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Let's start this story with a 'don't shoot the messanger' plea. But a new restaurant is about to open in Mayfair with an offering that makes the likes of Sexy Fish and Novikov look like maiden aunts by...

Masters of fried chicken burgers, Other Side Fried, are getting ready to open another restaurant, following up on their Brixton success.  This time they're coming to Battersea, with a restaurant...

The team behind Flat Iron Square and Goods Way are just about to open what looks to be an interesting combo of bar and restaurant Carrubo and In Horto just around the corner from Borough Market. The...

It's nearly time for the 2022 World's 50 Best Restaurants awards (the event takes place on 18 July). So to get us all in the mood, we've just had numbers 51-100 revealed.  This often gives us...

The Tamil Prince brings South Indian cooking to a new pub in a leafy part of Islington. We popped over to check it out. 

Updated 5/7/22 with opening date and soft launch info Irish chef Robin Gill is keeping himself nicely busy this summer. In an announcement today, one day before the opening of his new Kensington...

5/7/22 - updated with opening details With two big (and popular) Peruvian restaurants to their name, the people behind Pachamama are trying something new. This time they're going Greek.  Their new Notting...

Nobu's best known dishes paired with Laurent-Perrier's best Champagnes? Sounds like a match made in heaven. 

Never mind the actual tennis players at Wimbledon, the real folk getting all the action are the waiters at Michel Roux Jnr's restaurant there. Posting a photo of the complicated (and huge) table...

Adding to its wide range of dining options, Covent Garden’s The Yards is soon to introduce a new Pan Asian restaurant Gura Gura from restaurateur Gobind Chona. Chona is no stranger to introducing...

This weekend saw the soft launch of a new venue in Peckham, Jumbi, described as "a hang out centred around music, food and drink." The project founders, Bradley Zero & Nathanael Williams, are aiming...

They've already launched Bar Daskal and Parrillan at Borough Yards now the Harts Group are onto their final launch there, a new Barrafina.

Sharp eyed East Londoners who might have spotted activity at the little kiosk in the garden of St John at Hackney recently should know they now have an interesting new Mexican cafe on their...

We've had Jamaican patties in Covent Garden and Cornish pasties in Paddington, now Portobello is getting in on the love for pastry snackage with a new empanaderia. De Nadas will specialise in...

  It's been a while since we've had a good new at-home kit, but this latest one from Ottolenghi looks very interesting.  if you've been a fan of the hummus at Ottolenghi, then you may be very...

Caravel sees two brothers deliver a restaurant on a barge on the Regent's Canal. We'd been hearing good things so popped down to check it out for ourselves.  

We have a hot new spot to cool your heels if you’re waiting for a train at Euston Station, and if you’re a fan of agave-based cocktails and Mexican food you might want to put MXO on your itinerary. Open...

It's always a real shame to see a lovely old pub all boarded up. But having been shut for a few years now, the old Rossyln Arms in Hampstead is getting a new lease of life. The place is being turned...

Inspired by her hugely popular YouTube series Chicken Shop Date, celebrity interviewer Amelia Dimoldenberg is teaming up with Yard Sale Pizza for a very special limited edition pizza. Obviously, the...

Having 12.5 million followers on Instagram isn't enough to get you a table for dinner in London unless you've reserved somewhere. That's what Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar discovered this week...