Win dinner for four at Heath Street Bakehouse in Hampstead
New opening
- The autumn London restaurant preview
Autumn can be one of the busiest opening periods on the London restaurant calendar. We've already covered what's coming in September, now let's look at the big openings coming in the rest of the year.
- Tamila to open in Battersea, from the team behind The Tamil Prince
A Hot Dinners exclusive
Islington-based The Tamil Prince has made life a whole lot more tasty for North Londoners, and now it’s South London’s turn. That's right, we're bringing you the exclusive news of the opening of Tamila in Battersea.
Launching on the former site
... - Little Baobab is serving up Senegalese food at the Africa Centre
Little Baobab has been serving up authentic Senegalese cuisine from its Peckham Levels hatch and other pop-ups across town (as well as quite a few music festivals) for a while. Now they're launching something different, settling in as the new long-term resident kitchen at the Africa Centre (in the space where Tatale used to be).
Adding something new from its regular offering,
... - Boxpark are taking over Buck Street Market in Camden
6/9/24 - updated with more opening details
Buck Street Market is a huge container village in Camden which has about 40 shops and restaurants contained within its mini maze of containers. However, it hasn't really had the same success as similar venues like Boxpark have seen. Now that's likely to change as Boxpark themselves are the new owners of the site.
This will
... - Chef David Thompson to bring Long Chim pop-up to Hovarda in Soho
In news that should get your Thai-food taste-buds tingling, acclaimed Australian chef David Thompson is bringing a modern Bangkok-inspired menu to London, with the launch of Long Chim. Meaning ‘come and try’, Long Chim currently has outlets in Sydney, Perth and Dubai (and previously in Melbourne and Singapore).
If this is all ringing vague bells for you, we reported a couple of years back that the London Long Chim
- Brazilian restaurant Maroto to open in Mayfair
We bring news of a Brazilian restaurant all-change in Mayfair, with Maroto taking over the site formerly occupied by another Brazilian restaurant Bossa (which closed in February). But the plot thickens: if you think you’ve already seen Maroto in that location, you have. Sort of. There’s a bar by
... - LIMA to open a third restaurant in London, inside Shoreditch’s Sun Street Hotel
5/9/24 - updated with a new opening date.
Hang onto your ceviche, London’s favourite Peruvian restaurant is about to open a third site. LIMA Shoreditch will take wings inside the Sun Street Hotel, which opened in late 2022. We told you about the hotel’s previous restaurant when it
... - BAO City is coming, with bonus karaoke
It’s a good day for fans of steamed milk buns, with the news that BAO London is opening its new BAO City outlet. This will be the seventh restaurant from the Taiwanese group that has an extraordinary reach across London, with outlets in Soho,
- Home Kitchen taking over from Odette's in Primrose Hill will be a restaurant staffed by the homeless
3/9/24 - updated with the opening date and menu
Things move fast in the London restaurant world. Just over a week after we learned that chef Bryn Williams was closing his much-loved Primrose Hill restaurant Odettes after 16 years, a replacement was already lined up.
Home
... - Panadera are opening a second bakery, next to Selfridges
3/9/24 - updated with the opening date
They're one of the best bakeries in London, so news that Filipino bakery Panadera was expanding was always going to be of interest. Now we know where they're opening their second place - right around the corner from Selfridges. The new home on Picton Place puts
... - Chef Akira Back will run the restaurants and bars at the new Mandarin Oriental Mayfair
Updated 19/9/24 with Dosa photograph and opening date
We've known for a while that Michelin-starred chef Akira Back was heading to London to open at the upcoming Mandarin Oriental Mayfair. Now the final details are emerging about what we can expect from the chef's restaurants and bars at the hotel.
Back is going to be responsible for two restaurants, a bar and a rooftop 'experience' at the hotel when
... - Brother Marcus are taking their Eastern Med plates to Covent Garden
1/9/24 - updated with the opening date
Brother Marcus, which has already opened in Islington, Spitalfields, Borough and Kensington, are getting ready to open their fifth restaurant. This time, it's in Covent Garden and will be the latest opening in The Yards development. They'll be taking over the site that was Miscusi and more recently hosted the Prelude by Oriole
... - Stoke Newington is getting an empanaderia and vinyl wine room courtesy of De Nadas
Stokey locals who fancy grabbing an empanada will soon have somewhere on their doorsteps to do just that. De Nadas who already have two empanaderias in London are opening on Stoke Newington Church Street and this sounds like their biggest place yet. In addition to the general bakery space with 20 seats there's also going to be a vinyl wine room at the back where you can sit in, enjoy some tunes and wine along with your
... - Wildflowers comes to Pimlico from ex-Elystan Street chef
5/6/24 - updated with the opening date
A new development has arrived in Pimlico, Newson's Yard, that is bringing with it a very promising new restaurant. Wildflowers is the development's food and drink element and comes from chef Aaron Potter, who most recently was Executive chef at Maria G's and before that head chef at Elystan Street.
Described by Elystan Street's Phil
... - The big new London restaurants opening in September 2024
As autumn approaches, the London food scene always starts to get a little bit busier. This month sees another new restaurant from Jason Atherton, the return of chef Selin Kiazim, a Pidgin replacement, a brand new Barbary and lots more.
