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If you had been planning a trip to Japan until it closed its borders, well, we have some news that may console you on the food front. There’s a new restaurant from two accomplished Japanese chefs...

If you’re the kind of person who loves fish and chips but has concerns about eating sustainably, then fret no more. One of your mindful New Year’s Resolutions can involve heading to Wapping in East...

Updated 6/12/21 with new opening date Zia Lucia are continuing their march south with a new pizzeria, this time in Balham.  If you're not familiar with them, they first started on Holloway Road...

The Light Bar was one of the first restaurants to open post-lockdown in 2021 and next year they're getting ready to launch something new. This time they're opening the upstairs restaurant which...

They've been going strong on Broadway Market and now Hill and Szrok are stretching their wings with a second location called Stella's on Newington Green (The new place isn't called Hill & Szrok as...

It's all go at Finsbury Park. As part of the new development around the station, there are all manner of restaurants, cafes and bars opening and the latest to throw their hat into the ring is...

Celebrating both British and Italian influences  - we went to check out the peripatetic popup as it settles down in its new permanent home in Shoreditch.

Another week, another fried chicken company launch. This time it's the turn of YouTube stars The Sidemen to get in on the action. Just weeks after DJ Khaled announced he was launching his food...

Chef Sven Hanson Britt has brought Oxeye to Nine Elms, with an ambitious, British-sourced tasting menu with a big focus on English wines. We went down to try it out.  

Two years after he opened Daffodil Mulligan, chef and restaurateur Richard Corrigan is hard at work on his next project. He'll be opening what sounds to be a very interesting place as part of the...

New restaurant and bar Boiler & Co is heading to Bankside and has a very interesting chef heading up the menu - Kerth Gumbs. Last seen at Ormer Mayfair, he also made a big splash in the final of...

Piccadilly is getting a stunning new rooftop bar and restaurant.

During the pandemic, one of the restaurants to close was the long-running Bar Boulud, one of two key restaurants at the Mandarin Oriental (the other is Dinner by Heston).  But now they've just...

Having stormed to success in its Heddon Street residency, Fallow has moved up the road to St James. We went to check out their new digs.

They already have two London stores at the Westfield supermalls, but in the run up to Christmas you can now try all manner of sweet treats from My Cookie Dough's first central London popup. This...

Some London restaurants are happy to put up a few baubles and bits of tinsel in the run-up to Christmas and consider themselves fully decorated. Then, there are the places who truly understand the...

Chelsea has a new neighbourhood dining spot. Newly opened at The Cadogan, A Belmond Hotel, on Sloane Street is The LaLee.

After closing their Shoreditch restaurant during lockdown, the folks behind the Jones Family Project have bounced back again and are about to open in Covent Garden. The Jones Family Affair takes...

They already have truffle burgers as their Christmas special, but Shake Shack also have something else pretty special planned for December. Mark Rosati of Shake Shack and Karan Gokani of Hoppers are...

22/11/21 - updated with Yard Sale opening date There's even more pizza on the way as two of London's favourites expand with a couple of new openings.  First off, we have Pizza Pilgrims, who are...