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Notting Hill continues to go from strength to strength and the latest to enter the fray there is the man behind popular Indian restaurant Gunpowder. Empire Empire is on the way. 

Led by Gunpowder's Harneet Baweja, it's actually planned to be a mix of Indian food and disco music, with a focus on the seventies music scene in

They've had great success with their Piri-Piri chicken around London and now Casa do Frango are getting ready to open their next big restaurant, this time in Victoria (taking over the space left by Jason Atherton's Hai Cenato). 

As you might expect, the menu will be primarily all about the Frango Piri-Piri chicken, the heart of the menu which takes its inspiration from

House of Ming is a Chinese restaurant that's big in New Delhi - and now it's opening in London. Like its Indian sibling, the restaurant is opening in a Taj Hotel, The St James's Court (you'll find that in Westminster). 

With a focus on Sichuan and Cantonese cuisine, it looks like being a luxury affair with a menu that includes:

• Prawn truffle siu

Last summer they teamed up with Rambutan for a successful popup in Borough Market.  And this summer soft serve purveyors Soft & Swirly have hit up another market - Netil Market.

Over the intervening months, Sam Lowry (ex-Leilas) and Farah Kezouh have been busy working on tubbed ice cream with various folk including those at Postcard Teas and that series is now on sale at their stall in Netil consisting

If you haven't yet made it out to Crouch Hill to Max's Sandwich Shop then get ready to try Max Halley's sandwiches in a much more central location. He's teamed up with none other than The Hippodrome for the new Max Halley at the Hippodrome.

It might at first seems a rather strange place for him to open - but they say it links back to the origins of the sandwich itself.

12/5/23 - updated with the opening details

It's been a while since we had a brand new Gaucho in London, the steakhouse from Martin Williams (who also runs M Restaurants) - over a decade, it turns out. But now they have a new restaurant coming to Covent Garden.

It's landing in a familiar site too. It's where Wahlburgers spent a few months pre-pandemic and where the great ...

12/5/23 - updated with the opening date for Little Kudu

If you’re a big fan of the South-African flavours of Kudu, then we have some good news for you - their new restaurant Little Kudu is on the way. 

Kudu first arrived on the

They only opened Hicce Hart on Chapel Market late last year, but Hicce have already expanded across the road in Islington with Little Pizza Hicce. They'd already trialled the pizza offshoot with a popup at Goodness Brewery (whose beer is available at Hicce Hart) but this is the

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

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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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

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

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

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

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