New opening

• Jollibee's Filipino Fried chicken is coming to Leicester Square

  

  30/4/21 - updated with the opening date.

  While we don't think the queues are going to be quite as long (over 10 hours) as the ones when they opened in Earl's Court, the news that Jollibee is opening on Leicester Square should

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• New London restaurants opening in May

  

  With luck, 17 May is D-Day, with restaurants being allowed to open to diners inside. All of which means that many more new restaurants will be opening for the first time. Here's what you've got to look forward to.  

• Eataly London arrives in Broadgate - a full guide to the restaurants, shops and more

  

  The Italian food and wine marketplace gets ready to open their first London opening in the heart of the City at Broadgate.

• Cin Cin Italian restaurant makes the leap from Brighton to London

  

  Updated 28/4/21 with menu and opening date

  A new Italian restaurant is coming to Fitzrovia, via Brighton. The original Cin Cin has been a hit and also won a Michelin Bib Gourmand. They've now announced that they're taking over the space that used to be the Bonnie Gull Seafood Shack. 

  On the London menu, expect a combination of a small a la carte menu, or a

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• An immersive and interactive football bar is coming to the O2

  

  We've had bars where you can play cricket, and where you can enjoy darts and crazy golf, now we have one where you can play football. Opening up in the O2 is Toca Social, which mixes up food and drink with "immersive football games". 

  It's a

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• New Irish pub Brendan the Navigator opens in Highgate

  

  Updated 23/4/21 with opening date

  Highgate is about to get a new Irish pub and the people behind it have an interesting background. Called Brendan the Navigator, it's going to open on Highgate Hill, taking over the prominent building that used to be The Tourian Lounge, and before that the Old Crown Inn.

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• Macellaio RC takes over the Cafe Monico space on Shaftesbury Avenue

  

  In what should be its biggest restaurant yet by far, Robert Costa's Macellaio RC (somehow, we've only now just realised what the RC stands for...) is heading up to Shaftesbury Avenue. It's taking over the space that was once one of the best pre-theatre dining restaurants in the area, Cafe Monico. But with no theatre, we can see how that might have been very hard to keep

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• Sixes sees the Mac & Wild team bring their indoor cricket club bar to Fitzrovia

  

  Fancy playing cricket indoors? This bar matches indoor cricket nets with food by Mac & Wild. 

• The Wine Artist is a new Italian wine bar for Highgate

  

   Top Italian sommelier Maurizio Titone joins forces with entrepreneur Marco Petrozzi for this boutique wine bar on Archway Road.

• Cinder in Belsize Village sees an ex-Ritz chef go full grill-obsessive

  

  This new neighbourhood restaurant by an ex-Ritz chef Jake Finn has a menu devoted to the grill and a lovely outside terrace too.

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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