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• Contigo brings high-end Nikkei cuisine to Trafalgar Square

  

  Nikkei cuisine, which marries Japanese and Peruvian cuisines, continues to be a big thing in London - the latest Nikkei restaurant to arrive on the scene is Contigo. 

  It's opening in a space that was once the home for Strand Dining Rooms and after that, Blue Garden. With Contigo, they're going for high-end Nikkei, specifically showcasing seasonal dishes crafted with British

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• Langbourns serves up seafood and steak to City folk in Leadenhall

  

  Just in time to the run up to the festive season, the City of London has a fine new bar that's just opened its doors. Langbourns, from the Metropolitan Pub Company, looks to furnish local workers with everything they need in the way of seafood and steaks.

  The bar, which is part of the new 77 Gracechurch Street development and just around the corner from Leadenhall Market, features its own oyster bar serving

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• Yakiniku Like comes to London, bringing their tabletop grills

  

  Yakiniku Like has been a big hit across China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore and Indonesia - and now they're coming to London with their first European restaurant landing in Soho (coming from the same group behind Kintan). 

  Yakiniku is all about grilled meat and that's the primary focus here. You'll be doing all that grilling yourselves with smokeless grills on the

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• Florattica, a new rooftop bar, is opening in East London

  

  Got friends and family in town for the festive season and can’t think of where to take them? Or just finding it difficult to get a table at your favourite rooftop bar at this time of year? Then Christmas has come early with the announcement that Florattica is opening in East London. It’s a rooftop bar with views across to St Paul’s Cathedral, Canary Wharf and the Thames, no less. No need to let the

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• Studio Frantzén is Björn Frantzén's Harrods restaurant in London

  

  Updated 28/11/22 with interior images

  Almost a year ago, Harrods has dropped the culinary bombshell that they had persuaded none other than Björn Frantzén to open a restaurant at the Knightbridge store.

  If you are wondering who Björn is and why this is such a big deal, well Frantzén is ...

• Fink's have brought their coffee, sandwiches and bottled cocktails to Clapton

  

  We've long been fans of Fink's Salt & Sweet in Highbury - it's our neighbourhood coffee shop, deli and purveyor of top tier sandwiches, bottled cocktails and more.

  Back in 2020 they expanded by opening a sibling spot, Fink's Gillespie, in Arsenal. And now they're at it again, moving

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• Mister Nice restaurant to open in Mayfair

  

  23/11/22 - updated with lots more info

  News previously reached us of a new restaurant coming to Mayfair that seems to be going after the Cipriani and LPM crowd, called Mister Nice. Things were a little quiet after the first announcement - but now the restaurant is gearing up for an opening. 

  It'll be taking over the space left by Kallos Gallery on Davies Street and comes from French

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• Pretty Decent Beer Co bring a new taproom (and pizza) to Walthamstow

  

  Walthamstow's beer community grows ever larger with a new opening on what they call the "Blackhorse Beer Mile". This time it's the turn of Pretty Decent Beer Co, who are opening a brewery and taproom there. 

  Onsite, they'll have 20 beers on tap (regularly changing) including one with the best title we've seen in a while - a session ale called "I Could Get

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• Fitzrovia will be home to pasta restaurant Officina 00’s second site

  

  Updated 21/11/22 with launch offer and opening date

  As the nights draw in and thoughts turn to steaming bowls of hearty pasta, it’s like Officina 00 is reading our minds. They’re opening a second restaurant, this time in Fitzrovia. If you’ve been hitherto unaware of the Old Street venue that opened in mid-2019, Officina 00 is an Italian kitchen and workshop with

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• The next Morty & Bob’s is coming to Kensal Rise

  

  It’s the weather for their outrageously oozy cheese toasties, so here’s a particularly good reason to head to Kensal Rise: Morty & Bob’s are opening an all-day restaurant, café and bar in the neighbourhood.

  This will be the third site (with more rumoured on the way for 2023) for the popular street-food brand after successful launches in Coal Drops Yard in King’s Cross in 2018 and then in

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• Michelin-starred chef Takuya Watanabe opens Taku Mayfair, a new Omakase restaurant

  

  We don’t often get to say Paris’ loss is London’s gain, but with the news that Taku Mayfair has opened, we can. Chef Takuya Watanabe, the man behind Jin, the first sushi Omakase restaurant in Paris to receive a Michelin star, has brought his talents to town.

  Omakase, whereby all dining decisions are delegated to the chef, is more than just a trust exercise. At Taku

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• Maria G's heads to the river at Fulham

  

  Updated 16/11/22 with soft launch info

  Back in summer, we had the pleasure of trying out Robin Gill's new restaurant Maria G's in Kensington. There, the restaurant's Exec Chef Aaron Potter was turning out some heavenly modern Italian food in a chichi development tucked off Warwick

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• Deep Cuts will serve up a London aperitivo scene to Hackney folk

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  A duo of hospitality folk are behind a new bar opening in London that's been inspired by the backstreet bars in Spain and Italy. Billed as a London aperitivo bar, Deep Cuts is going to serve up a mix of small plates, wine and vermouth to folks on Mare Street.

  Owners Tom Rees and Ben Martin, of Homegrown Pubs, are behind the bar and also run The Carlton Tavern in Kilburn

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• Hicce spin-off Hicce Hart comes to Islington

  

  15/11/22 - Hicce Hart is now open

  Good news for North London, with a second outlet of Hicce due to open. Called Hicce Hart, it will take up the site most recently occupied by the Day & Night pub in Islington (and a few more iterations before that) - a handy 20-minute walk from the original Hicce.

  Fans of the original Hicce at ...

• STK's latest steakhouse is in Stratford

   

  Somewhat out of nowhere, a brand new STK steakhouse has arrived in London. It's the latest opening that's part of The Gantry Hotel in Stratford, which already has Hermano coffee bar, Union Social, Coupe Bar and a roof terrace on the way soon. 

  As for what to expect from STK Stratford - it's a similar vibe to their restaurants on the Strand and in Westminster - part steakhouse, part party venue

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