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It’s starting to feel like ‘Antipodean-influenced’ needs to be a whole new subgenre of restaurants, such is its rise in London launches. Belsize Park is now home to a modern Italian restaurant that...

Every now and again a restaurant or bar will open in what's pretty much the perfect location for it - and that's what it looks like with the latest outpost of Passyunk Avenue. The American dive bar...

An Instagram post by Allegra chef Patrick Powell alerted us to the arrival of a new cafe on Bethnal Green Road. Rastro is the first project from a team who've worked at a range of hospitality...

Back when we first visited Carlo Scotto's restaurant Amethyst, we spotted that there was quite a lovely downstairs bar space. But the exacting chef wanted to get his restaurant operating perfectly...

Updated 18/4/23 with opening date Not resting on their laurels, having only just opened Jacuzzi in Kensington, Big Mamma are getting ready for their next restaurant, Carlotta in Marylebone. As...

You've got to admire the chutzpah of spritz brand These Days who have picked Bermondsey's Beer Mile as the place they've decided to open their first bar. From this summer anyone in the area who...

Southern food is making a return to central London - in a somewhat unexpected guise. Americana launched a couple of weeks back, taking over a big ex-Byron site and seems a pretty large restaurant to...

Things move pretty fast in restaurant news, and we like it when a chef keeps us on our toes. As we previously told you, Eyal Shani, founder of much-hyped Miznon (part of his 40+ global restaurant...

They've already been quite the hit in Islington, now the team behind pasta restaurant Noci are heading south of the river to Battersea for their second place. This is part of a raft of new openings at...

The latest addition to the bijoux Noble Rot empire is nestling on the corner of Shepherd Market. It turns out to be the perfect place for great food and fine wines. 

Welcoming their 50th birthday with a £2.5 million refurbishment, Browns Covent Garden has had quite the refit, with a new art deco look. It's also opened a new drinking venue on its first floor...

12/04/23 - updated with opening date It was one of the most impressive spaces in the St. Pancras Renaissance as The Gilbert Scott and now, after that closed in mid-2021, the restaurant is to be...

Cocktail enthusiasts, sit up. This summer sees the return of Cocktails in the City to London’s Bedford Square Gardens. There’ll be the usual masterclasses, tastings, interactive games, live music,...

There’s a new dessert offering at Islington’s Neighbourhood restaurant and it comes courtesy of Leeds’ famed Get Baked bakery. If the name rings bells, you may recall its rise to fame in late 2021,...

Just off Hampstead Heath you'll find this new fishmonger and seafood bar. We went to check it out.

It's fair to say that Bouchon Racine is one of London's hottest restaurants right now. Henry Harris and Dave Strauss' Farringdon pub and restaurant has been crammed since opening before Christmas...

We're always interested in anything Natoora are up to, so news that they're getting ready to open a flour mill and bakery down by Maltby Street Market obviously pricked our interest. Alma sees the...

11/6/23 - updated with the opening date Joe Laker, the former head chef at Fulham's Fenn which is sadly closing at the end of April, already has his next place planned - a restaurant called Counter 71...

Updated 22/3/23 with the opening date Earlier this year, the end finally came for Flor. It had previously been a restaurant, then carried on the bakery in Bermondsey before they called time on that...