New opening

• Japanese restaurant MOI comes to Soho with a Gordon Ramsay alum in charge

  

  23/6/25 - updated with the opening date

  One of two restaurants announced by fledgling group Mad Restaurants (the other is ALTA), MOI is all about Japanese cooking over fire and sounds very much in the Nobu mould. 

  It's going to be headed up

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• Crust Bros' biggest pizzeria yet is opening in Covent Garden

  

  They already have two popular pizzerias in Waterloo and Earl's Court and now Crust Bros are getting ready to open their biggest and most central pizzeria yet. 

  They've taken over a space that was once a Paul patisserie in Covent Garden, which has two floors, fitting in 135 people. The pizzas here are Neapolitan-inspired, with 48-72 hour-proved dough.

  If you haven't been to

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• Duck and Rice is opening a new place in Battersea on its tenth anniversary

  

  Updated 16/6/25 with opening date

  It's been almost 10 years since Alan Yau took over a Soho pub and transformed it into Duck and Rice. A decade on, it seems it's time to expand as it's the latest place to find itself making its way to Battersea Power Station with a new location. 

  If you're unfamiliar with the Soho original, they describe themselves as a "Soho

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• Island is Brad Carter's second go at cracking London, opening a surf & turf restaurant with Tom Brown

  

  Updated 15/6/25 with opening date

  Brad Carter was initially coming into London to open at Undercroft (which, in a surprise twist, was taken over by Aldo Zilli before opening). Now the chef, best known for Carters of

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• Singburi uproots itself from Leytonstone to Shoreditch for a reimagined Singburi 2.0

  

  Updated 13/6/25 with opening date and booking info

  The North East London restaurant and all-round institution, which closed late last year under the guise of taking a longer-than-usual sabbatical, has made a bombshell announcement that it's moving to Shoreditch. Look, we're very sorry for Leytonstone's loss. But, on the upside, the new incarnation of Singburi will be a lot handier for

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• CÉ LA VI in Paddington will be the highest rooftop restaurant in West London

  

  13/6/25 - updated with a look at the new restaurant's design

  If you've ever watched Crazy Rich Asians and wondered what it was like dining at the top of that amazing hotel in Singapore, well you're soon going to get the next best thing. That's because CÉ LA VI, which is the restaurant, bar and club at the top of the famous Marina Bay Sands hotel, is opening in the rooftop space of the new Renzo Piano

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• Base Face Pizza are coming to Richmond

  

  They already have pizzerias in Putney and Barnes and now Base Face Pizza are getting ready to open their next location a little further west in Richmond. It's planned to be their flagship space, taking over from their original pizzeria in Hammersmith (which closed last week). 

  The pizzeria has a slightly unusual origin, being set up by former professional jazz musician Tim Thornton, who started

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• Latin American restaurant Tigermilk is big in France and now it's coming to London

  

  12/6/25 - soft launch details added

  They have multiple restaurants across France (as well as one in Brussels) and now French restaurant group Tigermilk are getting ready to open in London too. But much how fellow French restaurant group Big Mamma is actually all about Italian food, this French import looks to Latin America for its food.

  Opening in

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• Fink's are taking over the Clissold Park cafe in Stoke Newington

  

  It's been rumoured for months now, but yesterday the folks at North London cafe group Fink's announced that they would be taking over the cafe space at Clissold House in Stoke Newington.

  "It’s the Fink’s you know and love, reimagined," they said on Instagram. "We’ll even have sit-in (yes, actual chairs and tables!)."

  The cafe went into administration last year so news that it's being replaced by a team who really

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• La Mia Mamma brings its mammas to Battersea

  

  They already have restaurants in Chelsea and Notting Hill (not to mention seafood spin-off Fish & Bubbles) and now La Mia Mamma has just opened its latest restaurant in Battersea.

  If you're not familiar, the idea behind the restaurants is that there are "real Italian mothers" in the kitchens, looking after the punters. The "mammas" have never worked in professional kitchens before, but they

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• Looks like Mazi is coming to Mayfair

  

  It's been over a decade since Mazi opened its doors in Notting Hill. The refined Greek food restaurant by Adrien Carre and Christina Mouratoglou has since spawned sibling establishment Suzi Tros, also in Notting Hill, but it's about to head into central London.

  It looks like they're planning to open in the old Pizza Express building opposite The Guinea on Bruton Place. The space, you may remember, was briefly taken over

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• Ravneet Gill unveils her chophouse restaurant Gina

  

  Ravneet Gill has been a big name in the London restaurant scene for many years, with three cookbooks under her belt, time spent working at restaurants like St John and Black Axe Mangal, not to mention her TV appearances. Her chef husband Mattie Taiano, meanwhile, has worked in top places like The Camberwell Arms, Som Saa and Franks. Now the couple are teaming up for their first restaurant together, Gina.

  In

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• Rudy's takes over the old Dairy spot on Clapham Common

  

  They nabbed second place at this year's UK's Best Pizza Awards and now Rudy's Pizza Napoletana are gearing up to open their first neighbourhood restaurant in London. The Neapolitan pizzeria is taking over the old The Diary space right beside Clapham Common, making this their first foray outside central London (they already have restaurants in Soho, Shoreditch, Tottenham Court Road, Spitalfields, Queensway and

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• The team behind Ibai are opening Harley's butcher and rotisserie in Hampstead

  

  5/6/25 - updated with the opening date

  With the weather looking, at least temporarily, fine and sunny, barbecue season is again a possibility. So the upcoming opening of extremely promising new butcher Harley's in Hampstead is one to watch. And that's partly because it's from a team who are also behind the excellent Smithfields restaurant Ibai, known for its great

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• Little Fires will serve up rare mezcals and Oaxacan small plates in Shoreditch

  

  It's all change at East London bar Alfie's, which this summer is being transformed into a little slice of Oaxaca, Little Fires. And rather than just saying it's going to be Mexican-inspired, they've got all the talent to back it up.

  The collective in charge, Christian Pecoraro, Florian Schulze, and Horacio Sainz, has brought in the team behind one of the world's best bars, Sabina Sabe in Oaxaca, to help create

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