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Updated 29/921 with opening date and booking info Big news over at The Savoy today where Gordon Ramsay is opening a second restaurant at the landmark London hotel. The chef will be taking over The...

Rita's are on the up again. Bodega Rita's closed and then resurfaced in Clerkenwell and now, 10 years after their first pop-up, they're opening a restaurant in Soho. They've been open as a terrace...

14/10/21 - updated with a look inside Gearing up to open in Covent Garden is 3 Henrietta Street. It's a Grade II listed building, built in 1780, that's getting a big makeover, fitting in two new...

Optimism seems to be in the air if you consider the number of new bar openings in the Mayfair/Marylebone area. Anywhere that doesn’t require driving to/petrol will certainly hit the spot this week, at...

A few months ago we told you about The Parlour, the new jazz and cabaret bar at The Ned. Well, things just got a little more exciting with the news that Tom Sellers, chef from the two...

Following up on his previous successes at Gymkhana and Jamavar, Rohit Ghai is back in Mayfair with his latest restaurant. Expect a menu which draws on both his childhood and career, with a focus on...

Update 5/10/21 - And here is the full rundown of the World's 50 Best Restaurants 2021. Original story follows... You could be excused for wondering how the World’s 50 Best Restaurants could pull...

If you’re hankering for an intimate little cocktail bar that reminds you of St-Germain-des-Prés but without the Eurostar queues, well we have just the thing. But first, let us remind you of the...

24/9/21 - updated with opening date It's fair to say that The Holborn Town Hall building has been a tricky venue for restaurants. There was Shanghai Blues, then a brief appearance from Burger &...

Updated 23/9/21 with the opening date Sometimes restaurants take a little while to get from concept to actually coming to life and this is a good example. We're now four years in from initially...

While you may not have been able to travel to the Middle East as easily as usual recently, you might have encountered on previous trips the restaurant group Em Sherif, in locations spanning Beirut,...

  If you’ve been having NYC-comfort-food cravings and fearing the worst since Dirty Bones restaurant vacated the top floor of Carnaby’s Kingly Court, worry no more. Bigger things are on the way for...

There seem to be a significant number of new restaurant openings in Marylebone and now comes the news that Londoners will be able to enjoy Kolkata cuisine when Chourangi opens its doors. If you’re...

You may have been busy this summer visiting old London restaurant haunts, making up for lost dining time during lockdown. While it’s been a mixed bag of emotions seeing who’s still standing and who is...

  They're already becoming well known for their huge pancakes, but what's the rest of brunch at Sunday in Brooklyn like? We went to Notting Hill to find out. 

After a quiet year or so, it does seem like life is heading back to Stratford with a few new openings. Hard on the heels of the arrival of Haugen, comes Big Easy who are opening their fourth London...

As news trickles out on what's opening at the Hawley Wharf food court in Camden, it's gradually becoming one of the more interesting new London openings of the autumn. The latest to announce their...

Fortnum's is getting ready to launch a new restaurant, its first in the main Piccadilly store in six years (the last was the standalone restaurant (but connected to the main store) 45 Jermyn...

17/9/21 - updated with the reopening date It's been closed since the very first lockdown, but the time is nearly upon us for the return of Black Axe Mangal - in a new form. Lee Tiernan's Islington...

A few streets away from Victoria Park, there's a new dive bar to check out. The Bourbon has taken over the old Kisses from Nonna site and turned it from Italian to American. As the name suggests,...