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It was the competition that helped launch Adejoké Bakare's Chishuru, which became one of London's best restaurants, and now Brixton Village has announced the winners of its 2025 incubator...

London's rooftop bar scene is stupidly competitive but one new opening this summer has an ace up their sleeve. Searcy's Bar & Brasserie in Westminster has been open for a while, but this is the...

No, we still haven't reached peak smash burger - here's one we missed (it opened about a month ago). Called HANBAAGAASUUTEEKI, it's an Asian-inspired smashburger restaurant that's opened in Victoria...

Updated 28/7/25 with launch offer They're rated the world’s 6th best artisan pizzeria chain by the 50 Top Pizza list and now Berberè are getting ready to expand more. They're opening their fourth...

One of the recent additions to the competitive socialising market in London is Fairgame, which opened its first grown-up funfair in Canary Wharf a few years back. That tirned out to be a big success and...

Food courts are very much a thing in London once more, and a new one has opened on Edgware Road that promises a shift away from the usual mix. The Food District is calling itself a "global food...

He's best known for being a Syrian chef and refugee who moved from pop up to permanent with Imad's Syrian Kitchen, where he's played host to King Charles. Now chef and restaurateur Imad Alarnab is...

We were big fans of the bar at The Clove Club when it was open. It was a great opportunity to try the food and a few cocktails there without signing up for the pricey tasting menu (the dinner menu...

Updated 24/7/25 with more details and imagery.  Jeremy King is definitely on a roll at the moment. He's opened The Park near Hyde Park, relaunched Le Caprice as Arlington and next he's going to be...

It's all change at one of Soho's longstanding Thai restaurants Patara, which has undergone a full 21st-century reimagining and emerged as Platapian. The new look and menu is the result of...

The City has a brand new Italian worth checking out this summer. Campanelle is from the same team behind such classic London restaurants as Manicomio in Chelsea and Canto Corvino in Spitalfields...

After 12 years of giving the people of East London amazing homemade pasta, the folks at Burro e Salvio are calling it quits. But in the run up to their closure they've decided to go out with a bang,...

It would appear that London simply does not have enough smash burger restaurants as Junk is getting ready to open its second burger bar in Marylebone.  The first Junk (which hails from France) opened in...

There are some London restaurants whose closure is announced, accompanied by a sense of "well it was on the cards". That's definitively not the case with Victor Garvey at the Midland Grand, which...

18/7/25 - updated with the opening date Seven years after opening the wildly successful (and Michelin-starred) Sabor on Heddon Street, Nieves Barragán is getting ready to open her next restaurant. She'll be...

London is getting a new fried chicken pop-up thanks to The Standard, which is bringing New York's Pecking House to the hotel for a two-month stint.  The New York spot was set up by ex-Eleven Madison...

It might seem like an absolutely no-brainer to open an Aussie-style cafe in Clapham given how many expats live there, but it's taken until this year for the Daisy Green group to get the memo and...