New opening

• Tooting is getting a new meatball restaurant Belpassi Bros

  

  Tooting is getting a meatball shop as twin brothers and street food traders Livio and Lorenzo Belpassi move into their first bricks and mortar operation. Belpassi Bros will sell the hand rolled meatballs that the brothers have been dishing out in Spitalfields for the past few years, served up with homemade sauces in a sandwich, on polenta or with pasta.

  The South London restaurant is the result of three years hard slot from the brothers who jacked in their old jobs

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• Rok Smokehouse's second restaurant will be on Islington's Upper Street

  

  Jay Rayner praised the "the sheer pleasure" of their food. Grace Dent eulogised their "highly devourable sharing plates". And on the back of such success Shoreditch smokehouse Rök are now opening their second restaurant. They're taking over a Grade II listed building halfway up Upper Street where they'll open a 60-seat restaurant and bar in July.

  Rök Islington will launch with a seasonal summer menu by executive chef Matt Young featuring aged beef rump with

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• Ruby Violet ice cream parlour is coming to King's Cross

  

  Summer is nearly here, so it seems the right time to be announcing the opening of a new ice-cream parlour. Popular Tufnell park ice-cream purveyors Ruby Violet are going to be opening their second place in King's Cross later this month.

  The new parlour and cafe will be in the Midland Goods Shed, just off Granary Square. As with their first shop, the fittings and furniture have come from around the world. The centre of the cafe will feature a huge slab of wood

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• Yard Sale Pizza choose Finsbury Park for their second opening

  

  Updated 12/5/16 with opening details and launch offer

  The food scene in Finsbury Park is hotting up further with the news that Clapton pizzeria Yard Sale Pizza is opening there soon. The venture, which started out in one of the three founder's back garden, was voted Hackney’s best restaurant in Time Out's 2015 Love London Awards.

  The Finsbury Park branch will be on Blackstock Road, just down the road from Salvation in Noodles. Seating around 30,

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• Harvey Nichols has just opened a Wallpaper Bar and Kitchen in its Knightsbridge store

  

  Could this be the most beautifully-designed restaurant to hit London this year? Harvey Nichols has just announced the opening of The Wallpaper* Bar + Kitchen residency in its Knightsbridge store.

  It's part of Project 109 - a new concept space in their Menswear Department which will have a dedicated entrance on Sloane Street, along with a new entrance on the corner of Knightsbridge and Seville Street.

  The design magazine has been involved in everything

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• Test Driving Hemsley and Hemsley at Selfridges

  

  It's not just bone broth and spiralised courgetti: with two cookbooks and a new TV show on the way - Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley have now opened their first cafe inside the new Body Studio at Selfridges. We popped in to try out their brunch menu - and yes, there is a sausage sandwich.

  What's it all about?

  Selfridges have had a big overhaul - transforming the third floor into a haven of healthy

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• Caravan are opening a roastery, cafe and shop north of King's Cross

  

  So this is going to bring joy and happiness to a lot of caffeine-deprived folk. Popular coffee-based business Caravan, who currently have restaurants in Exmouth Market and King's Cross, are opening their own huge roastery, north of their KX site.

  Caravan Coffee Roasters will feature its own brew bar and cafe serving up all manner of baked goods like their popular 'morning bun' and chocolate espresso brownies, plus daily changing filter and espresso coffee and coffee

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• Cielo Blanco Mexican restaurant to open on Exmouth Market

  

  Updated 5/5/16 with launch offer

  There's a lot of activity going on in Exmouth Market. Hard on the heels of Dirty Burger, Pizza Pilgrims and Macellaio RC all opening, comes Cielo Blanco. The Mexican restaurant first opened in Leeds back in 2013 and this will be their first London site, taking over the space that was Bonnie Gull.

  Inspired by the barbacoa markets of Oaxaca you'll find speciality sharing boards on offer alongside and feast menus. A quick

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• Poppie's Fish and Chips hits Soho's Old Compton Street

  

  Two fish and chip stories in as many days? Who'd have thought the chippy would be a 2016 trend for London? Following hard on the heels of yesterday's story about new Notting Hill opening The Chipping Forecast comes news that Poppie's Fish and Chips is opening in Soho. They'll be taking over where The House of Ho was and which used to be the old 2i’s

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• Tang noodle joint opens by Tottenham Court Road

  

  London's noodle lovers just got another place to try with new noodle bar, Tang, opening over by Tottenham Court Road today. Here's what you need to know about it.

  • It's a place your own order noodle joint - order your dish at the counter and then find a seat to slurp
  • The menu crosses Asia in terms of inspiration - but Chef Chen Ng will particuarly draw on her Singaporean heritage
  • Think ramen but lighter - Tang's soup-based dairy-free noodles are
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• Here East brings new restaurant vibe to the Olympic Park in Stratford

  

  We've already covered the imminent opening of The Breakfast Club and Gotto(from the folk at Mele e Pere) as part of the continued ongoing development of the Olympic Park. Now we've found out more about the other bars and restaurants opening on

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• Tom Sellers throws A-list party to launch Restaurant Ours

  Well it's fair to say that Tom Sellers' new venture, Restaurant Ours, burst on to the London scene with one helluva party last night. Hot Dinners somehow managed to slip past the bouncers and hordes of paparazzi to gain entrance to one of the most fun dos we've been to in a while.

  The restaurant itself looks pretty amazing. Having taken over the site vacated by The Collection, it was always a dramatic space, but now, filled with full-size trees entwined

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• The Barbary in Neal's Yard is the next restaurant from The Palomar team

  

  Hot Dinners Exclusive

  Forgive us if we just get a little bit freaking excited about the news we're bringing you today. Yes, we have the exclusive scoop on what the team at The Palomar are doing next.

  The Barbary will be their new restaurant and it's opening its doors in June in Neal's Yard. It's early days yet and we have just few details to whet your appetite. They'll be taking Londoners on a gastronomic tour from the Barbary Coast of

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• Maki launch their second London store at The Bower in Old Street

  

  If you're a sushi fan you may be interested to learn that a new company is setting itself up to challenge the likes of Itsu and Wasabi. Maki started out as a streetfood stall before launching with a store near Spitalfields and they've just opened up their second store in Shoreditch.

  The company was founded by two Scottish brothers Antony and Daniel Woodcock and say they're the only sushi chain to have trained sushi chefs in every store hand-rolling all sushi. And their

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• The Breakfast Club's next opening is at Hackney Wick

  

  Super popular breakfast chain The Breakfast Club have a new East London opening planned. They'll be hitting up Hackney Wick next month.

  The new cafe will be at HereEast on the banks of the River Lee and will serve up all their usual dishes from the old school pancakes and berries to the newest recipes such as fried chicken with sage waffles, maple syrup and chili butter.

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