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Lord knows that London is not the cheapest of cities to live in. Add that to the general cost of living crisis we're in and we're all, bar a few billionaires, feeling the pinch. So the news that...

It's been rumoured for months now, but yesterday the folks at North London cafe group Fink's announced that they would be taking over the cafe space at Clissold House in Stoke Newington. "It’s the...

They already have restaurants in Chelsea and Notting Hill (not to mention seafood spin-off Fish & Bubbles) and now La Mia Mamma has just opened its latest restaurant in Battersea. If you're not...

It's been quite the journey for The Ritz under its Executive Chef, John Williams. Easily one of the best restaurants in London for a while, it took far too long to get its second Michelin star, but...

It's been over a decade since Mazi opened its doors in Notting Hill. The refined Greek food restaurant by Adrien Carre and Christina Mouratoglou has since spawned sibling establishment Suzi Tros,...

Ravneet Gill has been a big name in the London restaurant scene for many years, with three cookbooks under her belt, time spent working at restaurants like St John and Black Axe Mangal, not to...

They nabbed second place at this year's UK's Best Pizza Awards and now Rudy's Pizza Napoletana are gearing up to open their first neighbourhood restaurant in London. The Neapolitan pizzeria is...

It's a couple of weeks until the World's 50 Best Restaurants unveils its list for 2025, but in advance of that, they always release the long-list of 51-100. This year sees a big demotion for London as we...

5/6/25 - updated with the opening date Peckham is getting an all-day, new school Vietnamese cafe which morphs into a canteen with a cocktail offering in the evenings. Let us elaborate on that. By...

5/6/25 - updated with the opening date With the weather looking, at least temporarily, fine and sunny, barbecue season is again a possibility. So the upcoming opening of extremely promising new...

It's all change at East London bar Alfie's, which this summer is being transformed into a little slice of Oaxaca, Little Fires. And rather than just saying it's going to be Mexican-inspired, they've got...

There have been a lot of fancy new Mayfair hotels opening of late, from the Mandarin Oriental to the upcoming Chancery Rosewood on Grosvenor Square. And now another is added to the list, with this...

It's been promised for a few weeks and now Lardo's new wine bar is nearly upon us. Bastardo is opening right next door to the popular East London pizzeria, and as their window proclaims, it's...

A few years ago we brought you the news about an interesting new Mediterranean sandwich bar Rastro, which had just opened up in East London. Now the same team, which included two Allegra alum moving...

The current smashburger craze shows no sign of slowing down and a brand new addition (at least to this country) has just arrived in Victoria. HBR first started in Kuwait, and this London opening is...

Even before the opening of the big new Guinness HQ in Covent Garden later this year, there's been talk of whether we've yet reached "peak Guinness" in London (our feature suggested not). Well, this...

London's old banks have proved to be a rich source of venues for London's restaurant and bar scene in recent years. Now, over on Cavendish Square behind Oxford Circus, a £15 million refurb of a...