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The nights may be drawing in, but one good thing about that is that it heralds the return of Forza Winter. This year's event sees them combine all their projects to date to create a communal Italian...

Not content with busying themselves with the upcoming opening of their latest restaurant Ember Yard, Ben Tish and Simon Mullins from the Salt Yard Group are also consulting on a new Soho bistro, due...

It was foodie central at the Freemasons Hall in central London tonight as the great and good of the food world gathered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Observer Food Monthly Awards. As you...

Steering very far away from the jellies that they're best known for, Bompas and Parr's next feast will see them linking up with Heavy Metal Bowling at Finsbury Park's Rowan's Bowling Lanes with...

(Updated 17/10 with more details) Covent Garden is having resurgence. Once sneered at by the food snobs for its host of cheap and tourist-targeted restaurants, in the last few years we've witnessed...

It's been a while since a new restaurant debuted on the South Bank but Topolski, which opens there on November 1, is set to change that. Named after the Topolski Century art bunker it replaces (no,...

Updated 16/10/13 with menu details Fresh from opening his laidback Soho joint Grillshack, Richard Caring is now backing another Soho-based restaurant by the duo behind it - Mark Askew and Hannah...

(Updated 15/10 with menu details) It had been a while since we heard from chef Bjorn van der Horst. There was a lot of love for his Eastside Inn when it opened where Burger & Lobster now is in...

Apparently there are forces at work to rebrand Holborn as Midtown. If they succeed, it'll probably be in part to the super glamorous new hotel that opens today - the Rosewood London. We popped along last...

With perfect timing for National Chocolate Week (14-20 October) comes news of a cocoa-based restaurant that will open in Borough Market next month. Rabot 1745 is the brainchild of the founders of...

The London Malmaison in Farringdon is currently getting a bit of a refurb and along with that, a new steak restaurant too. The new basement restaurant will be the lurid-sounding Strip Bar & Steak - its...

Burgers take on the cronut craze Over in Soho, BGRG on Wardour Street has taken the burger craze in a whole new direction with the Dessurger. It's their take on the cronut craze and features a sugar...

Not content with opening Merchants Tavern in Shoreditch and Hartnett Holder & Co in Lime Wood, Angela Hartnett is launching her second solo venture in the very building where she started her career...

We're big fans of the Langham's Artesian - and particularly Alex Kratena's Martinis - so it's great to see that it's once again topped the World's 50 Best Bars list for the second year in a row (and...

Following on from Vauxhall's Dirty Burger, Soho House are continuing their south of the river ventures and have confirmed that the second Chicken Shop will, as expected, open in Tooting (even though...

Being a successful chef these days means more than just being able to turn out top quality nosh at short notice. Instead, we increasingly look to these culinary professionals to provide us with...

North Londoners get a new Italian restaurant as Ballaro prepares to open on Haverstock Hill. Certainly the people behind it sound worth a punt - Chef Carmelo Carnivale is the former Head Chef at...

A big new Shoreditch spot, named after a neighbourhood in Queens, launches on Curtain Road this week. Far Rockaway bills itself as a place where "New York's compelling urban culture comes to the...

We've already talked about the Japanese pub being opened by Scott Hallsworth (ex Nobu and Wabi) by Marble Arch. Well while work on that continues, Scott has created a pop-up version down on the...

26 years after it first opened, the oyster bar at Bibendum is undergoing a radical redesign. The bar  has been given a comprehensive update by Sir Terence Conran and Richard Doone. The new-look bar will...