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Calum Franklin is delivering a special Coronation Pie

Information: 24 April 2023

If you've been missing some Calum Franklin pie action from the pie maker extraordinaire, then you'll be pleased to know that he's making a special return for the coronation with a brand-new pie...

Chishuru chef Adejoké Bakare’s pop-up is coming to Borough Market’s Globe Tavern

Information: 24 April 2023

This summer there's another enticing reason to visit Borough Market, with word of West African chef Adejoké (‘Joké’) Bakare’s forthcoming pop-up at Globe Tavern. The two-month residency, Joké &...

Harvest is Jesse Dunford Wood's new Kensal Rise restaurant

Information: 24 April 2023

24/4/23 - Updated with the opening date Jesse Dunford Wood, the chef behind Parlour and Six Portland Road, is getting ready to open his third restaurant, called Harvest. It'll be his second in...

Chungdam brings Korean BBQ and Pyeonbaek steam boxes to Soho

Information: 21 April 2023

There’s a new place in Soho for all your Korean-BBQ needs, with Chungdam now open on the former YMing Chinese restaurant site. Well-travelled destination diners might twig that it’s named after one...

The Gothic Bar is opening at The Midland Grand Dining Room in King’s Cross

Information: 21 April 2023

If you’re knocking about King’s Cross and looking for a new bar, then why not head for one of London’s major landmarks, the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel (also where the Spice Girls filmed their...

Terra Moderna is a new Antipodean-Italian restaurant in Belsize Park

Information: 21 April 2023

It’s starting to feel like ‘Antipodean-influenced’ needs to be a whole new subgenre of restaurants, such is its rise in London launches. Belsize Park is now home to a modern Italian restaurant that...

Passyunk Avenue comes to Nine Elms, bringing an American dive bar to the US Embassy

Information: 20 April 2023

Every now and again a restaurant or bar will open in what's pretty much the perfect location for it - and that's what it looks like with the latest outpost of Passyunk Avenue. The American dive bar...

Rastro serves up Mediterranean sandwiches and espressos in Bethnal Green

Information: 19 April 2023

An Instagram post by Allegra chef Patrick Powell alerted us to the arrival of a new cafe on Bethnal Green Road. Rastro is the first project from a team who've worked at a range of hospitality...

Amethyst in Mayfair is opening Vinum wine bar underneath its restaurant

Information: 18 April 2023

Back when we first visited Carlo Scotto's restaurant Amethyst, we spotted that there was quite a lovely downstairs bar space. But the exacting chef wanted to get his restaurant operating perfectly...

Big Mamma to open the more intimate Carlotta restaurant in Marylebone

Information: 18 April 2023

Updated 18/4/23 with opening date Not resting on their laurels, having only just opened Jacuzzi in Kensington, Big Mamma are getting ready for their next restaurant, Carlotta in Marylebone. As...

The Marksman team to open Lasdun at The National Theatre

Information: 17 April 2023

17/4/22 - Updated with the opening date It's been eight years since The Marksman launched in Hackney, very quickly becoming one of the best pubs and restaurants not only in the area, but in the...

These Days are opening an aperitivo bar on Bermondsey Beer Mile

Information: 17 April 2023

You've got to admire the chutzpah of spritz brand These Days who have picked Bermondsey's Beer Mile as the place they've decided to open their first bar. From this summer anyone in the area who...

The Southern-style Americana comes to Haymarket

Information: 17 April 2023

Southern food is making a return to central London - in a somewhat unexpected guise. Americana launched a couple of weeks back, taking over a big ex-Byron site and seems a pretty large restaurant to...

Lilienblum is the latest restaurant from Miznon's Eyal Shani, coming to Old Street

Information: 14 April 2023

Things move pretty fast in restaurant news, and we like it when a chef keeps us on our toes. As we previously told you, Eyal Shani, founder of much-hyped Miznon (part of his 40+ global restaurant...

Noci pasta restaurant is opening at Battersea Power Station

Information: 13 April 2023

They've already been quite the hit in Islington, now the team behind pasta restaurant Noci are heading south of the river to Battersea for their second place. This is part of a raft of new openings at...

Browns Covent Garden reopens with a new Scottish-themed Spey Bar

Information: 12 April 2023

Welcoming their 50th birthday with a £2.5 million refurbishment, Browns Covent Garden has had quite the refit, with a new art deco look. It's also opened a new drinking venue on its first floor...

Midland Grand Dining Room by Patrick Powell in King's Cross replaces The Gilbert Scott

Information: 12 April 2023

12/04/23 - updated with opening date It was one of the most impressive spaces in the St. Pancras Renaissance as The Gilbert Scott and now, after that closed in mid-2021, the restaurant is to be...

Cocktails in the City sets out its 2023 plans

Information: 11 April 2023

Cocktail enthusiasts, sit up. This summer sees the return of Cocktails in the City to London’s Bedford Square Gardens. There’ll be the usual masterclasses, tastings, interactive games, live music,...

Get Baked, Leeds’ cult bakery, comes to Islington’s Neighbourhood restaurant

Information: 11 April 2023

There’s a new dessert offering at Islington’s Neighbourhood restaurant and it comes courtesy of Leeds’ famed Get Baked bakery. If the name rings bells, you may recall its rise to fame in late 2021,...

Tried and tested - the Bouchon Racine and Swaledale Toulouse sausages

Information: 06 April 2023

It's fair to say that Bouchon Racine is one of London's hottest restaurants right now. Henry Harris and Dave Strauss' Farringdon pub and restaurant has been crammed since opening before Christmas...

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