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When the National Portrait Gallery reopens this summer after a three-year renovation we were expecting it to feature a rooftop restaurant by Richard Corrigan and a ground floor cafe by the folk at...

  Cantinetta Antinori arrives in Knightsbridge as a joint venture between a global restaurant group and a top Italian winemaker.  We popped in to check it out in a recent preview dinner. 

If you're heading down to Chelsea for this year's flower show there are a few food and drink themed gardens and displays, along with some new bars and restaurants. Here's our guide.

London's already got a restaurant devoted to croquetas, so perhaps it isn't surprising that someone's now decided to open a Spanish restaurant specialising in tortilla. Siblings Gabriel and Marta...

With lots of news about pubs closing, it's always good news to hear of those getting a little more love. From Telegraph Hill, New Cross, news reaches us of such a promising pub overhaul.  The Earl of Derby is...

We took in an early doors preview of this new SW1 restaurant, tucked away in the Chelsea Barracks.

22/5/23 - updated with opening details Alberto Landgraf, chef patron of two-Michelin-starred Oteque in Rio de Janeiro, ranked 47 on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, is bringing some Brazilian flavours...

Updated 26/6/23 with opening date and launch info You've got to really stand out to make a dent in London's burger scene, so the founders behind new Soho spot Wonderland are hoping that they've got...

22/5/23 - Updated with the new opening date The Sam Harrison empire in west London is expanding. He's only recently launched Sam's Larder, has Sam's Waterside on the horizon and now he's opening a...

Updated 22/5/23 with booking details and opening date The team behind Juliet's Quality Foods have something big planned. Owners Julian Porter and Lauren Johns have teamed up with chef Giuseppe Belvedere...

They only recently launched at The Ritzy in Brixton, but now the Indian-inspired and plant-based food of En Root has opened up in another new home, The Railway Tavern in Tulse Hill. They've just...

We'll be honest we missed the opening of Shankey's last year on Dalston Lane and when it moved to Well Street in Hackney last November. But when a reader brought it to our attention recently we had to...

This glorious-looking hotel restaurant now has a new look to mark chef Patrick Powell's arrival - we took a trip to St Pancras to check it out. 

Having already nailed down one of NYC's coolest roving restaurants as a pop up, Shoreditch wine bar Oranj is keeping the momentum going with their next residency. They've persuaded one of Mexico...

Almost a year ago we reported that the dream of Greggs to be running a 24/7 restaurant on Leicester Square had come up against hard reality in the form of Westminster Council's licensing committee. Worried...

17/5/23 - updated with more details about the menu Notting Hill continues to go from strength to strength and the latest to enter the fray there is the man behind popular Indian restaurant...

They've had great success with their Piri-Piri chicken around London and now Casa do Frango are getting ready to open their next big restaurant, this time in Victoria (taking over the space left by...

  The team behind The Marksman have opened something very different for their second restaurant, taking over a big space inside The National Theatre. We went down to check out Lasdun. 

Gordon Ramsay is laughing all the way to the bank it seems, after his business Gordon Ramsay Restaurants posted its results last week. The chef's business interests in the UK and across the world...

House of Ming is a Chinese restaurant that's big in New Delhi - and now it's opening in London. Like its Indian sibling, the restaurant is opening in a Taj Hotel, The St James's Court (you'll find...