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- Chicken Shop and Ynyshir's Gareth Ward are teaming up for a one-day-only burger
Haven't yet had the chance to make it up to one of the UK's best restaurant Ynyshir yet? Or maybe you haven't even been able to get a booking? Well, now Ynyshir's Gareth Ward is coming to London instead and is teaming up with Carl Clarke for a special Chicken Shop burger.
Bonding through a "shared love of music and rave culture", the pair have teamed up to
... - Filipino bakery and cafe Panadera is opening in Soho
Updated 21/4/25 with opening date and more details
A few weeks back, we wrote about how Filipino bakery Panadera was being forced to close in Kentish Town. Owner and co-founder Florence Mae talked then about "operational challenges" but now it transpires that she
... - Test Driving Bodean's in Soho where Richard Turner has given the menu a welcome overhaul
Longstanding London BBQ restaurant Bodean's has been given a makeover with the arrival of legendary meat man Richard Turner. We went down to see how much things have changed.
- KitKat is bringing back a Blockbuster video pop-up to Soho
9/4/25 - updated with a look at the store
It's been a while since we've had a mad pop-up in Soho, but this next one certainly qualifies. It comes from KitKat and, for reasons which we can't quite put together, they've decided to celebrate it with a Blockbuster store on Greek Street.
Apparently (in a recent survey) Blockbuster was recently voted one of the top five
... - Black Tap Burger's massive Crazy Shakes are descending on Soho
If you've been around Piccadilly Square recently, perhaps on your way to The Devonshire right around the corner, you may have seen that Black Tap Burger is incoming. Not familiar with them? Let us help.
They're a New York burger chain, but they have already landed with one UK outpost over in Westfield Stratford. This is their much-more-central flagship London burger store, and as for
... - Test Driving 27 Old Compton Street - the late night pasta bar that's exactly what Soho needs right now
Amidst a sea of luxury openings comes a well-priced Soho spot that wants to make sitting down for a bowl of pasta and a glass of wine an easy, fun thing to do. We find that 27 Old Compton Street is very much to our taste.
- Buttered up - Soho's new single item restaurant Butter LDN is for dairy lovers only
Updated 12pm 1/4/25 - we know we've tricked a fair few of you, who've started following Butter on Insta, but this was our 2025 April Fool and one to add to our long line of April Fool's Day jokes. That said, if anyone does want to open a restaurant like this, we'd be 100% up for it.
This city loves a single item spot -
... - Seventy Five is a new restaurant inside Liberty with an Ex-Da Terra chef in charge
Somewhat out of the blue, Liberty on Regent Street is getting ready to open a brand new restaurant. It's part of their 150th anniversary celebrations, hence the name of the restaurant, Seventy Five.
It sees them teaming up with catering group Goose + Berry and while that might make you wonder if it's just another in-store restaurant, they do appear to have brought in an interesting head chef. Joe Holness has previously been at Da Terra and
... - 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
... - Marjorie's is a new contemporary wine bar and French restaurant for Soho
29/4/25 - updated with the opening date
As longstanding Hot Dinners readers should know, we do love a good wine bar. So we're very interested in combo wine bar and French restaurant Marjorie's which is opening in Soho soon.
It comes from a duo that are new to hospitality, Michael Searle & Josh Anderson but who have brought in someone very interesting on
... - 27 Old Compton Street is aiming to be Soho's hot new pasta bar
He already has two more Italian restaurants in Soho named after the street they're in, so when restaurateur Nima Safaei came around to giving his latest opening a moniker he stayed true to form, naming it after its address on Compton Street. But while this new restaurant may share a naming convention with its sibling restaurants, it's going to be quite a different beast.
The new spot is focusing on quick pasta - think of
... - Mountain
Brat's Tomos Parry in Soho
- Velvet Taco are bringing fish & chip and shepherd's pie tacos to London
Updated 28/1/25 with address
If you've never thought about putting shepherd's pie or fish and chips in a taco, then you just aren't thinking out of the box enough. Because that's what's going to be on offer when US taco chain Velvet Tacos comes to London. They've picked the UK as the first country to open outside of America.
If, like us, you hadn't heard of the company before, their USP is making
... - SOLA
Victor Garvey's Californian-inspired restaurant in Soho
- Darjeeling Express
Asma Khan's Indian restaurant, Mk III
