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18/5/25 - updated with the opening date

The team behind Supernova, Creme and North Audley Canteen know how to make a big splash with their openings. The original Supernova was a massive hit and it looks like their upcoming Mayfair outpost will be

It's been a while since we reported on chef Rob Roy Cameron. Back in 2017 and 2018, he worked on two projects with mixologist Tony Conigliaro, Untitled in Dalston and Gazelle in Mayfair. And the reason we're talking about him now is that he's back in London and about to open a very interesting new restaurant, this time in Carnaby.

ALTA takes as its culinary starting point open fire cooking and the food

Any London closures are a bad thing, so we're delighted to bring you news this morning of a reopening in Walthamstow. It's been a few months since Eat 17 in Walthamstow closed their restaurant. But the good news is that it's now been taken over by The Good Egg and is getting ready to reopen.

If you've had the pleasure of eating at The Good Egg before, you'll know that, as the name suggests, they go big on brunch.

Planning a trip outside the capital? Here's our guide to the very best restaurants opening soon across the entire country.

As far as we're concerned, there's always room for more places to sit and recover from a massive shopping expedition when you're on Oxford Street. So the arrival of Noreen to St Christopher's Place this summer can only be a positive thing.

Although there are plenty of Middle-Eastern restaurants to choose from in this part of town, the owners are hoping that they have a couple of features to make them

Holborn office folk working from home on Friday may have missed the news in the Standard that a new spin-off restaurant of Dumplings' Legend was coming their way. But they'll need to get up to speed quickly as Love Dumplings Legend is opening its doors

11/5/25 - updated with the opening date

A week ago the Brindisa spin-off Bar Kroketa started teasing its followers on Insta with the promise of a third restaurant. Now they've revealed that they're heading to the City for their next opening. They'll be taking over the old Pizarro space on Broadgate Circle.

According to them, "This site is Bar Kroketa’s most ambitious yet, with a bigger space

We were sad to see Patron leave our own local neighbourhood of Finsbury Park last year (which was out of their hands) so now we're very jealous of those living in West Hampstead as they're about to get the latest opening from the Patron team, called French Society.

Like Patron, it's a French affair (the name somewhat gives that away) that takes its inspiration from Parisian bistros

The Black Cow is something that first opened in Camden's big Hawley Wharf development, but now the Middle Eastern steakhouse is moving to Shoreditch.

It's from Shiri Kraus and Amir Batito, whose goal was to create an American steakhouse-style grill with Middle Eastern flavours. They also run the extremely well-reviewed Epicurus in Camden, ...

Tokyo-born mixologist Gento Torigata travelled across the globe working in bars from Ginza to Sydney and Singapore before landing in the UK. Most recently he was bar manager at the fabulous Kwãnt in Mayfair for the past two years. Now he's branching out on his own, opening up Waltz on Scrutton Street.

The bar and its drinks list takes inspiration from both jazz and nature. There's a general menu of drinks available along with

A second Pizza Pilgrims is on the way to Shoreditch, this time opening on Brick Lane opening as part of the Truman Brewery.

If you've been to a Pizza Pilgrims before, you'll know what to expect: 72-hour, double-fermented dough, used in all their Neapolitan pizzas. And as for the pizzas themselves, alongside the classics, you'll find:

• Nduja - Spicy & meaty Calabrian sausage on

6/5/25 - updated with new opening date and soft launch details

Not content with having one of the hardest-to-book restaurants in West London in Dorian, or the viral sushi experience Tuna Fight Club, the team responsible for both of those is now gearing up to open a sushi bar in Notting Hill.

Eel has taken over an old antiques shop on Talbot Road. It'll be a 10-16 seater restaurant that they're describing

NoMad London has had great success with its cocktail bar Side Hustle, but even though it's housed in an incredible room, the hotel's restaurant hasn't had as big a profile. Now they're getting ready to relaunch it as a New-York-inspired brasserie.

Called Twenty8 NoMad (based on the address of the hotel), it'll also bring in a light refresh of the already impressive room,

5/5/25 - updated with soft launch details

Another restaurant is adding to the huge growth in places to eat out that we've seen in Canary Wharf in recent years. This time, it's the turn of Brother Marcus, the Mediterranean-influenced restaurant that's a particular hit at brunch.

This latest outpost will be on the ground floor of the YY London building at One Canada Square

We've always been impressed by the Nourished Communities shops, having been into the ones in Islington and Finsbury Park many times. Now, Walthamstow residents can see what we mean as another store is just about to open there.

As with the other shops, they store food, drink and produce from over 200 independent producers, with the range including organic veg and veg boxes,