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Elsewhere Coffee have turned their Deptford roastery into a coffee bar

Information: 29 January 2024

South East London caffeine addicts now have a new place to hit up in their neighbourhood. For the past few years Elsewhere Coffee have been roasting beans just behind Deptford station. Now they're...

The 2024 Michelin Bib Gourmands for London are announced

Information: 29 January 2024

The Bib Gourmands are billed as being for slightly more affordable restaurants than your average Michelin fare, serving "good food at moderate prices". So with that in mind, here's who got a shiny...

Giancarlo Caldesi to open new Caldesi in Belsize Village

Information: 29 January 2024

Just before Christmas, Neighbourhood restaurant Calici closed its doors in Belsize village, but it'll be back soon under a new name. It turns out, as first reported by the Ham and High, that celeb...

Sadiq Khan is cutting fares on Friday to entice Londoners into the city

Information: 29 January 2024

As anyone who's been on public transport over the past year would already know, Fridays haven't been the same in London since the Pandemic. With so many workers doing a truncated week in the office,...

Palestinian ceramics and wine go on sale at Akub in Notting Hill

Information: 26 January 2024

If like us you covet the amazing crockery you see in London restaurants then the arrival of the new shop at Akub in Notting Hill will be of interest to you. They've just launched an online shop to...

RAI omakase restaurant returns, this time in Bloomsbury

Information: 26 January 2024

RAI, from the same people behind Islington's Hot Stone, originally launched in Fitzrovia before closing last year. But now the restaurant is back again in a different location, just up the road in...

BAO are popping up at Dover Street Market with merch and baked goods

Information: 26 January 2024

BAO has arrived in Mayfair - but not as you might expect. They've landed at Dover Street Market for a pop-up kiosk that's as much about their merch as it is about the food. On the merch side,...

Grasso is a genuine family-run Italian American restaurant that's just landed in Soho

Information: 25 January 2024

It isn't often that a restaurant manages to open in the middle of Soho in a fashion that's so completely under the radar we have to wait for a reader to let us know about it. But that's the case...

Test Driving Juno - a tiny omakase doing things differently in Notting Hill

Information: 25 January 2024

Pairing Japanese and Mexican influences, Juno is a six seater omakese restaurant in Notting Hill serving up an extraordinary food experience.

Yiqi Pan Asian restaurant opens with bamboo tube rice and wagyu mousse in Chinatown

Information: 24 January 2024

The latest restaurant to hit Chinatown is Yiqi, billed as a Pan-Asian restaurant with dishes from all over West and Southeast Asia. In charge of the kitchen is Chef Lum Wah Cheok who comes via...

Test Driving Daroco London - an Italian in new-look Soho (with an excellent dive bar)

Information: 23 January 2024

Arriving in Soho via Paris, Daroco offers up an Italian menu that's backed up by a very promising basement bar. We went down to try it out.

Claude Bosi is opening Lyonnaise restaurant Josephine in Chelsea

Information: 23 January 2024

Updated 23/1/24 with a new opening date It's been quite the year for chef and restaurateur Claude Bosi. He began with the opening of his bistro Socca in Mayfair with Samyukta Nair and then followed that...

Popeye's are bringing chicken and biscuits to Waterloo station

Information: 23 January 2024

It's just over two years since the American fast food fried chicken chain Popeye's arrived in London - and now they're spread all over London in the form of either restaurants or delivery kitchens. But if...

The Unruly Pig tops Britain's gastropub list with Highgate's The Red Lion and Sun as London's top pub

Information: 23 January 2024

The Unruly Pig in Woodbridge, Suffolk The annual reveal of the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs list always makes us want to close our laptops and head straight to a cosy pub for a proper pint and a...

Hyde London City hotel is opening on Old Bailey, complete with a modern Turkish restaurant

Information: 22 January 2024

Just when you thought the city couldn't possibly fit any more upmarket hotels, another new opening is on the horizon. This time it's the turn of boutique hotel brand Hyde, themselves part of...

The Rex Delicatessen by Larry Jayasekara and Tim Jefferies opens in Mayfair

Information: 19 January 2024

We've known for a while that Larry Jayasekara is opening The Cocochine with gallery owner Tim Jefferies in Mayfair. That restaurant should see the light of day this spring, but it's not the only...

Morchella will serve up Mediterranean food on Exmouth Market from the Perilla team

Information: 19 January 2024

23/1/23 - updated with the opening date and website details They've had lots of success with Perilla on Newington Green and now the same team are opening Morchella on Exmouth Market (taking over...

Test Driving Faber - a coastal seafood delight in the heart of Hammersmith

Information: 18 January 2024

Just off the busy Hammersmith roundabout is a shiny new seafood restaurant focusing on sustainably sourced produce from around Britain. We went to check it out.

St John is popping up at Fortnum & Mason while the builders are in

Information: 17 January 2024

Most restaurants have to close for a few weeks when they do any internal work. But St John, always one to do things differently, has approached its upcoming kitchen refurb as an opportunity to try...

Singapulah will serve up a taste of Singapore on Shaftesbury Avenue

Information: 17 January 2024

Updated 25/1/24 with the opening date Several years back, Singaporean restaurateur Ellen Chew trialled a new concept in Soho. The pop-up was a cafe by day (Arôme) and restaurant by night...

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