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Scottish toasties on the menu at Deeney’s new cafe at the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in Clerkenwell

Information: 15 May 2026

They're best known for their Macbeth grilled cheese sandwich with haggis, and Scottish-inspired street food folk Deeney's are hoping to introduce those toasties and more to art fans this summer...

The olive oil bar pop-up is back, this time in Covent Garden

Information: 15 May 2026

Last year, an olive oil pop-up arrived in Notting Hill and proved to be a big hit. So much so that it's back for another year, but this time heading to central London, popping up at Covent Garden. Coming...

Flat Iron's next affordable steakhouse is on Clapham Common

Information: 15 May 2026

Flat Iron are on the expansion trail again, this time getting ready to open in Clapham, taking on a newly redeveloped site just beside the common. If you've been to a Flat Iron before, you should...

Bar Blondie wine bar is taking over from Milk Beach in Queen's Park, taking Southern Europe as its new inspiration

Information: 14 May 2026

Milk Beach has a big restaurant in Soho, but they originally began life in Queen's Park. However, that first Milk Beach is about to be reborn in a new guise, Bar Blondie. The new Bar Blondie will be...

Test Driving Kawan by Uncle Roger, a textbook case of how celebrities should open restaurants in London

Information: 14 May 2026

Celebrity restaurant openings aren't new in London, but given how he roasts others for their cooking there was a lot riding on Kawan by Uncle Roger. Thankfully, it delivers.

Gordon Ramsay is taking over the restaurant at Sea Containers

Information: 13 May 2026

While the bar at Sea Containers, Lyaness by Ryan Chetiyawardana, is one of the very best in London, the restaurant at the hotel has never managed to have the same cut through. But now they're trying...

Olympia's rooftop is adding Mexican, Japanese and British restaurants and a food hall too

Information: 13 May 2026

We've already had the launch of Pillar Hall at the revamped Olympia, but that was only the start of all that's happening there. With two hotels and a big entertainment venue to come, there will also...

Cornbread madeleines and poussin with grits; Appalachia will serve up Southern food with a London polish

Information: 13 May 2026

It's all change over at the restaurant formerly known as Counter 71 in Shoreditch. The chef's table restaurant previously focused on an all-British menu. Now it's being turned into Appalachia, a...

Test Driving Ornella, the assured Hackney follow-up to Theo James & Co's hit Lupa

Information: 12 May 2026

The dream team of actor Theo James, restaurateur Ed Templeton and chef Naz Hassan has joined forces once more to open a second restaurant, Ornella, this time in Hackney. We went to see if the sequel was...

Dante Mayfair takes over as the new permanent Claridge's restaurant

Information: 11 May 2026

Since the closure of Davies & Brook back in 2021 after Daniel Humm decided to go vegan, the restaurant at Claridge's has somewhat struggled to find an identity. However, last summer saw the launch of...

New Brockley restaurant Cantinera is inspired by Mexican cantinas and Spanish tapas bars

Information: 11 May 2026

You may have encountered them in their previous guise, Codillos, popping up at Patio in Brighton and Joyce in Brockley. Now chefs Jake Barwood and Celia D’Ortiz have gone one better, opening their...

Chopped chicken Caesar wraps are coming to London, courtesy of CZER. This is not a drill.

Information: 10 May 2026

Updated 10/5/26 with address If you're as terminally online as we are, you might have recalled a TikTok earlier this year in which an American expat was bemoaning the lack of good chopped chicken...

NYC's Magnolia Bakery is coming to London, popping up at Cafe Ciel for one month only

Information: 08 May 2026

It's been 30 years since Magnolia Bakery first opened in New York. It was catapulted to fame after appearing in Sex and the City a few years later and is still something of a pilgrimage for anyone...

Without Papers, a Shoreditch bar where seasoned Italian hospitality folk have it all sussed out

Information: 08 May 2026

Three incredibly experienced bar professionals have set out on their own, opening Without Papers, a Shoreditch bar serving up excellent Italo/British cocktails. We pulled up a stool at the bar.

Cépages 2.0 sees the Notting Hill wine bar reopened as a bistro by a MasterChef The Professionals finalist

Information: 08 May 2026

Five months ago, the French tapas spot Cépages quietly closed its doors in Notting Hill. Its founders decided they were leaving London to return to France to tend to their vineyard there (fair...

The Little Neon Door has the Little Door Co heading to Shoreditch for their next bar

Information: 08 May 2026

They already have orange, yellow, scarlet, blue and violet Little Doors around town and now a Little Neon Door is getting ready to open in Shoreditch. Taking over what was once Floripa cocktail bar, this...

Buvette is coming back to London, this time opening in Covent Garden

Information: 07 May 2026

7/5/26 - updated with more details and an opening date. Chef Jody Williams is taking another crack at London with New York-originated restaurant Buvette (which also has opened in Paris, Tokyo and...

Row on 5 chef Spencer Metzger is opening Chez Rose in Mayfair, backed by Jason Atherton

Information: 07 May 2026

Ever since Jason Atherton announced that Little Social was closing, we had been hearing murmurings behind the scenes that something was brewing with the site and his top chef, Spencer Metzger. Now...

Test Driving Bar Etna, a London/Philadelphia take on the 'special relationship' we can get behind

Information: 07 May 2026

What does a collaboration between one of America's best pizza chefs and a super-hot North London restaurant group look like? We went to Bar Etna on Newington Green to find out.

Adam Byatt's next is the Italian-inspired Rosina in Wandsworth

Information: 06 May 2026

His last opening was a big affair on the river beside Fulham's stadium with Brasserie Constance, but for his next, Adam Byatt is returning to South London. He'll be opening Rosina in Wandsworth. Rosina, named...

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