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Updated 14/10/21 with opening date He has stores worldwide from Miami to Moscow, but now interior designer Timothy Oulton has returned back to the UK to open his first pub. The Chelsea Pig is a bit...

The arrival of luxe new hotel The Londoner on Leicester Square aims to transform the area's lacklustre reputation. We went to check it out.

14/10/21 - updated with the opening date Late last year, the people behind Japan Centre opened Heddon Yokocho, their spin-off ramen bar on Heddon Street. It must have been a success because they...

Their cars are all about world-class design and luxury, so we suppose it makes sense that one of the diffusion lines Porsche is working on right now is a hotel group. In an announcement yesterday, the car...

If you're hoping to broaden your view on wine and maybe break a little bit of out your comfort zone, then the arrival of new Islington wine bar and shop Must & Lees is for you. Newly-opened on...

Million Pound Menu winning chef Jay Morjaria has opened a pastrami sandwich restaurant in Carnaby. We head down to check out the sandwiches.

Hanover Square is getting a very impressive-sounding new restaurant in the shape of The Maine. It's part of a full redevelopment of a 18th-century Georgian townhouse, so it's going to look pretty...

A well known London chef and cookbook author has been accused of plagiarism by a New York chef. Elizabeth Haigh, who runs Mei Mei in Borough Market, published her first book Makan this summer...

Popular Heddon Street restaurant Fallow is on the move. Having started out life as a 12 week pop-up at 10 Heddon Street back in 2020 (and then extended well beyond that), they've finally found a...

The people behind Kensington's Latin American restaurant Zuaya and Como Garden, the Italian restaurant next door, are looking to Spain for inspiration for their next restaurant, El Norte. This time...

Updated 8/10/21 with menu details Langan's Brasserie was one of the true legends of the London dining scene, with the restaurant being the place to be seen at back in the 70s and 80s. Originally...

It's been a movie set for films like The Dark Knight, Gandhi and upcoming release Infinite, now 116 Pall Mall has thrown open its doors to the public with the opening of a new underground bar. Called...

Updated 12/10/21 with opening date We'll confess we hadn't heard of American chef Matthew Kenney before. But it turns out he's a pretty big deal, with more than 40 restaurants around the world and a...

Clapham art gallery Studio Voltaire is reopening after a major £2.8 million redevelopment and as part of that, they're also launching a brand new cafe. Called The Café at Studio Voltaire (yes,...

8/10/21 - Updated with opening date and menu details You wait ages for an Atul Kochhar restaurant and then two turn up at once. The chef isn't happy with just opening Mathura in Westminster, he's...

The Seafood Bar has made the trip from Amsterdam to open in Soho. We went to try their huge seafood platters... 

The latest global restaurant chain to arrive in London is Beefbar. The meaty menu restaurant first opened in Monaco and since then has grown with branches in Saint-Tropez, Milan, Mykonos and Sao...

Following up from the opening of Kanishka in Mayfair, Atul Kochhar has taken over a huge space in Westminster for his next restaurant, Mathura.

The World's 50 Best Restaurants awards are back - and Noma is at the top again. Antwerp was the scene for this year's announcement - the first for two years. The festivities kicked off with Massimo...

Russell Norman, the man who brought us Polpo, is back with a brand new place in Farringdon that's influenced by the restaurants of Florence. We went down for an early look.