New opening

• 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

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• 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,

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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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• The Dorchester unveils plans for a new roof terrace restaurant

  

  The Dorchester has unveiled its alfresco plans for London's grand reopening next month and they include the arrival of a brand new roof garden. It's the first time the hotel has expanded its outdoor plans to its roof and the space will play host to a variety of pop-ups hosted by the hotel's various chefs, from executive chef Mario Perera to The Grill at The Dorchester's Tom Booton and Jean-Philippe Blondet

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• Native returns to London - opening at Browns along with a courtyard alfresco option

  

  They closed in London in 2020 and moved out to the Osea on the Essex Coast but now Native are returning to London, taking up a space in the luxury retailer Browns' new store in Mayfair.

  The restaurant will be in the flagship Browns on Brook Street, with

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• Marugame Udon picks Spitalfields for its London noodle expansion

  

  Updated 24/3/21 with opening date and more info

  It seems the pandemic isn't stopping plans for big new openings in London. Among them will be the huge Japanese udon noodle chain Marugame Udon which has taken a site just opposite Liverpool Street. 

  The restaurant is all about Sanuki Udon, popular in the Kagawa Prefecture of Japan (and the name Sanaki was what Kagawa was called in the

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• RAW is a seafood restaurant, cocktail bar and fishmongers coming to Fitzrovia

  

  This new Fitzrovia seafood place extends the seafood theme to its cocktails and has a handy fishmongers too.

• The next Amazon Fresh store might be coming to Islington's The Mall building

  

  Amazon Fresh now has four stores open in London - in Wembley, White City, Ealing and Canary Wharf. 

  Now, they're looking to take over the large ex-tram depot building on Upper Street in Islington, The Mall, last used by Sofa.com and a whole slew of other operators before it. It's one of the most prominent buildings in the area, and is Grade II listed on top of that. If anyone can make a go of that space, and

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