New opening

• Caffeinate while you shop when BEAR opens in Jack Wills' Soho branch

  Next time you pop into Carnaby Street’s Jack Wills, BEAR’s new in-store cafe will be on hand to ensure you’re fueled up with coffees, croissants or if it’s after 5pm, a glass of something stronger while you flick through the rails.

• 144 on the Hill is Richmond Hill's newest spot, and they have local mead

  144 on the Hill is Richmond Hills' latest swish bar and restaurant, offering a 'turf-to-table' menu featuring local ingredients like honey from Richmond beekeepers, plus vegan and veggie options, and a live music lounge. 

• Basque cooking school Mimo opens first UK outpost in Borough Market

  This Basque-based cookery school is making the move to London's Borough Market for its first UK branch, and it's bringing with it classes to help you master pintxos, paella and more Mediterranean classics. 

• The O2 is getting a new haul of restaurants this spring - burgers, vegan food, wings and more...

  North Greenwich's iconic mega-complex is getting a handful of new restaurants

• Bambusa on Charlotte Street will be a new Asian cafe from the Roti Chai group

  

  Looks like Charlotte Street is getting ready to welcome a new all day Asian café. Bambusa is the latest opening from the team that brought us Roti Chai and Chai Ki.

  Open from breakfast through to supper "offering an eclectic range of breakfast and all-day dishes with global influences, initially focused on flavours from across Asia." That's down to founder Rohit Chugh's

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• Juno Rooms on Watling Street has two floors of cocktails and food planned for City folk

  Expect a punchy cocktail list and all manner of fun, casual dishes at this new two floored bar and restaurant in the City.

• Chef Anna Haugh is opening Myrtle an Irish-influenced Chelsea restaurant

  Chef Anna Haugh uses her Irish connections and London restaurant experience to bring Chelsea a restaurant of very modern European sensibilities.

• Want to know what a £13 cup of coffee tastes like? Head to Le Café Alain Ducasse

  

  If you're a coffee nut, then the recent opening of Le Café Alain Ducasse at Coal Drops Yard will not have passed you by. If, however, you aren't as au fait with all the latest London coffee news as you might be, then let us enlighten you.

  As the name suggests, this is the multi Michelin-starred chef's first UK opening of this particular cafe - he has another in Paris, where he also has a roastery. And while they may lure you in the door with a £2.50

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• Atul Kochhar is opening Kanishka in Mayfair

  Atul Kochhar's first new restaurant after Benares is this Mayfair spot focusing on lesser-known Indian dishes

• Ninth Life in Catford sees historic pub reopen with a food market and escape room experience

  The historic Black Horse and Harrow pub is being renamed Ninth Life as it reopens under The Laine Pub Company with a street food market and upstairs escape room experience.

• Slaw takes the place of Rok in Islington with a plant-based residency on Upper Street

  

  We'd heard recently about the sad news of the closure of Islington's Rok - but things move fast on Upper Street and there's already a replacement.

  Taking over is plant-based restaurant Slaw. They had a series of successful supperclubs and now they're going to the next level - with a residency in the old Rok space. They say "Our ethos is to produce deliciously healthy food in a sustainable and

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• Top Cuvée in Highbury is a wine bar and bistro (with added Three Sheets cocktails)

  The people behind Three Sheets are getting into the wine bar business with Top Cuvée in Highbury. Expect food from an ex-Naughty Piglets chef, a decent wine list to drink in or take away - and a few of their great cocktails too. 

• New London restaurants coming in February 2019

  With the first long month of the year out of the way - it's time to see what's opening in town in February. Here's our rundown of the key restaurants to look out for this month. 

• Yopo is the new restaurant at the Mandrake, as they turn to South America for influence

  There's a brand new restaurant opening at the Mandrake Hotel in Fitzrovia. Yopo will match European cooking with South American influences.

• Gloria sees Big Mamma bring their Italian trattoria to London (via Paris)

  The Big Mamma group in Paris have had huge hits with their trattorias and now they're coming to London with Gloria, taking over a big space in Shoreditch. Expect Italian food in a classic looking space (as well as a hidden 80s-set dining room).