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- Crunch are bringing their banging brioche sandwiches to Spitalfields
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Last summer, a trio of sandwich obsessives began making a name for themselves with the Crunch pop-up in Shoreditch. The group comprises Alexandre Yonan and Michael Medovnikov, who'd met at college, and chef Joni Francisco. Francisco trained under Alexis Gauthier at Gauthier Soho and Nuno Mendes at Chiltern Firehouse before becoming executive chef for the Experimental Group. It took a
... - BAO Mary is the BAO group's take on a Taiwanese dumpling house beside Selfridges
2/5/23 - Updated with the opening date
Oxford Street shoppers are going to have a handy new pitstop to drop into this summer. BAO are opening up BAO Mary on James Street. They've taken over the space next to Patty & Bun (where Sidechick used to be) and this latest restaurant of theirs will focus on dumplings.
BAO Mary, as it'll be known, will have an open kitchen, with handy
... - 20 Berkeley is coming to Mayfair
2/5/23 - updated with the opening date and details of the menu
The group behind Sumi and the recently opened Humo have a new restaurant on the horizon - 20 Berkeley.
It's taking over a space on the corner of Berkeley Street and being billed as offering "a sophisticated dining
... - The Campaner at Chelsea Barracks sees Barcelona's Martinez team take on London
Updated 2/5/23 with new opening date
In Barcelona, Terraza Martinez is best known for being the place to enjoy a seafood paella overlooking the sea from their position on the slopes of Montjuic. So it's going to be very interesting to see what the team behind that do with their first London restaurant.
The Campaner (the name means bell ringer in Spanish) is taking over the
... - Sarap's Budgie Montoya brings Filipino BBQ skewers to Market Halls Oxford Street with Apoy
Filipino restaurant Sarap finished its run on Heddon Street at the end of 2022 and, since then, the restaurant has been looking for a permanent home. In the meantime, after an appearance on Great British Menu, chef Ferdinand ‘Budgie’ Montoya
... - The team behind Camden's Black Cow are opening Epicurus, an American and Middle Eastern diner
Ex-Palomar chef Shiri Kraus and Amir Batito have already built a following for their popular Camden steakhouse, The Black Cow. Now the duo are about to open a new diner in Camden's North Yard. Epicurus will be an American diner with Middle Eastern influences. What does that mean exactly? Well, think sloppy bureks rather than sloppy joes and the beef short rib rack is glazed with pomegranate molasses and date
... - Homies on Donkeys are taking tacos to Leytonstone
25/4/23 - Updated with the opening date
Homies on Donkeys picked up a big reputation for their tacos at their original Walthamstow location, but they moved on at the end of 2022, and were looking for a new location. Now, according to The Leytonstoner, they've found
... - Grill 88 serves up luxury surf and turf over at The Biltmore Mayfair
It's been almost a year since chef Jason Atherton announced he was parting ways with The Biltmore Mayfair hotel on Grosvenor Square. Since then the hotel has been running the Cafe Biltmore that he opened there. But now they've got a brand new restaurant to shout about.
Grill 88 is all about surf and turf - so that'll be Lake District Sirloin Steaks alongside Japanese Wagyu ribeyes, Australian full-blood
... - The big new London restaurants opening in May 2023
May sees a notably large amount of big-name openings, including the latest from The Marksman and Patrick Powell in King's Cross. Here's our round-up of what to watch for in May.
- Canary Wharf is the next stop for Blacklock's chops
24/5/23 - updated with the opening date
They last opened in Covent Garden and now Blacklock have their sights set on Canary Wharf's North Dock.
They're part of a big influx of restaurants into the area with recent openings including Hawksmoor, Dishoom and Zia Lucia.
If you're still not quite familiar with Blacklock, it all comes down to their main event -
... - Harvest is Jesse Dunford Wood's new Kensal Rise restaurant
24/4/23 - Updated with the opening date
Jesse Dunford Wood, the chef behind Parlour and Six Portland Road, is getting ready to open his third restaurant, called Harvest.
It'll be his second in Kensal Rise, this time taking over a former curry house (Bawarchi). The focus for Harvest will be on a British-led menu featuring contemporary vegetarian dishes, British coastal
... - Chungdam brings Korean BBQ and Pyeonbaek steam boxes to Soho
There’s a new place in Soho for all your Korean-BBQ needs, with Chungdam now open on the former YMing Chinese restaurant site.
Well-travelled destination diners might twig that it’s named after one of Seoul’s major food districts, Cheongdam-dong, and at Chungdam restaurant it’s about both modern and traditional Korean cooking techniques. Expect plenty of interactive dining experiences in a sleek
... - Terra Moderna is a new Antipodean-Italian restaurant in Belsize Park
It’s starting to feel like ‘Antipodean-influenced’ needs to be a whole new subgenre of restaurants, such is its rise in London launches. Belsize Park is now home to a modern Italian restaurant that champions its Antipodean inspiration. It’s called Terra Moderna and comes to you from Italian head chef Mirko Pisano (previously Senior Chef Partie at Apex Temple Court Hotel) and founder Jeffrey Young, who has an Australian
... - Passyunk Avenue comes to Nine Elms, bringing an American dive bar to the US Embassy
Every now and again a restaurant or bar will open in what's pretty much the perfect location for it - and that's what it looks like with the latest outpost of Passyunk Avenue. The American dive bar with the best Philly cheesesteaks in London is opening just around the corner from the American Embassy in Nine Elms.
Taking over from where Homeboy
... - Rastro serves up Mediterranean sandwiches and espressos in Bethnal Green
An Instagram post by Allegra chef Patrick Powell alerted us to the arrival of a new cafe on Bethnal Green Road. Rastro is the first project from a team who've worked at a range of hospitality businesses across London. Carlos Del Barrio is the connection with Powell - he worked with him at Allegra for the past few years and, before that, at Scarfe's Bar. He's joined in this endeavour by his stepbrother Rodrigo
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