New opening

• The City is getting a Nikkei restaurant as Waka prepares to open on Eastcheap

  The City gets a new lunchspot as Waka brings Nikkei Peruvian/Japanese cuisine to the takeaway market

• Peckham Levels is giving Peckham’s multistory carpark two new floors of food and drink

  Peckham’s multi-storey car park is about to get a massive facelift when it becomes Peckham Levels, a new local hub that’ll be using two of its 10 storeys as a new home for seven vendors serving up local street food, a cafe, and two new bars like Made of Dough’s Lady Godiva .

• The sushi tardis - we Test Drive Nobu Shoreditch

  Nobu Hotel is now open in Shoreditch but what's the restaurant like? We went to check it out.

• The Great Chase on St John Street offers ethically sourced food and booze-free drinks

  As much as possible is ethically sourced at this new restaurant on St John Street from a former Dean Street Townhouse chef, with an alcohol-free drinks menu that’ll delight non-drinkers.

• Small plates at Every Cloud's Silver Lining in Hackney Walk

  Silver Lining is the new restaurant counterpart to luxury outlet Hackney Walk’s popular Every Cloud cocktail bar. With its cozy environment and creative menu it looks like it could be just the job.

• Test Driving Bang Bang Oriental - we check out Colindale's huge food court

  The huge Bang Bang Oriental food hall has come to Colindale - but what's it really like? We find out...

• Southam Street is the latest from the 108 Garage team in Notting Hill

  With the success of 108 Garage behind them, the same team are opening Southam Street. This is a three storey place taking in a grill, raw bar and champagne bar too. 

• Sushi Atelier on Great Portland Street is the restaurant from the folk behind Chisou

  The folk behind Chisou have opened a modern sushi bar in Fitzrovia serving up carpaccios, sushi rolls and contemporary nigiri.

• Jean-Georges Vongerichten is opening a London restaurant at The Connaught hotel

  

  We've finally got more information on the new Jean Georges restaurant opening at The Connaught next week. In case you're only now playing catch-up, this is one of the big openings of the year, taking over the space at the front of the Mayfair hotel which was previously occupied by Espelette.

  Vongerichten is joining Hélène Darroze and her two-Michelin star restaurant which is on the other side of the hotel. By contrast to her restaurant, the new

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• No 29 Power Station West - a new bar for the revitalised Battersea Power Station area

  It's all go at Battersea Power Station as this neighbourhood bar with an industrial feel (echoing the station) opens its doors. 

• Seasonal brasserie Neighbour opens on Kentish Town Road

  300 Kentish Town Road has just been taken over again, this time by seasonally focused brasserie Neighbour, who’ll be catering for locals and visitors to The Forum with lunch, brunch, dinners and drinks above ground, plus cocktails in basement bar Jukes.

• Smoking Goat is coming to Shoreditch - Ben Chapman tells all...

  

  One of Soho's most popular and successful restaurants, The Smoking Goat, is coming to Shoreditch. They're taking over a big place that - ahem - used to be a "strip-pub" (yes exactly what it sounds like) so expect

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• Mediterranean pinchos come to Broadway market with Tuyo

  Tuyo is a new restaurant devoted to small sharing plates with a Spanish twist. Essentially tapas, but not as you know it.

• Macellaio RC Italian steakhouse hits Battersea's Northcote Road

  Fans of Macellaio RC’s other branches can now head to their new Battersea base, where beef will be butchered and dry-aged aged on site. The new branch will be of particular interest to wine fans too, given the impressive collection of unique bottles of regional Italian vino on offer.

• The Mint Gun Club is Stokie’s new cocktail hotspot from an award-winning bartender

  There'll be tea and more in the deli, but the cocktails are the REAL draw at Stoke Newington's Mint Gun Club, the newest project from cocktail master Rich Hunt.