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- Alba restaurant aims to bring a taste of Amalfi to Knightsbridge
Updated 9/1/25 with new opening date and photos
Just in case you were thinking that London may have just reached Italian restaurant saturation, a new restaurant is banking on the fact that the city's desire for lovely Italian food is always a thing. Alba is a new Italian restaurant in Knightsbridge, opening right opposite Harrods, that's on a mission to bring a little bit of the Amalfi
... - Gura Gura team to open casual Indian Oorja on Shaftesbury Avenue
Indian restaurateur Gobind Chona's first London restaurant Gura Gura must have been a hit because he's getting ready to open his second quite close by.
Oorja is opening on Shaftesbury Avenue (next to the McDonald's that's been there for an age) and it's being billed as a casual Indian restaurant based on Northern Indian cuisine. A taste of that menu includes:
- Ukrainian restaurant Tatar Bunar is coming to Shoreditch
Two Ukrainian restaurateurs, Alex Cooper and Anna Andriienko, are getting ready to open their first London restaurant, Tatar Bunar, in Shoreditch.
The duo have multiple restaurants in Ukraine and throughout the war, they've been using these as food distribution points to help those most affected by the conflict, like the elderly. Alex has had to stay in Ukraine to manage this
... - The top new London restaurants to look out for in 2025
As another year gets underway, it's time to take a look forward to the most interesting new restaurants opening in London over the next twelve months.
- Swirl is Leyton's new must-try wine bar
Amid all the festive craziness pre-Christmas, a new wine bar opened its doors for the first time in E10. Swirl is a new bar that sees three local entrepreneurs joining forces. Arch Deli owner Michaela Zelenaska has teamed up with Pandemonium Wines founders Viliam and Prianka for the new wine bar in one of Tilbury Road's railway arches.
It sounds like they're bringing something genuinely new to London's burgeoning wine bar
... - Zima head to Notting Hill with their caviar and dumplings
Almost a decade after launching their Russian street food restaurant in Soho, the team behind Zima have now opened a second restaurant, this time in Notting Hill. In December, they took over the old Buvette site on Blenheim Crescent and have kept the format of the restaurant pretty much the same, with counter dining at the front opening up to a bigger dining room at the rear.
If you haven't made it to the original Soho spot
... - The Dark Horse in Camden sees Le Bab running a pub
The Farrier in Camden closed late last year, but it hasn't taken long for another new pub to spring up in its place. The Dark Horse takes over the site in the old Camden stable area and also happens to come from the same people as Le Bab.
The food won't be a repeat of Le Bab or Kebab Queen, however, as it'll instead focus on traditional pub classics. So you can expect their own take on fish
... - Breadstall takes its pizzas inside with a restaurant in Soho
2/1/25 - updated with the opening date
For years, Sebastian Vince's Breadstall has been one of the most popular pizza places in Battersea and he's spent all that time operating out of a (very big) stall on Northcote Road. However, he's finally getting ready to expand in a very big way as Breadstall is coming to Soho. It'll be opening on Berwick Street (near the
... - Alfonsina is a South American fusion restaurant coming to Smithfield
2/1/25 - updated with the opening date
If a restaurant takes as its influence the places a chef has lived and worked in, then in the case of chef Ricardo Younis Moreno you can expect a lively mix of Argentine, Mexican, and Peruvian flavors. Born in Argentina, with Italian and Lebanese heritage the chef has now landed in London where he's now working on bringing his restaurant Alfonsina to
... - Get a taste of Brazilian influences at Mayfair's Maroto restaurant
If the cold London winter is getting you down, then a trip to Brazil courtesy of new Mayfair restaurant Maroto could be just the antidote.
- Happy Sky Bakery arrive in the West End with a new bakery off Oxford Street
Arriving with impeccable timing to cater to the crush that is going to be Oxford Street over the coming weeks, Japanese baking folk Happy Sky Bakery unveiled their brand new bakery over the weekend. This, their second place, is on Hanway Street which is, as they handily explain "a quiet little street tucked just behind the big Primark near Tottenham Court Road station."
"I can’t promise everything will be
... - The Newman hotel to open in Fitzrovia, with Brasserie Adeline and atmospheric Gambit Bar
We get a lot of information about new openings here at Hot Dinners, so it takes a lot to impress us. So when we say that an announcement about a new central London hotel made us sit up and take notice, that's a big thing. The illustrations about the restaurant and bar opening at The Newman, just north of Oxford Street, really caught our eye. This Fitzrovian boutique hotel will have two places to eat and drink and they both
... - Oybar open their second oysters and wine bar, in Wimbledon
They opened their first place in Balham earlier this year and now the team behind Oybar have just opened a second bar, in Wimbledon.
It's taken over what was once an O Neill's pub, which seems like a significant upgrade for Wimbledon. As with the original opening, the name gives
... - Goodbye Horses are opening their ice cream shop, The Dreamery
12/12/24 - updated with new images
December might not seem like the most obvious time to launch an ice cream shop, but that's exactly what the team behind Goodbye Horses are doing. We knew at the time they originally opened the restaurant back in July that
... - The next Santa Maria restaurant is going to be in Kew
It's been a while since we've had a new Santa Maria pizzeria (the last was in Islington) but they're gearing up for their next - this time in Kew. The restaurant is taking over what recently used to be Hawthorn, but is probably best known for being the site of Glasshouse, which was in this space for over 20 years.
Few details have been released, but you can imagine it's going to be a pretty
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