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5/4/24 - Updated with the Hammersmith opening date Flat Iron is doing very, very well indeed. The mini steak chain, originally launched by The Devonshire's Charlie Carroll, has enjoyed plenty of...

His time at Birch in Croydon was cut short, but Lee Westcott is staying in London for his next two ventures. He's apparently on the hunt for an East London pub but before that happens, he's setting...

3/4/24 - updated with new details and the opening date Holland Park restaurant Julie's, despite once being one of the hottest restaurants in town, has had a troubled time of late. The restaurant, which once...

2/4/24 - Updated with the opening date We've known for a while that the team behind Fallow were opening in Canary Wharf and now we know what the restaurant will be called - Roe.  Similar to Fallow...

With restaurants in Spitalfields, Soho and Camden, fish and chips purveyors Poppies have headed west for the first time, opening on Portobello Road, Their new restaurant takes over what used to be a...

It seems like only yesterday that you couldn't move on social media for photos of extraordinary grazing and charcuterie boards. Well now one of the UK's most popular accounts has decided to parlay...

Islington is starting to do very well indeed when it comes to great bakeries. We already have Jolene and Pophams, Quince opened only a couple of months ago and now there's the arrival of Sourdough...

Updated with the opening date and soft launch If you’re looking to go somewhere particularly fancy, or if you have a penchant for fine caviar, do step this way. It’s our duty to inform you that...

A new restaurant called All’onda is coming to Fitzrovia and it's all centred around risotto.  Founded by Cordula Schulz, whose apparent passion for risotto drives the restaurant, she's brought in Andrea...

Over the years we've enjoyed trying to pull the wool over your eyes with some food-specific April fooling of our own. Here's a round-up of what we've done so far: 2011: René Redzepi gets funding to...

Update: You guessed it, this was our 2024 April Fool. To see all the April Fool stories we've ever run, click here. Now that spring is officially here and the clocks have gone forward, the next...

Smyth is the restaurant that Jeremy Allen White said his character's restaurant in Season 2 of the Bear took inspiration from, and now Londoners can try the food of the restaurant's CDP when she...

To celebrate its 275th birthday, and there aren't many London businesses who can say that, high-end wine and whisky merchant Justerini & Brooks has opened a swanky shop and tasting rooms in the...

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...

It's all change at the Hart Shoreditch hotel where Latin American residency Mostrador is giving way to UBA a Pan-Asian restaurant. Heading up the kitchens is chef Paul Greening who was previously...

Another high-profile restaurant closure has been announced, with Jason Atherton's Mayfair restaurant Pollen Street Social due to shut its doors at the end of July. The chef announced the closure on...

25/3/24 - Updated with the opening date Billed as a London 'first' the arrival of Mexican churreria Aguamiel aims to introduce Londoners to the joys of Mexican churros. If, like us, you weren't sure...

Updated with the opening date Opening in the spring but confusingly named after a summer month, July is going to be an Alsatian-inspired restaurant and wine bar hitting up Charlotte Street. And...

If you haven’t had Ladywell on your radar, now might be the time to put this little place in SE London’s Lewisham on your destination dining list, given the arrival of Wilson’s restaurant. This new...

Updated 13/3/25 with new restaurant name If we told you there’s a new all-day dining concept coming to the art’otel, you might be thinking of Battersea Power Station, but we have some...