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The Sunny Side Up cafe is a Veuve Clicquot breakfast cafe in Soho

Information: 11 April 2022

Veueve Clicquot is coming to Soho with The Sunny Side Cafe, a pop-up that's a little different from their standard fare. Yes, there's Champagne (of course) but this is also a pop-up that's their own...

Frog Bakery opens its doors in Camberwell

Information: 11 April 2022

Camberwell residents should be hightailing it to Peckham Road where Frog Bakery has just recently opened. Originally run as a popup, before crowdfunding helped them kit out their new site, the...

Flat Iron are bringing all their steak to Waterloo

Information: 11 April 2022

11/4/22 - Updated with opening date Flat Iron are heading south of the river again, this time to Waterloo (taking over the space vacated by Byron). They've only recently opened further along the...

Hammersmith's Cellar opens with an Andrew Clarke menu

Information: 08 April 2022

He's only just launched Acme Fire Cult (with Daniel Watkins) and now chef Andrew Clarke is also across the other side of town in Hammersmith with Cellar. This is the restaurant that's open on the...

Finsbury Park's Common Ground cafe dishes up a new evening menu

Information: 08 April 2022

Finsbury Park's Common Ground is a bit of a Dishoom, in that there's always a queue outside it. Now the popular North London cafe is capitalising on its popularity with the daytime crowd, by...

Zia Lucia Pizzeria's next stop is Stoke Newington

Information: 08 April 2022

Zia Lucia have been tearing around London, opening pizzerias and their latest is in the adjoining neighbourhood of the original on Holloway Road - they're opening in Stoke Newington. They're taking over the site...

Happy Face pizza expands to Victoria and Brent Cross

Information: 07 April 2022

8/4/22 - updated with Brent Cross opening details They've proven to be a hit in King's Cross (of which Grace Dent was a fan) and now Happy Face pizza is expanding with two new restaurants - one that...

Pelicana's Korean fried chicken is coming to Islington

Information: 07 April 2022

7/4/22 - updated with opening date Last year, Korean fried chicken giant Pelicana opened its first London store, in Hammersmith. Now they're heading across town, picking Islington for their second...

Miscusi is opening its next pasta restaurant in Islington

Information: 06 April 2022

Islington's waited a while for a pasta restaurant and soon there will be two within a few feet of each other. Hot on the heels of Noci opening on Islington Green, Italian chain Miscusi is opening...

Buns From Home open in Covent Garden and the Royal Exchange

Information: 06 April 2022

It's been a busy old year so far for the folks at Buns From Home. Barely three months after opening their last place, the business which grew out of lockdown has flourished by opening a further two...

The Lanesborough Grill sees chef Shay Cooper bring trolley theatre to Hyde Park Corner

Information: 05 April 2022

A Hot Dinners exclusive Chef Shay Cooper is no stranger to turning old-school hotel dining rooms into places where you feel truly cosseted. Having already done so with a similar role at The Goring, where...

Pophams Bakery opens a new site in Victoria Park Village

Information: 05 April 2022

Updated 5/4/22 with opening date After expanding to a Hackney restaurant in 2019 that served handmade pasta in the evenings, the exciting news is that a third Pophams site is on the way, this time in...

LALALAND is taking over the Dinerama space in Shoreditch

Information: 04 April 2022

Dinerama in Shoreditch is no more, but coming soon to take its place will be LALALAND. Details of this new outside space are a little thin on the ground, but we do know that it will all be centred around...

Corbin & King lose control of their restaurant business

Information: 01 April 2022

You may have been aware that Jeremy King and Chris Corbin - the restaurateurs behind some of London's best-known restaurants, like the Wolseley and Brasserie Zedel - had been in a battle with their...

Notting Hill’s Walmer Castle to reopen as a Scottish restaurant and whisky bar

Information: 31 March 2022

While there was a lot of buzz about David Beckham and Guy Ritchie buying Notting Hill’s Walmer Castle pub in 2018, it was quietly taken over by entrepreneur and hotelier Piers Adam in February 2022...

Flat Earth Pizza are opening a permanent meat-free restaurant in Bethnal Green

Information: 30 March 2022

You may have caught them in pop-ups and residencies over the past couple of years. but now Flat Earth pizza are getting ready to unveil their first restaurant (which just happens to be where they...

Ronaldo is opening another London restaurant, this time with CZN Burak

Information: 29 March 2022

His first London restaurant, Zela, lasted barely two years, closing its doors for good during the pandemic. But Ronaldo's not going to let that experience dim his enthusiasm for the London scene. So...

The next big Market Hall is coming to Canary Wharf

Information: 29 March 2022

Updated 29/3/22 with full traders list and opening date Originally announced in May 2019 (before Market Hall West End even opened), Market Hall Canary Wharf is finally going to happen. It's been a...

The Standard in King's Cross gets a new rooftop taco truck

Information: 29 March 2022

London's rooftop bars are reopening for spring and one place that's adding something new to their roof is The Standard at King's Cross. In charge of the food up there is Peter Sanchez-Iglesias of Decimo, the...

Max's Sandwich Shop teams up with Burger & Lobster for two very special rolls

Information: 28 March 2022

Well here's a collab we can 100% endorse - Max Halley of the legendary Max's Sandwich Shop is teaming up with Burger & Lobster for two lobster roll specials that are hitting the group's nine...

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