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Dining out in London, we feel pretty sure that you would have come across StreetSmart at some point - it's the charity that helps to raise funds for the homeless. They partner with another charity...

  Updated 10/5/22 with opening date and booking info The Ivy Asia might have had a problematic history, but it's still continuing to expand in London. The brand, which in some ways is a slightly more...

The Twenty Two sees ex-Picture chefs and a top front-of-house team looking to create a new scene in Mayfair. We went down to see how they're getting along. 

It's been host to a rather crazy interactive installation for a few months now, but now Brown Hart Gardens is also getting a new terrace for the summer.  The Stripes Amalfi Terrace is taking over...

Chef Abby Lee's first foray into the restaurant world, Mambow, didn't have the best timing, opening in Spitalfields just weeks before the first lockdown. But now she's ready to hit the ground...

  Did you know that Michelin-starred Kol in Marylebone also has a very impressive bar in the basement? We headed down to check it out. 

Updated 1/11/22 with opening date and booking info Back at the turn of the millennium, The Belvedere was quite the West London hotspot. It was a beautiful Holland Park restaurant with a new makeover by...

4/5/22 - Updated with the opening date While we wait for more details of what the Big Mamma Group (the people behind Ave Mario and Circolo Popolare) have planned for their next big restaurant in...

The City is getting a new rooftop bar and restaurant from the team behind Aviary at Finsbury Square. Wagtail will take over the rooftop space of the old House of Fraser building on King William...

  Mr Fogg's have opened bars across town, and now they're ready for their eighth - this time right in the heart of Mayfair, just down the road from Claridge's. Mr Fogg's Apothecary takes the familiar...

They already have three restaurants in Chinatown but Four Seasons are adding a fourth, just around the corner, when they open a new contemporary Chinese restaurant underneath The Hippodrome casino. The...

A Hot Dinners exclusive Back during the days of social distancing, The Guinea in Mayfair made the clever decision to take over an old Pizza Express site across the road from the pub, to expand their...

They started as street food before opening up their own restaurant in Brixton, have a space in Boxpark Shoreditch and now Black Bear Burger are growing again. This time they're opening a restaurant in...

3/5/22 - updated with photos and opening date Having made a name for themselves in the West End serving up cocktails and bao, the team behind The Lucky Club Mayfair are heading north. They've taken on...

The arrival of chef Shay Cooper means that this splendid hotel dining room now has a menu that lives up to the opulent surroundings. 

A week after Monica Galetti stepped back from MasterChef: The Professionals to concentrate on her family and restaurant, the BBC have found her replacement.

  They're hugely popular in Chinatown and Covent Garden and now a third Bubblewrap has landed in Spitalfields Market.  If you're somehow yet to encounter these dessert guys (they do pop up rather a lot...

Its Sunday roasts were legendary and fans were legion, but after a tumultous couple of years, Dalston restaurant Madame Pigg has finally given up the fight. In a post on Instagram yesterday chef and...

If you love the idea of the long table banquets that many summer festivals are holding but would prefer to sleep in your own bed at night, then Hertfordshire's At Home farm may have just the thing...

There's change afoot in Shoreditch. Boundary London, which includes the hotel, restaurant and rooftop was bought by Harcourt Inns late last year (they're the people behind The Coach in Clerkenwell, The...