New opening

• Anglo chef Mark Jarvis brings 1771 to Belgravia

  

  The man behind Anglo, Mark Jarvis, is getting ready to open his next restaurant, 1771 - taking over the space from Liv (which also had a menu by Jarvis). In its new guise, the menu aims to offer "refined, creative cooking using carefully grown locally sourced produce".

  A single tasting menu will be available, much like Anglo and will kick off with:

  • Cured trout and potato souffle in a parsley
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• Warehouse in Covent Garden sees ex-Silo chef open The Conduit Club's first public restaurant

  

  Sustainability is such an easy buzzword for London restaurants to bandy about, but when it's used by a chef who used to head up the kitchen at Silo, you can feel pretty confident he knows what he's talking about.

• Figaro's Bar recreates a piece of Provence in Piccadilly's Trocadero

  

  Things are changing at The Trocadero. This giant shopping and entertainment centre has been largely dormant for years, but now a host of new openings there are shaking things up.

• Les 2 Garcons bring traditional French food to Crouch End

  

  It looks as though Crouch End has just got itself a rather interesting new restaurant. Les 2 Garcons opened up a few weeks back, taking over the old Nickel site on Crouch Hill (Nickel's moved to bigger premises across the road).

• MEATliquor's Clapham bar and diner is one of their biggest yet

  

  As they reach their 10th birthday, a new MEATliquor has arrived. This time they've opened in Clapham and it's a bit on the big side.

• Jolene neighbourhood bakeries to open in Angel, Shoreditch and Hackney

  

  Updated 4/10/21 with opening dates

  Jolene Bakery and its offshoot Big Jo have been a huge success story of the past few years - you only have to see the queues snaking down from both during lockdown to know that.

  They have three new openings planned for this year, two of which they have now opened. The first was in the summer, opening in Shoreditch on Redchurch Street and

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• Jinli bring their Sichuan hotpots and more to Camden's Mornington Crescent

  

  It's been two years since they opened their flagship restaurant in Chinatown. Now Jinli's Chendu-born restaurateur Yi Fei is heading to North London. He's just opened the restaurant group's fifth restaurant, on Camden's High Street by Mornington Crescent.

  On the menu you'll find a range of dishes, with a focus on Sichuan cuisine, including:

  • Sliced fish in hot chilli oil
  • Braised beef
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• Louche is a new late night bar for Soho, with its eye on Soho's past

  

  A new bar is heading to Soho, taking over the space that used to hold 68 & Boston on Greek Street. From the same people behind the Records bars (Venn St, Northcote and Eastcheap) Louche is looking to be inspired by the Soho of the 1920s and beyond. 

  What does that mean in practice? Lots of wood panelling for a start, but also apparently "hidden peep shows" (it is old school Soho they're

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• New London restaurants opening in October 2021

  

  Now we're firmly in autumn, there are many more new restaurants on the way to London. With so much opening, here's our pick of the key ones to look out for...

• Gordon Ramsay is opening The River Restaurant at The Savoy

  

  Updated 29/921 with opening date and booking info

  Big news over at The Savoy today where Gordon Ramsay is opening a second restaurant at the landmark London hotel.

  The chef will be taking over The River Restaurant, in the space that's currently Kaspar's. Chef Matt Worswick, who's also the executive chef at Ramsay's other Savoy restaurant, the Savoy Grill, will be running the kitchen there

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• Rita's Soho is opening

  

  Rita's are on the up again. Bodega Rita's closed and then resurfaced in Clerkenwell and now, 10 years after their first pop-up, they're opening a restaurant in Soho.

  They've been open as a terrace restaurant for a few weeks, but now they're ready to open the main event. The menu will be

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• 3 Henrietta Street is a 4-in-1 building with Pivot, Lilly's, El Ta'Koy and Gentlemen Baristas all taking up residence

  

  14/10/21 - updated with a look inside

  Gearing up to open in Covent Garden is 3 Henrietta Street. It's a Grade II listed building, built in 1780, that's getting a big makeover, fitting in two new cafes and two new restaurants. Look to the right of the Ivy Brasserie and it's that long thin building next door.

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• The Connaught launches The Red Room, its first new bar in a decade

  

  Optimism seems to be in the air if you consider the number of new bar openings in the Mayfair/Marylebone area. Anywhere that doesn’t require driving to/petrol will certainly hit the spot this week, at least. Hot on the heels of its sister hotel’s new bar, Claridge’s The Painter’s Room Bar, which we recently visited,

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• Manthan is Rohit Ghai's new Mayfair restaurant

  

  Following up on his previous successes at Gymkhana and Jamavar, Rohit Ghai is back in Mayfair with his latest restaurant. Expect a menu which draws on both his childhood and career, with a focus on contemporary Indian sharing plates. 

• Mayfair gets a new Parisian bar Below des Prés

  

  If you’re hankering for an intimate little cocktail bar that reminds you of St-Germain-des-Prés but without the Eurostar queues, well we have just the thing. But first, let us remind you of the Michelin-starred French version of Jamie Oliver. What? Well, that’s how we referenced chef Cyril Lignac, when we told you about his new Mayfair restaurant Bar des Prés that ...