Seafood

• America's Angry Crab Shack arrives in London

  

  7/3/23 - updated with the opening date

  Hard on the heels of Boston's Saltie Girl opening in London comes news of another American seafood import.

  Angry Crab Shack is a restaurant group that was first opened in Arizona back in 2013 by former NFL player Ron Lou. It's billed as a 'bib up and

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• Test Driving Saltie Girl - the Boston seafood import hits Mayfair

  

  All the way from Boston, this US import is hoping to make itself an indispensable seafood spot for anyone shopping on Oxford Street. 

• Saltie Girl are bringing their Boston lobster rolls and tinned fish to Mayfair

  

  21/10/22 - opening date added

  Here at Hot Dinners, we're always up for a good lobster roll and it sounds as though Mayfair should have a new place serving up just that before the end of the year.

  Saltie Girl is a popular Boston restaurant that's taking over what used to be Prezzo on North Audley Street, next to The Mayfair Chippy.

  For their London opening they've brought in

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• Celebrity hangout Scott's is opening in Richmond

  

  Updated 26/9/22 with photos

  He's already had a lot of success with expanding his Ivy restaurant group across the country. Now Richard Caring is getting ready to do the same with Mayfair classic seafood restaurant, Scott's. And the first place he's expanding to is south of the river, in Richmond.

  Announced earlier this year, Caprice Holdings has revealed a little

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• The best fish and seafood delivered in London

  

  Looking to get all your fish and seafood delivered to your door? We've rounded up some of the best places delivering in London now. 

• Max's Sandwich Shop teams up with Burger & Lobster for two very special rolls

  

  Well here's a collab we can 100% endorse - Max Halley of the legendary Max's Sandwich Shop is teaming up with Burger & Lobster for two lobster roll specials that are hitting the group's nine restaurants.

  The first, the Lobster Cocktail Roll, is a brioche roll stuffed with lobster claw and knuckle meat with a retro Marie Rose sauce that's finished with a dash of tabasco and brandy. That's topped with

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• Test Driving Goddard & Gibbs - bringing seafood to Shoreditch

  

  Goddard & Gibbs is a new seafood spot in Shoreditch and part of the brand new One Hundred Shoreditch hotel. We went down to take a look. 

• Shutters opens at One Canada Square with its Cali-Cornish seafood mix

  

  It takes a brave soul to put a seafood restaurant in the lobby of one of London's biggest office blocks (here's hoping their extraction is top-notch), but the folks behind Shutters which has just opened up at One Canada Square are hoping their mix of Cornish fish and Californian vibes will be a winning formula.

  The team behind it are Cornish company The Happiness Cartel who also run a Shutters restaurant down in Marazion in

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• Sustainable seafood restaurant Off The Hook heads to Wapping

  

  If you’re the kind of person who loves fish and chips but has concerns about eating sustainably, then fret no more. One of your mindful New Year’s Resolutions can involve heading to Wapping in East London, to check out new restaurant Off The Hook, where absolutely everything has been accounted for, right down to the time your chosen fish arrived in London.

  Run by chef Neil Wagner in collaboration with Shaun

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• SeaSons will be taking over from The Square in Mayfair

   

  Updated 22/11/21 with menu details and images

  Back in 2019, longstanding Mayfair restaurant The Square closed rather abruptly (right in the middle of a lunch service) but we're getting closer to a new restaurant taking over the building. Opening in The Square's place will be

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• Fin + Flounder are launching a seafood shack in Netil market

  

  Fancy a lobster muffin for brunch? Then the new shack from Fin and Founder is for you. 

  Up until now, they're best known as a fishmonger on Broadway Market (and they also supply London's restaurants like Brat, for their turbot, Lyles, Smoking Goat and more). Now they're trying something new - but they're not going far to do so. They'll be launching Bar Flounder, just around the

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• The Seafood Bar from Amsterdam lands in Soho

  

  This sustainability-focused restaurant first opened in Amsterdam and has found a space in Soho for its London debut (taking over the space that was The Ref Fort). Expect towers of shellfish and lots more.

• The Sea, The Sea flows onwards to Haggerston

  

  9/6/21 - Updated with images, booking details and opening date

  Fishmonger/wine bar/seafood restaurant The Sea, The Sea has been a big hit since it landed in Chelsea on Pavillion Road. That's particularly down to the food by Leo Carreira (the chef previously behind Londrino) which Marina O'Loughlin

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• Test Driving J Sheekey - a London institution celebrating its 125th birthday

  

  Truly a London institution, Sheekey's celebrates a landmark birthday this year. We revisted the Covent Garden restaurant to see how they're looking at 125 years young.

• J.Sheekey is reopening with a weatherproofed year-round terrace

  

  It was one of the last places we visited before the Christmas lockdown, but fans of Covent Garden restaurant J. Sheekey will be aware that the restaurant had yet to reopen its doors this summer. Turns out a 125 year old restaurant needs a bit of work done to look its best, so they've been spending that time giving it a bit of a refurb.

  To that end, Sheekeys is getting ready to open again this month and probably the biggest

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