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  • Trogolo is the Petersham Nurseries family's new Florentine trattoria in Notting Hill

    trogolo florentine restaurant opening in notting hill

    Updated 21/10/25 with opening date

    Following the closure of their two Covent Garden restaurants, we've been wondering what the Petersham Nurseries team were going to do next. Now we have our answer, of sorts. The baton has moved to the family's next generation of restaurateurs who are about to open a Florence-inspired trattoria and bar called Trogolo on Westbourne

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  • Popular Thai restaurant Khao-Sō-i's permanent London restaurant is in Fitzrovia

    Popular Thai restaurant Khao-Sō-i's permanent London restaurant is in Fitzrovia

    21/10.25 - updated with the opening date

    It's been big in Thailand and now Khao-Sō-i is coming to Fitzrovia, bringing its Northern Thai soul food menu. 

    The restaurant started in Chiang Mai (before expanding to Bangkok) and its titular dish, the coconut curry soup Khao Soi is what brought the restaurant acclaim. It's opening in a space

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  • The team behind Notting Hill's Gold set their sights on Richmond with Tower house

    The team behind Notting Hill's Gold set their sights on Richmond with Tower house

    20/10/25 - updated with a name and more details

    In recent months, there had been a flurry of activity on the riverbank at Richmond where the old Pitcher & Piano used to be. It's a huge site, with gardens leading down to the river. So naturally locals were wondering what's opening there next.

    We reported back in August, that the folks behind

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  • New food concept store, Nekter Deli, is wooing foodies and wine lovers in Shoreditch

    nekter deli opens in Shoreditch

    After a few fallow years, Shoreditch's food scene has come roaring back. We've had the likes of One Club Row, Singburi and Angelina open there. Now, hoping to make a similar impact, is a high end deli that's more concept store than city centre supermarket. Nekter Deli.

    The store's the passion project of US wine importer Jon Davey who supplies everyone from The Clove Club to Ynyshir. As you might imagine, wine is a core

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  • Above, sees the team behind Faber and The Victoria launching a greatest hits restaurant in Mile End

    Above, sees the team behind Faber and The Victoria launching a greatest hits restaurant in Mile End

    The team behind Faber (Hammersmith) and Somers Town Coffee House (King's Cross) have just opened a new restaurant above their Mile End "seafood gastropub" The Victoria. Completely separate from the pub downstairs, it's appropriately called Above.

    Described as both a restaurant that brings together some of their favourite dishes of the past 20 years of

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  • Trèsind, a modern indian restaurant with a three-Michelin-starred offshoot, is coming to London

    Trèsind, a modern indian restaurant with a three-Michelin-starred offshoot, is coming to London

    A modern Indian restaurant that started life in Dubai (before opening in Mumbai too) is coming to London. 

    Trèsind describes itself as a "modernist Indian dining experience" so it's a high-end affair. The Dubai menu features dishes like scarlet prawns crudo, with Kashmiri chilli xo, prawn papad, and beluga caviar alongside a menu of premium

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  • Carbone sister restaurant The Grill is coming to London as Major's Grill

    Is Carbone sister restaurant The Grill coming to London?

    As you may know, what was once London's In and Out Club on Piccadilly, Cambridge House, is getting a huge makeover at the moment and is due to launch as a new hotel sometime in 2026. If you're not quite familiar with that space, it's on Piccadilly with its gated driveway leading to the front door making it one of the most impressive-looking properties on the street. 

    The original

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  • If you loved Lurra and Donostia, Maset on Chiltern Street hopes to do the same for coastal French food

    Maset in Marylebone has a coastal French influence, from the restauranteur behind Lurra and Donostia

    It's all happening on Chiltern Street at the moment. The Hart has just opened its doors. Work is underway at reopening Chiltern Firehouse after the fire. And now Melody Adams, the restaurateur behind Spanish restaurants Lurra and Donostia, is getting ready to open her third restaurant in Marylebone.

    Her previous ventures have taken their lead from the

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  • Sushinoya's premium grab & go sushi spot opens in Chinatown

    Sushinoya's premium grab & go sushi spot opens in Chinatown

    Sushinoya are going big in London. The first outpost of this new high end grab-and-go sushi spot opened in King's Cross and while we still have to wait for them to open in Moorgate, their flagship store is opening imminently in Chinatown. 

    As with their first opening, all the sushi is made on-site daily, sourced from whole fish. This branch of Sushinoya will have a

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  • Jiāonest heats up the Haggerston restaurant scene with its modern Chongqing cooking

    jiaonest serves up Chongqing dishes in Haggerston

    If there was ever a new restaurant guaranteed to look and feel good, it should be just-opened Haggerston spot Jiāonest. Chef and owner Hua Yang came to London from China to study spatial design. But compelled to explore her culinary identity through a series of supperclubs, she's ended up opening a restaurant in East London instead.

    As Hua explained to Hot Dinners she's serving up "Modern Chinese

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  • Whole Beast find a permanent Brixton home for their nose-to-tail live-fire cooking

    Whole Beast find a permanent Brixton home for their nose-to-tail live-fire cooking

    They've been popping up across town and now nose-to-tail, live-fire cooking experts Whole Beast are about to open their own permanent place in Brixton. 

    Taking over the space that was Shrub and Shutter, founders Sam and Alicja Bryant are promising a restaurant that really makes the most of their nose-to-tail approach or, as they say, "doing cool sh*t

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  • TANGRA comes to Soho and it's all about late-night Indo-Chinese cuisine

    TANGRA comes to Soho and it's all about Indo-Chinese cuisine

    14/10/25 - updated with the opening date

    Bringing something new to Soho is TANGRA, a new late night Indo-Chinese restaurant on Frith Street. It takes its name from the Tangra neighbourhood of Kolkata, with the menu influenced by the Hakka Chinese community there. 

    Perhaps its most useful feature is that they're looking to cater for the late-night crowd,

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  • Firestarter sees the Electric Star Pubs team launching a live-fire restaurant in the City

    Firestarter sees the Electric Star Pubs team launching a live-fire restaurant in the City

    A short walk from Liverpool Street station, a brand new live-fire restaurant is coming to the City and it's from someone best known for his pubs. 

    Rob Star, the man behind the Electric Star Pubs (The Star of Kings, Star of Bethnal Green and many more), is opening Firestarter right next door to his City pub, The Star by Liverpool Street. He's teamed up

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  • Dara Klein picks Columbia Road as the home of Tiella Trattoria & Bar

    dara klein opening tiella trattoria on columbia road

    For a small pub residency, Tiella at The Compton Arms got a lot of column inches. There was something about chef Dara Klein's cooking that reflected the places she'd worked in London (Brawn, Trullo, and Sager & Wilde) and her background that included a childhood spent both in Emilia Romagna and New Zealand. Her cooking was different, exciting yet deeply hospitable.

    Now, like The

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  • Sartoria Launceston Place marks the start of the restaurant group's expansion

    sartoria opening launceston place kensington

    Late last year the much-loved Launceston Place restaurant closed its doors with the restaurant group (then named D&D London) pledging to find the right chef to bring on board.

    Well it turns out that the group - now named The Evolv Collection - has had something of a change of heart. Instead, they're bringing their Savile Row Italian restaurant Sartoria to Kensington.

    And it seems that the

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