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Updated 21/4/25 with opening date and more details A few weeks back, we wrote about how Filipino bakery Panadera was being forced to close in Kentish Town. Owner and co-founder Florence Mae talked then...

17/4/25 - updated with the opening date This PYRO comes from chef Yiannis Mexis, previously at Elystan Street, The Ledbury and Petrus and most recently head chef at HIDE. It sounds not entirely...

Being the chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant isn't an easy task, so you can totally understand why they might want to swap the pressures of that job for one that's a bit more fun. That's the new...

He already has a Michelin star for his first restaurant, Casa Fofo, now chef Adolfo De Cecco is getting ready to open his second pplace, not too far away on Stoke Newington Road.  The new place is...

It's been planned since late 2023 but now Stevie Parle is getting ready to unveil his new restaurant, Town in Covent Garden.  The chef, who in recent years was best known for his post-lockdown hit Joy, has...

He may have recently left The Brave, but chef James Cochran hasn't left Islington. Instead, he's about to take over the food menu at Little Bat cocktail bar. Little Bat is from the same people...

It's been open on the QT for the last few months but only now has The Fat Badger officially opened for business. If you haven't heard of Notting Hill's worst-kept secret, then let us enlighten you...

11/4/25 - updated with the opening date It's been nearly three years since it opened in Soho and now Middle-Eastern plant-based restaurant Bubala is getting ready for its next opening, this time in...

If you're an East Dulwich local, you may have been wondering what was happening at the old Il Mirto site on Melbourne Grove. We can now reveal that it's going to be a very interesting new...

11/4/25 - updated with the opening date and more details With the closures of both DH Evans and Debenhams on Oxford Street, at least one of the department stores left is planning to be in there for...

Updated 10/4/25 opening date On Kensington High Street, one burger chain has closed to be replaced with another - albeit with the added bonus of lobster. The new owners are Burger and Lobster and...

Well this IS a story. If you've been roaming through Mayfair recently and wondered what's happening with the building site on the corner of Curzon Street and Bolton Street (where Mirabelle used to...

We're assured that this isn't a very late April's Fool. Instead, South London food hall Market Place Vauxhall is getting in on the two big London trends - having a dog and splitting the G - for...

9/4/25 - updated with a look at the store It's been a while since we've had a mad pop-up in Soho, but this next one certainly qualifies. It comes from KitKat and, for reasons which we can't quite...

It's clear that Kricket is on the expansion trail because, hot on the heels of their Canary Wharf and Shoreditch openings, they're already planning their next restaurant in Covent Garden.  At this point few...

The last year has seen a fair bit of upheaval over on Pollen Street. First Jason Atherton announced he was turning his Michelin-starred flagship restaurant into burger bar Mary's. That duly opened, with...

Following the recently opened Tatar Bunar, another new Ukrainian restaurant is coming to London. Sino comes from Polina Sychova and chef Eugene Korolev, the latter who has worked at Michelin-starred...

9/4/25 - updated with new pics and an opening date You may have spotted videos on your social (or maybe it's just our algorithm) of a rise in London pubs offering proper sing songs, whether that's trad...

For the past seven years they've been serving up top class sushi on the South Bank. But now the owners of Hannah at County Hall are switching things up a bit, according to Code Hospitality...

Around this time last year, Jason Atherton announced the closure of his (then) flagship restaurant Pollen Street Social. A few months later, in August, that restaurant was given a light do-over and...