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Osteria Angelina sees the Dalston restaurant opening a grill and pasta restaurant in the City

Information: 21 April 2025

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...

Filipino bakery and cafe Panadera is opening in Soho

Information: 21 April 2025

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...

HIDE chef Yiannis Mexis to bring live-fire Greek restaurant PYRO to London Bridge

Information: 17 April 2025

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...

Test Driving Tasca at Cav, a perfect pairing for East London

Information: 17 April 2025

An extremely talented duo are behind Tasca, the first, year-long residency to take over the kitchen at new Bethnal Green bar Cav. We went down to be wowed by the food and drink on offer there.

Spring Street Pizza sees chef pivot from Michelin restaurants to a Borough arch

Information: 16 April 2025

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...

Casa Fofo's chef Adolfo De Cecco is opening the more casual Bianca's in Stokey

Information: 16 April 2025

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...

Town is Stevie Parle's new Covent Garden restaurant

Information: 16 April 2025

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...

James Cochran is back in Islington, taking over the menu at Little Bat

Information: 15 April 2025

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...

Test of Time - returning to Perilla in Stoke Newington, so much more than a neighbourhood restaurant

Information: 15 April 2025

Perilla is getting close to being on Newington Green for a decade. Since our first visit, we've heard nothing but high praise for this restaurant so it was clearly time for us to revisit.

The Fat Badger is the latest Notting Hill restaurant from the Pelican and Canteen team

Information: 14 April 2025

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...

Bubala's third plant-based Middle-Eastern restaurant is in King's Cross

Information: 11 April 2025

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...

Norbert's is going to be a fun rotisserie shop for lucky East Dulwich folk

Information: 11 April 2025

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...

Jamie Oliver is opening a cafe and cookery school at John Lewis on Oxford Street

Information: 11 April 2025

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...

Burger & Lobster replaces Gordon Ramsay's Street Burger in Kensington

Information: 10 April 2025

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...

Atomix chef Junghyun Park is opening Kiji Korean BBQ in the heart of Mayfair

Information: 10 April 2025

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...

Test Driving Bodean's in Soho where Richard Turner has given the menu a welcome overhaul

Information: 10 April 2025

Longstanding London BBQ restaurant Bodean's has been given a makeover with the arrival of legendary meat man Richard Turner. We went down to see how much things have changed.

Market Place Vauxhall launches doggy Guinness for National Pet Day

Information: 09 April 2025

We're assured that this isn't a very late April's Fool. Instead, South London food hall Market Place Vauxhall is getting in on the two big London trends - having a dog and splitting the G - for...

KitKat is bringing back a Blockbuster video pop-up to Soho

Information: 09 April 2025

9/4/25 - updated with a look at the store It's been a while since we've had a mad pop-up in Soho, but this next one certainly qualifies. It comes from KitKat and, for reasons which we can't quite...

Kricket's next modern Indian restaurant is in Covent Garden

Information: 09 April 2025

It's clear that Kricket is on the expansion trail because, hot on the heels of their Canary Wharf and Shoreditch openings, they're already planning their next restaurant in Covent Garden. At this point few...

Motcombs Mayfair takes over at Pollen Street

Information: 09 April 2025

The last year has seen a fair bit of upheaval over on Pollen Street. First Jason Atherton announced he was turning his Michelin-starred flagship restaurant into burger bar Mary's. That duly opened, with...

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