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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...

What do you get when two wine importers team up with a notable London chef? An oenophile’s dream dining destination is opening near Smithfield Market in Farringdon. Called Cloth, the restaurant and...

19/3/24 - Updated with the opening date Borough Market's restaurant scene continues to get better than ever. Following the arrival of both Kolae and Akara last year, two big chefs are teaming up for...

We already knew they were bringing El Pastor to Battersea, but much like their other recent developments, the Harts Group don't just stop at one new opening. It turns out they're opening a second...