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• Test Driving Ibai - a stellar Basque steakhouse in the City

  

  Brilliant Basque food and great steaks a few minutes walk from Smithfield Market make Ibai worth crossing town for.

• Test Driving Tollington's - the Four Legs crew turn a chippy into a Spanish fish bar

  

  A fish and chip shop in Finsbury Park has been given a new lease of life with the arrival of the Four Legs team. We popped down to Tollington's to check out this North London chipper meets Spanish fish bar.

• Tollington's sees the Four Legs team opening a Spanish fish bar in Finsbury Park

  

  Updated 22/6/24 with new images, menu details and opening date

  Finsbury Park folk are going to feel deeply smug this summer when the Four Legs team open their second place. Not only will they have their top pub The Plimsoll on their doorstep, but they'll also be able to wander up Stroud Green Road to try out the crew's new restaurant,

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• Bar Kroketa are heading to Oxford Street with their croquetas

  

  Updated 29/5/24 with opening date and more details

  Back in 2022 when Brindisa opened their spin-off restaurant, Bar Kroketa, devoted to all things croquetas, we were early fans. So we're very much behind the news that they're getting ready to expand with a second restaurant.

  They've taken

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• Bar Douro

  Portuguese food by London Bridge

• Jose Pizarro at the Royal Academy

  Top Spanish chef Jose Pizarro gets arty

• Sabor gets a refresh, adding new group table La Mesa

  

  Nieves Barragan and José Etura's Sabor is coming back from the Christmas holidays looking a little different than before. Previously a bar space, right inside the front door you'll notice something quite different - a new table for 10 people. This is La Mesa. 

  Its main use will be a group table that you can book on the ground floor, where you can order both dishes from the main counter as

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• Sherry Week is back in London for its 10th edition

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  Whether you're already a dedicated fan of sherry, or interested to discover more about these wonderful wines there's a week of activity happening in London that should be right up your street.

  For its 10th anniversary Sherry Week (6-12 November), the largest annual festival of Sherry wines in the world, is pulling out all the stops this year with a range of

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• Camino in King's Cross is opening an aperitivo bar on Pentonville

  

  King's Cross residents and workers have long loved the hidden spot Camino, tucked away in Vanisher's Yard off the main drag. But the Spanish spot will soon be a lot less of a hidden gem once it opens its new Pentonville Road-facing bar. As part of a big development, Camino has taken over the old luggage shop on Pentonville and turned it into an aperitivo bar that'll also be a new entrance for the restaurant

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• From Spain via the Ukraine, Boca a Boca will serve up tapas on Charlotte Street

  

  War may be ravaging their country, but Ukrainians are still getting up every day and going to work and that includes opening new restaurants. And one that opened its doors in Kyiv last year is getting ready to expand to London. Boca a Boca was set up by Ukrainian entrepreneur, Andrii Nikonov, who wanted to open somewhere in Kyiv to share his love of Spanish food.

  Now he's bringing Boca a Boca to London where

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• Broken Eggs is London's first tortilla restaurant

  

  London's already got a restaurant devoted to croquetas, so perhaps it isn't surprising that someone's now decided to open a Spanish restaurant specialising in tortilla.

  Siblings Gabriel and Marta are the brains behind Broken Eggs which has been doing delivery for the past year. Now they're getting

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• The Campaner at Chelsea Barracks sees Barcelona's Martinez team take on London

  

  Updated 2/5/23 with new opening date

  In Barcelona, Terraza Martinez is best known for being the place to enjoy a seafood paella overlooking the sea from their position on the slopes of Montjuic. So it's going to be very interesting to see what the team behind that do with their first London restaurant.

  The Campaner (the name means bell ringer in Spanish) is taking over the

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• Test Driving Bar Kroketa - a hugely appealing slice of Spain in Carnaby

  

  Carnaby has an appealing new Spanish bar celebrating croquetas. We went to work our way through the list...

• La Gamba sees Applebee's serve up Spanish tapas on the South Bank

  

  Applebee's Fish, which first started as a stall in Borough Market, is trying something new. The brothers behind it, Jack, Harry and Matthew Applebee are opening Spanish tapas restaurant La Gamba in the Southbank Centre. 

  They'll be largely concentrating on the north-western Galician region, with a particular (but not sole) focus on seafood dishes, which makes sense, given

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• Maresco sees team behind North London's Bar Esteban and Escocesa hit Soho

  

  "We should have been open months ago," says Maresco's owner Stephen Lironi in the bright but slightly punchdrunk way of anyone trying to open a restaurant in London in the current climate. Apparently, energy supplies have been the last remaining piece in the puzzle for this Spanish, by way of Scotland, seafood restaurant that's just getting ready to open its doors in Soho.

  The whole project has actually been five

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