Noodles

• Canary Wharf has a shiny new handpulled noodle spot courtesy of JMD Lamian Noodle Bar

  

  If you were at Canary Wharf over the weekend, you'll probably have spotted the epic queues on Bank Street. Turns out Londoners can get very excited about the launch of a new noodle restaurant. The place in question is JMD Lamian Noodle Bar, a Chinese halal restaurant that also has a very popular branch at Liverpool Street.

  If you haven't been before, then the big selling point here are the noodles, which you can

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• Belgravia gets in on the London noodle trend with a new noodle bar at The Peninsula London

  

  Not wanting to be left out of the general London obsession with noodles, super luxe hotel The Peninsula London is getting in on the trend. They've just opened up a noodle bar that serves up a tight menu of noodle dishes alongside Gweilo beers from Hong Kong and the bar's own cocktail list.

  The chefs behind the menu are the multi-award-winning Hou Yurui who has worked on the concept with Jonnie Liang,

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• Kung Fu Mama Taiwanese noodle bar picks Covent Garden as its launchpad

  

  What do you get if you pair up the co-founder of Ottolenghi with the founder of a noodle empire? It turns out that a Taiwanese noodle bar in Covent Garden is the answer. The business duo in question are Noam Bar-Chang (Ottolenghi's right-hand man) and Chris Hsu the man behind the best-selling Taiwanese noodles brand in the UK, Kung Fu Mama. They've gone into business to open a noodle bar on Long Acre that'll focus on

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• London is about to get another must-try new noodle shop as Songhelou arrives in Soho

  

  Central London is firmly in the grip of a noodle craze - the queues outside Noodle Inn aren't getting any shorter and there's the new Noodle & Beer in Chinatown too. Now, here's news of a third hot new noodle restaurant coming to the area. Songhelou is a Chinese restaurant that has real history, having first opened in Suzhou back in 1737.

  The dish to have features their famous Suzhou-style noodles. Think slim noodles

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• Noodle & Beer pick Chinatown for their second spicy Sichuan noodle joint

  

  7/3/25 - updated with the opening date

  Noodle Inn may be the place everyone's currently queueing for, but it might soon have some competition coming its way. Noodle & Beer first opened in Spitalfields back in 2020 but it's been such a success that the owner is now opening a second restaurant, this time in the heart of Chinatown.

  If you haven't tried the original in East London, then the clue to what

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• Noodle Inn draws the crowds in Soho with its hand-pulled noodles

  

  If you've been wandering around Soho over the past week or so, you may have wondered what's been drawing crowds down Old Compton Street. Well, we're here to tell you about London's new white hot noodle spot, Noodle Inn.

  It's the latest opening from Alex Xu the restaurateur behind Kung-Fu Noodle in Chinatown. And if you like a bit of kitchen theatre when you go out to eat, then this new spot couldn't be

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• DIY dishes - London's restaurants where you're the chef

  

  Control freaks (and we mean that in the best possible way) are well served by a range of London restaurants and bars putting you in the chef or bartender’s role. Whether you’re flipping steak on your own tabletop grill or pouring your own cocktail, here’s where to enjoy the DIY experience in London.

• SanHao sees Yiqi founders opening a noodle and soup restaurant in Chinatown

  

  Three restaurants in three years - restaurateurs Kevin Cheong and Keng Yew Leong have been busy building their Chinatown empire. In 2022 they opened The Eight - a Hong Kong-style cafe. At the beginning of this year, ...

• Liu Xiaomian take their spicy Chongqing noodles to Carnaby

  

  You've got to hand it to whoever's curating the food offering at Kingly Court at the moment. They're really playing a blinding game. Hot on the heels of having signed up everyone's favourite Filipino spot Donia, they've only gone and persuaded the insanely popular noodle purveyors Liu Xiaomian to make a space on the

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• 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

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• 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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• Marugame Udon comes to the O2, their second London restaurant in a couple of months

  

  They've only just launched in Spitalfields in July, but huge udon chain Marugame Udon were never going to stop there. Already, they're gearing up to launch their second London restaurant, this time at the O2. 

  A taste of what's on offer includes:

  • Beef Nikutama - udon with beef and caramelised onions in a dashi broth with a poached
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• Koya Ko are bringing their udon to Broadway Market

  

  18/8/21 - updated with opening menu and opening date

  Hackney-based fans of Koya will be very happy - they're opening their latest restaurant on Broadway Market (taking over the space where Twigs used to be).

  Called Koya Ko, much like the short-lived version at Market Halls

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• Test Driving BAO Noodle Shop - the BAO team win at noodles too

   

  Next up for BAO - they've opened a Shoreditch restaurant where they're specialising in Taiwanese beef noodles. We head down to try them out.

• Carl Clarke is launching the Future Noodles delivery service

   

  7/4/21 - Updated with the launch date

  With hits like Chick N Sours and Chik'n in place - chef and restaurateur Carl Clarke is launching his next venture - and this time it's all about pot noodles. 

  After a successful Kickstarter

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