Soho

• Humble Chicken

  Angelo Sato's chicken small omakase restaurant

• Test of Time - we pull up a stool at the counter at Bocca di Lupo for a tour of Italy

  

  Having just celebrated its 15th birthday, Soho restaurant Bocca di Lupo is still knocking it out of the park. We headed for the counter to see why it's now such an integral part of Soho's restaurant scene.

• Grasso is a genuine family-run Italian American restaurant that's just landed in Soho

  

  It isn't often that a restaurant manages to open in the middle of Soho in a fashion that's so completely under the radar we have to wait for a reader to let us know about it. But that's the case with Grasso which threw open its doors on Dean Street just before Christmas. Even rarer, this is a restaurant that's entirely independent and family-owned.

  The family in question are the McCaffreys. Seanie runs the restaurant,

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• Test Driving Daroco London - an Italian in new-look Soho (with an excellent dive bar)

   

  Arriving in Soho via Paris, Daroco offers up an Italian menu that's backed up by a very promising basement bar. We went down to try it out.  

• Test Driving Sola 2.0, which has the big guns out for its set lunch offering

  

  Four years on from its opening, Sola in Soho has just revealed its new look following a major redesign. We returned to have a look at the new space and to check out the set lunch offering.

• Test Driving Atelier Coupette - French small plates and experimental cocktails in Soho

  

  The team behind Coupette have opened a more experimental offshoot with French small plates in Soho. We went down to see how it compares to the original.  

• Test Driving Café Kitty - the Kitty Fisher's team go to the cabaret

  

  The team behind Kitty Fisher's and Cora Pearl are the latest people to open a theatre restaurant, Cafe Kitty. We went to Underbelly Boulevard to see what they've put together.  

• Lavazza brings in Michelin-starred chefs for its new-look London store

  

  After quite the makeover Lavazza's flagship London store has reopened and now boasts a cafe, cocktail bar and restaurant. The store, opposite Liberty, has also brought in various chefs from Michelin-starred restaurants to work on the pastries and dishes they'll be serving up.

  Now when you walk through the door you'll find a caffetteria, pasticceria and gastronomia inside. In the first, it'll be

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• First look inside Broadwick Soho with its rooftop bar and oh-so-glam restaurant

  

  Broadwick Soho is a new luxury hotel about to open in the middle of Soho, with an impressive rooftop bar and terrace. We went in for an exclusive first look. 

• Park Row transforms into The Penguin's Iceberg Lounge Japanese restaurant and bar

  

  Changes are afoot at the Batman-adjacent Park Row restaurant in Soho - where the main space is now becoming The Iceberg Lounge. There was an Iceberg Lounge section of Park Row before, but this was limited to just one of the bars whereas now it'll cover the whole thing (with the exception of the immersive Monarch Theatre). 

  Delving into the comics and films for just a

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• Test Driving The Devonshire - the perfect pub and grill for Soho

   

  A new pub has arrived in Soho with a dream team attached and a very impressive grill restaurant upstairs. We take a proper look around The Devonshire.  

• SOLA in Soho is about to get twice as big

  

  Updated 27/10/23 with opening date

  Big changes are coming to Soho's Michelin-starred SOLA - it's about to become twice the size.

  The restaurant has been a fairly compact one to date (the open kitchen itself took up a fair chunk of space), seating only 24 people. The coming changes - the restaurant is closing for two months during the renovation - mean that it's about to get an entirely new

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• Test Driving Bébé Bob - Bob Bob Ricard goes all-in on chicken in Soho

  

  Bébé Bob is the offspring of Bob Bob Ricard which mixes rotisserie chicken and caviar with a bit of that Bob Bob magic. We went down to see how this mini Bob has turned out.  

• Test Driving Manzi's - the huge seafood restaurant in Soho, complete with mermaids

  

  From the group behind The Wolseley and Brasserie Zedel, Manzi's is a huge seafood restaurant in Soho with occasionally bonkers touches. We went in to try it out. 

• Supernova is serving up London's hottest new burger

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  It's been a while since someone stealthily opened an interesting new burger place in London. Back when Hot Dinners first started up we had the likes of MEATliquor popping up in the car park in Peckham and Bleecker landing a pitch on the South Bank. But in an age where everyone has a phone and every restaurant has an Insta account (and extensive marketing plan) not so much.

  That

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