New opening

• Vivek Singh's Cinnamon Bazaar comes to Richmond

  

  Updated 15/2/24 with soft launch info

  Vivek Singh (also behind The Cinnamon Club and Cinnamon Kitchen) is bringing Cinnamon Bazaar south of the river as the restaurant gets ready to open in Richmond. 

  As with the first Cinnamon Bazaar in Covent Garden, they say the restaurant is "inspired by bazaars in antiquity and in the modern day." That translates into an all-day menu

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• Yuki Bar sees ex-Noma sommelier opening in London Fields

  

  This weekend a new East London restaurant/wine bar opened its doors officially, and there are a number of reasons why you should have Yuki Bar on your radar.

  The key point of interest is the man behind it, Yukiyasu Kaneko. Kaneko was formerly the sommelier at Noma and also P Franco before working with former Koya chef Junya Yamasaki at Yess Aquatic in LA. This will be his first solo project. It's being billed as a small

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• Franklin & Baines is serving up steak and cocktails inside Clapham's Aquum

  

  A new restaurant is gearing up to open in Clapham, taking what they describe as a 'permanent residency" inside the Aquum nightclub on the high street. Franklin & Baines is going big on steaks and has employed the services of Fernando Lerroude, previously Master Griller at The Gaucho group, as a consultant chef to show they mean business.

  They'll be offering all manner of cuts including flat iron,

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• Detroit Pizza comes to Islington (bringing deep-fried lasagna too)

  

  Deep-dish Detroit pizza is becoming a bit of a thing again. We've had Ria's in Notting Hill and Kin Pizza in Notting Hill while Detroit Pizza, already a big deal in Spitalfields, has just opened its second restaurant, in

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• Quince Bakery prepares to open in Islington

  

  Updated 8/2/24 with opening date

  Lucky Islington residents will have a very interesting new bakery on their doorstep. Quince Bakery is the brainchild of baker Anna Higham. She ran the bakery at Flor before becoming Executive Pastry Chef at The River Café. So it's fair to say she knows a thing or two about baked goods. 

  As for the bread she'll be baking, it'll be sourdough breads

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• Hotel Dalhousie sees the Tandoor Chop House team opening a new tandoor restaurant in Notting Hill

  

  The people behind Tandoor Chop House and Eggbreak are gearing up to open their next restaurant in Notting Hill with Hotel Dalhousie. 

  Just a restaurant and not a hotel, despite the name (it's named after the town in Northern India), Hotel Dalhouseie has taken over the old Chucs site on Westbourne Grove. There, they'll

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• Yum Bug are opening an edible insects restaurant in Finsbury Park

  

  Back in the autumn, a pop-up in Shoreditch created genuine buzz for a new brand, Yum Bug. The principal was simple - they were going to introduce the London dining scene to the joy of edible crickets. And it worked, with the whole thing being a complete sell-out.

  Now the team behind that, entomologist Aaron Thomas and designer Leo Taylor, are getting ready to open a permanent restaurant in Finsbury Park. As

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• 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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