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• Meat The Fish sees the team behind Mayha opening in Chelsea

  

  Having stormed the Marylebone scene with their sushi spot, Mayha, the Lebanese restaurant group behind that are now gearing up to open Meat The Fish in the heart of Chelsea.

  Picked out by the World's 50 Best Discovery list and praised for their amazing sandwiches, Meat The Fish is a grocery delivery service turned restaurant chain that's hoping to serve London with dishes made using the best premium

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• Sticks'n'Sushi are heading east, opening on Shoreditch High Street

  

  Popular sushi company Sticks n Sushi are getting ready to open in Shoreditch. What will be their ninth London restaurant is taking over the restaurant space that was previously Goddard & Gibbs at the One Hundred Shoreditch hotel.

  It's a pretty big space - with room for over 200 to peruse their menu of sushi, sashimi and yakitori sticks. We're told that the new Shoreditch restaurant will have a large central bar and a

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• Crunch are bringing their banging brioche sandwiches to Spitalfields

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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 -

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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