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• A high-end Korean matcha cafe, Tokkia, is opening in Covent Garden

  

  If you were one of the many fans of the much-missed Korean tea shop be-oom on Exmouth Market, then we've got some news that should gladden your heart. Founder Sooji Im has another venture in the offing. She's moved into central London, where she'll be opening TOKKIA, a luxury Korean matcha house.

  On offer will be finely whisked Korean matcha, paired with saltbreads - a traditional Korean roll that

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• Supernova are bringing their burgers to Mayfair

  

  23/10/25 - updated with the opening date

  When they opened in Soho last year, Supernova were an instant hit. It certainly helped that they carefully cultivated scarcity by only opening at certain days and times to start with. That meant that queues built up quickly and soon one of their burgers became the thing to try.

  It was also right at the forefront of the smash

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• The Devonshire team's next pub and restaurant looks like being in Covent Garden's The Lady building

  

  They've been helping out with the launch of The Marlborough pub, but now The Devonshire team look to have lined up their own next big opening. 

• Guzzl Canteen is hoping its gourmet hotdogs and rum cocktails are a winning combo for Brixton Village

  

  They've been a mainstay of Brixton Village for the past eight years, now the same team behind Guzzl deli are opening Guzzl Canteen, a gourmet hot dog and rum bar.

  Keeping it local, the team are working with top Forest Hill butcher Henwens on the sausages. The final mix is a combination of British beef and chicken and a mixture of herbs and spices. You then get to top it with all manner of what they're

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• The Mr Bao team bring wonton soup to London Fields with Wonton Charlie's

  

  Until now, the team behind Mr Bao and Daddy Bao have been mainly south of the river (Westfield outlet notwithstanding) and solely about Taiwanese cooking. But now they're coming to London Fields, and this is their first Cantonese restaurant. 

  Wonton Charlie's main focus is right there in the name - it's going to be all about wonton soup. Everything for that soup will be

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• Trogolo is the Petersham Nurseries family's new Florentine trattoria in Notting Hill

  

  Updated 21/10/25 with opening date

  Following the closure of their two Covent Garden restaurants, we've been wondering what the Petersham Nurseries team were going to do next. Now we have our answer, of sorts. The baton has moved to the family's next generation of restaurateurs who are about to open a Florence-inspired trattoria and bar called Trogolo on Westbourne

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• Popular Thai restaurant Khao-Sō-i's permanent London restaurant is in Fitzrovia

  

  21/10.25 - updated with the opening date

  It's been big in Thailand and now Khao-Sō-i is coming to Fitzrovia, bringing its Northern Thai soul food menu. 

  The restaurant started in Chiang Mai (before expanding to Bangkok) and its titular dish, the coconut curry soup Khao Soi is what brought the restaurant acclaim. It's opening in a space

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• The team behind Notting Hill's Gold set their sights on Richmond with Tower house

  

  20/10/25 - updated with a name and more details

  In recent months, there had been a flurry of activity on the riverbank at Richmond where the old Pitcher & Piano used to be. It's a huge site, with gardens leading down to the river. So naturally locals were wondering what's opening there next.

  We reported back in August, that the folks behind

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• New food concept store, Nekter Deli, is wooing foodies and wine lovers in Shoreditch

  

  After a few fallow years, Shoreditch's food scene has come roaring back. We've had the likes of One Club Row, Singburi and Angelina open there. Now, hoping to make a similar impact, is a high end deli that's more concept store than city centre supermarket. Nekter Deli.

  The store's the passion project of US wine importer Jon Davey who supplies everyone from The Clove Club to Ynyshir. As you might imagine, wine is a core

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• Above, sees the team behind Faber and The Victoria launching a greatest hits restaurant in Mile End

  

  The team behind Faber (Hammersmith) and Somers Town Coffee House (King's Cross) have just opened a new restaurant above their Mile End "seafood gastropub" The Victoria. Completely separate from the pub downstairs, it's appropriately called Above.

  Described as both a restaurant that brings together some of their favourite dishes of the past 20 years of

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• Trèsind, a modern indian restaurant with a three-Michelin-starred offshoot, is coming to London

  

  A modern Indian restaurant that started life in Dubai (before opening in Mumbai too) is coming to London. 

  Trèsind describes itself as a "modernist Indian dining experience" so it's a high-end affair. The Dubai menu features dishes like scarlet prawns crudo, with Kashmiri chilli xo, prawn papad, and beluga caviar alongside a menu of premium

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• Carbone sister restaurant The Grill is coming to London as Major's Grill

  

  As you may know, what was once London's In and Out Club on Piccadilly, Cambridge House, is getting a huge makeover at the moment and is due to launch as a new hotel sometime in 2026. If you're not quite familiar with that space, it's on Piccadilly with its gated driveway leading to the front door making it one of the most impressive-looking properties on the street. 

  The original

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• If you loved Lurra and Donostia, Maset on Chiltern Street hopes to do the same for coastal French food

  

  It's all happening on Chiltern Street at the moment. The Hart has just opened its doors. Work is underway at reopening Chiltern Firehouse after the fire. And now Melody Adams, the restaurateur behind Spanish restaurants Lurra and Donostia, is getting ready to open her third restaurant in Marylebone.

  Her previous ventures have taken their lead from the

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• Sushinoya's premium grab & go sushi spot opens in Chinatown

  

  Sushinoya are going big in London. The first outpost of this new high end grab-and-go sushi spot opened in King's Cross and while we still have to wait for them to open in Moorgate, their flagship store is opening imminently in Chinatown. 

  As with their first opening, all the sushi is made on-site daily, sourced from whole fish. This branch of Sushinoya will have a

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• Jiāonest heats up the Haggerston restaurant scene with its modern Chongqing cooking

  

  If there was ever a new restaurant guaranteed to look and feel good, it should be just-opened Haggerston spot Jiāonest. Chef and owner Hua Yang came to London from China to study spatial design. But compelled to explore her culinary identity through a series of supperclubs, she's ended up opening a restaurant in East London instead.

  As Hua explained to Hot Dinners she's serving up "Modern Chinese

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