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11/6/23 - updated with the opening date

Following their Borough Market opening back in 2021, a second plant-based Mallow restaurant is on the way to Canary Wharf.

Mallow comes from the same people behind the Mildreds restaurants but here they're a 100% plant-based affair. And for Canary Wharf, the menu will include a few new dishes like:

• Spinach Dahi

We're still a little surprised when it happens but occasionally the odd restaurant does manage to launch in a fairly stealthy fashion. The latest of those is Sushi Kanesaka which is opening at 45 Park Lane, the hotel right opposite The Dorchester. 

It comes from top sushi chef Shinji Kanesaka who also has a two-Michelin-starred restaurant by the same name in Tokyo. The London

On the cusp of celebrating their fifth birthday, the folks at Bancone are also getting ready to open their third restaurant.

They're the latest to join the procession of restaurants opening in Borough Yards. The space itself is a huge railway arch and it's going to have an open kitchen, plus a large mezzanine space upstairs that can be hired out for private parties.

In addition to all the usual Bancone

Updated 8/6/23 with opening date

As the first new restaurant to be opened by The Wolseley Hospitality Group since it was formed following the departure of Jeremy King and Chris Corbin, all eyes are on Soho for the reveal of Manzi's.

The restaurant is named after the much-loved (but now closed) legendary London fish restaurant. It's not on the same site - the original Manzi's was

The huge new gallery opening RH England at Aynho Park in Oxfordshire has, in one fell swoop, brought five new restaurants to the Cotswolds.

Set over a 73-acre estate, it's really quite the undertaking. On an estate that includes an architecture and design library, a Sir John Soane exhibition and gardens by Capability Brown, the five new restaurants

Is there room for another glitzy Italian restaurant in London? We ask because news reaches us of an American import, LAVO Ristorante, which is coming our way from America. It's part of the TAO Restaurant group which now also owns Hakkasan and Yauatcha, and this will be the group's first LAVO in Europe - they have several dotted across the states and one in Singapore.

The London restaurant will be part of the new

6/6/23 - updated with the opening date

London's Chinatown has a lot of hot pot and DIY barbecue restaurants, but the owners of incoming restaurant High Yaki are hoping that they're bringing something a little new to the table. It's a barbecue restaurant, where you grill your own food at your table, but the presentation is going to be a little different.

The restaurant will offer a range of beef cuts -

Dotted around the city, cabmen's shelters are a living piece of London's history, dating back to the late Victorian era when cabbies needed somewhere warm to sit and grab a bacon sarnie and a cup of tea. There are still 12 working shelters left in London, with access to those strictly reserved for London's black cab licence holders. But one recently restored shelter in Chelsea is about to open its doors to all

5/6/23 - Updated with the opening date

Following restaurants like Six by Nico and Mowgli, another

5/6/23 - updated with the opening dates

Chef Alexis Gauthier is bringing not one, but two new restaurants to Fitzrovia. Much like his existing places, Gauthier Soho and 123V (inside Fenwick's), each will be championing vegan food. They're both within the BFI Stephen Street building in Soho - a space that will be split into two. 

Up front will be 123V

We do enjoy a bit of culinary grandstanding here at Hot Dinners and when someone arrives in this city promising to serve up the best chocolate cake we've ever had in our lives then we sit up and take note.

404 Bakery comes from a couple of Hong Kong bakers who took their home city by storm when they set up an online bakery driven by their obsession with chocolate cakes. However the bakery had to close when they decided,

Updated 2/6/23 with the opening date

After a while, all roads lead to London. Chefs across the globe may open their multi-Michelin-starred restaurants wherever they choose, but it does appear that to be considered a truly global culinary star, they need to have a London outpost to cement their reputation. In recent years we've had Scandinavian giants Niklas Ekstedt and Björn

2/6/23 - updated with the opening date

If you've been wondering what was going to take the place of the old site of St Clair in Clapham, wonder no more - it's going to be the latest opening by Lina Stores.  

This outpost is being billed as a neighbourhood restaurant, so you're not going to get the deli add-on that some of the other Lina Stores have. Instead, it's an Italian restaurant

You'll probably know them from various Kerb markets, including Seven Dials, but now the Venezuelan team behind El Pollote are getting ready to open their first standalone restaurant. They'll be opening up in the heart of Carnaby on Ganton Street in a space big enough for 40 diners which will also have room for a small terrace too.

If you haven't had the pleasure, El Pollote has built up a reputation for using the best

As we hit Summer, the new restaurant scene really starts to heat up, with some big new openings coming this month. Here's your guide to the best of what's coming in June.