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We've been reading about Whisht for a while - who started selling sandwiches with an Irish twist during the most recent lockdown. Now that we've all properly emerged from lockdown, Whisht have done the...

The team behind some of London's greatest Indian restaurants is behind Bibi, which puts its main development chef in charge of the kitchen. 

As former Head Chef of London's only Michelin-starred pub, it's fair to say that Sally Abé knows how to construct a winning pub menu. So it's perhaps no surprise that she's been brought into the...

Coming to Covent Garden this summer is a new restaurant that's all about two types of flatbread: manakish or naan. They're taking over an old Starbucks (we're noticing a trend of chain coffee shops...

30/4/21 - updated with the opening date. While we don't think the queues are going to be quite as long (over 10 hours) as the ones when they opened in Earl's Court, the news that Jollibee is opening on...

The Italian food and wine marketplace gets ready to open their first London opening in the heart of the City at Broadgate.

You win some. You lose some. No sooner were we able to share the news that Notting Hill's The Cow had survived its license review by Westminster council, than the story dropped that one of Soho's...

Update 28/4/21 - looks like good things do happen to nice people, as we've just heard that Westminster Council has approved the pub's reopening. "We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the...

Updated 28/4/21 with menu and opening date A new Italian restaurant is coming to Fitzrovia, via Brighton. The original Cin Cin has been a hit and also won a Michelin Bib Gourmand. They've now...

We've had bars where you can play cricket, and where you can enjoy darts and crazy golf, now we have one where you can play football. Opening up in the O2 is Toca Social, which mixes up food and...

Continuing our intermittent series on London hotels who have repurposed their entrances into alfresco restaurants (so far we've had The Dorchester and The Savoy), now the Treehouse Hotel London on...

There's definitely a sense of normality returning when restaurants start launching special dishes - and Flat Iron's new steak sandwich looks like it's worth emerging from lockdown for.  Designed by their...

It skipped a year for 2020, for obvious reasons, but the World's 50 Best ceremony is making a comeback later this year.  Plans have been confirmed for the awards ceremony to take place on 5 October...

News broke on social last night that one of London's best known Jewish delis was about to close its doors for good. Harry Morgan first opened in St John's Wood way back in 1948, winning itself a...

While restaurants are slowly getting back to business, the delivery side of hospitality has been changed forever by the pandemic and various lockdowns. But while some restaurants are backing away...

Updated 23/4/21 with opening date Highgate is about to get a new Irish pub and the people behind it have an interesting background. Called Brendan the Navigator, it's going to open on Highgate Hill,...

In what should be its biggest restaurant yet by far, Robert Costa's Macellaio RC (somehow, we've only now just realised what the RC stands for...) is heading up to Shaftesbury Avenue. It's taking...

Over in Chelsea, Sloane Square has been taken over by not one but two neighbouring restaurants, keen to make the most of the alfresco space. First up there's Colbert which has brought back its...

Fancy playing cricket indoors? This bar matches indoor cricket nets with food by Mac & Wild. 

 Top Italian sommelier Maurizio Titone joins forces with entrepreneur Marco Petrozzi for this boutique wine bar on Archway Road.