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- Ollie Dabbous to open Henrietta restaurant at Henrietta Hotel in Covent Garden
Hot Dinners exclusive
It looks like 2017 is starting strong with news that the Experimental Group are going to be opening their first London hotel - oh and they've only gone and got Ollie Dabbous to run the restaurant. Henrietta Hotel will open to guests in early 2017 - the name derives from the Covent Garden street it's situated in. It's the group's second hotel - it'll be a sister venue to their Grand Pigalle in Paris - and their fourth
... - Cannon and Cannon are launching Nape in Camberwell, a cured meat bar and deli
Hot Dinners exclusive
You might have come across charcuterie champions Cannon and Cannon at Borough Market or at a number of market stalls across town. Well now they're getting ready to open a big new place in Camberwell called Nape with LOTS of lovely cured meat.
Nape is primarily a cured meat bar - somewhere where you can pitch up, grab a seat and spend the night munching your
... - Natoora open their first central London store on Sloane Square
We were pretty excited last month by the news that superlative fruit and veg folk Natoora had opened a space in Selfridges, but they've gone one step further this week, opening their own standalone shop in Sloane Square. It's the second store for the company (they already have a store in Chiswick and a stall down near Maltby) but it's their first in central London and
... - A new Patty & Bun is coming to Shoreditch
Update 11/11/16 with soft re-launch info
The Patty & Bun at Shoreditch is re-launching and they've adding 50% off food for a week into the bargain. And there's more seating for everyone while you're scoffing your food. The soft launch runs from 11-18 November 2016, and it's for walk-ins only.
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Super popular burger chain Patty
... - USA's cheap-and-cheerful MOD Pizza rocks up to Leicester Square
There’s no arguing with the fact that £7.87 is a more-than-fair price for a pizza, especially with all the toppings you could want, and enough even to make you overlook the fact that it is a bit of a weird number. MOD Pizza, a US-based chain, will soon be bringing their super-fast affordable pizza to the capital when their first London store opens in none other than Leicester Square.
Not only will you be able to
... - BungaTINI pizzeria and all day bar opens its doors in Covent Garden
There’s now wood-fired pizza, cured meats, pastas and Italian treats-a-plenty up for grabs in Covent Garden, thanks to BungaTINI which has just opened its doors.
It’s the sister restaurant to Bunga Bunga, making it the second offering from its general manager Matthew Richardson, who also managed Venetian small plate institution Polpo.
There’ll be several menus on offer to suit your mood, depending
... - Yamagoya ramen pop-up to arrive on Shaftsbury Avenue this December
There’s little more warming than a big steaming bowl of salty ramen, making the arrival of Yamagoya’s six-month pop-up in December well timed indeed.
The Japanese noodle slingers will be bringing their array of traditional soups to frost-bitten London diners for the first time, including their eponymous Yamagoya ramen. For £12.50, you’ll be able to get a bowl of their homemade noodles immersed in tonkotsu broth, topped with chashu pork belly, marinaded bamboo
... - Bonnie Gull to open up their second seafood shack in Soho
If you like your seafood a bit more interesting than your bog standard cod and chips, then you may have come across the Bonnie Gull Seafood Shack, who’ve been enjoying a rather popular five years at their Fitzrovia home. Now they’ll be bringing their ‘Squid Toast’ with ink aioli and ember-cooked mussels to a new, second branch in Soho.
You should only eat oysters in the months with an ‘R’ in them, as the saying
... - Pilau’s Indian wraps find a permanent home on Goodge Street (with Soho to come)
Pilau is the newest in a flurry of roving food vendors to find a home for just in time the winter. After a series of successful residencies, the Indian street food seller has opened its first permanent site in Fitzrovia, and will shortly be taking over another space in Soho before Christmas.
Those visiting their new Goodge street premises will be able to get your hands on a their hearty Indian wraps, choosing
... - Hipchips brings conveyer belt crisps and dip to Soho
04/11/16 - updated with soft launch details.
First, there was Bubble Dogs. Then, there was Cereal Killers. And now, arriving on Old Compton Street this autumn comes Hipchips, taking pairings back to their most basic - chips and dip. Also, everything is served on a conveyer belt (for some reason.)
London’s voyage towards peak hipster is still going strong with the arrival of yet surprising dining concept,
... - Grand Trunk Road is bringing historical south Asian fare to Woodford
South Woodford, tucked away out out in Zone 4, is experiencing something of a restaurant boom. Hard on the heels of the very well reviewed The Woodford is another imminent opening - Grand Trunk Road, a new Indian restaurant with a historically-inspired south Asian menu.
It’s the first solo venture from Rajesh Suri, formerly of Mayfair’s Tamarind, plus Imli and Zaika, who’ll be joining forces once more with head chef Dayashankar
... - D&D to open Aster, Nordic restaurant in Victoria’s dining quarter Nova
Victoria is set to become something of a foodie destination later this year when the construction around the station finally (finally!) ends, and we’re rewarded for our patience with a stunning new dining quarter. Aster, a Nordic restaurant from D&D London, will be one of the restaurants setting up shop there.
Aster will be divided into a more casual cafe section and a sit-down restaurant
... - Casual and fun Cinnamon Bazaar to open in Covent Garden
4/11/16 - updated with soft launch details
If you’ve always dreamed of visiting Westminster’s majestic Cinnamon Club, but haven’t yet found the right special occasion/outfit/windfall to revel in all its old world plushness, you’re in luck. Coming soon to Covent Garden is another addition to the Cinnamon family, the Cinnamon Bazaar.
Setting itself apart as a far more relaxed restaurant than its Cinnamon counterparts, the Bazaar will be
... - Anzu is coming to St James' Market from the people behind Tonkotsu
2/11/2016 - updated with extended soft launch info.
There's always a lot of excitement when a new Tonkotsu opens, but now the people behind it, Emma Reynolds and Kensuke Yamada, are coming up with something brand new. They're opening Anzu in the new St James development and they're describing it as a Japanese brasserie - "good food and amazing service in fine but relaxed surroundings" .
It's definitely a bit of a change from Tonkotsu - that's an
... - Quirky glamour, salads and wine for city workers at The Otherist
Fans of the popular City lunch hotspots the Anthologist, and the Folly and Fable, will be pleased to know that there’ll soon be a new opening from the group on Old Broad Street: The Otherist.
If its sister restaurants are anything to go by, the new venue will be a useful new place for city workers to enjoy a proper wine and dine session. It’ll live on the site of what used to be the Old Broad Street branch of the Corney & Barrow wine bar, a chain recently
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