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We were big fans of the bar at The Clove Club when it was open. It was a great opportunity to try the food and a few cocktails there without signing up for the pricey tasting menu (the dinner menu...

It's been big in Thailand and now Khao-Sō-i is coming to Fitzrovia, bringing its Northern Thai soul food menu.  The restaurant started in Chiang Mai (before expanding to Bangkok) and its titular dish,...

Updated 24/7/25 with more details and imagery.  Jeremy King is definitely on a roll at the moment. He's opened The Park near Hyde Park, relaunched Le Caprice as Arlington and next he's going to be...

It's all change at one of Soho's longstanding Thai restaurants Patara, which has undergone a full 21st-century reimagining and emerged as Platapian. The new look and menu is the result of...

The City has a brand new Italian worth checking out this summer. Campanelle is from the same team behind such classic London restaurants as Manicomio in Chelsea and Canto Corvino in Spitalfields...

After 12 years of giving the people of East London amazing homemade pasta, the folks at Burro e Salvio are calling it quits. But in the run up to their closure they've decided to go out with a bang,...

It would appear that London simply does not have enough smash burger restaurants as Junk is getting ready to open its second burger bar in Marylebone.  The first Junk (which hails from France) opened in...

Islington's about to get a new sushi restaurant, this time via Amsterdam. Sushi Fanatics, billed as a "hidden sushi izakaya", will be taking over the space from Hot Stone on Chapel Market.  The original...

There are some London restaurants whose closure is announced, accompanied by a sense of "well it was on the cards". That's definitively not the case with Victor Garvey at the Midland Grand, which...

18/7/25 - updated with the opening date Seven years after opening the wildly successful (and Michelin-starred) Sabor on Heddon Street, Nieves Barragán is getting ready to open her next restaurant. She'll be...

18/7/25 - updated with more details Just after Lisa Goodwin-Allen rejoined Northcote, after making a surprise departure announcement just two months prior (being sold to new owners helped with...

London is getting a new fried chicken pop-up thanks to The Standard, which is bringing New York's Pecking House to the hotel for a two-month stint.  The New York spot was set up by ex-Eleven Madison...

It might seem like an absolutely no-brainer to open an Aussie-style cafe in Clapham given how many expats live there, but it's taken until this year for the Daisy Green group to get the memo and...

Sri Lankan cooking, Mexican street food, a fun night out in Soho? You can tick all three off your wish-list at once, thanks to a pop-up called Miris y Maíz. It all takes place at Paradise Soho, and the...

If you’d like to experience a little bit of exciting Cape Town dining without leaving the comfort of home, there’s a pop-up coming to London that you’d better put on your radar. The Pot Luck Club is...

We've known for a while that Restaurant Gordon Ramsay chef Matt Abé was taking on the old Le Gavroche site (snapped up by Gordon himself), and now we have a name: Bonheur by Matt Abé. It's early...

If you were wondering what would replace Frenchie in Covent Garden we finally have the answer and it’s great news for fans of Vietnamese food: Cô Thành is coming. Inspired by the international...

When you can’t have too much of a good thing, along comes the third Ta’mini Lebanese Bakery in London. After successful launches in Fulham (during the first COVID lockdown of 2020) and Bloomsbury...