered 50k views and a slew of bookings off the back of
... - The Lavery sees South Kensington getting a destination restaurant and cafe
South Kensington does very well for classic restaurants like Ognisko and Daquise, but it hasn't been somewhere you'd cross town for to eat for quite some time. That makes the arrival of The Lavery there this spring of real interest to us.
The events space, restaurant and cafe is taking over what used to be Cromwell Place, right opposite the Natural History Museum. The restaurant is the first place to open and the team
... - Giorgio Locatelli is opening Locatelli at The National Gallery
It pays to keep an eye on Giorgio Locatelli because a lot of what the chef does that's considered breaking news is something he's already flagged up months before. Just as he talked about closing Locanda Locatelli in articles months before it 'suddenly' closed, the chef has been chatting
... - The big new London restaurants opening in March 2025
As we finally get to springtime, new openings include Patrick Powell's restaurant above Knave of Clubs, a new wine bar and kitchen for Bethnal Green, a Kricket breakfast and more...
- Pizza by Jagua brings a West African spin to a Marylebone pizzeria
Many things open under the radar in London, and this newish pizzeria that opened in Marylebone is one of them that we're only catching up on now. Pizza by Jagua is in Marylebone (near the currently closed Chiltern Firehouse) and is billed as a vermuteria and pizzeria. However, it tries something quite different in that the pizzas are West African-inspired. Not many details have been
... - 27 Old Compton Street is aiming to be Soho's hot new pasta bar
He already has two more Italian restaurants in Soho named after the street they're in, so when restaurateur Nima Safaei came around to giving his latest opening a moniker he stayed true to form, naming it after its address on Compton Street. But while this new restaurant may share a naming convention with its sibling restaurants, it's going to be quite a different beast.
The new spot is focusing on quick pasta - think of
... - Darkhorse team open Templar, a new wine bar and restaurant for Stratford Cross
One of Stratford's most popular restaurants, Darkhorse, now has a sibling. Modern European wine bar and restaurant Templar has opened in Stratford Cross, one of the area's newer developments. It's all part of what they're calling Stratford's new "cultural hub" with Sadlers Wells and the V&A also opening there.
Heading up the restaurant is chef Richard
... - The Baring team to open The Kerfield Arms pub in Camberwell
The team behind highly-rated Islington pub The Baring, are heading south of the river for their second opening, The Kerfield Arms in Camberwell.
Taking over what was The Crooked Well, which closed at the end of last year, it sounds like they'll be taking a lot of what worked very well at the Baring (it was the highest new entry in the Top 50 Gastropubs list last year) and bringing
... - One Club Row sounds like it'll be a shot of NYC glamour in Shoreditch
We've been banging on about the impending arrival of The Knave of Clubs from chef Patrick Powell, James Dye, and Benjy Leibowitz, for a few weeks now. But while you might have remembered that there was going to be a restaurant in the space above that pub, it turns out to be a million miles away from the standard pub
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