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- Barrio Bars and Rum Kitchen set to open in Brixton
The early part of 2016 is hotting up in Brixton with two large new restaurant openings on the horizon.
Barrio Brixton
The first up is Barrio Brixton which opens in February and will be the fourth restaurant in the chain. The venue on Acre Lane will have room for 200 as well as an outside area (maybe not so useful right now). They'll be serving up all manner of tequilas and mezcals, to piscos and cachacas and will be open 7 days a week and until
... - Patty & Bun take over the Stockpot site on Soho's Old Compton Street
Updated 14/1 with more news
Lots more info about the new opening has been revealed...
- New dishes for the menu include:
- Roast Chicken skin with maple syrup and Patty&Bun’s home made hotsauce
- Fried Chicken with Urfa chilli butter and lemon
- The bar menu is by Berber & Q’s head bartender, Danny Varley and
- New dishes for the menu include:
- The Good Life Eatery is planning a third spot on Motcomb Street
Popular health food company The Good Life Eatery is expanding, opening its third place over in Knightsbridge on Motcomb Street next year. They'll be following their usual, successful menu of energy-boosting breakfasts and lunches, snacks, shakes, juices and desserts. And whether your diet is dairy/gluten-free, vegan, Paleo or you're just after something healthy they're promising to have a dish for you.
The new cafe will seat 35. Expect to find courgetti and
... - Chucs is opening a restaurant, cafe and menswear store on Westbourne Grove
When Chucs swimwear opened a cafe of the same name over on Dover Street, AA Gill popped in and reviewed it, describing it as "not just a little Italianish caff in Mayfair; it’s an enormous amount of fantasy and wishful thinking made real in miniature". Now the Mayfair spot is opening a second place in Westbourne Grove in February.
The restaurant will take over the ground floor of the building in Notting Hill with the company's menswear collection upstairs. There'll also
... - Shaun Rankin to open Ormer restaurant at Flemings Mayfair
17/12/15 - Updated with a sneak peek at the restaurant design
Michelin-starred chef Shaun Rankin has unveiled plans to open a restaurant at the Flemings Mayfair hotel. The new restaurant is part of a £14 million refurbishment at the hotel which has been privately owned by the same family for over 40 years. Maybe they've been looking across town at the similarly privately-owned
... - The Stoke Newington Tea House is a very different type of pub now open on Church Street
Just in time to do brisk trade as the temperatures dip, The Stoke Newington Tea House has just opened on Stoke Newington Church Street, taking over the Daniel Dafoe. And anyone who knew the old pub will be pretty surprised when they return - particularly as there's no longer a a bar. That's been replaced with more of a beer wall. What will be on offer is six hand pulls with regularly rotating craft ales, as well as lagers, bitters and stouts.
There will, as the
... - Honest Burgers hits Peckham with a burger giveaway
Food hotspot Peckham is getting a new burger spot this weekend with Honest Burgers opening its doors on Saturday. The branch will serve all the usual menu, plus will be one of four Honest Burgers serving brunch at the weekends, featuring dishes like ‘Honest Brunch’, their version of the full English, as well as guacamole, Brindisa chorizo and fried egg on sourdough toast.
As per tradition, on opening day they'll be giving away free burgers - 250 burgers
... - Corbin and King's Bellanger restaurant is opening on Islington Green
Updated 7/12/15 with menu, photos and opening date
Hot Dinners got a sneak preview of Bellanger this week and even with days of fitting out to go, the place looks fantastic. They've opened up the front of the dining room, adding a semi-private dining alcove, put booths all down one side. There'll be 10 seats for counter dining and a large dining room towards the back which has been
... - 67 Pall Mall is a new St James club for oenophiles
Opening today on Pall Mall is a new private members club devoted to wine. But despite its St James location, the club's aim is to focus on offering fine wine to its members without costing them an arm and a leg. The idea came from founder Grant Ashton deciding he was "fed up of being mugged by punitive London mark-ups on fine wine."
The club's Master Sommelier is Ronan Sayburn who counts Cafe du Vin, Gordon Ramsay Holdings and the Dorchester Collection
... - Mr Bao brings a taste of Taiwan to Peckham's Rye Lane
Bao buns: soft, pillowy, wrapped around everything from pork belly to ice cream - what's not to love? Now Peckham is getting a bao venue of its own, when Taiwanese restaurant Mr Bao opens this month on Rye Lane.
We've already seen some highlights from the menu, which sound very tempting indeed - their pork belly will be braised for 24 hours, then mixed with roasted peanuts and a home made hoisin sauce before being stuffed inside a steamed bun. Home made dumplings come
... - Dirty Burger is opening a bar and restaurant on Exmouth Market
Updated 2/12/15 with opening date and bar details
Dirty Burger may have tried to open their newest place under the radar, but Hot Dinners spies are EVERYWHERE. Turns out their fourth London location is going to be right next door to Pizza Pilgrims' new spot on Exmouth Market. Both sites were carved out of the space that used to be Gulshan Tandoori.
The two-storey restaurant will be the biggest Dirty Burger yet and will feature a
... - Clarendon Cocktail Cellar opens underneath The Artist Residence in Pimlico
Pimlico is getting a new bar - and the bar snacks don't sound half bad. The Clarendon Cocktail Cellar is a new drinking hole underneath the Artist Residence hotel (the name refers to the pub that used to occupy the site).
Expect all manner of art-inspired cocktails denoted by the artwork on the drinks coaster they're served with. So with Georges Seurat’s ‘A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte’ the drink will be gin, lemon, Oleo Saccharum, tea,
... - Brett Redman to launch Jidori Japanese Yakitori in Dalston
30/11/15 - updated with soft launch info
Chef Brett Redman is set to open a new Japanese yakitori restaurant in Dalston. The restaurant, which opens this Autumn draws upon the rich tradition of Tokyo yakitori joints, bringing this hugely popular variety of Japanese street food to east London.
The new opening will specialise in Japanese yakitori skewers grilled over coal and will be the second opening from Redmond, who also opened The
... - Billy and the Chicks hits Soho with a London take on the fried chicken scene
So there's a new chicken shop opening in London. If those words make you yawn - then hold on. Sounds like Billy and the Chicks might actually bring something new to the table.
The bloke behind this new Soho spot is Billy Stock who has both St Johns and Salt Yard on his CV. He's teamed up with Sam Bellamy to open what they describe as "“A London Fried Chicken shop! No bells ‘n whistles (or waffles…)".
They'll be using all British
... - Flat Iron plans huge new restaurant for Henrietta Street in Covent Garden
Updated 26/11/15 with soft launch details
We've been big fans of Flat Iron since its early days as a pop-up so news that they're expanding to a massive new Covent Garden restaurant before the end of the year fills us with good cheer.
The new restaurant on Henrietta Street is going to have room for 180 diners - three times as many as their other places on Beak St and Denmark St. And, as they have so much space to play with, they've got some new features
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