
The past few years have been quite the rollercoaster for restaurateur and chef Tarell Mcintosh (Chef T). Having survived the pandemic his restaurant Paradise Cove (formerly known as Sugercane) was robbed and then he was eventually forced to call it quits, closing it for good in January.
It was a sorry end for the Caribbean restaurant that received ...

9/8/23 - Updated with the opening date
They opened Shiro in Broadgate only late last year, but the Aqua Restaurant Group already have another restaurant lined up called Luci. They've taken over a space in The Yards section of Covent Garden (once held by a Jack Wills store
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9/8/23 - updated with the opening date
The Table has been open in Southwark for 17 years and now they've finally decided it's time to open a second restaurant, The Table Battersea.
Best known for their brunch, which has been the only menu they've had so far, they're coming to Battersea Rise. The expansion comes as a part of the work needed to bring the original Table
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Jason Atherton is a very busy man at the moment, and is really establishing himself in Mayfair right now.
Not only is he getting ready to open a restaurant on Savile Row very soon, but he's also getting ready to open one on Bruton Place which
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The people behind Terra Moderna in Belsize Park are coming to St John's Wood with a new Antipodean-inspired modern European restaurant.
England's Grace is going to be focusing on Australian-style brunch dishes during the day, while adding more Modern European fare in the evening, all led by Head Chef Rafal Jakubczyk. So for breakfast and brunch, you'll find
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More tacos are coming to Peckham as Taca Tacos gets ready to open its second site in the area. You may have seen them in Peckham's Brick Brewery (as well as Deptford's Market Yard) but this has them getting a place all to themselves (taking over the space from Two Hundred Rye Lane).
The usual favourites will be on offer, including their beef birria (6-hour braised brisket, with Mexican guajillo, ancho and pasilla chilies), served in a
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What to do when mere conveyor belts are no longer a sufficiently exciting food delivery system? As once declared on The Simpsons "Well sir, there's nothing on earth like a genuine, bona fide electrified monorail" and now there's one in Shoreditch serving up sushi.
How does
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It's all change for the Barshu group who have been tinkering around with what restaurant to put in their Little Newport Street spot for a while. Having started life as Baiwei and then Dot Line Noodles, they've now gone into partnership with Chef Ming who used to run the Rocking Horse restaurant in Birmingham to open Eight Hundred Flavours.
The menu is inspired by the chef's childhood growing up on a farm in the
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The last month of summer, August, sees the London restaurant scene quieten down a little. But there are still some very promising new openings this month - here's what's coming your way.

When you’ve worked at Mayfair’s Novikov it’s fair to say that you've probably dealt with plenty of folk for whom budgeting is an alien concept. That’s the background of duo Salvatore Broccu and Marios Louvaris who are behind Knightsbridge’s next big opening, Geode.
Spanning three floors of a Georgian townhouse and including a sculptural cocktail bar at entry level, a mezzanine conservatory with an
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If you've flown out of Gatwick this summer you may have noticed a few new spots to eat and drink in the airport. We thought it might be handy for us to round up all the new openings for you.
The most recent debut is that of The Breakfast Club which opened in Gatwick's North Terminal last week. It's the group's first restaurant in any kind of travel hub and if you fancy getting their signature The Full Monty
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Be it galleries or theatres, it seems that big London institutions have realised that it's now good sense to have an in-house restaurant that's a draw all in itself. Jose Pizarro at The Royal Academy, ...

23/9/23 - updated with the opening date
Four years after they opened Wild Tavern in Chelsea, the team behind that is opening Wild Notting Hill. It is, as you'll have guessed from the name, in the heart of W11, having taken over the space left by popular brunch spot 202 on Westbourne Road.
There will be a lot of similarities, Hot Dinners was told, between the OG Wild Tavern and the Notting Hill
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A new restaurant has opened up in Clapham that happens to be from the family behind a Welsh vineyard. Red Vine is a neighbourhood restaurant with a modern British via the Med menu and, as you can expect, they'll have something of a focus on wine too.
The menu features British dishes with a twist and on that, you'll find:

25/7/23 - updated with the opening date
If thoughts are turning to sunny Greek getaways, then we have the ideal warm-up for you in the form of Athens-inspired food in a new London location. After almost 10 years in business, popular street-food market stall Souvlaki Street is opening its first bricks-and-mortar home on East Dulwich’s North Cross Road. The restaurant will
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