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- Gouqi chef jumps ship to 3 Gorges, a new luxury Cantonese restaurant on Goodge Street
Fitzrovia's dining scene looks set for a shake-up with the arrival of 3 Gorges, a new Hubei and Cantonese restaurant that's promising a high-end experience. So it's good news for them that they've managed to persuade Chef Qian who headed up the kitchen at Gouqi in St James to join them. Qian, who also worked at Mimi Mei Fair and Hakkassan, has arrived with a menu that includes everything from
... - Violet Cakes has opened a secret cafe in the Alaïa store in central London
London is no stranger to interesting cafes in high-end stores - check out our guide to some of the best here. But we'll admit we missed out on the news just before Christmas that another noteworthy spot had opened. The cafe in question is Violet Cakes and it now has a central London location
... - Blackwood is a huge new sports bar for Piccadilly Circus
The team behind other bars like Greenwood in Victoria and Beechwood in Shoreditch is getting ready to open a new sports bar and it's in the most prominent site yet. If you've been around Piccadilly Circus recently, you may have seen the billboards for something new opening at the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue and Denman Street - that's Blackwood.
The company responsible for all these
... - All-you-can-eat lasagna restaurant Senza Fondo is coming to Shoreditch
Cementing London's current love affair with all things Italian American is new East London restaurant Senza Fondo, a self-styled 'premiumised lasagneria'. The concept is all about big plates and communal dining with the key offering being an all-you-can eat lasagna for just £20. It's taken over the old Rossopomodoro site just off Hoxton Square so it's going to be a pretty large place complete with a bar at the
... - The Arding Rooms sees a private members club arrive at Clapham Junction
Back at the end of November 2023, the ground floor of the redeveloped Arding & Hobbs building at Clapham Junction reopened as Botanica Hall. Now the upper part of the building is getting ready to open, and this part is being billed as "Clapham’s first private members club", The Arding Rooms.
Inside, it looks like the design will benefit from the restored domed atrium of the
... - The big new London restaurants opening in February 2025
Moving into February, Gordon Ramsay goes big (and high) with a number of restaurants inside the 22 Bishopsgate skyscraper, Patrick Powell does pub food, The Berkeley gets a fancy new restaurant and lots more.
- Is Big Mamma coming to the City?
News reaches us that the Big Mamma Group has designs on the City of London. While we wait to hear what they're doing over in Canary Wharf, we hear that they're also looking at opening a new restaurant in the heart of the financial square mile. According to reports they're fairly far down the
... - Velvet Taco are bringing fish & chip and shepherd's pie tacos to London
Updated 28/1/25 with address
If you've never thought about putting shepherd's pie or fish and chips in a taco, then you just aren't thinking out of the box enough. Because that's what's going to be on offer when US taco chain Velvet Tacos comes to London. They've picked the UK as the first country to open outside of America.
If, like us, you hadn't heard of the company before, their USP is making
... - Restoration Hardware are coming to Mayfair with RH London
It's been many years in the works, but it looks as though the plans for the American 'is it a gallery or a shop' RH (also known as Restoration Hardware) to open in the heart of London are properly underway.
They're going to be opening one of their gallery/lifestyle shops just off Savile Row in a development across three Grade II listed buildings, one of which was last occupied by Abercrombie & Fitch. Plans submitted to
... - Crunch and their brioche sandwiches are coming to Soho
They've run pop-ups and a very popular stall at Spitalfields Market but now the Crunch team are getting ready to bring their brioche sandwiches to Soho.
The folk behind it are Sacha Yonan, Michael Medovnikov and Joni Francisco - who has experience at
... - Camino are opening Pintxito - a new pintxo bar in Covent Garden
It's a busy old year for Spanish restaurant folk Camino who have just spent the last few months buying up several of London's Iberica restaurants out of administration (the Farringdon and Victoria Iberica will both become Camino as a result). But they're also working on something brand new too - a pintxo bar in Covent Garden.
- Krept & Konan are opening Saveways supermarket in Croydon
Rap duo Krept and Konan are diversifying their brand, getting into the supermarket business for the first time. More specifically they're opening a huge store in Croydon called Saveways which they say will celebrate "cultural diversity through food while setting a new standard for halal and world food retailing in the UK."
It's a genius business idea too, catering for the area's diverse community which they estimate to
... - Bar Valette in Shoreditch is the next opening from The Clove Club's Isaac McHale
Updated 15/1/25 with opening date
Recently, Isaac McHale parted ways with the other founders of The Clove Club, Johnny Smith and Daniel Willis, with each side talking about the promise of new restaurants to come. McHale, who hung onto The Clove Club, is not getting ready to open his first restaurant since the split.
He's opening a more casual
... - Duck and Rice is opening a new place in Battersea on its tenth anniversary
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 pub with a world-class Chinese kitchen". As for the
... - Björn Frantzén parts ways with Harrods as The Grill on Fifth takes over
Just over two years after the glitzy opening of Björn Frantzén's much-vaunted restaurant at Harrods, the Swedish chef has very quietly closed the doors on that partnership. The announcement was made on Boxing Day on Studio Frantzén's Instagram feed, so understandably most of us missed it. Kudos then to restaurant guide
