New opening

• Bicester's Shan Shui restaurant to open in London

  

  Up until now, Shan Shui has had just one location in Bicester Village and it must be doing quite nicely there as they're making the jump to London.

• Cincinnati Chilibomb brings chili-filled brioche and chili oil-filled syringes to Shoreditch

  

  Tim Brice is bringing his own chilli recipe to Shoreditch and serving it in the middle of a brioche bun, before injecting chilli oil into it...

• The French Market brings patisserie and wine to Whetstone

  

  Three years after opening their successful French wine shop and deli in Tufnell Park, the team behind Authentique Epicerie & Bar have opened a second French food spot in North London.

  The French Market sees owners Alexandre, Amaury & Matthieu, who met having worked at various London wine merchants, this

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• Empire Biryani is Gunpowder's new delivery service

  

  On a grey day in February in Lockdown what better news could we bring you than the arrival of a new home delivery biryani service? Better still, it comes from the founders Harneet Baweja and Devina Seth, who gave us Indian restaurant Gunpowder.

  This new delivery restaurant centres around Dum Biryani with a range of other dishes from Northern India. Made fresh every day, the signature biryani

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• Panadera is a Kentish Town bakery from the people behind Mamasons

   

  Mamasons are best known for their Filipino “dirty" ice cream stores (that's the nickname used to describe ice cream made in a steel drum with ice and salt). But now they're changing gear for their new place, a bakery in Kentish Town, Panadera, which has opened two doors down from their current spot.

  Selling an array of Filipino baked goods, you can expect pandesal

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• 28-50's next wine bar will be in Chelsea

  

  The next wine bar from 28-50 (the third in the group) will be on the King's Road. Expect European food alongside a strong selection of European wines - many of them available by the glass. 

• Indian restaurant Heritage Dulwich gets ready to open for dine-in

  

  Coming from an ex-Tamarind chef, Heritage aims to cook "nostalgic family-taught dishes and unusual foods from lesser-known Indian regions and communities".

• Yield N1 wine bar and shop is coming to Islington's St Paul's Road

  

  We've been watching the development of a property on Islington's St Paul's Road with interest for a few weeks. Mainly because it's at the end of our road on the way to the shops and secondly because it was really shaping up into something food-related. And now we have the answer - Stoke Newington's Yield has opened a second location just off Highbury Corner. 

  It's taken the place of an

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• Pascor Aegean restaurant comes to Kensington (for delivery)

  

  This Aegean restaurant focuses on cuisine from Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Turkey.

• BookBar on Blackstock Road will be a bookshop, winebar and meeting space

  

  The mid-section of Blackstock Road is becoming quite the food and drink hub. There's Patron (currently delivering lovely French dishes across town), Shop Cuvee selling natural wine and cheese, and Grin and Beer it with their craft beer.

  Joining their ranks, whenever hospitality businesses are allowed to reopen, will be BookBar which couldn't be more a product of the times.

  This combo space will be a wine bar, coffee shop,

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• Hot Stone is expanding with a second restaurant, in Fitzrovia

  

  Exquisite sushi, top-level Kobe beef and ishiyaki cooking is on the way for Fitzrovia residents.

• Bottle in Highgate Village is a wine shop worth seeking out

  

  Hot Dinners first happened about new wine shop Bottle when we were up in Highgate just days before the current lockdown. The place had opened in November and, when we popped in to get something interesting to drink that night, we ended up chatting to the woman behind the counter and realised this place was worthy of greater attention.

  The place itself, in the heart of Highgate Village, was the brainchild of three

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• Sumi in Notting Hill is the new restaurant by sushi master Endo Kazutoshi in Notting Hill

  

  Here's something that escaped our attention in the run-up to Christmas - Endo Kazutoshi opened a new sushi restaurant. If the name sounds familiar, it's because he's the man behind Endo at Rotunda, the very well rated high-end sushi restaurant with a view in White City. 

  Sumi had planned to open fully in December were it not for the restrictions. Instead, they've decided

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• Knoops hot chocolate is heading to the King's Road

  

  They've only recently expanded to Kensington, but hot/cold chocolate shop Knoops are consolidating that base with an opening planned for Chelsea. 

  If you're unfamiliar with them - here's what they do. You can choose either hot chocolate, mocha or milkshake and then the type of chocolate that's just right for you. The chocolate ranges from white chocolate or 34% milk chocolate flakes right

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• Baz & Fred pick Brixton Village for their new London pizzeria

  

  When none other than top chef Giorgio Locatelli proclaims your takeaway pizza to be worth of five stars in a taste test, then you must be doing something right. So it's good news for Brixton locals that Baz & Fred will be the newest food opening

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