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A Hot Dinners exclusive Ruth's is a new neighbourhood restaurant and bar coming to Putney, and it's got an impressive team behind it.  It's a team-up between Ed Baillieu and Callum Ross, who...

After so many Italian restaurant openings, it's refreshing to be talking about something different throwing open its doors in London next month. Dim Sum Library is a Hong Kong import by the Aqua...

If there's one place that London effortlessly outflanks Paris, it's the train station experience at St Pancras as opposed to the Gare du Nord. Now commuters have one more place to add to the slew of...

We've been updating our guide to Christmas Day restaurants throughout the season, but every now and again one comes up that deserves special mention. If you're looking for the ideal present for a...

Ever since we heard that Petersham Nurseries had shut both their restaurants in central London, we've been wondering what was going to take over those spaces in Floral Court. Well, now we have the...

26/11/25 - updated with the opening date and traders revealed. Once thought to have been dealt a killing blow by the lockdowns, the past couple of years have been a boom time for food halls. The...

The space that was The Good Egg at Eat 17 in Walthamstow has just undergone a big transformation. They've teamed up with the people behind East London's Proud Mary olive oil to launch Proud Mary...

You've got to do a lot to stand out against the competition, particularly in London's dynamic food and wine scene. So we applaud the folk behind new E17 wine and listening bar Olfaclub for doing...

27/11/25 - updated with details about the restaurants. Promising to be one of 2026's biggest openings, The Admiralty Arch - one of London's truly iconic buildings - is currently being transformed...

Restaurateur Martin Kuczmarski is a busy man. Just days after opening Martino's, his follow-up restaurant to The Dover, in Chelsea he's at it again. Now he's gearing up to open another space on...

If you're a Chelsea resident you may have spotted a lot of work going on in the former Hugo Boss store on the corner of Sloane Square, right opposite the tube station. But what's been kept on the QT...

We're always going to be interested in the arrival of a hot new noodle restaurant. But the one being unveiled in Chinatown next month sounds like it's really bringing something new to the table. San Hao is...

News broke yesterday of the sudden death of one of the most interesting chefs on the London and UK restaurant scene. After a short illness, having been diagnosed with a rare skin cancer last year,...

Every now and then, a new opening manages to happen under our radar, but this latest one really is a proper surprise. It turns out that Automat has quietly returned to Mayfair, opening just around...

They've only just opened in Soho, but Brother Marcus are clearly on the expansion trail as they have another restaurant almost ready to go. This time, they're opening in Victoria,  2026 will be...

Pasta restaurant Bancone already has four restaurants across town (Soho, Covent Garden, Kensington and Borough), and now it looks like they're getting ready to open a fifth. They've just applied for...

Mediterranean restaurant Jul's started life in Ibiza in 2018 and the same team also opened Humain restaurant in Athens. Now the team are getting ready to bring Jul's restaurant to London, opening in...

As proof that London's Mexican food scene is getting better by the day, comes a new opening in Peckham that genuinely sounds worth crossing town for. Maíz's USP is that it's the city's first Mexican...

Ready for even more burgers? The latest addition is a burger restaurant from Dubai that's found a home in Knightsbridge.  GOAT's London outpost is its first outside the UAE, and it's taking over the...

Love him or loathe him, you can't get away from Eating With Tod on social if you're even remotely interested in London's food scene. And while the food influencer has his detractors, there's no...