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• Bando Belly at Peckham Levels wants to serve up proper London soul food

  

  Opening their doors this week in Peckham are Bando Belly - a new food business that's a perfect mash up of food cultures. Serving up soul food fusion, it's the brainchild of Londoners Naz Ramadan and Alex Situnayake (who's also behind boozy ice pop brand Wavey Ice). The duo reckon they've come up with a menu that perfectly matches London's vibe.

  Dishes are inspired by the food cultures of America, the Caribbean, South

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• New Fulham restaurant FENN sees the team behind Hackney's Nest head west

  

  The team behind popular Hackney spot Nest, are expanding to West London with this new seasonal British restaurant on Wandsworth Bridge Road. 

• Flower Burger are bringing their day-glo vegan burgers to Charlotte Street

  

  London's Charlotte Street is seeing a very European takeover this month as Herman Ze German makes way for an Italian import. Flower Burger originated in Milan five years ago where its oh-so-Instafriendly colourful vegan burgers were an instant hit. Since then, they've expanded across France and Italy and Fitzrovia will be their first London opening.

  Using natural extracts like

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• Japanified is Sugoi JPN's new delivery restaurant - with tacos and sliders on the menu

  

  The latest place to kick off a new delivery service for the new year are Sugoi JPN - they've just launched Japanified - starting in Wimbledon and expanding to Stockwell soon. 

  Broadly inspired by the cuisine of Osaka, the team have taken international cuisine and - as they say - have "Japanified" it. There's two main offerings - sliders and taco

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• Top French chef Cyril Lignac is opening Bar des Prés restaurant in London

  

  Top French chef Cyril Lignac is hoping his brand of Parisian cool will sit well in London with this Mayfair restaurant being his first international opening. 

• The Red Duck is a new neighbourhood Chinese restaurant for Balham

  

  This Balham Chinese restaurant has a strong focus on sourcing along with celebrating the very best in Chinese cooking (with a view to training more chefs in the techniques too). 

• The Roasting Shed now have a roastery and cafe on Hornsey Road

  

  Lucky Hornsey Road folk. They've waited patiently for a great place to get coffee and pastries and, like London buses, two came along in quick succession.

  Tucked in right beside the super popular Big Jo is The Roasting Shed which opened for business before Christmas. The artisan roasters, who also have a espresso bar over in Hackney Bridge, are roasting their own coffee and selling it in their new digs on Hornsey

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• Farina Pizzeria are returning to Notting Hill

  

  Back in June, it was revealed that popular Notting Hill Pizzeria was shutting its doors - with founders Edy Piro and Paolo Petrillo announcing plans to make a comeback at some point. That point has arrived and Farina are opening a brand new pizzeria on Notting Hill Gate, just up the road. 

  They're all about Neapolitan pizzas with 48-hour fermented dough and showcasing San Marzano tomatoes. Pizzas

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• EggRun has designs on London's egg in a bun market

  

  Updated 24/5/21 with City opening date

  They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and if that's the case, the folks at Eggslut should be tickled pink by the launch of new egg-based bun business, EggRun.

  EggRun first began life as a delivery service back in the Autumn, and they've just opened their first City restaurant at Monument on Fish Street Hill.

  Executive chef John Skotidas (who also runs the

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• Rudy's is opening a vegan diner in Islington (next to their vegan butcher)

  

  After the launch of their vegan 'butcher' (which has proven to be very popular indeed), Rudy's are also getting ready to bring their vegan diner to Islington (when restaurants open up again). 

  It'll be right next door to their butcher shop, on Islington's Upper Street. As with the original diner in Camden, you can expect a vegan spin to American diner classics,

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• The new restaurants to look forward to in 2021 - at some point...

  

  Someday, sooner than it might feel, restaurants will open again. So consider these upcoming openings as the distant light on the horizon.

• Reenie's ice-cream parlour opens in Primrose Hill

  

  What's a thespian to do, when all the theatres are shut? According to London actress Sirine Saba, it's the perfect time to make a sideways step into hospitality. Sirine has just opened Reenies, an ice-cream parlour in Primrose Hill, next to longstanding veggie spot Manna.

  "Reenie’s is our Covid baby," explains Sirine, "conceived and born out of a desire to connect with, uplift and delight our community at a time when

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• Vergine Maria in Ealing will be a new vegan pizzeria from the folks at Santa Maria

  

  Coming from the same team as London's top tier pizzeria Santa Maria, this new vegan pizzeria is great news for London's veggie crowd.

• Pizza Pilgrims launch Slice on the South Bank with big NY-style pizzas on offer

   

  We may be right in the middle of a lockdown at the time of writing (without it actually being called it a lockdown) but Pizza Pilgrims have still managed to launch a brand new restaurant. 

  This one's a bit of a departure for them, as it's a completely new venture called Slice which is going to be popping up on the South Bank (taking over the space

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• Cut The Mustard adds a second cafe in Tooting

  

  Independent cafe Cut The Mustard has been a Tooting success story since 2014 and just before we all entered Tier 3, they managed to launch a second cafe. It's also in Tooting - this time a corner space on Franciscan Road. And the good news is they're doing takeaway.

  Part bakery, part cafe, their sourdough is at the heart of the bakery - with porridge, wholewheat and rosemary and polenta options all

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