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Earlier this year, Chef Tom Booton revealed that after six years, he was stepping down from The Grill at The Dorchester, about a year after the restaurant was renamed to The Grill by Tom Booton...

For the past year, Northern Thai restaurant Khao Bird (which originally started life as pop-ups in Brighton) has had a very successful residency above The Globe Tavern in London Bridge. However, now...

Popular Shad Thames restaurant Legare has expanded its empire by opening up a cosy wine bar that bucks the London trend, opting for a more classic than natural list. We grabbed a table to see how...

One of Fitzrovia's best restaurants is going through a big change, and that's because of the departure of its superstar chef. Nuno Mendes (genuinely one of the nicest people in the London food...

Crate Brewery in Hackney is known for being just beside the water, and one of London's best waterside eating and drinking spots. Now they're trying to replicate that, but this time over in Canary...

Notting Hill continues to hoover up much of the interesting restaurant openings this year with the news that they're about to get a new slice shop on top of everything else. Slayer is a...

One UK restaurant critic has clearly decided that they can do the job better than the people he's been reviewing. According to Restaurant website and a post on Instagram, William Sitwell is getting ready...

The man behind the hugely popular Korean/Japanese restaurant Dotori is getting ready to open a second place, this time in the City. Alan Tse has been running the much-loved Finsbury Park spot for...

The opening of The Chancery Rosewood is nearly upon us. Not since the opening of The OWO has such a large endeavour been launched, but unlike that hotel, most of these restaurants here are opening...

Lucky old Putney folk. They'll no longer have to schlep into town to get great Indian food, with what sounds like a properly interesting neighbourhood restaurant opening on their doorsteps. Raaz...

It was originally meant to last a year, but Tasca's time at Cav is coming to an early close.  The residency at the East London bar is from chef Josh Dallaway and sommelier Sinead Murdoch and inspired by...

Just a few weeks ago, The Bull in Charlbury was in the news because of an American politician. Turns out that Kamala Harris (and her security team) had been spotted attending a pre-wedding dinner at...

Updated 26/8/25 with the opening date.  It's a busy old year for Spanish restaurant folk Camino who have just spent the last few months buying up several of London's Iberica restaurants out of...

15/8/25 - updated with the opening date Popular pizza spot Alley Cats is on the expansion trail again - this time to the area that it seems everyone's trying to break into, Notting Hill.  Alley Cats are...

14/8/25 - updated with the opening date Having already launched two London restaurants devoted to great Sri Lankan food, the couple behind Kolamba are getting ready to open a much more casual...

14/8/25 - updated with the opening date Plans are well underway to bring Whiteleys, now renamed The Whiteley, back to its former glory, albeit this time as a hotel, apartments and restaurants. The...

14/8/25 - updated with the opening date Back in 2021, one of the early casualties of Lockdown was cafe and patisserie Richoux. When its owner went into administration, all the Richoux sites closed. The...

The team behind Pachamama have spent the last year moving their restaurants' culinary inspiration point from Peru to the Mediterranean. It's been an extremely successful transformation, with both...