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  • E5 bakehouse is opening at the new V&E East Storehouse in Stratford

    E5 bakehouse is opening at the new V&E East Storehouse in Stratford

    The new Stratford Cross development is resulting in adding some very interesting new food options to the area. We've recently had the opening of Templar from the

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  • London has a new riverside terrace bar at the Southbank Centre

    festival hall riverside terrace bar

    Even if the springtime burst of sunshine we've been having recently doesn't continue, it's going to be well worth knowing that London has a brand new terrace bar overlooking the river. Seventy5th Balcony Bar sees the Southbank Centre joining its neighbour the National Theatre in finally making the most of its riverside real estate. The new bar is up on the fifth floor of the arts centre but its main USP is a massive

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  • Ara in Aldgate is a new all day spot from the team behind nearby Amber

    Ara in Aldgate is a new all day spot from the team behind nearby Amber

    What's better than having one successful restaurant in Aldgate? Having two of course. That's the trajectory London restaurateur Murat Kilic is hoping for when he opens Ara just down the road from his already bustling business Amber.

    But while Amber focuses on Middle Eastern food, Ara will broaden its horizons with a menu influenced by Murat's "love of travel and

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  • Romeo San will be a no bookings luxury Japanese handroll bar in Marylebone

    romeo san handroll bar opening in marylebone

    When we heard that the family who own the London and New York branches of Le Relais de Venise l’Entrecôte were opening a new restaurant in London, you can be sure we sat up and took notice. Romeo San sees the Elghanayan family branching out into Japanese food, with a temaki bar in Marylebone.

    "Our handrolls are made with the finest ingredients," says founder Yasmine Elghanayan. "The dining experience is

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  • La Spot puts brioche sarnies in the spotlight on Charlotte Street

    la spot charlotte street

    Right now, you can hardly make a move in London without bumping into a new sandwich spot. The latest to join the ranks is La Spot which is getting ready to open in Fitzrovia. The Spanish-inspired place is going big on its brioche sandwiches with a whole section of the menu devoted to them.

    On offer you'll find it used in:

    • Pulled oxtail with red wine sauce, cheddar, black pepper, and wild rocket
    • Red
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  • Tom Brown at The Capital sees the Pearly Queen chef opening in Belgravia

    Pearly Queen's Tom Brown is opening a restaurant at The Capital

    19/3/25 - updated with the opening date and menu details

    Last year, Tom Brown closed his Michelin-starred Cornerstone restaurant in Hackney. At the time, it was said that he was concentrating on Pearly Queen in Shoreditch as efforts to move Cornerstone to central London had fallen to the wayside. But Brown found another way to go central, and it's something of a

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  • London is about to get another must-try new noodle shop as Songhelou arrives in Soho

    songhelou noodles london

    Central London is firmly in the grip of a noodle craze - the queues outside Noodle Inn aren't getting any shorter and there's the new Noodle & Beer in Chinatown too. Now, here's news of a third hot new noodle restaurant coming to the area. Songhelou is a Chinese restaurant that has real history, having first opened in Suzhou back in 1737.

    The dish to have features their famous Suzhou-style noodles. Think slim noodles

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  • Sushi, steak and pasta are all on the menu at huge new Fleet Street development Peterborough House

    peterborough house

    It's all change over in Fleet Street where one of the area's best-known buildings, which used to house The Telegraph, is being transformed into a modern mix of offices and restaurants. The Telegraph Building, which is now being called the Peterborough Building, was built in the 1880s but given a very Art Deco makeover in the 1920s. The new name, taken from its address on Peterborough Court, matches the newspaper's longstanding

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  • Chefs Alex Dilling and Oli Marlow take on the food at Fulham FC's new restaurant The Gourmet

    Chefs Alex Dilling and Oli Marlow take on the food at Fulham FC's new restaurant The Gourmet

    The changes coming with the new Riverside stand at Fulham stadium are going to have a big impact on the area when it's finally completed this summer. We've already talked about how Adam Byatt is opening Brasserie Constance there,

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  • Mareida will showcase Chilean cuisine in Fitzrovia

    Chilean restaurant Mareida is opening in Fitzrovia

    It previewed at Carousel last year and now Chilean restaurant Mareida is getting ready to open, not too far away from Carousel in Fitzrovia.

    It's founded by Prenay Agarwal (pictured above) who has lived in Chile for a year and wants to showcase that country's cuisine to London. To that end, he's brought in Head Chef Trinidad Vial Della Maggiora to run things in the kitchen who is, in turn, supported

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  • New Chelsea bakery Reemies is all about the banana bundt

    Reemies brings banana cakes and more to her new Chelsea bakery

    Reemies, by Reem Abu Samra, started life as a cake delivery business and over the years has found itself a huge following, Now, the first Reemies bakery is getting ready to open.

    The cake business started back in 2018 with Reem originally baking cakes in her own flat and gradually expanding to a larger kitchen in Vauxhall and a much bigger business. Over that period she also built up

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  • Bluebird City sees the Chelsea favourite opening in Moorgate

    bluebird city food

    For over two decades, Bluebird Chelsea has been a stalwart of the SW3 restaurant scene, appearing in more scenes of Made in Chelsea than we care to remember. Now it's about to make the move east. The team behind it are opening a second restaurant in the City at South Place Hotel where they're taking over the hotel's former 3SP dining space.

    Fans of the Chelsea original will be pleased to hear that plenty of signature

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  • Passyunk Avenue's cheesesteaks have arrived in Kensington

    Passyunk Avenue's cheesesteaks have arrived in Kensington

    There are certainly a lot of high-end openings around Kensington of late (we very much enjoyed the recent Krokodilos opening). But now there's something that's a little bit more affordable and certainly worth your time as a new Passyunk Avenue has launched, the first that's firmly in West

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  • Traders revealed for Boxhall City, a new spin-off food hall at Liverpool Street from Boxpark

    BoxHall City is a new spin-off food hall at Liverpool Street from Boxpark

    14/3/25 - updated with opening date and traders

    The Metropolitan Arcade at Liverpool Street, an Edwardian shopping arcade once saved from demolition during the 80s, is now being reinvented as a food hall for the 2020s. It's going to be part of a series of spin-off concepts from Boxpark called BoxHall. They've been promising to open it for a while (it was first

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  • Lilli by Akira Back sees the chef already lining up his second hotel restaurant in London

    Lilli by Akira Back sees the chef already lining up his second hotels restaurant in London

    14/3/25 - updated with opening date

    Seemingly not happy with having two restaurants in the nearby Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, chef Akira Back already has another hotel restaurant lined up, barely a 15-minute walk away.  

    This time, it's in the revamped The Montcalm hotel in Mayfair, now renamed Montcalm Mayfair. The restaurant

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