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- The team behind Ibai are opening Harley's butcher and rotisserie in Hampstead
With the weather looking, at least temporarily, fine and sunny, barbecue season is again a possibility. So the upcoming opening of extremely promising new butcher Harley's in Hampstead is one to watch. And that's partly because it's from a team who are also behind the excellent Smithfields restaurant Ibai, known for its great steaks.
That team also run meat distributor
... - Burger & Lobster replaces Gordon Ramsay's Street Burger in Kensington
Updated 10/4/25 opening date
On Kensington High Street, one burger chain has closed to be replaced with another - albeit with the added bonus of lobster.
The new owners are Burger and Lobster and this will be their tenth London restaurant. You can expect this branch to serve the usual menu of lobster, lobster rolls and burgers (although we'd say
... - Atomix chef Junghyun Park is opening Kiji Korean BBQ in the heart of Mayfair
Well this IS a story. If you've been roaming through Mayfair recently and wondered what's happening with the building site on the corner of Curzon Street and Bolton Street (where Mirabelle used to be), then we have big news for you. It's going to be the first UK restaurant from acclaimed New York restaurant duo Ellia and Junghyun Park.
The pair are behind Atomix, which right now not only boasts two
... - Kricket's next modern Indian restaurant is in Covent Garden
It's clear that Kricket is on the expansion trail because, hot on the heels of their Canary Wharf and Shoreditch openings, they're already planning their
... - Motcombs Mayfair takes over at Pollen Street
The last year has seen a fair bit of upheaval over on Pollen Street. First Jason Atherton announced he was turning his Michelin-starred flagship restaurant into burger bar Mary's. That duly opened, with the promise of a full revamp this spring. The revamp didn't happen but what did happen was that Atherton ended up closing the restaurant altogether and selling it to another restaurant group,
... - Sino is bringing its contemporary take on Ukrainian food to Notting Hill
Following the recently opened Tatar Bunar, another new Ukrainian restaurant is coming to London. Sino comes from Polina Sychova and chef Eugene Korolev, the latter who has worked at Michelin-starred restaurants across Europe.
The name Sino means "hay" in Ukraine, and
... - Donabe on the South Bank is London's first Japanese clay pot rice restaurant
For the past seven years they've been serving up top class sushi on the South Bank. But now the owners of Hannah at County Hall are switching things up a bit, according to Code Hospitality newsletter. To start with they're moving the sushi operation to another hotel in East London. From the summer you'll find it in its new guise as Kokin at The Stratford Hotel (opens 1 May).
In its place, by the river, comes
... - Black Tap Burger's massive Crazy Shakes are descending on Soho
If you've been around Piccadilly Square recently, perhaps on your way to The Devonshire right around the corner, you may have seen that Black Tap Burger is incoming. Not familiar with them? Let us help.
They're a New York burger chain, but they have already landed with one UK outpost over in Westfield Stratford. This is their much-more-central flagship London burger store, and as for
... - The Orangery lets diners eat inside a huge hydroponic farm in central London
We have to admit that when we received the information on The Orangery on 1 April we did initially put this down as an intricate April Fool. But it turns out that there really is a new restaurant just off Tottenham Court Road with London's biggest on-site hydroponic farm.
The Orangery has more than 35,000 plants growing inside it, which we're told is the equivalent yield to just over an acre of
... - Ace Pizza are opening their first pizzeria, in Victoria Park, serving up London-style slices
If you've been to The Pembury Tavern, you might have come across Ace Pizza by Rachel Jones, where its been a hugely popular residency. Well, now she's getting her own place, just off Victoria Park.
Jones has developed her own style of pizza now dubbed "The London-style Pizza". It's designed to have "the chew and char of Neapolitan dough with the structure and
... - Zeit für Brot German bakery has landed in London
Somewhat out of the blue and with little fanfare, a German bakery and cafe has made its debut in London. Zeit für Brot (translated as "time for bread") has a number of bakeries across Germany. Over here, they've settled in Islington for their first UK opening, taking on a big corner site on the junction between Islington High Street and Pentonville Street in Angel.
A quick visit reveals it to be an
... - New Knightsbridge spot Clap Ka-fe is hoping to go viral with its cute Japanese pastries
They already run a sushi restaurant at the top of the building, now the Knightsbridge cafe CLAP London (we feel we've pretty much exhausted jokes on that name) has taken over the ground floor too. Their newest venture, CLAP KA-FE, is a more casual sort of place where you can either grab some sushi or Japanese pastries to go or eat in.
Knowing how much Londoners love the thrill of a new bakery to try, we got an
... - Claude Bosi is opening Josephine in Marylebone
1/4/25 - updated with more details and the opening date.
Last year, chef Claude Bosi, together with his wife Lucy, opened French bouchon Josephine in Chelsea to rave reviews. It was, however, for those of us who don't live in West London, not blessed with the easiest public transport connections.
We'd been hearing rumblings for a while that the chef was planning a follow-up
... - Buttered up - Soho's new single item restaurant Butter LDN is for dairy lovers only
Updated 12pm 1/4/25 - we know we've tricked a fair few of you, who've started following Butter on Insta, but this was our 2025 April Fool and one to add to our long line of April Fool's Day jokes. That said, if anyone does want to open a restaurant like this, we'd be 100% up for it.
This city loves a single item spot -
... - Raved-about Cafe Mama Pho is coming to Bloomsbury next
Family-run business Cafe Mama Pho got a namecheck in this week's My Manor when new Bodean's chef Richard Turner raved about their phở and fish sauce chicken wings. But they've also got some new opening news to share too. In addition to their OG cafe in Deptford and newish spot in South Kensington they're
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