New opening

• With Gilly’s Fry Bar in Finsbury Park, Northern chip shop meets Asia

  Owner Neil Gill knows a thing or two about catering for the souls of Finsbury Park, since opening Season 2010. Now he’s heading around the corner to turn his hand to Anglo-Japanese food, like tempura fish, sausage and aubergine, plus donburi and pickles. Plus, a healthy selection of rather fun-sounding cocktails, including a punch made with Irn Bru(!)

• Ceremony on Tufnell Park's Fortess Road will not be your usual vegetarian restaurant

  This new Tufnell Park vegetarian spot promises interesting dishes that just happen not to feature meat. And the drinks background of the owners suggests a bar offering that'll be exceptional

• Paul Hollywood from GBBO is opening Knead bakery at Euston station

  Paul Hollywood’s back, not just on our screens, but in our train stations with his very first bakery by the name of Knead, where you’ll be able to buy his very own sausage rolls and bacon butties.

• Get a taste of Bahrain in Chelsea with Villa Mama’s

  After a successful first opening in her home country, Bahraini chef Roaya is now opening the second branch of Villa Mama’s all the way over in London. 

• The Roasting Party brings Aussie snacks and coffee to Chelsea's Pavilion Road

  Australian coffee roasters are the latest opening on Chelsea's Pavilion Road, serving up toast with vegemite and top notch coffee

• Daily Dose juice bar is taking over the ground floor of Matt Roberts gym in Mayfair

  Taking over the ground floor of the Matt Roberts gym in Mayfair, this organic cold pressed juice cafe looks set to make a mint

• Japanese tapas and sushi - we Test Drive Cubé

  Try this new Japanese spot just off Oxford Street, but don't expect the traditional menu...

• Fermented French cuisine with a Persian twist from Clerkenwell’s The Drunken Butler

  Yuma Hashemi has been all over, from Portugal to San Francisco. Now he’s opened his first ever solo restaurant in London. It’ll be loosely French themed, with a Persian and Korean twist, and you can expect to see more than a bit of preserving and fermenting...

• Farm Girl brings superfood lattes, smoothie bowls and coconut BLTs to Soho

  After getting off to a strong start in Portobello Road, aussie health food chain Farm Girl has teamed up with stylish activewear mavens Sweaty Betty to provide the health conscious with their choice of guilt-free grub, plus a bar with fairtrade vodka and biodynamic wines. Well, It is Soho, after all.

• Shoreditch’s new Essence Cuisine brings clean vegan eating with big flavour

  More good news for the vegans of the world, as Essence Cuisine is bringing their animal-free cuisine to East London. They’ve got every intention of eschewing the belief that clean eating = bland as well, and based on the makeup of their raw chocolate brownie, we’re intrigued.

• Jacob the Angel is a coffee house from people behind The Palomar

  

  23/8/17 - Updated with opening details and the menu.

  There's another new place from the people behind the ever-popular The Palomar and The Barbary, siblings Layo and Zoe Paskin. They're opening a new coffee shop called Jacob the Angel in Neal's Yard.

  The menu has been put together by head chef Daniela Gattegno, who was sous chef at nearby The Barbary and before that Ottolenghi, Moro

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• Pickled Fred mixes Asian food and "unusual cocktails" and there’ll be loads for vegans

  Shoreditch’s latest trendy restaurant is the lovechild of two chefs who’ve want to experiment with their love of Asian food and “unusual cocktails.” There’ll be loads of pickled goods and flavours, and plenty on offer to those on restricted diets.

• Brixton’s Canova Hall: hotdesks by day, cocktails by night, and pizza around the clock

  Brixton’s Canova Hall will be open from very early in the morning until 1am, all week long, but what goes on inside will change as the hours pass, from coffee and wifi in the early hours, to Italian food, and finally gin cocktails and DJs at night.

• Soho restaurant Flavour Bastard - yes, really - will bring "cuisine-agnostic" dining

  Soho, get ready - Flavour Bastard (no, really) is coming and it’s got a menu full of packed with big ideas and intriguing combinations of international flavours, like white lentil and chorizo donuts, which all seems to suggest that its bite *could* match its bark.

• POWDERKEG relaunches in Battersea with Ben Mulock at the helm

  Battersea favourite Powder Keg Diplomacy is being reborn as POWDERKEG. And with the new look and name they're also getting former Opera Tavern chef Ben Mulock in the kitchen for some Spanish/Italian grill dishes.