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- Oranj, a new natural wine bar and kitchen, to open in Shoreditch
Updated 7/11/22 with opening date
It was only a matter of time: Shoreditch is getting its first natural wine bar. Starting out in 2020 as a next-day-UK-wide-wine-delivery service during lockdown, Oranj is morphing beyond being an online portal to a dedicated bar and kitchen, where you can sip low-ABV reds from Jura while chatting with rotating guest chefs doing residencies in a
... - Spanish-Israeli restaurant Penelope’s is opening at Hotel Amano Covent Garden
Dancing on tables could be behaviour from your past (or present, we’re not judging) but it’s the vibe that the new Hotel Amano are looking to bring to their restaurant Penelope’s when it opens. The hotel group want to recreate the monthly parties that are apparently of renown at its Berlin site, selling out in minutes and promising inventive food and cocktails.
The
... - Dishoom head to Canary Wharf for their ninth restaurant opening
3/11/22 - updated with soft launch details
In news guaranteed to make a lot of folk in the financial district very happy, Dishoom have announced that Canary Wharf will be the site of their next restaurant opening.
It's been five years since one of London's best-loved restaurant groups opened a new place (that was Kensington back in 2017 if you're wondering). Their
... - Cavo is a huge new Mediterranean restaurant with roof gardens opening by Tottenham Court Road
2/11/22 - updated with the opening date
The Tottenham Court Road end of Oxford Street's days as the shabbier part of the shopping thoroughfare appears to be drawing to a close. Hard on the heels of the Elizabeth Line opening, the attendant developments at that end of the street are starting to unveil their plans, and many of them contain restaurants.
Tattu was the first to open back in April and we've also
... - Popeyes open their second London restaurant in Ealing
There were huge queues when Popeyes opened its first restaurant in Stratford, and that was just a concession in Westfield. Other than popping up for delivery-only dark kitchens across town, they hadn't opened any new restaurants in London - until now. They've gone to the opposite side of town to open in Ealing - something that will actually be their first standalone restaurant in
... - Henry Harris is back with Bouchon Racine and the Three Compasses in Farringdon
Updated 2/11/22 with pub opening date
It's been seven long years since chef Henry Harris closed the doors of his much-loved restaurant Racine in Knightsbridge. But now we can bring you the great news that Racine is coming back, albeit in a slightly different guise. Harris has joined forces with hugely respected restaurant director Dave Strauss (who you might remember from his decade at Goodman
... - New London restaurants opening in November 2022
November sees the return of a much-missed restaurant, the opening of a new Dishoom, a Boston seafood import and plenty more exciting new restaurants opening in London.
- Bacchanalia will be Richard Caring's new Mayfair restaurant on Mount Street
Updated 31/10/22 with the opening date
More details are being revealed about Richard Caring's next big Mayfair project, Bacchanalia.
The Greek and Italian restaurant certainly sounds like it'll be as eye-popping as Caring's other more recent openings, like Sexy Fish and The Ivy Asia. Artist Damien Hirst, who's worked with Caring on Sexy Fish and The Brasserie of Light, is
... - Berberè Pizza heads north to Kentish Town
They've been successful in Clapham and now Berberè Pizza have gone north for their next restaurant, opening in Kentish Town.
Berberè comes from Calabrian brothers Matteo and Salvatore Aloe and the Kentish Town site will once again focus on their sourdough pizzas, where their aim has been on creating a particularly crunchy crust. Traditional pizzas like the Marinara, Margherita and Napoli will
... - London's first Tasty by Greggs cafe in Primark on Oxford Street has a sausage roll swing
It's the partnership that brought us such sartorial delights such as the Greggs clogs this summer, now Primark have gone on step further and opened a Greggs cafe in their Oxford Street shop.
Tasty by Greggs will, they say, be "the most Instagrammable’ Greggs in the world". That sounds like hyperbole until you hear that it has a Greggs Sausage Roll swing. It's the second such cafe to open in
... - 56 Smithfield gives Farringdon an affordable new wine bar
We're always keen to hear about new wine bars opening in London. The arrival of 56 Smithfield in Farringdon couldn't be more handy in these cash-pressed times, particularly when you hear that this new spot is selling all the wines at their original, local winery prices. If you fancy drinking in, then just add a fiver as a corkage fee.
The folk behind it are the family who run organic vineyard Château De La
... - Edo Izakaya comes to Old Street from the people behind Soho's Robata
The team behind Soho's Robata is expanding - they're coming to Old Street with Edo Izakaya (taking over the space that used to be Flamboree, next to Officina 00)
The name comes from the inspiration for the menu, the Edo period of Japan (1603-1867), in which izakayas began to become prominent. Food-wise traditional-style and new-style sushi rolls, hand rolls and nigiri
... - Restaurant at Sun Street sees ex-Roast chef serve up modern British in the City
Tucked in between Moorgate and Liverpool Street a luxury boutique hotel has just opened its doors. Sun Street Hotel is part of a new City development called One Crown Place. And, as you might expect, they've got a restaurant and bar they want everyone to know about.
Restaurant at Sun Street is going to be a modern British affair run by chef Stuart Kivi-Cauldwell who comes here via Gordon Ramsay's The
... - Zia Lucia is opening a pizzeria in Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf's food revolution continues apace. While we wait for the launch of Dishoom, another popular restaurant is opening. This time it's the turn of Zia Lucia, the pizzeria that's been a hit all over London.
As with their other pizzerias, it's all about the 48-hour-fermented dough,
... - Saltie Girl are bringing their Boston lobster rolls and tinned fish to Mayfair
21/10/22 - opening date added
Here at Hot Dinners, we're always up for a good lobster roll and it sounds as though Mayfair should have a new place serving up just that before the end of the year.
Saltie Girl is a popular Boston restaurant that's taking over what used to be Prezzo on North Audley Street, next to The Mayfair Chippy.
For their London opening they've brought in
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