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New opening
- Molly’s Café sees the Anchor & Hope team opening at Hackney's Museum of the Home
The Hoxton museum is getting a new all day cafe and bistro from the team who brought us the Anchor & Hope and The Clarence Tavern.
- The Tapas Room arrives in Peckham next
South London Spanish restaurant The Tapas Room is expanding again. They're already in Tooting, Deptford, Battersea and Brixton - now they're coming to Peckham too. The restaurant has its roots in the successful Donostia Social Club pop-up and this will be the group's largest restaurant yet.
The main menus will be a mix of snacks, tapas, meat and cheese. So, alongside the usual suspects like croquetas
... - INO is a new Soho Greek grill restaurant from OPSO
OPSO's new restaurant in Soho is all about live-fire grilling over charcoal. Expect plenty of meat and fish grilling, alongside an ever-changing Greek wine list.
- Korean fried chicken Pelicana is coming to London
News reaches us of another big fast-food chain making inroads in London - and the first branch is opening this week.
Pelicana is pretty big elsewhere, with over 3000 branches selling their Korean fried chicken. The first UK restaurant is landing at Hammersmith Broadway shopping centre followed soon after by Angel (June), Wimbledon (July) and Clapham Junction (September).
Looking
... - Pergola on the Wharf is taking over the rooftop space at Canary Wharf's Crossrail Place
It's fair to say it's been a while since we reported on a new opening at Canary Wharf, so it's a positive sign that today the folks behind Pergola Paddington, The Prince and Lost in Brixton have declared the wharf to be their next destination.
This summer they'll be opening Pergola on the Wharf at Crossrail Place. The huge new entertainment space is taking over the East side of the Crossrail Place
... - The new Standard Rooftop bar will have amazing views over St Pancras
With alfresco spaces in London being a premium right now, you can count on us to bring you news of any new places opening. And the new roof venue at The Standard hotel in King's Cross sounds (and looks) worth checking out.
The Standard Rooftop is the hotel's latest space to launch and they say the aim of the 11th-floor bar - just upstairs from their Decimo restaurant - is to bring "the vibe of New York’s
... - Keff is opening in Camden, bringing its Middle-Eastern dips and pita toasties
They've been delivery-only up until now, but Keff are gearing up to bring pita toasties and Middle-Eastern dips to Camden.
They'll be setting up shop in their first real-life location in Camden Market's North Yard. Over lockdown, they've been delivering their dips across London including hummus, aubergine and tomato, matbucha baba ghanoush, tahini, masabacha, labneh,
... - New London restaurants opening in April (with alfresco dining)
London is reopening on 12 April and by that point, restaurants will have been closed in London for almost four months. But with everything reopening - there are also brand new restaurants to visit...
- The Cellar on Pentonville Road will be a minimal intervention wine bar and cafe
From the Cotswolds to King's Cross, a coffee and wine duo will be serving up minimal intervention wine at this new wine bar and cafe.
- Gordon Ramsay's Street Pizza gets ready to open at Battersea Power Station
Updated 31/3/21 with opening date
Back before Christmas, we talked about Gordon Ramsay's plans to roll out several of his more casual restaurants across London. However, with the arrival of a new lockdown, some of those plans were obviously pushed back.
But now it seems
... - St. Felix Place in Borough is London's newest outdoor eating and drinking space
From the team behind Flat Iron Square and Goods Way comes their latest alfresco project - featuring beer, BBQ, pizza and music
- The Light Bar arrives in Shoreditch, reviving a classic building
The Light Bar is taking over a listed building in Shoreditch that once held "The Light". Expect a modern British menu in this three-floored affair, with bar, restaurant and a large terrace too.
- Buvette London gets ready to showcase its terrace in Notting Hill
Hugely popular not only in its original West Village location, but also in Paris and Tokyo, hip New York bistro Buvette has landed in London.
- Homeboy brings its second modern Irish cocktail bar to Embassy Gardens
Homeboy, the modern Irish cocktail bar run by Aaron Wall and Ciaran Smith in Islington, is expanding. We've been hearing for a while that they were searching for a second site and now they've settled on Embassy Gardens. If that sounds familiar, it's in the same area where you'll find Darby's, right next to the US Embassy at Nine Elms.
If you're unfamiliar with
... - The De Beauvoir Deli is expanding this summer
The confluence of various Covid restrictions last year had one unfortunate consequence for popular East London grocers, the De Beauvoir Deli. Restricting the number of customers inside the deli during the pandemic, as well as the associated queuing outside, meant they lost both their indoor and outdoor seating.
But when one door closes, another opens - and in this case that door was literally opposite
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