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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

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

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

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

Those living in the leafy outskirts of south west London will be treated to the arrival of Antipodea, a new all-day restaurant from the people behind Brew Cafe.

Operating rather charmingly out of Kew village’s former post office, Antipodea will be offering an intriguing menu loaded with global flavours. Aside from the Aussie influence, the international menu comes largely thanks to the arrival James Brown and Moran Etedegi who

James Cochran, previously of Ledbury and Restaurant Fix fame - and more recently from a stint at B.Y.O.C Soho - plans to warm things up this autumn with a brand new restaurant near Liverpool Street Station.

He’ll be bringing the skills he developed during his time at the double-Michelin starred West London institution to the City, cooking up an array of seasonal produce: there’ll be fish from Cornwall, meat

31/10/16 - updated with opening info. 

We've been noting with interest that the Clove Club have been tweeting about recruiting staff for a new restaurant and now we have all the details - and it's called Luca in Clerkenwell. 

Isaac McHale, Daniel Willis and Johnny Smith are all working on the new place, with Johnny moving to Luca full-time. There will be an Italian twist as the menu will be primarily Italian, but using

Sumosan Twiga will open in Sloane Street in November, after the Japanese half of the venture makes the short jump from its previous home in Mayfair. The new restaurant will serve award-winning sushi, sashimi and other high-end Japanese hot dishes alongside classic Italian. There’ll also be an express lunch bento box available for £29. 

Japanese and Italian are a match made in heaven according to the owners, as both cuisines

We've had plenty of one-dish restaurants in town of late, but there's always room for more and we do like the sound of one coming our way - that's all about biryani.  

Called Dum Bryani House, it's opening in Soho by Dhruv Mittal who's got a good background behind him, having worked at The Fat Duck, Hibiscus and Sat Bains. The food itself is mainly focused on Telugu Cuisine from the regions of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

27/10/16 - updated with soft launch details. 

A new tapas joint is heading to Soho - the second Lobos Meat and Tapas from the same team who opened the original in Borough. Of that original, Marina O' Loughlin said: "I want to fall out of here post-midnight and not remember leaving, reeling from sherry and fine pork" - so we're expecting big things here. 

Little is known about the new menu but expect a mix of new and

The Dorsett Hotel’s newest branch will be the home to two East End arrivals in early 2017.

First up, there’ll be Shikumen, an Asian restaurant providing dim sum and Chinese tea, which first cut its teeth back in 2014 in Dorsett’s Shepherd's Bush. It’s been well reviewed by the Evening Standard, who’ve praised the dim sum as “texturally a delight that keeps on giving.”

If you’re more of an

Vegetarians can sometimes get the raw end of the carrot stick when it comes to brunch, which can be pretty focused on stuff like sausages and bacon. Cause to celebrate then, that London veggie institution The Gate is bringing its award-winning blend of Indo-Iraqi Jewish cuisine to Marylebone. And yes - they’ll be open for breakfast.

It’s a nicely imaginative selection - scrambled tofu with smoky shiitake mushrooms, bagels with avocado and organic poached eggs,

Next month, Grind will return to its spiritual home in East London bringing with it a fresh menu, pink velvet booths and those espresso martinis.  

Following the cafe chain’s unstoppable run of successful openings in central and East London, Grind will be making the move into late night dancing and drinks with an updated menu when it opens its sixth branch in Clerkenwell in

24/10/16 - updated with opening date

If you've been to Street Feast and tried SMOKESTAK's amazing food - you'll know just how big a deal it is that they've announced their first restaurant opening in Shoreditch.

The whole thing is the brainchild of David Carter, who used to run front of house at Gordon Ramsay at Claridges and Roka. In fact Hot Dinners can lay claim to being pretty much the

Here's good news for anyone in North London who loves decent Chinese Food. Shikumen (who have two branches already in Shepherd’s Bush Green and Ealing) are now opening their third restaurant at the O2 centre on Finchley Road. Expect to find their legendary dumplings on the menu - Fay Maschler called their Xiao Long Bao 'superb'  - along with a range of new dishes devised for this opening.

On the robata they'll be grilling dishes like Beef with Crunchy Chilli,