The City of London

• Test Driving Kolamba East - the Sri Lanka restaurant comes to the City

  

  Five years after opening in Soho, Kolamba have gone east for their second restaurant, bringing Sri Lankan food to the City. We went down to try Kolamba East.  

• BAO City is coming, with bonus karaoke

  

  It’s a good day for fans of steamed milk buns, with the news that BAO London is opening its new BAO City outlet. This will be the seventh restaurant from the Taiwanese group that has an extraordinary reach across London, with outlets in Soho, ...

• Test Driving Stem + Stem - a triple threat in the City of wine bar, restaurant and florist

  

  With an experienced team behind it, this florist, wine bar and restaurant in the heart of the City is offering something fresh and new to Londoners. We went to check out Stem + Stem by Mansion House. 

• A Christmas-themed bar is popping up in London for summer

  

  Does December 25th seem impossibly far away at the moment? Well, you'll get a chance to get your festive fix in August as a new, hidden Christmassy bar is popping up in London.

  It's being set up by DesignMyNight, who are taking over Merchant House in the City with a speakeasy-style bar that's "hidden behind a secret toilet door". Head inside and they're promising to turn the tiny 12-seater space into one that's decked out with tinsel, baubles

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• Test Driving Los Mochis City - sushi and tacos against a high rise backdrop

  

  It's already one of the buzziest new openings in the City. We took the lift up to the rooftop at Los Mochis City to check out the scene for ourselves. 

• Uber Eats' Restaurant of the Year Sandwich Sandwich is coming to London

  

  12/7/24 - updated with the opening date

  They've been, literally, huge in Bristol and now the winners of the Uber Eats Restaurant of the Year award are getting ready to bring their massive sandwiches to London. 

  The person behind it is Josh Kleiner, who runs the sandwich business with his dad and brother, and they already have five sandwich shops in

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• Selin Kiazim is back with Leydi, a Turkish restaurant in the City

  

  We already knew that the new Ennismore hotel, Hyde London City, was planning a new restaurant for when it opened, opposite the Old Bailey. Now we're able to reveal what was pretty much an open secret, that Selin Kiazim, the chef behind Oklava and Kyseri, is going to

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• Sweetings

  Seafood restaurant that's a London institution

• The Ned

  Soho House's impressive hotel and collection of restaurants in the City

• Bob Bob Ricard City

  Bob Bob Ricard's lavish City outpost

• Origin City

  Seasonal food in the City

• Roti King are bringing their Malaysian street food to Spitalfields

  

  Roti King has been on the expansion drive of late, having recently opened at Waterloo and Battersea alongside the original Euston restaurant. Now the specialists in Malaysian street food are getting ready to open in the City. 

  The new spot is opening on Artillery Lane, just off Bishopsgate. While we don't know too much about the restaurant yet, we do know it'll be a two-floored

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• Test Driving Cloth - an excellent wine-led bistro in historical City surroundings

  

  Cloth sees some very knowledgeable wine folk teaming up with a chef with an enviable CV, all in a properly historical City of London building. We went down to take a look.  

• Ex-D&D CEO Des Gunewardena is launching Engel and Jang at The Royal Exchange

  

  15/4/24 - updated with full details

  He stepped away from D&D in 2022 (he was one of the Ds) and now Des Gunewardena has announced his first solo venture - which is a pretty big one. 

  He's launching not one, but two new "concepts" at the Royal Exchange, called Engel and Jang. They will take over the North South and East mezzanines above the

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• The Tipperary, London's "oldest" Irish pub in the City is reopening with a complete makeover

  

  26/3/24 - updated with opening details

  It's been closed since 2020 but now the pub that's touted as being London's oldest Irish pub, although that claim is contested, is coming back.

  Long a City haunt - there's been a pub on this spot since the 15th century with the current building dating back to just after the Great Fire of London

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