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Updated 23/4/25 with opening date Last year, Leroy restaurant in Shoreditch closed after seven years, with the restaurant having won and lost a Michelin star along the way. Now two Leroy alumni are...

Truffle Burger scored a coup last year when they brought over NYC's 7th Street Burger for a pop-up and now they're at it again. This time the burger company are launching a summer series of special...

21/4/25 - updated with the opening date Angelina has been a big success in Dalston and while their other restaurant Dai Chi didn't last the distance in Soho, they're sticking to what they do best in...

Updated 21/4/25 with opening date and more details A few weeks back, we wrote about how Filipino bakery Panadera was being forced to close in Kentish Town. Owner and co-founder Florence Mae talked then...

17/4/25 - updated with the opening date This PYRO comes from chef Yiannis Mexis, previously at Elystan Street, The Ledbury and Petrus and most recently head chef at HIDE. It sounds not entirely...

When they opened in Soho last year, Supernova were an instant hit. It certainly helped that they carefully cultivated scarcity by only opening at certain days and times to start with. That meant...

Being the chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant isn't an easy task, so you can totally understand why they might want to swap the pressures of that job for one that's a bit more fun. That's the new...

He already has a Michelin star for his first restaurant, Casa Fofo, now chef Adolfo De Cecco is getting ready to open his second pplace, not too far away on Stoke Newington Road.  The new place is...

It's been planned since late 2023 but now Stevie Parle is getting ready to unveil his new restaurant, Town in Covent Garden.  The chef, who in recent years was best known for his post-lockdown hit Joy, has...

He may have recently left The Brave, but chef James Cochran hasn't left Islington. Instead, he's about to take over the food menu at Little Bat cocktail bar. Little Bat is from the same people...

Mayfair residents wondering what's happening over at the old Ruya site on Upper Grosvenor Street, next to Corrigan's, should know that they'll have a new restaurant on their doorstep before the end of...

It's been open on the QT for the last few months but only now has The Fat Badger officially opened for business. If you haven't heard of Notting Hill's worst-kept secret, then let us enlighten you...

11/4/25 - updated with the opening date It's been nearly three years since it opened in Soho and now Middle-Eastern plant-based restaurant Bubala is getting ready for its next opening, this time in...

If you're an East Dulwich local, you may have been wondering what was happening at the old Il Mirto site on Melbourne Grove. We can now reveal that it's going to be a very interesting new...

11/4/25 - updated with the opening date and more details With the closures of both DH Evans and Debenhams on Oxford Street, at least one of the department stores left is planning to be in there for...

Updated 10/4/25 opening date On Kensington High Street, one burger chain has closed to be replaced with another - albeit with the added bonus of lobster. The new owners are Burger and Lobster and...

Well this IS a story. If you've been roaming through Mayfair recently and wondered what's happening with the building site on the corner of Curzon Street and Bolton Street (where Mirabelle used to...