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- Sons + Daughters sandwiches hit up Borough
Updated 20/9/22 with opening date
If inventive, towering sarnies stacked with the best ingredients are your thing, then we bring you good news indeed. The folks behind Sons + Daughters sandwiches in Coal Drops Yard are expanding. They're taking over the old 26 Grains site on Stoney Street at Borough Market for their second sandwich shop.
"After a long search we couldn’t be more pleased
... - BKC (Biyrani Kebab Chai) brings Awadhi cuisine to Marble Arch
A new restaurant that's all about Indian cuisine from the Awadhi region is coming to Marble Arch.
Setting its stall out quite clearly with the name BKC - which stands for Biryani Kebab Chai - the restaurant is from Executive Chef Arsh Thakur, who's teamed up with Subjahit Mitra, the man behind East London's Coupette.
As the name suggests,
... - The Holland pub sees Oxalis pop-up chef go permanent
A new pub that quietly opened a couple of months back has just appeared on our radar with its official opening today.
The Holland (it used to be the Princess Victoria but it is very close to Holland Park) comes from chef Max de Nahlik, who previously co-ran popular pop-up Oxalis, and was most recently at The Duke of Cambridge in Islington. He's billing his menu as “unpretentious and fun” and
... - Kung Fu Noodle serves up hand pulled noodles in Chinatown
There's been a new round of openings in Chinatown and it includes the first live hand-pulled noodle restaurant within the official Chinatown area (Lanzhou Lamian Noodle Bar is apparently just outside the boundary).
Kung Fu Noodle specialises in dishes from China's Gansu province in the North West of the country. On the menu, you'll find a range of hot, cold and soup noodle dishes
... - Mr Ji head to Camden for their next restaurant, adding a Sunday roast
13/9/22 - updated with the opening date
Soho's Mr Ji got a brand new lease of life when the team behind TĀ TĀ Eatery, Zijun Meng and Ana Gonçalves, took over the kitchen. Adding more dishes to the menu, with a little TA TA twist, it became a big Soho Hit and
... - Sides by Sidemen is coming to Boxpark Croydon
They're huge on YouTube and their delivery service is pretty popular too (apparently they have over 100 kitchens globally including India and the USA). Now The Sidemen are getting ready to unveil their second real-life venue, this time in Boxpark Croydon.
This is their second spot, following on from the original Boxpark
... - Control Room B is a 1950s-themed bar inside Battersea Power Station
More Battersea Power Station news today, as the final pieces of the new development come into place. This time it's news of a big new bar that's opening there from the Mr Fogg's team.
Called Control Room B as it's based in - you guessed it - the power station's old control room, it's inspired by the Power Station architecture, right up to the turbine-inspired radial
... - Autumn's biggest new London restaurant openings
Autumn is when the London restaurant scene gets busier than ever - and that means some big new restaurants are getting ready to open. Here are the ones to watch...
- Bromley Town Hall's courthouse is turning into restaurant Dorothy & Marshall
Bromley Town Hall has been going through a big renovation recently and as it's gearing up to opening fully, we have news about the brand new restaurant opening there.
Taking over what used to be the old courthouse in the Grade II building (originally built in 1906), will be Dorothy & Marshall. In charge of the kitchen is local chef Ralph Jones, who's worked in the kitchens
... - Mykonos restaurant Nammos is coming to London
They started in Mykonos, expanded to Cannes, Dubai and more - and now Nammos is coming to London.
Opening in Knightsbridge, just across the road from Harrods, they're taking over a Grade II listed building and are calling it an "an elegant and more refined version of its original concept" so it sounds like we might be in for another impressive-looking dining room in London.
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... - The Hoxton prepares to open in Shepherd's Bush with Chet's as its restaurant
Earlier this summer we popped into The Hoxton hotel in Holborn to check out Chet's - their latest residency. Back then, the word was that this would be LA-based chef Kris Yenbamroong's restaurant in the upcoming Hoxton opening in Shepherd's Bush and we've now had confirmation of that.
The
... - Notto is chef Phil Howard's new fresh pasta restaurant on Piccadilly
He launched his own mail-order pasta during the various lockdowns and now Phil Howard is going one step further with his own pasta restaurant. The chef, who has a Michelin star for his Elystan Street restaurant, will be opening Notto in Piccadilly (taking over an old Paperchase site).
He's joined in the endeavour by Executive chef Louis Korovilas who has been quite busy
... - Restaurant St Barts sees the Fenn team come to Smithfield with a 15-course tasting menu
6/9/22 - Updated with the opening date
They've had success with Nest in Hackney and an even bigger hit with Fenn in Fulham, now the same team are heading eastwards again.
Johnnie Crowe, Luke Wasserman and Toby Neill are the people
... - Evernight is Nine Elms' hot new izakaya from a Laughing Heart chef
A Hot Dinners exclusive
Every once in a while a London restaurant manages to open totally under our radar but the minute we become aware of it, we want to let you know about it too. That's 100% the case with Evernight, an extremely interesting new Japanese restaurant in the Embassy Gardens development in Nine Elms that's starting to get noticed, with a lot of low-level buzz right
... - Marugame Udon are opening at Oxford Circus, St Christopher's Place and Canary Wharf
Updated 5/9/22 with Oxford Circus date
When one door closes, another opens and Londoners have definitely got the better end of the deal with this particular restaurant changeover on Argyll Street.
Taking over the old Garfunkels site, beloved only of confused tourists, is the udon chain Marugame. It'll turn out to be Marugame's fifth opening in quick succession in the city, following their
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