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12/12/24 - updated with new images

December might not seem like the most obvious time to launch an ice cream shop, but that's exactly what the team behind Goodbye Horses are doing. We knew at the time they originally opened the restaurant back in July that

It's been a while since we've had a new Santa Maria pizzeria (the last was in Islington) but they're gearing up for their next - this time in Kew. The restaurant is taking over what recently used to be Hawthorn, but is probably best known for being the site of Glasshouse, which was in this space for over 20 years. 

Few details have been released, but you can imagine it's going to be a pretty

They've dabbled in the whole smash burger scene before with a special burger on their main menu, but now Honest Burgers are making a bigger move in that direction. From today, their Liverpool Street restaurant has become the first Honest Smash + Grab. 

That means, for the first time in a while, an Honest Burgers location will have a completely new menu. While full details

10/12/24 - updated with menu details

Earlier this year, there was the surprising news that Birmingham-based chef Brad Carter had decided to pull out of the launch of the much-hyped Undercroft restaurant that was to be housed in the St George's Church crypt in Mayfair. After

Kricket are on the expansion trail again, following up their recent Canary Wharf opening by coming to Shoreditch. 

Taking over the space that was most recently Apothecary East, their latest opening will have the same Indian-inspired food as the

If you've been following Hot Dinners for a while you'll know that there's nothing we enjoy more than a well made martini, so the arrival of a seafood bistro in Shoreditch that puts the martini at the centre of its drinks offering certainly piqued our interest.

The place in question is Noisy Oyster which is going to be opening in the Norton Folgate development beside Shoreditch train station (where

If you're the kind of person who opts for lemon & herb when they go to Nando's then keep scrolling because you're not going to want anything to do with Dave's Hot Chicken. The cult US chicken chain, which originated in Nashville, arrives in London this week and - as that name suggests - they turn up the heat when it comes to their burgers and tenders.

The chain was set up by three friends in an East Hollywood car

Last summer there were bug plans for a new food, drinks and events space in Dalston. Called Dalston Yard, it was the brainchild of Dominic Cools-Lartigue, the man who opened The Tramshed Project and before that Street Feast. 

However, things all went very quiet as opening plans were put on hold. But now it's somewhat unexpectedly back, albeit in a temporary new

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If there's one thing that 2024 has taught us, it's that the London pub scene is very much still alive and kicking. We started the year strong with crowds thronging the newly opened Devonshire and since then we've had a slew of places serving up interesting offerings in the city's old boozers from new Irish pubs to more wine-led offerings. Now as one year ends and another looms, we have

Anyone who's been to, works at or lives near Vauxhall or Nine Elms will have been aware of the progress of the looming pair of towers, aka One Nine Elms, that are now complete. The Park Hyatt London River Thames has taken over 18 floors of one of the towers (the River Tower) while the rest are mainly very expensive apartments. 

Of course, a new hotel

Do you know what's more stressful than opening a new restaurant in London just before Christmas? Opening two restaurants. But that's the delightful pickle that restaurateurs George Bukhov-Weinstein, Ilya Demichev and their business partner Elmira Amdiya find themselves in. One day after they throw open the doors to ...

29/11/24 - Updated with opening details

A Dutch burger group is hoping that the London love affair with smash burgers is very much still in the ascendancy. Fat Phill's started life in Amsterdam five years ago and they already have loads of branches in the Netherlands. Here in London, they've picked Clapham Junction as their first UK restaurant.

Looking at what they're serving up in Amsterdam Londoners

December is when things finally start to slow down on the new opening front, but there are still some places to look forward to. From the latest opening by James Cochran to a great-looking rotisserie in Mayfair, here's what's opening in the run-up to Christmas. 

If there were an annual prize for the most industrious restaurateurs in London, then 2024's trophy would probably be a dead heat between Jason Atherton and the dynamic duo of George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya Demichev. The latter, having only recently unveiled their latest restaurant Fantomas on the King's Road, are about to open two new London restaurants in just one week.

The first one you need to know

Proof indeed that there is no such thing as bad publicity, the deluge of negative reactions to the arrival of the Yellow Bittern appears to have had only a positive effect on the restaurant's bookings.

You can hardly have escaped the media attention given to the tiny Caledonian Road restaurant (which we were ...