New opening

• Beam cafe expands from Crouch End to Highbury's Blackstock Road

  Three times Time Out neighbourhood cafe winner Beam is coming to Blackstock Road with its quality weekend brunches and a dedicated evening menu.

• Lahpet bring their take on Burmese food to Bethnal Green Road

  From their simple start on a Maltby Street stall to their new permanent digs on Bethnal Green Road, Lahpet are hoping to introduce Londoners to the delights of Burmese food.

• Neil Rankin's third temper (this time with pizza) is coming to Covent Garden's Mercers Walk - updated

  Neil Rankin's  temper restaurant once again reinvents itself, this time the fire-based chain will focus on pizzas with an extensive list of vermouths too.

• Chucs are opening an all day restaurant at the Serpentine Sackler Galleries

  Chucs have chosen the Serpentine Sacker Galleries to open their fourth all day restaurant and this one will be the first to offer takeaway too - perfect for park picnics.

• Hot Stone steak and sushi bar opens on Islington's Chapel Market

  If you enjoy an interactive dining experience this new steak and sushi spot delivers main courses to you ready to cook over a hot stone.

• Calum Franklin opens the Pie Room at Holborn Dining Room - updated

  Calum Franklin's pastry making prowess nets him a special pie room opening at Holborn Dining Room with pies to go and a special pie hatch coming

• BunCo are bringing unconventional bao to London at Monument

  Istanbul bao purveyors BunCo are bringing their take on the bao craze to London, promising non-traditional fillings.

• Yolkin's going permanent with a Rupert Street ice-cream parlour

  If you've never made it down to Sammie Le's ice-cream pop-up you can now try her permanent parlour in Chinatown selling ice-cream, milkshakes and the macaron ice-cream sandwiches that are her signature.

• A former Barrafina Head Chef is opening Abel in Mercato Metropolitano

  Barcelona-born chef Javier Duarte Campos has left Barrafina Drury Lane to go it alone, opening his own tapas spot in Mercato Metropolitano.

• Mare Street Market - a first look inside the new Hackney food, drink, music and design space

  Mare Street Market has just opened its doors in Hackney offering a place to eat, drink and shop. We went to check it out

• The Tapas Room's second restaurant will be in Deptford Market Yard

  The folk behind Donostia Social Club are opening their second tapas room, this time in the growing Deptford Market Yard. They'll be offering tapas and wine to have their as well as all manner of Spanish produce to take home too.

• Gizzi Erskine is opening a restaurant in Mare Street Market

  After pop-ups, residencies, collaborations and much more, popular chef Gizzi Erskine is finally settling down with her own restaurant in the new Mare Street Market.  

• Buongiorno e Buonasera brings Italian breakfasts and Roman pizzas to Baker Street

  Pizzaiola and Rome native Marco Montuori is hoping his lighter pizzas will go down a storm with Londoners and tourists alike.

• Black Hamburg late night sandwich shop opens in Finsbury Park

  Finsbury Park gets a tiny hole in the wall sandwich shop aimed at chefs coming off shift and other late ngiht stop outs.

• Vijay's Bar and Lounge opens upstairs from Lokhandwala on Charlotte Street

  

  Charlotte Street has a new drinking den worth searching out. Tucked above the Indian restaurant Lokhandwala, Vijay’s Bar & Lounge will serve up a long list of wines, cocktails and premium spirits. On the cocktail front, they'll be using floral syrups and Indian spices to give drinks a kick. So Spice Route features Red Saffron infused Sailor Jerry Rum, Camomile Infused Cointreau, Liquore Strega, Anise Syrup, Cinnamon Syrup and Goji Berries Bitter, while Star of

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