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- Ex-D&D CEO Des Gunewardena is launching Engel and Jang at The Royal Exchange
15/4/24 - updated with full details
He stepped away from D&D in 2022 (he was one of the Ds) and now Des Gunewardena has announced his first solo venture - which is a pretty big one.
He's launching not one, but two new "concepts" at the Royal Exchange, called Engel and Jang. They will take over the North South and East mezzanines above the
... - Warehaus is the new drinking den from a Bar with Shapes for a Name
A Bar with Shapes for a Name (🔶🟥🔵) has earned a reputation for being one of the best bars in London, which occasionally makes it a little tough to grab a table/stool inside. But if you've been meaning to try their cocktails, that's about to get a lot easier as they're getting ready to open their second bar, Warehaus.
This one's much closer to Dalston and is taking over the
... - Café Britaly sees former Bocca di Lupo duo teaming up for a Britalian restaurant in Peckham
Updated 11/4/23 with the opening date
Italian food purists keep scrolling, because what we're about to write may trigger you. A new cafe is opening in Peckham that will be embracing the "authentically Britalian" trend.
Café Britaly is the first project between chef Alex Purdie and Richard Crampton-Platt. Alex arrives here having most recently been senior chef at Bouchon Racine and, before that, Bocca
... - Temper Burger sees the steak & BBQ restaurant pivot to smash burgers
Their most recent opening was in Paddington and although Temper are staying in the west for their next, it's going to be quite a different beast. They're taking the lead from their cheeseburger taco and pivoting into actual burgers to open Temper Burger.
The new restaurant will be mainly about double-patty smash burgers with options including:
- Temper
- Kirk Haworth's Plates is opening in Shoreditch
If you're ever wondering what the sign of a hot restaurant is going to be in advance then look no further than the upcoming return of chef Kirk Haworth's Plates restaurant. The Great British Menu 2024 winner announced last night that bookings had opened for Plates' new venue in Shoreditch and the deluge of bookings promptly crashed the website. More than 70k people were trying to get hold of a table with
... - Inis will serve up British and Irish food on Hackney Wick's Fish Island
There's been some debate recently on what makes a neighbourhood restaurant. However, we figure that if you've spent the past decade living somewhere, that's surely got to count for something. And locals Lynsey Coughlan and Lindsay Lewis have lived in Hackney for ten years before deciding to open their first restaurant.
Inis, which will be part of Fish Island's The Trampery campus, is going to serve up a mix of British
... - 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
... - 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
... - 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
... - 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
- 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
... - 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
... - 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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