New opening

• Jeru is top Aussie chef Roy Ner's new Mayfair restaurant, bar and bakery

  

  He's well known in Australia where having earned his stripes at top Sydney restaurant ARIA he went on to launch many of his own restaurants. Now chef Roy Ner is hoping to win over a London audience with his food.

  The Israeli-born chef is opening Middle Eastern spot Jeru on Mayfair's Berkeley Street this winter. Jeru will open its restaurant first, but over the coming months an all day bakery and basement bar will

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• The Cadogan in Chelsea launches new restaurant, The LaLee

  

  Just opened and taking the place of the departed Adam Handling restaurant, the Belmond-owned Cadogan hotel in Chelsea has opened its new restaurant The LaLee. 

  Based around one of the hotel's most famed residents, Lillie Langtry (whose townhouse became part of what's now The Cadogan), it's pitched as a neighbourhood grand café with a "love of entertaining" at the heart of it - and that means you can expect a fair bit

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• Toklas brings the Med to the Strand (plus a new bakery too)

  

  Updated 18/11/21 with bakery opening date

  A new Mediterranean restaurant (and bakery) is coming to the Strand, landing at the 180 Strand building (which is also where the latest Soho House is). 

  Toklas' chef, Martyn Lyons, has impressive credentials, having

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• Wendy's return to the UK - Stratford and Croydon are the first London restaurants

   

  18/11/21 - Updated with news of the Croydon opening

  It's been a long time, but, US burger chain Wendy's is back on these shores - and opening in London too. They originally opened in Reading but their first London restaurant was Stratford Shopping Centre (note, not Westfield, the other one) - the opening salvo of their re-entry to London. It's been almost 20 years

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• The Ned heads to New York, taking over the NoMad hotel

  

  Four years after it burst on to the London scene, transforming the perception of the City as a night time destination in one bound, The Ned is heading to New York.

  As part of general expansion plans, they've taken over the NoMad hotel in to turn it into their winning combo of hotel, restaurants and members' club. The announcement was presaged by a notice put out five days ago by the NoMad announcing "with great sadness"

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• San Carlo have opened Isola in St Christopher's Place, and it's a looker

  

  St Christopher's Place has upgraded its Italian restaurant offering. Taking over the space long held by Carluccios is Isola. It's the latest opening from the San Carlo Group (who run Alto on the rooftop at Selfridges and Signor Sassi Knightsbridge and Cicchetti Piccadilly among others).

  Billed as a Sicilian Grand Café they've gone all out with the interiors bringing in design company Fettle who were

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• Strike brings luxury bowling to Wandsworth's Ram Quarter

  

  SW18 residents looking for a fun night out this festive season will soon have something close to home that's just the ticket for friends and family gatherings.

  Not only is Strike going to be South West London’s first bowling alley, but it'll also be a rather lovely one too. The alley will offer ten pin bowling and its spin-off, duckpin bowling where the pins are squatter and the gutters narrower (yes, we had to look that

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• Dipna Anand brings Punjabi cuisine to Somerset House

   

  Dipna Anand is best known for her highly-rated Brilliant Restaurant in Southall as well as her own cookery school. Now she's opening a restaurant at Somerset House (taking over the space last held by Bryn Williams).  

  Her eponymous restaurant will be focusing on Punjabi and South Indian cuisine, bringing in some of her signature dishes as well as adding a few new dishes

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• Another Wing is DJ Khaled's fried chicken business and it's now in London

  

  Londoners love their chicken wings and when the next big opening has a huge name behind it, it's a good bet that Another Wing ought to do well.

  The music man in question is DJ Khaled who yesterday announced a huge restaurant launch that - like the best movies - is happening simultaneously across three continents, in five countries.

  He's teamed up with US food delivery folk REEF and the first two areas to get

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• Flowerhouse opens in Marylebone from the people behind The Light Bar

  

  The people who opened The Light Bar in Shoreditch earlier this year have quietly opened their second place - a new pub across town in Marylebone.

  Flowerhouse looks quite different from your standard British pub though - the name lends its hand to the striking design with a bright look and flowery wallpaper throughout. The pub also has a female-led team, with an aim to "support

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• Where's Fred's is a City café/wine bar from the District team

  

  A new cafe by day/wine bar by night is heading to The City. Where's Fred comes from Chelsea Finch, who's also behind the Districtcafés in Parsons Green, Mayfair and Nine Elms.

  The food menu is going to change throughout the day. So they'll start with a brunch-style menu on which

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• Borough Yards will have a new Barrafina, Butchies, Vinoteca and much more

  

  Updated 10/11/21 with more info on the Vinoteca opening

  We've only just had the opening of the big Hawley Wharf development in Camden and now another new retail and restaurant scheme is getting ready to open on the other side of town in Borough. Borough Yards is the latest hoping to tempt in the workers giving up their WFH status. 

  It's part

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• Ngopi Indonesian cafe opens in Dalston with noodle toasties and banana lattes

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  Dalston has a new coffee shop that genuinely sounds like it's adding something new to the area. Its owners are Jakarta-born folk who back in 2018 opened Birmingham's "first and only independent coffee shop with Indonesian vibes".

  Here in London they'll be serving coffee, light meals and beans to go. The menu, includes:

  • Fried Indomie Toastie - instant noodle
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• Wood & Water takes over from Three Little Birds in Brixton

  

  It's long been a popular spot in Brixton for Jamaican tapas and boozy brunches, but now Three Little Birds is heading in a new direction. Owner April Jackson is turning her Coldharbour Lane bar into a restaurant serving what she calls "modern British food with Jamaican soul".

  If you're wondering what that means for the menu, we're told to expect dishes like:

  • Pan Seared Duck Breast, Jerk
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• Popeye's chicken comes to London, at Westfield Stratford (and they're adding a vegan burger)

  

  3/11 - Updated with the opening date and details about the menu

  Given Five Guys' fairly massive rollout across the UK. it was only a matter of time before more US chains started heading this way. We already have had the return of Wendy's, and joining them soon will be American

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