New opening

• 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. 

• Wool Yard is coming to Woolwich from the people behind Pop Brixton

  

  If you're a fan of Pop Brixton, then this news will definitely be of interest. The man behind that success story, Carl Turner, has turned his sights on Woolwich where he plans to open a follow-up Wool Yard. 

  Pop Brixton which has hosted some great restaurants in its container village since opening, the most notable being Kricket which has since

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• Marco-Pierre White launching Mr White’s English Chophouse in Whitechapel

  Whitechapel is set to get a trendy new hotel by the name of the New Road Hotel, that’s going to have a flash new restaurant built in which will have chef/entrepreneur/TV star Marco-Pierre White looking after the food. 

• La Fromagerie is bringing cheese to Bloomsbury with their latest spot

  Head upstairs for oysters at the seafood bar, downstairs for the Tasting Room, or pick up some delicacies from the special ‘walk-in cheese room’ to take home with you at La Fromagerie Bloomsbury.

• Brick & Liquor mixes cocktails and sharing plates in Clapham

  After getting off to a great start down in Tooting, Brick and Liquor has made the move to Clapham to open their next branch of his cocktail bar. It's larger, with seats for 100, has a decently sized menu for bar snacks, and serves brunch (including a full English with savoury pancakes) on the weekend. 

• Alan Yau is back with pide restaurant Yamabahçe in Marylebone

  Following Babaji Pide, Alan Yau is back at it again with this pide-centric (Turkish flatbread) restaurant. 

• Adam Handling to open The Frog restaurant in Covent Garden

  

  15/8/17 - updated with opening date

  What: Adam Handling opens in Covent Garden

  In a nutshell: The Frog goes west

  Summing it all up:Adam Handling is bringing his Frog concept from Spitalfields to Covent Garden.

• Barcelona's Mamarosa restaurant is coming to London's Shoreditch Village

  The Barcelona beach restaurant Mamarosa migrates to the new Shoreditch Village space. Expect a mix of Mediterranean and Italian cuisine (but no beach views). 

• Caravan comes to the City with its Bloomberg Arcade restaurant

  This is the latest Caravan to come to London. Part of Bloomberg Arcade, it's bringing new dishes and a brand new brunch menu along with it. 

• Cubé Restaurant and Kakurega Bar opens on Blenheim Street in Mayfair

  The new spot serves sushi upstairs and has a downstairs hideaway bar serving Japanese cocktails

• The Lampery at Tower Bridge is inspired by London’s history

  History buffs can celebrate the days gone by with the British-themed food and drink at The Lampery, a new restaurant that draws inspiration from Samuel Pepys’ favourite foods, who was a former resident on the same street.

• Time travel to the 1920’s at the Evans & Peel Pharmacy’s secret bar in W4

  Evans & Peel are building off their Earl’s Court venue to create the Pharmacy, a new bar in Chiswick where visitors will be led through a secret entrance way into the hidden bar. There’ll be passwords, classic American grub and of course, Old Fashioneds.

• Host Coffee are bringing sustainable but fun coffee to Covent Garden's Henrietta Street

  Covent Garden gets a new coffee shop from a duo that started their business as an Old Street pop-up

• MAM in Notting Hill will be the new barbecue restaurant from the Salvation in Noodles team

  Colin Tu is branching out from his North and East London Salvation in Noodles restaurants with a new Vietnamese restaurant in Notting Hill