New opening

• Covent Garden winebar Lady of the Grapes will showcase female winemakers with food by Rambla restaurateur

  Taking over the space where Encant was, Lady of the Grapes will be a wine bar, shop and restaurant focusing on wines created by female winemakers and will food by restaurateur Victor Garvey.

• Jumi cheesemongers are opening on Newington Green and raclette evenings are planned

  Borough Market's Swiss cheese specialists Jumi are opening their first permanent store in Stoke Newington with plans afoot to hold raclette evenings and cheese school.

• Chiringuito converts a Bethnal Green loo into a Spanish restaurant with a rooftop overlooking the park

  Expect Spanish beach-bar vibes as well as an impressive rooftop space from Chiringuito in Bethnal Green. And big Gin Tonics too, of course. All in what used to be a public loo.

• Casa do Frango will serve up Algarvian piri piri chicken in Southwark

   Hoping to lure Londoners away from Nando's, this Algarvian restaurant will be cooking its chicken on a wood fired grill. Oh and there's also a secret bar worth checking out.

• BabaBoom's Middle Eastern kebabs are coming to Islington's Upper Street

  They already have a kebab restaurant in Battersea, and now they're coming to Islington's Upper Street. BabaBoom will be serving up all their favourite kebabs with meat and vegetables cooked over coal and some cracking Middle Eastern sides too. 

• Naked Dough are bringing their cookie dough to Camden Market

  

  Not only are they appearing on the BBC's Million Pound Menu, but Naked Dough are already getting ready to open their third location - this time in Camden Market. 

  If you're not familiar with them - they sell one of the greatest things possible - raw cookie dough on its own. No longer do you have to attempt to make cookies and just scrape the remaining dough from the bowl - you can get the real thing here.

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• Yotam Ottolenghi is opening ROVI in Fitzrovia - here's what you need to know - updated with first look

  Yotam Ottolenghi's new restaurant in Fitzrovia will be a bit of a departure. Veg will still be at the heart, but this place with an ex-Grain Store chef will see them using fire and fermentation more.

• Could Sticky Walnut's Gary Usher be opening a restaurant in London?

  

  Gary Usher is pretty much the master of crowdfunding, with his last restaurant launch, Wreckfish, in Liverpool, meeting its targets in record time. Best known for Sticky Walnut in Chester, his restaurants have all

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• Caravan are opening a new restaurant on Great Portland Street

  Looks like there could be another new Caravan on the way - this time on Great Portland Street. Expect coffee and brunch aplenty. 

• Kentish Town's Beef and Brew is taking over the old Brew and Que in Haggerston

  Popular neighbourhood steakhouse Beef & Brew are on the move - taking their well-priced steaks and wide range of beers to Haggerston.

• Ramo Ramen brings halal ramen to Kentish Town

  Kentish Town just got a new ramen spot

• Nanny Bills is taking over the John Lewis rooftop with their gravy-dipped burgers

   

  Recently, John Lewis have been making quite a big deal of their Oxford Street rooftop in the summer - and this year their Summer of Sound music-themed rooftop kicked off with Butchies. Now it's time for a new crowd to take over the roof as Nanny Bills moves in from

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• Tap13 serves up cocktails, wines and beers on tap in Tooting Broadway Market

  Tooting Broadway Market's cool new tap room has something for everyone with everything from cocktails, wine and ciders to beer on tap. Oh and it's zero waste too.

• Neapolitan pizzeria 50 Kalò di Ciro Salvo is coming to London

  Another one of Naples' top pizza restaurants is coming to London. This time it's the turn of iconic pizzeria 50 Kalò di Ciro Salvo, and it's all about the dough...

• Nuno Mendes is opening a 16-seat resturant experience Maos in Shoreditch

  Nuno Mendes' next project will be an intimate restaurant seating diners around one table in a space in Shoreditch.