Soho

• Fancy dining with Batman? Park Row, a DC Comics Universe restaurant is coming to London

  

  Taking over the space where Mash restaurant was, this is a huge DC Comics experience - with a big lean towards Batman in particular. Expect a multi-room experience that's inspired by Gotham City. 

• Big Mamma's Napoli Gang is popping up in Soho

  

  They may have only recently opened Ave Mario in Covent Garden and before that Circolo Popolare in Fitzrovia - but before now Big Mamma hadn't occupied the space in between, Soho. But now they're planning a month-long pop-ip of Napoli Gang. 

  Napoli Gang is their (until now) delivery-only offshoot. This August it will be popping up in the Soho Fiorucci flagship store on Brewer Street. There you'll be able to pick

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• Top Argentine chef Fernando Trocca is opening Sucre in Soho (with a world class bar Abajo downstairs)

  

  One of Latin America's top chefs is teaming up with one of the regions top mixologists for a London restaurant and cocktail bar opening that should be as huge as it sounds.

• Bar Crispin is a new natural wine bar for Soho

  

  The people behind Crispin in Spitalfields are coming to Soho with a new natural wine bar (backed up by a great snacks list). 

• Kasa & Kin is a new Filipino cafe and restaurant in Soho from Romulo Café

  

  The people behind Kensington's Romulo Café & Restaurant are coming to Soho for their next opening - Kasa and Kin.

  This will be a combination of all-day restaurant & bar, bakery and patisserie, all centred in Filipino cuisine. At this stage, we know more about what will be happening with the pattiserie. On that menu will be pandesal bread

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• SOMA is the new standalone bar in Soho from Kricket

  

  The people behind Kricket are getting ready to open something new, and quite different from before. This time it's a standalone basement bar in Soho, called SOMA, taking over the building right next door to Kricket Soho (which used to be a club and karaoke bar). 

  SOMA will still carry on the Indian influences that you'll see in Kricket, and more besides with drinks

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• Test Driving the new Mr Ji - where the people behind TOU and TA TA Eatery have taken over the menu

   

  Taiwanese chicken emporium Mr Ji has had a major overhaul with a brand new menu from a talented team. We went down for a look...

• Pam's in Soho takes over from The Diner

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  If you've been around Soho, you might have noticed a new bar and restaurant called Pam's. It turns out that it's from Barworks, the same people behind The Diner as well as Mare Street Market, who have completely relaunched that site with a new look, name and new menu too. The aim was to make it a more casual space than before and they told Hot Dinners they want it to be

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• Hongdae Pocha is a new Korean pub in the heart of Soho

  

  Bringing Korean drinking culture to London, Hongdae Pocha is serving up hotpots, soju cocktails and more.

• Rudy's Neapolitan Pizza heads down south to open in Soho

   

  Updated 25/5/21 with opening date and soft launch offer

  As things open up again, it's time for another new London pizzeria, but this one has had success elsewhere first. Rudy's Neapolitan Pizza has been mainly serving pizzas in the north - in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham and they've been very popular there. But they've now headed south, straight into Soho,

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• Tendril are back with a plant-based menu at the Sun & 13 Cantons in Soho

  

  After a brief reopening late last year, Soho's Sun and 13 Cantons is back and continuing its series of very interesting pop-ups (they hosted Darjeeling Express before Asma Khan opened their first restaurant) and it's a continuation of the last - Tendril.

  It comes from Rishim Sachdeva, previously at Chiltern Firehouse, Almeida and The Dairy and who is now going it alone with Tendril, serving up a plant-based

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• Humble Chicken will be Angelo Sato's Soho yakitori bar

  

  Chef Angelo Sato brings a slice of Japan's yakitori style to the heart of Soho with a restaurant focused on using every part of the chicken.

• Imad's Syrian Kitchen pops up in Carnaby with a falafel bar

  

  It's been a bit of a wait but we're finally getting closer to the opening of Imad's Syrian Kitchen, which sees the former sell-out pop-up, settling down in Kingly Court. But while we wait for the opening in May, Imad Alarnab is back to his pop-up roots with a new Falafel

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• INO is a new Soho Greek grill restaurant from OPSO

  

  OPSO's new restaurant in Soho is all about live-fire grilling over charcoal. Expect plenty of meat and fish grilling, alongside an ever-changing Greek wine list. 

• El Pastor is opening a new Taqueria in Soho (taking over the Hix location)

  

  Taking over the old Hix space, El Pastor's latest Mexican restaurant is landing in Soho. Alongside tacos and tostadas, they'll have a bar with a "house party vibe" in the basement too.