New opening

• Berenjak heads to Borough Market for their next restaurant

  

  18/5/22 - Updated with the opening date

  We only heard a few weeks back about the closure of Flor in Borough (although they do still have their bakery in Bermondsey) but a replacement has been lined up already. Flor was backed by JKS so it's no real surprise to see another JKS restaurant is poised to fill the gap, Berenjak. 

  Berenjak, if you're unfamiliar, is all about

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• Glasshouse is a new panoramic rooftop bar for Holborn

  

  London really seems to love rooftop bars at the moment. Recently we've had Wagtail open in the City and another in Covent Garden on the roof of the Amano

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• Riding House Cafe is coming to Bloomsbury

   

  Another Riding House Cafe is on the way - this time to Bloomsbury. They've already been pretty successful over in Fitzrovia for over ten years and also with the Rail House Cafe in Victoria. As with those before it, the new Riding House Cafe will be a modern brasserie and will find its home in the Brunswick Centre and they're aiming for a club-like feeling with this one (no membership needed, of course). 

• The Ivy Asia Mayfair comes to North Audley Street

   

  Updated 10/5/22 with opening date and booking info

  The Ivy Asia might have had a problematic history, but it's still continuing to expand in London. The brand, which in some ways is a slightly more affordable version of the same group's Sexy Fish, is opening its next

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• Modern Malay Mambow returns, this time to Market Peckham

  

  Chef Abby Lee's first foray into the restaurant world, Mambow, didn't have the best timing, opening in Spitalfields just weeks before the first lockdown. But now she's ready to hit the ground running with her second attempt, this time in Peckham.

  Lee is opening at Market

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• Belvedere in Holland Park sees the Goodman and Wild Tavern team take on an iconic restaurant

  

  Updated 1/11/22 with opening date and booking info

  Back at the turn of the millennium, The Belvedere was quite the West London hotspot. It was a beautiful Holland Park restaurant with a new makeover by David Collins (much to local resident Michael Winner's annoyance) and was run by Marco Pierre White and Jimmy Lahoud. Fast forward two decades later and most locals would probably

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• Napoli Gang are opening their first pizza shop, in Ladbroke Grove

  

  4/5/22 - Updated with the opening date

  While we wait for more details of what the Big Mamma Group (the people behind Ave Mario and Circolo Popolare) have planned for their next big restaurant in Kensington, they're already moving ahead with bricks and mortar plans for their Napoli Gang brand which is now opening a pizza shop in Ladbroke Grove.

  If you haven't encountered Napoli Gang on Deliveroo

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• Mr Fogg's Apothecary comes to Mayfair

   

  Mr Fogg's have opened bars across town, and now they're ready for their eighth - this time right in the heart of Mayfair, just down the road from Claridge's.

  Mr Fogg's Apothecary takes the familiar look of the other bars - it's based on Phileas Fogg, has a Victorian feel and it's designed with references to Around the World in 80 Days. It's taking over what used to be the Balls Brothers, but

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• Chop Chop by Four Seasons is opening underneath The Hippodrome at Leicester Square

  

  They already have three restaurants in Chinatown but Four Seasons are adding a fourth, just around the corner, when they open a new contemporary Chinese restaurant underneath The Hippodrome casino.

  The new concept, Chop Chop by Four Seasons, is part of a slew of new openings at the casino in the coming months, including an unnamed cocktail bar. Chop Chop will be in the lower ground floor of the building

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• Upstairs at 23 launches at The Guinea in Mayfair

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  Back during the days of social distancing, The Guinea in Mayfair made the clever decision to take over an old Pizza Express site across the road from the pub, to expand their dining space.

  Now, as the time they have with the site draws to a close, they've decided to have a little fun with the space. To that end, this week they're soft-launching Upstairs at 23 in the building's

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• Black Bear Burger are coming to Exmouth Market

  

  They started as street food before opening up their own restaurant in Brixton, have a space in Boxpark Shoreditch and now Black Bear Burger are growing again. This time they're opening a restaurant in Exmouth Market.

  Taking over what actually used to be a Dirty Burger (albeit launching with a complete redesign of what was there before), this is going to be bigger than their Brixton place so we

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• Mayfair's Lucky Club is coming to Camden with a roof terrace cocktail and taco bar

  

  3/5/22 - updated with photos and opening date

  Having made a name for themselves in the West End serving up cocktails and bao, the team behind The Lucky Club Mayfair are heading north. They've taken on a roof terrace space across the Chalk Farm entrance to Camden Market, on the former FEST site. 

  The Lucky Club Camden will specialise in Margaritas and Mezcal cocktails with treats like the Frozen

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• Bubblewrap bring their waffles to Spitalfields Market

   

  They're hugely popular in Chinatown and Covent Garden and now a third Bubblewrap has landed in Spitalfields Market. 

  If you're somehow yet to encounter these dessert guys (they do pop up rather a lot on Instagram and TikTok), they're all about their signature Hong Kong-style egg waffles which, yes, have huge bubbles all over them. These are wrapped into cones and then filled

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• New London restaurants opening in May 2022

  

  Fully into spring, things are really starting to warm up on the London restaurant scene. This month, we have the arrival of a much-anticipated Mexican restaurant, the next opening from Big Mamma and more...

• Boundary takes over from Albion as Boundary Shoreditch's new restaurant

  

  There's change afoot in Shoreditch. Boundary London, which includes the hotel, restaurant and rooftop was bought by Harcourt Inns late last year (they're the people behind The Coach in Clerkenwell, The Hero of Maida in Maida Vale and more). Now we're seeing one of the main big changes as part of that - the unveiling of the ground-floor Boundary bar and

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