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Every year, there's this thing called "Christmas in July", where the big shops all parade their Christmas offerings for the year and it's always this time because of the longer time needed to plan...

Chef Akwasi Brenya-Mensa's Tatale is one of the year's most highly-anticipated openings. We went down to Southwark's new African Centre to check it out.

Ground control to David Bowie fans: Heddon Street will already be familiar to you as the location for the Ziggy Stardust album photo cover in 1972, which is commemorated by a blue plaque. Now, just a...

Six years ago we ran a news story about the move of top pub landlord Oisin Rogers, who was taking over The Guinea Grill in Mayfair. In the intervening years, Rogers has turned the Bruton Place pub...

Chef James Cochran has opened a modern day sports bar down the road from his Islington restaurant. We popped in for a look.

London has its fair share of in-store coffee bars, from Carhartt in King's Cross to the most recently-opened Café Leon Dore in Soho. But the latest to launch, in the heart of Mayfair, may be the...

The latest street food regular to find a permanent place for themselves is Taca Tacos in Deptford.  They've been serving up tacos every week at Brockley Market for three years, along with doing...

19/7/22 - Updated with the opening date Ukrainian Chef Yurii Kovryzhenko has been an ambassador of Ukrainian cuisine for years, something that has only taken on greater importance in recent months...

Top pastry chef Angelo Musa has opened his first patisserie outside Paris. We took the lift up to the fourth floor of Harrods to check it out.

If you're a Canary Wharf worker or resident, you'll have known by now that Wood Wharf is where all the interesting new openings are at. So far we've had Hawksmoor, Caravan and Emilia's Crafted Pasta...

As Londoners got to grips with the heatwave, the City of London turned out to be the hottest place of all last night. Billingsgate was the venue for the 2022 reveal of the World's 50 Best...

It's been a while since the last Salt Yard opening, but that's about to change. The Spanish/Italian restaurant originally opened in Fitzrovia before adding a few more restaurants to the group - ...

When life gives you a heatwave, go in search of lemonade. It looks as if cult Japanese brand Lemonade by Lemonica has chosen pretty much the perfect time to launch its first UK pop up shop, which...

Big supermarket news today as Marks & Spencer announce a brand new partnership with chef Tom Kerridge. But the chef of Michelin-starred Hand & Flowers isn't launching with some ready meals. Instead he's...

London's food hall scene has had a lift recently with new openings at Seven Dials Market and the reopening of Arcade. Now Islington is getting its own mini food hall in the shape of Sessions. It's...

14/7/22 - updated with launch info There's been a lot of development around Leicester Square of late - but this latest addition is the one that really matters. Yes, a flagship Greggs is opening in...

  They quickly became big in Spitalfields and now Bubala have opened a second restaurant in Soho, with the same focus on Middle Eastern vegetarian cuisine. We went for a look. 

Updated 14/7/22 with images Hot on the heels of Cedric Grolet's arrival in London comes news that another feted Parisian pastry chef is heading our way. Angelo Musa is HUGE in Paris where he works at...

There's a lot of change on Mayfair's Berkeley Street at the moment. As part of the huge One Berkeley development, there's a big new 1 Hotel Mayfair on the way and now there's also news of Gaia...

If you've been looking for a way to slip into the weekend in a more relaxed fashion then wine bar group Vagabond think they have the answer. They're just about to launch a bottomless wine package...