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For more than a century, they've been pulling pints in the Hoxton pub The Macbeth. More recently than that, the pub forged quite the reputation as a live music venue with everyone from Florence + The Machine to Fontaines DC playing there. Now the pub's got a new owner and it looks like the food side of things is about to take a sharp turn for the better.

Jamie Allan has been best known for being part of the Four Legs

Back in 2023, the founder of Patty & Bun, Joe Grossmann, got into the pub business, opening The Watermans Arms in Barnes. It turned out to be an excellent pub, blessed with a fantastic view of the Thames and with a great menu by chef Sam

To open any really successful pub in London, you need a dream team. The Devonshire in Soho has that in spades, so does the group behind The Pelican and The Hero. Entering the fray next, in Queen's Park, are the group behind the reopening of neighbourhood pub The Salusbury.

First up is co-owner Gareth Cooper who might not have done pubs before but knows a thing or two

Updated 5/7/25 with soft launch info

It's been some time since Angela Hartnett opened the last Cafe Murano (over five years ago in Bermondsey) but now she's getting ready to open a new branch, this time in Marylebone. 

The latest cafe is opening on Dorset Street (taking over the old AOK Kitchen site). Expect it to be similar to the others, serving up a short,

3/7/25 - updated with the opening date

Bad Boy Pizza Society have so far been such a big success at their residency in Tulse Hill, Seven Dials Market and Vinegar Yard that they've been named National Pizza of the Year at the National Pizza Awards in both 2022 and 2024. Now they've decided that it's time to go permanent with a new pizzeria in

3/7/25 - updated with the opening date and menu details

We've already had the opening of impressive new development beside Fulham Football ground called Fulham Pier. But following that is a very interesting new restaurant

It's been a busy couple of months for North London micro bakery Sourdough Sophia. Having opened in Highgate in May, owner Sophia Handschuh is moving across the heath for her next opening, this time targeting Hampstead. The bakery is about to open in the old Redemption Roasters site on Perrin's Court, in between the High Street and Heath Street.

"It's the biggest space for us so far in terms of seating,"

2/7/24 - Updated with the opening date

Ever since the Galvin Brothers announced that they were closing their rooftop restaurant at the London Hilton on Park Lane after 18 successful years, there was speculation on what was going to take its place. Hot Dinners was originally the first to

It's been a big trend in London restaurants over the past couple of years, and another Mediterranean restaurant is on the way, this time to Chelsea. 

Kora is opening in Beaufort House, taking over what was their brasserie space, transforming it into a restaurant that "takes timeless Mediterranean classics and reimagines them with creativity and modern flair." That translates as a

When burger joint Junk first opened in Soho last year there was a lot of love expressed by fans for its dessert option - cookies from the Parisian bakery Puffy (which is owned by the same restaurant group). Such has been the success of those cookies that they've now decided to open the first London branch of Puffy, next door to Junk.

The cookie shop will serve up seven varieties, ranging from the standard milk and dark

With half of the year behind us, here are the restaurants to look forward to in July. From Adam Byatt at Fulham to The Duck and Rice celebrating their tenth birthday with a brand new restaurant, here's what's opening in London this month. 

26/6/25 - updated with the opening date

Is it a sign of the times that a celebrity-backed vegan burger restaurant's former site in Soho has been taken over by a longstanding London independent group? Well, that's what has happened on Old Compton Street, where Lewis Hamilton-backed Neat Burger's old space is being turned into a Bleecker Burger.

Bleecker Founder Zan Kaufman is clear that she sees it as

If you've been to The Pembury Tavern, you might have come across Ace Pizza by Rachel Jones, where its been a hugely popular residency. Well, now she's getting her own place, just off Victoria Park.

Jones has developed her own style of pizza now dubbed "The London-style Pizza". It's designed to have "the chew and char of Neapolitan dough with the structure and

Right now they only have one restaurant open, in St Pancras, but Sushinoya are about to hit the London restaurant scene hard with three central London openings planned this year. And if you're a sushi stan then the arrival of this mid-tier fast food sushi restaurant definitely sounds like it's going to be an interesting addition. The key thing is the man behind it, Korean businessman Dong Hyun Kim who founded Wasabi. Sushinoya is

Kerb are on something of a roll at the moment. They have just announced a new weekend market in Leyton, hot on the heels of their big Canada Water opening, and