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- The Pocket pub in Canonbury is the new pub from The Southampton Arms team
London's pub scene is thriving in 2025 and this latest news from Islington is very good indeed. If you're a north Londoner you'll probably know of The Southampton Arms in Kentish Town. It's a gorgeous, old-school (and tiny) spot up near Parliament Hill that specialises in ale and cider.
Well. the same team behind that are responsible for taking over a long-closed site on Canonbury Lane in Islington, where they're
... - My Favourite Sandwich will serve up Monster Munch sarnies and lunchtime Cosmos in Shoreditch
From Dom's Subs to Sandwich Sandwich, London's sandwich game is getting better all the time and now a new contender is incoming.
My Favourite Sandwich comes from Ross Clarke Collective (led by a chef who has previously worked at the Fat Duck Experimental Kitchen) which has worked on restaurants like Dirty Bones, Señor Ceviche, The Rum Kitchen and Foley's. Their aim here is for
... - How hot new Shoreditch restaurant Bone has gone old school viral
Doing something different in the UK restaurant scene is hard. Breaking into it with what looks like no big backing or tonnes of marketing spend is even harder but one new London restaurant is doing just that (or what appears to be that). BÔNE is a weekend-only, reservations-only restaurant with just 20 seats a night. Their first TikTok went up just six days ago, but garnered 50k views and a slew of bookings off the back of
... - The Lavery sees South Kensington getting a destination restaurant and cafe
South Kensington does very well for classic restaurants like Ognisko and Daquise, but it hasn't been somewhere you'd cross town for to eat for quite some time. That makes the arrival of The Lavery there this spring of real interest to us.
The events space, restaurant and cafe is taking over what used to be Cromwell Place, right opposite the Natural History Museum. The restaurant is the first place to open and the team
... - Giorgio Locatelli is opening Locatelli at The National Gallery
It pays to keep an eye on Giorgio Locatelli because a lot of what the chef does that's considered breaking news is something he's already flagged up months before. Just as he talked about closing Locanda Locatelli in articles months before it 'suddenly' closed, the chef has been chatting
... - The big new London restaurants opening in March 2025
As we finally get to springtime, new openings include Patrick Powell's restaurant above Knave of Clubs, a new wine bar and kitchen for Bethnal Green, a Kricket breakfast and more...
- Pizza by Jagua brings a West African spin to a Marylebone pizzeria
Many things open under the radar in London, and this newish pizzeria that opened in Marylebone is one of them that we're only catching up on now. Pizza by Jagua is in Marylebone (near the currently closed Chiltern Firehouse) and is billed as a vermuteria and pizzeria. However, it tries something quite different in that the pizzas are West African-inspired. Not many details have been
... - 27 Old Compton Street is aiming to be Soho's hot new pasta bar
He already has two more Italian restaurants in Soho named after the street they're in, so when restaurateur Nima Safaei came around to giving his latest opening a moniker he stayed true to form, naming it after its address on Compton Street. But while this new restaurant may share a naming convention with its sibling restaurants, it's going to be quite a different beast.
The new spot is focusing on quick pasta - think of
... - Darkhorse team open Templar, a new wine bar and restaurant for Stratford Cross
One of Stratford's most popular restaurants, Darkhorse, now has a sibling. Modern European wine bar and restaurant Templar has opened in Stratford Cross, one of the area's newer developments. It's all part of what they're calling Stratford's new "cultural hub" with Sadlers Wells and the V&A also opening there.
Heading up the restaurant is chef Richard
... - The Baring team to open The Kerfield Arms pub in Camberwell
The team behind highly-rated Islington pub The Baring, are heading south of the river for their second opening, The Kerfield Arms in Camberwell.
Taking over what was The Crooked Well, which closed at the end of last year, it sounds like they'll be taking a lot of what worked very well at the Baring (it was the highest new entry in the Top 50 Gastropubs list last year) and bringing
... - One Club Row sounds like it'll be a shot of NYC glamour in Shoreditch
We've been banging on about the impending arrival of The Knave of Clubs from chef Patrick Powell, James Dye, and Benjy Leibowitz, for a few weeks now. But while you might have remembered that there was going to be a restaurant in the space above that pub, it turns out to be a million miles away from the standard pub
... - Tasca brings a year-long Spanish and Portuguese residency to Bethnal Green
We've already brought you the news about Cav, the bar opening in Bethnal Green, but now we know a lot more about the kitchen residency that's going to be a part of it for the first year.
Tasca is all about the food of Portugal and Spain and comes from Head Chef Josh
... - PYRÃ replaces Lula on Lonsdale Road with live fire cooking and a vinyl bar
The evolution of Lonsdale Road at the heart of Queen's Park's restaurant scene continues with the news that what was Lula has turned into PYRÃ. And with a new name, comes a new chef. Running the kitchen will be Head Chef Mattia Caddeo who comes here with places like The Ivy Collection and Novikov under his belt. He's bringing in more of a live fire element to the cooking with dishes including:
- Spanakopita pie
- Gordon Ramsay is taking over the Le Gavroche site for a new Matt Abé-led restaurant
18/2/24 - updated with confirmation
The news well and truly broke over the weekend, and now it's been confirmed - Gordon Ramsay is indeed taking over what was Le Gavroche. The current head chef over at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, Matt Abé (who has been at the restaurant for 16 years), will be leading the new opening.
Gordon himself confirmed that
... - Hello JoJo bakery and restaurant takes over from Forza Win in Camberwell
As one door closes, another opens. And while fans of Forza Win in Camberwell may be reeling from the announcement last week of its imminent closure, the good news is that there's a rather interesting business already lining up to take its place.
Two locals, Jo Lavender and Rob Newlan, are the brains behind hello JoJo and they're all about bringing the feelgood factor to the area. To that end their all day bakery and
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