New opening

• Veg & Tings Caribbean vegetarian restaurant in Brixton is next up from Brian Danclair

  

  He already has Fish, Wings & Tings and Danclair's Kitchen, and now Brian Danclair is getting ready to open his third restaurant in Brixton - Veg & Tings. 

  As you might expect from the name, this is a similar affair to Fish, Wings & Tings but with the focus on Caribbean vegetarian food. On the menu you can expect doubles - street food from

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• The Ducksoup team are opening Camille in Borough

  

  2/2/24 - Updated with opening details

  The SE1 dining scene is totally on fire right now. Hard on the heels of Kolae and Akara opening comes another upcoming restaurant that'll cement Borough's reputation for hot new openings. Camille is the place in question and the team behind it are Clare Lattin and Tom Hill, founders of Ducksoup and Little Duck and, most recently, Emilia down in

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• Auld Hag are opening The Shoap - a Scottish shop and deli at Angel

  

  Updated 1/2/24 with the launch date

  Gregg Boyd has been on a one-man mission to spread the joy of Scottish food to Londoners. He started as a stallholder Auld Hag in Dalston selling bowls of haggis, neeps and tatties. Now he's about to open a permanent 'shoap' - that's Scottish slang for shop - in Islington.

  "When I moved to London I couldn't believe Scottish food wasn't readily available," he explains.

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• Mayfair's Chancery Rosewood is lining up Le Caprice and Carbone as its restaurants

  

  The new Chancery Rosewood hotel in Mayfair is a pretty huge endeavour, taking over the space of the old US Embassy (and retaining the Brutalist look). We've been wondering what they're going to do for restaurants, given that they have to compete with a fair few high-end hotels opening of late, and it seems they're going big. 

  Mere days after it was revealed ...

• Lita brings live fire cooking to Marylebone

  

  Ever since a reader brought our attention to an Instagram account for a new restaurant opening in Marylebone called Lita, we've been digging behind the scenes to find out more. First up, we learned that the chef involved, Luke Ahearne, has a strong London background having previously most recently worked at Gordon Ramsay restaurants and before that was Head Chef at Corrigan's Mayfair.

  Next, we have the group of people

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• The big new London restaurants opening in February 2024

  

  February sees the Borough Market scene get better than ever, the return of a Singapore restaurant and a classic British restaurant relocates to St James. 

• Giancarlo Caldesi to open new Caldesi in Belsize Village

  

  Just before Christmas, Neighbourhood restaurant Calici closed its doors in Belsize village, but it'll be back soon under a new name. It turns out, as first reported by the Ham and High, that celeb chef  Giancarlo Caldesi will be taking on the space, making it the second Caldesi restaurant in London (there's another in Bray as well as a

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• RAI omakase restaurant returns, this time in Bloomsbury

  

  RAI, from the same people behind Islington's Hot Stone, originally launched in Fitzrovia before closing last year. But now the restaurant is back again in a different location, just up the road in Bloomsbury. 

  The food is once again led by Executive Chef Padam Raj Rai (previously at Nobu, Sake no Hana and Tsukiji) and it'll be an omakase-only restaurant, with dishes in the

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• Grasso is a genuine family-run Italian American restaurant that's just landed in Soho

  

  It isn't often that a restaurant manages to open in the middle of Soho in a fashion that's so completely under the radar we have to wait for a reader to let us know about it. But that's the case with Grasso which threw open its doors on Dean Street just before Christmas. Even rarer, this is a restaurant that's entirely independent and family-owned.

  The family in question are the McCaffreys. Seanie runs the restaurant,

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• Yiqi Pan Asian restaurant opens with bamboo tube rice and wagyu mousse in Chinatown

  

  The latest restaurant to hit Chinatown is Yiqi, billed as a Pan-Asian restaurant with dishes from all over West and Southeast Asia. In charge of the kitchen is Chef Lum Wah Cheok who comes via Hakkasan and Yauatcha making this a potentially very interesting opening. 

  The menu looks intriguing too. A taste of it includes fried cordyceps flower salad,

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• Claude Bosi is opening Lyonnaise restaurant Josephine in Chelsea

  

  Updated 23/1/24 with a new opening date

  It's been quite the year for chef and restaurateur Claude Bosi. He began with the opening of his bistro Socca in Mayfair with Samyukta Nair and then followed that up with the unveiling of his glamorous rooftop restaurant ...

• Hyde London City hotel is opening on Old Bailey, complete with a modern Turkish restaurant

  

  Just when you thought the city couldn't possibly fit any more upmarket hotels, another new opening is on the horizon. This time it's the turn of boutique hotel brand Hyde, themselves part of Ennismore, the people behind the Hoxton hotels. They're opening Hyde London City on Old Bailey.

  It's not the first time that this particular building has been a hotel.

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• The Rex Delicatessen by Larry Jayasekara and Tim Jefferies opens in Mayfair

  

  We've known for a while that  Larry Jayasekara is opening The Cocochine with gallery owner Tim Jefferies in Mayfair. That restaurant should see the light of day this spring, but it's not the only project they've been working on. On the

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• Morchella will serve up Mediterranean food on Exmouth Market from the Perilla team

  

  23/1/23 - updated with the opening date and website details

  They've had lots of success with Perilla on Newington Green and now the same team are opening Morchella on Exmouth Market (taking over from Firebrand Pizza). 

  This time the restaurant will be all about Mediterranean cuisine, with a focus on sharing dishes like octopus luciana, salt-baked

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• Singapulah will serve up a taste of Singapore on Shaftesbury Avenue

  

  Updated 25/1/24 with the opening date

  Several years back, Singaporean restaurateur Ellen Chew trialled a new concept in Soho. The pop-up was a cafe by day (Arôme) and restaurant by night (Singapulah). We all know how well Arôme did - it currently has two

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