New opening

• Test Driving The Mountgrove Road Bothy - a neighbourhood wine bar in Highbury

  Featuring a wine list from the GM of the Laughing Heart, this is a wine bar worth seeking out.

• The Garden Cafe comes to Lambeth, with chefs from Padella and St John's Bread & Wine

  The Garden Museum's new cafe in Lambeth is serving seasonal food with simple ingredients.

• Del 74 is opening Cantina Del 74 in London Fields, with an expanded menu and frozen margaritas

  After only a few months in Clapton, rising taco star Del 74 is taking on a second home in Mare Street. 

• The Ivy comes to Tower Bridge

  It's the latest Ivy all-day restaurant to hit town. And this one comes with a riverside view. 

• Caribbean rum shack Cottons moves to a new home on Curtain Road

  After a successful stint in Shoreditch Boxpark, the Caribbean rum shack has found a new beach hut-themed home on Curtain Road, where there'll be a tiki-style bar, a street food menu and more rum than you can shake a stick at.

• Mamma Mia! The Party London plans dancing queens and dinner to the O2

  The Abba dinner theatre experience to London - expect retsina, renditions and a lot of audience participation

• RIGO' brings fine dining to Fulham from an Italian chef

  After training under Alain Ducasse and earning Michelin stars in top European restaurants, Gonzalo Luzarraga is now bringing his expert skills in high quality Italian food to Fulham’s New King’s Road, in a luxe new restaurant that’ll be spread across three rooms.

• Minnow neighbourhood restaurant comes to Clapham Common

  There's Robata-grilled whole roast poussin, caramelised watermelon with Campari sorbet and baby octopus with curry leaf paste on offer at Minnow, Clapham Common's newest all day dining hot spot - plus, breakfast cocktails.

• Bill Granger is bringing Granger and Co to Chelsea's Pavilion Road

  

  12/6/17 - updated with opening date

  What: Granger & Co

  In a nutshell: Aussie all-day spot

  Summing it all up: Bill Granger brings his all day Aussie cafe to the Pavilion Road development in Chelsea

• Walnut in Finsbury Park has an ex-Angela Hartnett chef running the show

  After 25 years working for Gordon Ramsay and Angela Hartnett, chef Emma Duggan is going solo with this restaurant on Stroud Green Road, just north of Finsbury Park station

• Rola Wala goes permenant in Spitalfields with their sourdough naan and curries

  After a long relationship with Street Feast, Rola Wala finally becomes a permanent fixture in Spitalfield, with their healthy do-it-yourself Indian grub, including Nagaland lamb, Bengali-spiced beef and plenty to please the vegan and gluten-free crowd too.

• Smoke + Salt heads south to Pop Brixton

  

  7/6/17 - Updated with soft launch details

  Smoke & Salt will be bringing their fine-yet-casual dining to South Londoners when it takes up residence in Pop Brixton this summer.

  It was with a heavy heart that we announced the closure of Kricket’s Pop Brixton site. But as the saying goes, when one door closes

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• Chin Chin Club brings nitrogen ice cream and cakes to Soho

  

  7/6/17 - updated with launch details

  If you've been to the original Chin Chin Lab in Camden, you'll already be very familiar with the made-in-front-of-you-with-nitrogen ice-crem delights that they have to offer. So you'll be VERY happy to know that they're expanding to Soho with a cake and ice-cream

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• Boxcar Butcher & Grill brings ethical meat to Marylebone

  Eat prime cuts of meat sourced from trusted suppliers that've been butchered in house at this new butcher-to-grill restaurant on Marylebone's New Quebec Street, which will also be selling meat to go, and pastries, pies and more via its deli.

• Baba G’s Bhangra Burgers long-term pop-up in Finsbury Avenue Square

  Bhangra Burger's lamb jalfrezi burger and chicken tikka burger comes to the city, plus the new addition of the mercilessly hot double naga burger, for diehard chilli fans.