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• 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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• Claridge's have reopened their restaurant as... Claridge's Restaurant

  

  It's been almost eighteen months since Claridge's hotel in Mayfair closed their Davies and Brook restaurant following a disagreement with chef Daniel Humm over the direction it was going in (he wanted to go fully vegan, they weren't so sure). Now, very quietly, the hotel has reopened their signature restaurant space.

  In charge of things as Head Chef is Coalin Finn. He's was at Davies & Brook as

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• Masala Zone takes over the Grade II listed Criterion building in Piccadilly Circus

  

  Masala Zone is ramping things up a notch for its latest opening, taking over the highly impressive Grade II Criterion building on Piccadilly Circus.

  Easily one of London's most impressive dining rooms, the building has changed hands a few times over the past decade or so with Masala Zone promising an entirely new look for the room (where the Grade II restrictions

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• Yannick Alleno is also opening Bar Antoine in London

  

  We've known for some time that multi-Michelin-starred chef Yannick Alleno was opening a top-tier restuarant, Pavyllon, in London (they're apparently deep in soft opening mode right now). But news that he's also going to be running a bar alongside that surprisedlu us today.

  Bar Antoine, named after the chef's late son, sounds like it might be just the place to try some of Alleno's cooking, without the

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• Milan's Langosteria seafood restaurant is the latest to join The OWO

  

  The OWO is going to be a big new opening. AKA The Old War Office, the building is headed up by a Raffles hotel but it's also adding nine new restaurants and three bars. They're quite the bunch too, including Mirazur's Mauro Colagreco, Milan restaurant Paper Moon, the Parisian Café Lapérouse and Endo Kazutoshi's rooftop restaurant. 

  Next to join them is another Milan restaurant, Langosteria, which is being described as a "fashion-world haunt" in its original location.

• Richard Corrigan takes on The Portrait Restaurant at the National Portrait Gallery

  

  Updated 15/6/23 with opening date and restaurant details

  There are many reasons to rejoice in the forthcoming reopening of the National Portrait Gallery, not least is the return of The Portrait Restaurant which has been taken over by chef Richard Corrigan.

  Closed for essential building works and renovations since 29 June 2020, The National Portrait Gallery houses not just the world’s most extensive collections

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