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- Leytonstone welcomes Forno’s second London bakery
Hang onto your delicate strawberry and elderflower tarts, some lovely Italian patisserie news should cheer the good people of East London this week: Forno has opened a branch in Leytonstone.
If you’re not au fait with Forno, it’s an Italian bakery from the founders of Ombra, and gained an obsessive following when it
- Pick & Cheese brings its cheese conveyor belt to Camden
There are many great places for food inside Seven Dials Market, but the one that understandably gets most of the attention is Pick & Cheese. From the same people behind The Cheese Bar, that's the restaurant that's based around a moving conveyor belt of various cheese dishes. It's quite the thing and worth the trip to the food hall alone to have a look. But soon it won't be the only cheese
... - Manchester's Med-inspired Fenix is coming to Mayfair
Tattu, the high-end Chinese restaurant with a view on the top of the Now Building, originally started as a group of restaurants in the North. Now the same team behind that are bringing another of their restaurants to London. This time it's the Mediterranean-inspired Fenix.
Currently only in Manchester, Fenix will be taking over the space that was Henry's on Piccadilly (which closed mid
... - Speedboat Bar motors west to open in Notting Hill's Electric Bar
9/7/25 - updated with the opening date
It's all change over in Notting Hill where Soho House's Electric Bar has jettisoned its diner, getting ready instead to open the second iteration of the hugely popular Speedboat Bar in Soho.
If you're a fan of the original, then the West London version of the restaurant will look a little different. "This time around, the interiors are less Bangkok shophouse
... - Cult Hoxton pub The Macbeth now has an ex-Four Legs chef in charge
For more than a century, they've been pulling pints in the Hoxton pub The Macbeth. More recently than that, the pub forged quite the reputation as a live music venue with everyone from Florence + The Machine to Fontaines DC playing there. Now the pub's got a new owner and it looks like the food side of things is about to take a sharp turn for the better.
Jamie Allan has been best known for being part of the Four Legs
... - The Shaston Arms in Soho is being relaunched by The Watermans Arms team
Back in 2023, the founder of Patty & Bun, Joe Grossmann, got into the pub business, opening The Watermans Arms in Barnes. It turned out to be an excellent pub, blessed with a fantastic view of the Thames and with a great menu by chef Sam
... - Queen's Park pub The Salusbury is hoping to be The Devonshire of North West London
To open any really successful pub in London, you need a dream team. The Devonshire in Soho has that in spades, so does the group behind The Pelican and The Hero. Entering the fray next, in Queen's Park, are the group behind the reopening of neighbourhood pub The Salusbury.
First up is co-owner Gareth Cooper who might not have done pubs before but knows a thing or two
... - Angela Hartnett's latest Cafe Murano is opening in Marylebone
Updated 5/7/25 with soft launch info
It's been some time since Angela Hartnett opened the last Cafe Murano (over five years ago in Bermondsey) but now she's getting ready to open a new branch, this time in Marylebone.
The latest cafe is opening on Dorset Street (taking over the old AOK Kitchen site). Expect it to be similar to the others, serving up a short,
... - Scandinavian restaurant Punk Royale brings its caviar bumps to Mayfair
They've been here before in the guise of a pop-up at Carousel, but now Punk Royale is coming to London for their first permanent restaurant outside of Scandinavia.
According to hospitality industry site Propel, the restaurant is taking a space in Mayfair that recently held Amethyst and, after that London Stock restaurant. Neither of those survived long, so it's a tricky
... - Bad Boy Pizza are opening a permanent pizzeria in Bethnal Green with NYC-style slices and more
3/7/25 - updated with the opening date
Bad Boy Pizza Society have so far been such a big success at their residency in Tulse Hill, Seven Dials Market and Vinegar Yard that they've been named National Pizza of the Year at the National Pizza Awards in both 2022 and 2024. Now they've decided that it's time to go permanent with a new pizzeria in
... - Brasserie Constance is the new Fulham Pier restaurant, with Trinity's Adam Byatt in charge
3/7/25 - updated with the opening date and menu details
We've already had the opening of impressive new development beside Fulham Football ground called Fulham Pier. But following that is a very interesting new restaurant
... - Sourdough Sophia is Hampstead's new micro bakery
It's been a busy couple of months for North London micro bakery Sourdough Sophia. Having opened in Highgate in May, owner Sophia Handschuh is moving across the heath for her next opening, this time targeting Hampstead. The bakery is about to open in the old Redemption Roasters site on Perrin's Court, in between the High Street and Heath Street.
"It's the biggest space for us so far in terms of seating,"
... - Shanghai Me is the new rooftop restaurant at The London Hilton on Park Lane
2/7/24 - Updated with the opening date
Ever since the Galvin Brothers announced that they were closing their rooftop restaurant at the London Hilton on Park Lane after 18 successful years, there was speculation on what was going to take its place. Hot Dinners was originally the first to
... - Poon's is back, opening at Somerset House
Since the original Poon's closed, one of London's legendary Chinese restaurants, Amy Poon has been following in her family's footsteps with a series of pop-ups and selling a range of her products (with a store recently opening in Bermondsey). But now she's getting ready to open her own restaurant called, of course, Poon's.
Opening within the New Wing of Somerset House, this new iteration of Poons
... - Kora brings London's Mediterranean trend to the King's Road
It's been a big trend in London restaurants over the past couple of years, and another Mediterranean restaurant is on the way, this time to Chelsea.
Kora is opening in Beaufort House, taking over what was their brasserie space, transforming it into a restaurant that "takes timeless Mediterranean classics and reimagines them with creativity and modern flair." That translates as a
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