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• New Brixton wine bar Vining Street Wine Club promises 'wine without the bullshit'

  

  South West London wine lovers who are looking for a nice bar and bottle shop in their neighbourhood should make a note of the arrival of the Vining Street Wine Club in Brixton. It's the latest opening from the same team as the Crystal Palace Wine Club, who say they're "committed to breaking down the pretentiousness of the wine industry". Their slogan actually is "Wine without the bullshit".

  To that end, they'll be

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• The Mayfair Chippy is bringing fish and chips to Knightsbridge

  

  10/10/24 -  updated with the opening date

  There really aren't many proper fish and chip shops in the centre of town but of them, The Mayfair Chippy has a pretty decent reputation.

  Just steps away from Oxford Street, their Mayfair restaurant has always been a draw for tourists but it helps that it manages to be good too. It might not be quite up to the standard of the average seaside

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• Why The Yellow Bittern is a restaurant you need to know about

  

  In a London restaurant scene of robot chefs and the like, there's something fabulously analogue about the arrival of The Yellow Bittern restaurant on Caledonian Road. This tiny space will be an office for the art, fashion and food-focused Luncheon magazine, a bookshop and also a restaurant that's

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• Boxcar Bread & Wine is a new bakery by day, wine bar at night for Connaught Village

  

  If there are two things Londoners are obsessed with right now, it's bakeries and wine bars. So the arrival of Boxcar Bread & Wine is going to be a boon for the well-heeled denizens of Connaught Village as it's a neat combo of both. It comes from the same team behind Boxcar Bar and Grill and Boxcar Baker & Deli in Marylebone. 

  This new neighbourhood spot, taking over

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• Gordon Ramsay is opening London's highest restaurants at 22 Bishopsgate

  

  Updated 10/10/24 with more details

  It's big news when Gordon Ramsay reveals he's opening five (FIVE!) new restaurants at 22 Bishopsgate next year. The skyscraper in the City of London is the UK's tallest office building and Ramsay will have a number of restaurants and bars right at the top.

  The biggest reveal is that the 60th floor of the

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• Louis Vuitton have opened Le Café by Cyril Lignac in their store at Heathrow

  

  Last week we brought you the story of a new wine bar at Heathrow. This week we're talking about another new opening in the airport's Terminal 2, but this one is a lot more bouji. You may have tried French chef Cyril Lignac's food at his Mayfair restaurant Bar des Prés. Well, now

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• New Spitalfields bar 68 & Shanghai pairs wine and katsu sandos

  

  Regular Hot Dinners readers will know that we're very much in favour of all the new wine bars opening in London of late and this latest Spitalfields addition sounds very promising. 

  68 & Shanghai comes from the team behind 68 & Boston in Soho, who also run the nearby Yuu Kitchen (as well as Opium, The Last Talisman and Lucy Wong). It's replaced what was the

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• Canteen is the latest Notting Hill restaurant from the Pelican team

  

  Very under the radar, the team who brought us The Pelican and The Hero have just opened a brand new restaurant in Notting Hill. Canteen is an Italian restaurant that's taken over the same space where they held a pop-up last summer on Portobello Road.

  A quick look at the launch menu shows that

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• Pastino brings fast, fresh pasta to Fitzrovia

  

  London loves a fresh pasta restaurant and this new opening on Tottenham Court Road looks worth keeping an eye on. Pastino comes from Franco Manca alumnus Ahmos Wasif and it's been inspired by his trips to Italy and a desire to bring traditional Neapolitan, Sicilian and Roman pasta to London, with an emphasis on value.

  It also leans towards more of a fast-food meets fresh pasta operation than we've

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• Hausu listening bar settles down in Peckham

  

  Listening bars are very much a thing at the moment. Recently we've had Goodbye Horses in Islington and the upcoming nearby Godet will also have a big

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• Jazu Bar in Deptford is launching its kitchen serving up an evening and weekend brunch menu

  

  The last year or so has been a whirlwind ride for the team at Jazu. Having first popped up in Camberwell and Market Peckham with their day-to-night listening bar, this summer saw them opening a permanent spot on Deptford's High Street. Now that they've had several months to bed into their new home, they're about to launch their kitchen.

  Running the food here will be Jazu co-founder Jimmy whose CV includes time at the

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• The big new London restaurants opening in October 2024

  

  October sees the arrival of the second restaurant from Kol's Santiago Lastra, another new Jason Atherton opening and some big changes to the Pantechnicon building in Belgravia, alongside many more new openings. 

• Bottarga takes over from Chicama, shifting to the Mediterranean

  

  Recently Chicama, from the people behind Pachamama, closed in Chelsea. However, they've hung on to the space and are opening a new restaurant there pretty sharpish, called Bottarga. 

  This new opening will actually be closer to the group's restaurant in Notting Hill, Zephyr, albeit a more casual version, and will see them switch to a Mediterranean influence. The menu here also

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• Quill wine bar to open in Borough Yards from the Plume and Finch team

  

  Borough Market and the London Bridge area has had a lot of interesting openings this year, from Oma to ...

• Kol's Santiago Lastra to open Mexican restaurant Fonda in Mayfair

  

  25/9/24 - updated with opening date. 

  With the Michelin-starred Kol getting praise from all quarters (not to mention a place on the World's 50 Best list), it was only a matter of time before chef Santiago Lastra got ready to open another place. For that second restaurant, he's chosen Heddon Street, where he'll be launching Fonda. 

  Not actually named after

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