New opening

• World Famous Gordos get ready to serve their pizzas at Netil Market

  

  8/7/23 - updated with the opening date

  Back in 2020, we reported on the arrival of an interesting new pizzeria in Dalston, going by the name of Gordos. It came from an ex-GM at Yard Sale, Jesse Elias. Well, the Dalston crowd loved their pies but the craziness of Covid

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• Tendril (mostly) Vegan Kitchen & Bar goes permanent in Mayfair

  

  7/7/23 - updated with the opening date

  Rishim Sachdeva has been popping up with his Tendril restaurant in a couple of spaces, but now he's getting ready to launch the restaurant in its permanent home. 

  He describes the restaurant as "mostly vegan" and that's coming through in the new name - Tendril (mostly) Vegan Kitchen & Bar. The permanent

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• Sam Harrison to open Sam's Waterside in The Brentford Project, a restaurant, cafe and deli

  

  7/7/23 - updated with a new launch date

  Restaurateur Sam Harrison has been a busy man of late. In addition to his riverside restaurant Sam's Riverside, he's opened two deli concepts, Sam's Larder - in Hammersmith and Chiswick. Now, sticking with West London, he's signed up to be a leading part of a new housing development in Brentford.

  The Brentford Project is going to be a massive

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• Market Place Peckham is reopening with a new look and new food

  

  Good news if you’ve missed the Peckham outlet of the hugely popular Market Place food halls. After closing earlier this year for a revamp, Market Place Peckham is coming back, baby. It was the very first of the Market Place venues to open in London, spawning success stories with additional outlets in Hounslow, ...

• The Avocado Show is coming to Covent Garden

  

  5/7/23 - updated with the opening date

  Is Covent Garden ready for two avocado-based restaurants? There's already an Avobar near the Piazza, but now we hear news that The Avocado Show is getting ready to open there too. 

  The Avocado Show originally came from Amsterdam and set up its first restaurant in London ...

• Four Hundred Rabbits Pizza comes to Battersea Rise

  

  Breeding like…well, rabbits, the next London site for Four Hundred Rabbits Pizza has just been announced and it’s another win for South London; it’s in Battersea Rise. Already operating outlets in Crystal Palace, the ...

• New Italian restaurant 64 Old Compton Street to open in Soho

  

  Struggling to find somewhere in Soho to eat on a sultry summer’s evening but everything is fully booked? Got a friend who can never find the restaurant location? We can help with both of these things, because we bring you news of a new dining destination that is helpfully the same name as its address: 64 Old Compton Street.

  It’s a sister site to 40 Dean Street (they’re on a winning

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• Enter an enchanted world at new restaurant The Rosarium below Waterloo Station

  

  Escape the crowds at Waterloo and discover the enchanted escapism of The Rosarium restaurant at The Sidings.

• The big new London restaurants opening in July 2023

  

  July sees some big restaurant openings from top chefs with Richard Corrigan, Tom Sellers and Tomos Parry all having new openings this month. 

• Michelin-starred chef Paul Foster brings the beef-focused Grassfed to Camden's Hawley Wharf

  

  Chef Paul Foster already has a Michelin-starred restaurant to his name in Stratford-Upon-Avon, called Salt, but now he's getting ready to open in London too. He'll be taking over a space in Camden's Hawley Wharf for Grassfed. 

  That name refers to the grass-fed beef that will have a big presence on the menu, with much of it cooked over hot coals. On that

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• 64 Goodge Street is the latest opening from the team behind Clipstone and Portland

  

  It's been a while since we had a brand new opening from the people behind Quality Chop House, The Woodhead Restaurant Group. They're also the people who brought us Fitzrovia restaurants Clipstone and Portland and that area must be working very well for them because they're about to open a third restaurant nearby, 64 Goodge Street. 

  In charge of the space will be Head

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• The Tate Modern is launching new riverside bar and cafe, Corner

  

  London's galleries are shaking things up a little. We've only just had the reopening of The National Portrait Gallery with Larry's in the basement and Richard

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• Estelle Manor is the latest Cotswolds opening to entice Londoners out of the city

  

  A few weeks back we brought you news of Aynho Park, a frankly epic undertaking opening in the Cotswolds with five new restaurants. Now we're back with details of a new place to entice Londoners out of the city, Estelle Manor. Twenty miles away from Aynho you'll find this seriously swanky new

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• Sonora Taqueria are coming to Stoke Newington

  

  Last year Sonora Taqueria beat their crowdfunding target and got on with getting their first taqueria off the ground - and now it's time to officially open. 

  Sonora has been touted as serving up some of London's best tacos, ever since their days in Netil Market. After that closed they popped up at Arcade Food Hall in the meantime, and even fought off legal action that would have prevented them using

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• Beer battle is on as Bierschenke are opening opposite new Guinness Brewery in Covent Garden

  

  20/6/23 - updated with the opening date

  Now, this is the kind of showdown we like to see. There's obviously been a lot of hype about the new £70m Guinness Brewery opening in Covent Garden. So it takes a considerable amount of cojones for another brewery to

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