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- The Fat Badger Farm Shop is a new riverside grocers for Richmond
Living in their lovely riverside neighbourhood, Richmond residents could be forgiven for thinking they were really countryside rather than city dwellers. And the arrival of the town's first farm shop will only serve to reinforce that.
The Fat Badger Farm Shop is launching at the Gladwin brothers' Fat Badger restaurant down by the river. It'll be part greengrocer, fishmonger and butcher and deli. There'll be
... - Stack & Still have opened a huge pancake restaurant on Leicester Square
With perfect timing for the Christmas crowds, Scottish pancake purveyor Stack & Still has just opened its first London restaurant on Leicester Square. It's also their first opening outside Scotland and they've picked a massive site. The new restaurant has got room for 225 diners - that's a lot of pancake lovers.
If you haven't heard of them before - and we'll admit we hadn't - the chain currently
... - Sarap Filipino restaurant is looking for a permanent home in Carnaby
Its currently a Heddon Street residency. but Filipino-inspired restaurant Sarap is looking for a permanent home, and is using crowdfunding to get it done.
If successful, it'll be a good track record for the 10 Heddon Street springboard site which has once been home to previous pop-up to permanent restaurants Manteca and Fallow. For the new restaurant, owner Ferdinand
... - Stereo, a new late-night dining and music venue, is coming to Covent Garden
7/12/22 - updated with the opening date
There’ll be a new reason to dance, dine and linger into the wee hours in Covent Garden soon. With the pandemic closure of Roadhouse, once one of the area’s oldest live-music venues, there’s been a gap in the market (actually, beneath Covent Garden Market) waiting to be filled. Step up, Stereo, the latest initiative from global hospitality brand Experimental
... - Oita take their Japanese kitchen to Chinatown from Wood Green
For the past couple of years, chef Fan Yi's Japanese industrial chic kitchen concept Oita has been operating out of the Green Rooms hotel in Wood Green. The Chinese chef decided to go down the Japanese route with his first pop-up after spotting a gap in the market in the area, having lived there for over a decade. Clearly, he was on to something as what was originally planned as a pop-up is now the hotel's
... - Shiro from Aqua brings crystal sushi to Broadgate Circle
9/11/22 - updated with a look at the design and opening details
As sure a sign as we know that the City is getting back on the front foot is news of a swanky new sushi spot opening in that part of town. Shiro will be the Aqua Group's fifth restaurant in London - they already have high-rise restaurants Aqua Shard, Hutong (both at The Shard), Aqua Kyoto and Aqua Nueva (on Regent Street).
The London
... - Sides by Sidemen bring their fried chicken to Wandsworth
They've been huge hits wherever they landed, first as delivery only and then in Wembley's Boxpark and now The Sidemen are back again with a new Sides, this time heading south to Wandsworth.
This time, the YouTubers are opening in Gravity Southside in
... - Bar Kroketa is a tapas spot in Carnaby devoted to croquetas
We'd like to think we know a thing or two about croquetas, having been a judge at the Croquetas Challenge for a good few years now. So we're pretty excited at the prospect of a restaurant devoted to the tapas opening in London.
Bar Kroketa is a spin-off from Spanish restaurant group Brindisa
... - Contigo brings high-end Nikkei cuisine to Trafalgar Square
Nikkei cuisine, which marries Japanese and Peruvian cuisines, continues to be a big thing in London - the latest Nikkei restaurant to arrive on the scene is Contigo.
It's opening in a space that was once the home for Strand Dining Rooms and after that, Blue Garden. With Contigo, they're going for high-end Nikkei, specifically showcasing seasonal dishes crafted with British
... - Langbourns serves up seafood and steak to City folk in Leadenhall
Just in time to the run up to the festive season, the City of London has a fine new bar that's just opened its doors. Langbourns, from the Metropolitan Pub Company, looks to furnish local workers with everything they need in the way of seafood and steaks.
The bar, which is part of the new 77 Gracechurch Street development and just around the corner from Leadenhall Market, features its own oyster bar serving
... - Yakiniku Like comes to London, bringing their tabletop grills
Yakiniku Like has been a big hit across China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore and Indonesia - and now they're coming to London with their first European restaurant landing in Soho (coming from the same group behind Kintan).
Yakiniku is all about grilled meat and that's the primary focus here. You'll be doing all that grilling yourselves with smokeless grills on the
... - Florattica, a new rooftop bar, is opening in East London
Got friends and family in town for the festive season and can’t think of where to take them? Or just finding it difficult to get a table at your favourite rooftop bar at this time of year? Then Christmas has come early with the announcement that Florattica is opening in East London. It’s a rooftop bar with views across to St Paul’s Cathedral, Canary Wharf and the Thames, no less. No need to let the
... - Studio Frantzén is Björn Frantzén's Harrods restaurant in London
Updated 28/11/22 with interior images
Almost a year ago, Harrods has dropped the culinary bombshell that they had persuaded none other than Björn Frantzén to open a restaurant at the Knightbridge store.
If you are wondering who Björn is and why this is such a big deal, well Frantzén is
- Fink's have brought their coffee, sandwiches and bottled cocktails to Clapton
We've long been fans of Fink's Salt & Sweet in Highbury - it's our neighbourhood coffee shop, deli and purveyor of top tier sandwiches, bottled cocktails and more.
Back in 2020 they expanded by opening a sibling spot, Fink's Gillespie, in Arsenal. And now they're at it again, moving
... - Mister Nice restaurant to open in Mayfair
23/11/22 - updated with lots more info
News previously reached us of a new restaurant coming to Mayfair that seems to be going after the Cipriani and LPM crowd, called Mister Nice. Things were a little quiet after the first announcement - but now the restaurant is gearing up for an opening.
It'll be taking over the space left by Kallos Gallery on Davies Street and comes from French
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