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Base Face Pizza are coming to Richmond

Information: 13 June 2025

They already have pizzerias in Putney and Barnes and now Base Face Pizza are getting ready to open their next location a little further west in Richmond. It's planned to be their flagship space,...

Latin American restaurant Tigermilk is big in France and now it's coming to London

Information: 12 June 2025

12/6/25 - soft launch details added They have multiple restaurants across France (as well as one in Brussels) and now French restaurant group Tigermilk are getting ready to open in London too. But...

BAO are going back in time with £3.50 baos for their 10th birthday

Information: 11 June 2025

Lord knows that London is not the cheapest of cities to live in. Add that to the general cost of living crisis we're in and we're all, bar a few billionaires, feeling the pinch. So the news that...

Fink's are taking over the Clissold Park cafe in Stoke Newington

Information: 11 June 2025

It's been rumoured for months now, but yesterday the folks at North London cafe group Fink's announced that they would be taking over the cafe space at Clissold House in Stoke Newington. "It’s the...

La Mia Mamma brings its mammas to Battersea

Information: 11 June 2025

They already have restaurants in Chelsea and Notting Hill (not to mention seafood spin-off Fish & Bubbles) and now La Mia Mamma has just opened its latest restaurant in Battersea. If you're not...

The Ritz crowned best restaurant in the UK by the National Restaurant Awards 2025 - here's the full list

Information: 09 June 2025

It's been quite the journey for The Ritz under its Executive Chef, John Williams. Easily one of the best restaurants in London for a while, it took far too long to get its second Michelin star, but...

Ravneet Gill unveils her chophouse restaurant Gina

Information: 09 June 2025

Ravneet Gill has been a big name in the London restaurant scene for many years, with three cookbooks under her belt, time spent working at restaurants like St John and Black Axe Mangal, not to...

Rudy's takes over the old Dairy spot on Clapham Common

Information: 06 June 2025

They nabbed second place at this year's UK's Best Pizza Awards and now Rudy's Pizza Napoletana are gearing up to open their first neighbourhood restaurant in London. The Neapolitan pizzeria is...

London has just two restaurants on the World's 50 Best Restaurants 51-100 list

Information: 05 June 2025

It's a couple of weeks until the World's 50 Best Restaurants unveils its list for 2025, but in advance of that, they always release the long-list of 51-100. This year sees a big demotion for London as we...

Lai Rai hopes to entice Peckham folk with its Vietnamese snacks and cocktails

Information: 05 June 2025

5/6/25 - updated with the opening date Peckham is getting an all-day, new school Vietnamese cafe which morphs into a canteen with a cocktail offering in the evenings. Let us elaborate on that. By...

The team behind Ibai are opening Harley's butcher and rotisserie in Hampstead

Information: 05 June 2025

5/6/25 - updated with the opening date With the weather looking, at least temporarily, fine and sunny, barbecue season is again a possibility. So the upcoming opening of extremely promising new...

Little Fires will serve up rare mezcals and Oaxacan small plates in Shoreditch

Information: 05 June 2025

It's all change at East London bar Alfie's, which this summer is being transformed into a little slice of Oaxaca, Little Fires. And rather than just saying it's going to be Mexican-inspired, they've got...

Lardo is opening Bastardo, its new next-door wine bar

Information: 04 June 2025

It's been promised for a few weeks and now Lardo's new wine bar is nearly upon us. Bastardo is opening right next door to the popular East London pizzeria, and as their window proclaims, it's...

Rastro is Leather Lane's hip new sandwich bar

Information: 04 June 2025

A few years ago we brought you the news about an interesting new Mediterranean sandwich bar Rastro, which had just opened up in East London. Now the same team, which included two Allegra alum moving...

HBR brings smashburgers to Victoria via Kuwait

Information: 03 June 2025

The current smashburger craze shows no sign of slowing down and a brand new addition (at least to this country) has just arrived in Victoria. HBR first started in Kuwait, and this London opening is...

A crazy Guinness milkshake is coming to London

Information: 02 June 2025

Even before the opening of the big new Guinness HQ in Covent Garden later this year, there's been talk of whether we've yet reached "peak Guinness" in London (our feature suggested not). Well, this...

With a bar in the old banking vault, Aki is a swanky new Japanese opening on Cavendish Square

Information: 02 June 2025

London's old banks have proved to be a rich source of venues for London's restaurant and bar scene in recent years. Now, over on Cavendish Square behind Oxford Circus, a £15 million refurb of a...

Kerb is launching a weekly street food market in White City

Information: 02 June 2025

A new street food market comes to London, courtesy of Kerb. They're heading west for the first time, opening in White City Place. There will be seven traders on offer at all times, in a line-up that...

A Twin Peaks diner and a Wes Anderson bar are both popping up in London this summer

Information: 30 May 2025

We love a well-themed pop up and this summer, London has two good ones to choose from. To start with, there's the Wes Anderson-themed takeover of the bar at Bob Bob Ricard in Soho. The downstairs...

Tom Kerridge's Butcher's Tap is being relaunched as The Chalk Freehouse

Information: 30 May 2025

Earlier this week, there was news that Tom Kerridge's Chelsea pub, The Butcher's Tap and Grill was closing, with the team behind it saying it gave them "an opportunity to regroup, rethink and...

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