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21/1/16 - updated with menu details and opening date

An airport is never the best place to find some decent food, but things are getting better. Recently we had Heston opening at Heathrow and now Bruno Loubet is coming to Gatwick with a new Grain Store.

As with the original, the menu leads

Seems like there's life in the market for more chicken ventures in London. We hear that a new company, Absurd Bird, is opening two new restaurants in London this year.

The company is kicking off its chicken-focused takeover by launching in Spitalfields and Soho in March. It's essentially chicken combined with American deep south cooking. And they've teamed up with Fosse Meadows Farm and bought every single one of their

Updated 20/1/16 with full info

There's no sign of London's most prolific restaurateur slowing down as Jason Atherton gets ready for his next opening. That's Sosharu on Clerkenwell Road, taking over the large corner space on the ground floor of the Turnmill Building (about a minute walk from Farringdon station).

This time the focus will be on Japanese food with British ingredients. In charge here will

Burger purveyors Honest Burgers are continuing their gradual takeover of London with their latest opening - this time in Covent Garden.

They'll have the usual array of burgers and rosemary fries, and there'll be some special launch days action too. From 25-27 January 2016, the first 100 burgers each day will be free from 11.30. 

And that's not all, as they've a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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