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If you're of a certain vintage you may have had the great pleasure of dining at the top of the BT tower back when it used to be a revolving restaurant in the 1970s. Now it seems that a whole new...

You've got to hand it to whoever's curating the food offering at Kingly Court at the moment. They're really playing a blinding game. Hot on the heels of having signed up everyone's favourite...

As we've previously written about, karaoke has become a big thing in London, with some places offering pretty great food to accompany the backdrop of occasionally on-tune warbling. Now here comes a...

Hackney's getting a new pizzeria and it's from two Napoli-born siblings, so we should be getting something pretty authentic with this opening.  Unlock comes from Arianna and Giovanni Izzo. Arianna is...

12/3/24 - updated with the opening date Almost 70 years after opening their first Italian restaurant on Goodge Street, the family behind Spaghetti House is getting ready to open a brand new place. A...

After nine months, things are changing at 20 Berkeley Street. The restaurant there originally opened as 20 Berkeley, a British-influenced brasserie from the Creative Restaurant Group, which runs...

Updated 18/2/24 with images London's hotel scene is seriously hot at the moment. The past 18 months have seen the opening of The Pensinsula, The OWO and 1 Mayfair and now the group behind Claridge's is...

If there's one date you want to open in time for if you're a new Irish pub, it's St Patrick's Day. So Shoreditch pub Nancy Spain's is coming in just under the wire with the intention of flinging...

The opening of Kol and Cavita gave a shot in the arm to London's high-end Mexican dining scene and it looks like another exciting chef from Mexico is on the way too.  Jesús Durón was the executive...

A new New York-inspired deli has just opened in Belsize Park, taking over the site that used to be Sunday. A family-run business, it comes from Jack Graham, who previously ran Raw Press in Chelsea,...

The people behind La Mia Mamma, Italian restaurants in Chelsea and Notting Hill which got a big push by featuring on Stanley Tucci's "Searching for Italy", are getting ready to try something...

Updated 15/2/24 with soft launch info Vivek Singh (also behind The Cinnamon Club and Cinnamon Kitchen) is bringing Cinnamon Bazaar south of the river as the restaurant gets ready to open in...

Hawksmoor have been doing rather well across the pond of late, with successful restaurant openings in New York and Chicago. And while they're not opening any new Hawksmoors in London (just yet),...

Last year, These Days opened their Aperitivo Bar on the Bermondsey Beer Mile and at the time of opening the food was mainly just snacks - bread, cheese and charcuterie. That's about to change as...

This weekend a new East London restaurant/wine bar opened its doors officially, and there are a number of reasons why you should have Yuki Bar on your radar. The key point of interest is the man...

A new restaurant is gearing up to open in Clapham, taking what they describe as a 'permanent residency" inside the Aquum nightclub on the high street. Franklin & Baines is going big on steaks and...

Deep-dish Detroit pizza is becoming a bit of a thing again. We've had Ria's in Notting Hill and Kin Pizza in Notting Hill while Detroit Pizza, already a big deal in Spitalfields, has just opened its...