New opening

• On the Bab is opening a takeaway spot in St Paul's

  

  Popular Korean restaurant group On The Bab is about to open another place. Their fourth restaurant will be right by St Paul's, but this place will be essentially a takeaway site with a few tables for eat-in.

  If you've been to one of their other branches you'll know what to expect here - plenty of KFC (Korean fried chicken) with a choice of two flavours – sweet soy and sweet spicy, both topped with crushed peanuts. There'll also be steamed

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• Jaz & Jul’s Chocolate House brings artisan hot chocolate to Chapel Market

  

  The chocolate houses of London's past may have been dens of debauchery and political intrigue, but a new one planned for Islington's Chapel Market will be an altogether more respectable place. Jaz & Jul’s Chocolate House is the first bricks and mortar spot for popular Broadway Market stallholders Jasmine Kershaw and Juliet Sampson.

  The new cafe and shop will serve what the pair declare to be indulgent proper hot chocolate - made on site using

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• Ruth Rogers confirms new restaurant at Gagosian Gallery site in Mayfair

  

  So this really is big news. The Standard has landed one hell of a scoop, namely that Ruth Rogers, of River Cafe fame, is opening a new restaurant in Mayfair.

  In their piece today she tells the paper that the new restaurant (the first since The River Cafe opened in 1987) will be run by

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• Noble Rot team up with Sportsman pair to open London wine bar and restaurant

  

  02/11/2015 - updated with soft launch info

  Vats wine bar has been a pleasingly low-key place to quaff wine down on Lamb's Conduit Street since the 70s. In fact, Hot Dinners has rather pleasant, but vague, memories of evenings spent there so if anyone was going to take it

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• Machine No 3 neighbourhood bar to open in Hackney

  

  Opening its doors on Hackney's Well Street this week is Machine No. 3 - a brand new neighbourhood bar from the folk behind The Three Compasses in Dalston.

  The 70-seater bar will be cocktail-focused with drinks ranging from the Smoky Tommy - Gusano Rojo Mezcal, Agave, Lime (£7) to Black Feather - Baron de Sigognac VS, Lillet Blanc, Sec, Peach Bitters (£8). There'll also be wide range of craft beer (expect to see pale ale served up by brand new Dalston brewery

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• The Potato Project brings baked potatoes with a twist to Soho

  

  Currently in Soho you can find a restaurant devoted to polenta and one serving only cheese toasties - now there's a new single ingredient carb spot to add to the mix - The Potato Project.

  This new restaurant, opened by Ksenia Karpenko who used to be Head Sommelier at Four to Eight in Covent Garden, says it's bringing a twist to the classic baked potato. So expect to see toppings like smoked ham hock, cheddar & piccalilli, prawn & bourbon Marie Rose sauce and

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• Zebrano's latest bar, restaurant and night club opens in The City

  

  Just opened this week, there's a new Zebrano in town - this time they've come to the City, hence their name... Zebrano in the City.

  It's certainly a pretty striking room looking at the image above (some of the design is being described as an "explosion of energy") and this latest venue is pretty big too. It's 6000 square feet (i.e. a LOT) and it'll be a combined restaurant bar and club.

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• Selin Kiazim's first restaurant Oklava comes to Shoreditch

  

  Updated 26/10 with soft launch details. 

  Since leaving Kopapa, Selin Kiazim has become a bigger and bigger name with a series of very successful supperclubs while searching for a place of her own. Now she's found it and is getting ready to settle down in Shoreditch with Oklava.

  Her new

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• Le Bab brings gourmet seasonal kebabs to Kingly Court in Soho

  

  There's another addition on the way to the host of new restaurants that have been arriving in Kingly Court. This time, it's the turn of the kebab as Le Bab is aiming for a "kebab renaissance" .

  There will be a seasonal kebab menu at the heart of things. Kicking things off, the winter menu will feature:

  • Roe Deer Shish, with damson and isot pepper jam, cavolo nero kimchi, artichoke
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• Beer and kebabs from Camden's Daughter in Kentish Town

  

  Already a popular venue in its own right, Camden Town Brewery is expanding. They're getting ready to open a new sister venue called Camden's Daughter.

  It's all about the kebabs. They say they'll be "be stacking and spinning our own chicken and lamb kebabs" and as they're all made from sustainably sourced meat they'll be considerably better than many a kebab shop you might stumble into. They'll

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• 45 Jermyn Street by Fortnum & Mason takes over from The Fountain

  

  Updated 15/10/15 with new image and opening date

  There's a new restaurant from Fortnum & Mason on the way, and it's taking the place of the Fountain brasserie that's been open for 60 years - so it's a big move for the store. It will be rechristened as 45 Jermyn Street and they're apparently going for a restaurant that recaptures "a golden age of glamour".

  In practice, that means an

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• German Gymnasium gets ready to open in King's Cross from D&D

  

  Updated 14/10/15 with opening date

  No, it's not some kind of new fitness craze, this is the latest restaurant from D&D that's opening in King's Cross. It's absolutely huge, as anyone who crosses between St Pancras and King's Cross will tell you (it's the building that was completely covered up until recently) and promises to be D&D's biggest restaurant yet.

  Yes, it used to be a

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• Jun Tanaka's new restaurant is The Ninth in Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia

  

  Jun Tanaka is coming back with his own restaurant. Previously best known for his Pearl in Holborn and with the Street Kitchen business with Mark Jankel (which is doing very nicely) this is his long-anticipated solo restaurant and sees him taking over the space that once held

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• Pho & Bun are introducing a bao burger hybrid to London

  

  Londoners prepare yourself - hitting Shaftesbury Avenue this month is what promises to be the perfect fusion between two of the city's current food obsessions - burger and bao. Pho & Bun is the brainchild of Holborn restaurant Viet Eat's owner Andy Le. The new Vietnamese spot will focus on Pho and their steamed milky bun burger.

  And while the rest of the dishes all sound lovely - rare sirloin beef pho, summer roll with tiger

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• MEATliquor reveal plans to open in Islington off Upper Street

  

  Updated 13/10/15 with pics.

  Well it seems that there well and truly is a god. It's not a secret that Hot Dinners is based in Islington, so when news popped into our inbox that MEATliquor was planning on opening their fourth restaurant here, well to say we were pleased isn't the half of it.

  They're going to open where in the site where Pipsdish once was - an

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