New opening

• SanHao sees Yiqi founders opening a noodle and soup restaurant in Chinatown

  

  Three restaurants in three years - restaurateurs Kevin Cheong and Keng Yew Leong have been busy building their Chinatown empire. In 2022 they opened The Eight - a Hong Kong-style cafe. At the beginning of this year, ...

• Michel Roux is back in London with Chez Roux at The Langham

  

  The closure of Michel Roux's Le Gavroche earlier this year was something of a shock for fans of the restaurant. That had followed the closure of the chef's Roux at the Landau (at the Langham), which has since been taken over by ...

• Greek hotel group Ergon House are opening a hotel and rooftop restaurant in Covent Garden

  

  Lots of big developments are happening around Covent Garden at the moment. Later on this year, we should be getting the new Guinness Storehouse and now, here comes news about a big new hotel coming to the area. 

  That will be

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• Flat Iron has Hammersmith and Victoria lined up for its next steak restaurants

  

  5/4/24 - Updated with the Hammersmith opening date

  Flat Iron is doing very, very well indeed. The mini steak chain, originally launched by The Devonshire's Charlie Carroll, has enjoyed plenty of success over the years and it's not stopping now. 

  Following a record year, Flat Iron announced that next on the London agenda will be two new openings

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• Will it be third time lucky for Julie's in Holland Park?

  

  3/4/24 - updated with new details and the opening date

  Holland Park restaurant Julie's, despite once being one of the hottest restaurants in town, has had a troubled time of late.

  The restaurant, which once featured a parade of A-list stars coming through its doors, first closed in 2015 for a redesign. That planned revamp took much longer than expected, with the restaurant

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• Fallow comes to Canary Wharf with Roe

  

  2/4/24 - Updated with the opening date

  We've known for a while that the team behind Fallow were opening in Canary Wharf and now we know what the restaurant will be called - Roe. 

  Similar to Fallow (and chicken spin-off FOWL), it'll be a nose-to-tail affair with a goal of championing "underappreciated produce". Here's a taster of the menu:

  • Maitake Cornish Pasty with shiitake
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• Poppies fish & chips have opened on Portobello Road

  

  With restaurants in Spitalfields, Soho and Camden, fish and chips purveyors Poppies have headed west for the first time, opening on Portobello Road, Their new restaurant takes over what used to be a bank (and before that, a butchers) on the corner of Colville Terrace and Portobello.

  Inside you'll find all the usual retro fittings you'll see in any Poppies but this one also incorporates the bank's old vault

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• The Caviar Bar to open in Mayfair’s new Medici Courtyard

  

  Updated with the opening date and soft launch

  If you’re looking to go somewhere particularly fancy, or if you have a penchant for fine caviar, do step this way. It’s our duty to inform you that Mayfair (where else?) is getting a rather luxurious seafood restaurant in the new Medici Courtyard development – built as part of London’s Crossrail project – near Hanover Square.

  Called The

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• All’onda in Fitzrovia is all about risotto

  

  A new restaurant called All’onda is coming to Fitzrovia and it's all centred around risotto. 

  Founded by Cordula Schulz, whose apparent passion for risotto drives the restaurant, she's brought in Andrea Granzarolo as head chef. He brings with him a wealth of experience, having been at Helene Darroze for six years, as well as The Square and The Greenhouse. 

  The menu, of course,

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• Out and In restaurant will have London's first faux-fresco space

  

  Update: You guessed it, this was our 2024 April Fool. To see all the April Fool stories we've ever run, click here.

  Now that spring is officially here and the clocks have gone forward, the next thing that happens here at Hot Dinners HQ is the arrival of a deluge of press releases announcing the opening of terraces and

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• Justerini & Brooks have opened a boutique and tasting rooms in the Burlington Arcade

  

  To celebrate its 275th birthday, and there aren't many London businesses who can say that, high-end wine and whisky merchant Justerini & Brooks has opened a swanky shop and tasting rooms in the Burlington Arcade.

  From bottles to enjoy now, to those for laying down for later, the new boutique has plenty of options to choose from. But head further up to the first-floor lounge and there's also a space

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• The big new London restaurants opening in April 2024

  

  April brings lots of new restaurants to London, including a couple of double openings with Greek food in Borough and tacos in Battersea, as well as a three-in-one restaurant from Jean-Georges in Mayfair. 

• UBA sees ex-Aqua Kyoto chef opening a Pan Asian restaurant at Hart Shoreditch

  

  It's all change at the Hart Shoreditch hotel where Latin American residency Mostrador is giving way to UBA a Pan-Asian restaurant. Heading up the kitchens is chef Paul Greening who was previously Executive Chef at Aqua Kyoto on Regent Street.

  We're told the menu is being inspired by Paul's travels across Tokyo, Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Dishes will include:

  • Spicy salmon tartare served on an ice plate
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• Charlotte Street is getting an Alsatian wine bar and restaurant called July

  

  Updated with the opening date

  Opening in the spring but confusingly named after a summer month, July is going to be an Alsatian-inspired restaurant and wine bar hitting up Charlotte Street. And while this is the first hospitality venture for the pair behind it, they've brought in a team that shows they know what they're doing.

  French-Swiss food writer Solynka Dumas and Julian Oschmann are the

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• The Brush East London Grand Café is coming to Hoxton’s new art’otel

  

  Updated 13/3/25 with new restaurant name

  If we told you there’s a new all-day dining concept coming to the art’otel, you might be thinking of Battersea Power Station, but we have some double-barrelled news today: Hoxton is also getting an art’otel; its ground floor will house The Brush East London Grand Café, with upstairs home to the Brush Lounge & Cocktail Bar.

  If you’re a fan of whimsical

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