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  • Colonel Saab is taking over the Holborn Town Hall

    Colonel Saab is taking over the Holborn Town Hall

    24/9/21 - updated with opening date

    It's fair to say that The Holborn Town Hall building has been a tricky venue for restaurants. There was Shanghai Blues, then a brief appearance from Burger & Lobster and - most recently - it was home to the gone-too-soon Gezellig. But it looks like another restaurant is now going to give it a try.

    Coming to the site later this year will be

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  • Salt Bae is finally opening his London Nusr-Et steak restaurant in Knightsbridge

    Salt Bae London

    Updated 23/9/21 with the opening date

    Sometimes restaurants take a little while to get from concept to actually coming to life and this is a good example. We're now four years in from initially publishing a story about Salt Bae opening in London and only now is it becoming a reality. Yes indeed - Salt Bae has arrived in London!

    Along with many people, we've become obsessed with the arrival of Salt Bae's new

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  • Harrods gets the UK’s first Em Sherif Lebanese restaurant and deli

    em sherif at harrods

    While you may not have been able to travel to the Middle East as easily as usual recently, you might have encountered on previous trips the restaurant group Em Sherif, in locations spanning Beirut, Kuwait, Doha, Dubai, Cairo and Damascus.

    Now you won’t need to travel too far for a fix of Lebanese fine dining, as Em Sherif is opening its first European outlet (both a deli and a restaurant) at Harrods later this year.

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  • Dirty Bones to relaunch a bigger Carnaby restaurant and debut a ‘Reverse Truffle Cheeseburger’

    Dirty Bones to relaunch a bigger Carnaby restaurant and debut a ‘Reverse Truffle Cheeseburger’ 

    If you’ve been having NYC-comfort-food cravings and fearing the worst since Dirty Bones restaurant vacated the top floor of Carnaby’s Kingly Court, worry no more. Bigger things are on the way for Dirty Bones, and rest assured they’ll still have a spot in Soho’s favourite foodie courtyard.

    The new flagship Dirty Bones site

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  • Kolkata cuisine comes to London, with the opening of Chourangi in Marylebone

    Kolkata cuisine comes to London, with the opening of Chourangi in Marylebone

    There seem to be a significant number of new restaurant openings in Marylebone and now comes the news that Londoners will be able to enjoy Kolkata cuisine when Chourangi opens its doors.

    If you’re wondering how the food of Kolkata differs to your standard Friday night Chicken Jalfrezi, then prepare to be surprised. Incorporating British, Dutch, Armenian, French,

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  • La Brasseria head to Notting Hill with their Italian luxe trattoria

    la brasseria notting hill

    You may have been busy this summer visiting old London restaurant haunts, making up for lost dining time during lockdown. While it’s been a mixed bag of emotions seeing who’s still standing and who is still sadly boarded up, the inspirational openings keep coming. We’re happy to see that lovers of Italian food can still get their fix at Marylebone’s La Brasseria Milanese, which first opened back in May 2018. Now the owners,

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  • Big Easy head to Westfield Stratford with their 'cue and lobsters

    big easy restaurant opening westfield stratford

    After a quiet year or so, it does seem like life is heading back to Stratford with a few new openings. Hard on the heels of the arrival of Haugen, comes Big Easy who are opening their fourth London restaurant over at Westfield.

    As to what you can expect, well it's a formula they're not

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  • Three Uncles bring their Cantonese roast meats to Camden's Hawley Wharf

    three uncles hawley wharf roast meat box

    As news trickles out on what's opening at the Hawley Wharf food court in Camden, it's gradually becoming one of the more interesting new London openings of the autumn.

    The latest to announce their arrival are Three Uncles. They've already built up a large fan base for their

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  • The Bourbon serves up hard liquor and BBQ in Bow

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    A few streets away from Victoria Park, there's a new dive bar to check out. The Bourbon has taken over the old Kisses from Nonna site and turned it from Italian to American.

    As the name suggests, bourbon is the drink to order here with more than 40 on offer including rare, vintage bourbons such as the 23-year-old Pappy Van Winkle. There are American beers like Pabst Blue Ribbon too, along with cocktails and wine.

    In the

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  • Idris Elba is opening Porte Noire - a wine bar, restaurant and tasting room in King's Cross

    Idris Elba is opening Porte Noire - a wine bar, restaurant and tasting room in King's Cross

    Idris Elba is getting back into the bar business with a new launch in King's Cross. He already opened The Parrot in Aldwych - but this is quite a departure from that cocktail bar. This time he's teamed up with founder of Connaught Wine Cellars, David Farber, to create a bar and wine shop from Porte Noire (if you haven't heard of them, it's a wine and

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  • SpiceBox are bringing vegan curry to Leytonstone with their second restaurant

    SpiceBox is bringing vegan curry to Leytonstone with their second restaurant

    SpiceBox, the popular vegan curry house, having opened its first outlet in Walthamstow in 2019, are about to open a second site in autumn, this time in Leytonstone.

  • Claridge's reveal The Painter's Room bar - we went along to check it out

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    Claridge's has magicked up a brand new - and spectacular-looking - cocktail bar. We went down to take a look at this surprise opening. 

  • Trattoria Brutto is Russell Norman's next restaurant, which is all about Tuscany

     Russell norman trattoria brutto smithfield

    15/09/21 - updated with launch details and the menu

    Since leaving the Polpo group, Russell Norman has been busy writing cookbooks, but we've all been wondering when he would make his return to restaurants. Well now we know - he's opening Trattoria Brutto. That comes from the phrase "brutto ma buono" meaning Ugly but good.

    It's

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  • BOB's Lobster have opened their Little Lobster Bar at Borough Market

    BOB's Lobster bring their Little Lobster Bar to Borough Market 

    Bob's Lobster have been around the back of London Bridge station for a few years - but now they've teamed up with Bedales of Borough to launch the Little Lobster Bar. 

    Their 1957 Vintage VW split screen converted Campervan has been parked in Borough Market for a while now, but for the winter they've brought it under cover, added seating and created a bar that's

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  • The Fat Badger sees the Gladwins coming to Richmond

    The Fat Badger sees the Gladwins coming to Richmond

    The Gladwins, the brothers behind restaurants including The Shed, Nutbourne, Sussex and Rabbit, are adding another restaurant to their collection. This time they're heading even further west, to Richmond. 

    The Fat Badger is billed as an "all-day British drinks and dining concept bringing everything we love about the countryside restaurant to life in London". As with their other restaurants,

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