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23/10/24 - updated with the opening date

Looks like Londoners' appetites for NYC-style bagels are firmly in the ascendant as news reaches us that the super popular bagel bakery It's Bagels is now heading into the West End.

The bakery, which debuted in Primrose Hill in 2023, opened a second branch this summer in Notting Hill which was also a big hit. So the idea that they are also about to take Soho by storm

7/11/24 - updated with menu details and a look inside

Six months after 'vibe dining' destination Geode in Knightsbridge closed its doors, a restaurant team that's related are now trying again in the same space. Michelin-starred chef Rohit Ghai is opening Vatavaran on the same site (his other restaurants Kutir and Manthan are part of the Arrow Mayfair Group and Arrow Hospitality was the company who

Bruton Place continues to grow as a notable, tucked-away food and drink haven in Mayfair. Down the street off Berkeley Square, you'll already find The Guinea, The Cocochine (and its sister deli The Rex) and Bellamy's among others. Now a new restaurant is joining them, called Silva. 

Launched by Daria Grebenyuk, she's brought in some interesting talent to head up

Updated 15/11/24 with opening date

Next time you need a sugar rush to get you through a Primark spree you won't need to leave the shop as they're launching in-store Lena Lu Donut bars. 

Lena Lu started in Australia and currently has a shop in Riyadh, but soon there are going to be quite a few in the UK. They started in the Lakeside and Watford Primarks in October, but it looks

Updated 15/10/24 with new opening date

Its pistachio-green and white-striped decor is instantly synonymous with cosy chic and extraordinary pasta, and now Lina Stores is bringing its eye-pleasing vibe to Shoreditch.

If you’ve somehow missed the proliferation of Lina Stores (there’s even one in Japan), this latest venture follows their seventh London venue opening in South Kensington in

14/2/24 - updated with the opening date

London Bridge (alongside Borough Market/Yards and Bermondsey) has become one of London's most evolving food scenes of late, with some excellent new openings, including Oma/Agora, Kolae and Café Francois. Now a great new Vietnamese restaurant is coming too. 

The Vietnamese Kitchen group (also behind Viet Grill and Cay Tre) are

The London restaurant scene is notoriously fickle and what's hot one day can be past its best the next. When that happens you need to be ready to pivot and that's what Matt Harris & Tommy Kempton, the duo behind chicken shop Other Side Fried (and Ploussard) have done. They're in the middle of turning their Brixton place into a burger restaurant. But not any burger restaurant - this one's going to be serving up

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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