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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

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

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

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. 

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

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

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

16/12/24 - Updated with bakery launch details

One of the founders of Coco di Mama, Daniel Land, is opening a combo bakery/restaurant Don't Tell Dad in Queen's Park. Coming to Lonsdale Road, the strip of Queens Park where you'll find its best restaurants and bars, it'll be a bakery in the day and shift to a restaurant in the evening. 

Taking the bakery

A new Eastern Med restaurant is coming to London, this one having originally started in Tel Aviv. The London version of Claro is landing in St James, opening in the building that once held Villandry.

It comes from chef Ran Shmueli, the owner and founder of the group, and the restaurant is billed as serving up "contemporary Mediterranean food with Middle Eastern influences." The London menu hasn't been

19/9/24 - Updated with lots more detail about what to expect

Restaurant duo George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya Demichev appear to be vying for the title of busiest restaurateurs in London. Having only very recently opened the hugely successful Lita and with places like Goodman, Wild and Belvedere under their belts, just to name a few, they're now getting ready to open

Updated 19/9/24 with full opening details

After years of popping up at various places across London, the first AngloThai restaurant from John and Desiree Chantarasak is very nearly here. They settled on a space in Marylebone (where The Gate used to

You'll probably be aware of them as a pasta delivery service. But fresh pasta company Pasta Evangelists are also getting into the London restaurant game. First, they teamed up with Michelin-starred chef Giancarlo Perbellini for a spot in the Harrods Dining Hall. Next, they opened a standalone restaurant in Richmond. Clearly that must have worked for them because they've just opened a second South London spot, this time in

Now this is a clever idea. If your restaurant is more of a dinner place but you want to make the space pay for itself during the day, then why not team up with a cafe/bakery? That's what Empire Empire's owner Harneet Baweja is about to do. But the restaurateur hasn't chosen just any old bakery to team up with, he's joining forces with Edward Delling Williams, founder of super hip Parisian bistro Le Grand Bain and bakery Le

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It may not seem like the most likely place to open up a honky tonk bar, but Chiswick folk will need to slap on a stetson and find their cowboy boots when Lil' Nashville arrives on the scene. The Nashville-inspired offering has been recently popping up at Dingwalls in Camden where hordes of adoring fans have been partaking in line dancing, listening to country music and enjoying

11/9/24 - updated with more information and the opening date

We've already seen Marceline open on the top floor of the huge floating building next to Hawksmoor in Canary Wharf, now comes the loser floor as the new Hovarda gets ready to open. This is the Canary Wharf outpost of Aegean restaurant Hovarda, which has been serving up Med-style dishes in Soho for the past seven