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Café Kitsuné is heading to Covent Garden with its matcha teas and patisserie

Information: 15 June 2025

Updated 15/6/25 with opening date Five years on from opening their first London tea shop, the French Japanese brand Café Kitsuné is heading into central London. Up until now if you wanted to try...

Island is Brad Carter's second go at cracking London, opening a surf & turf restaurant with Tom Brown

Information: 15 June 2025

Updated 15/6/25 with opening date Brad Carter was initially coming into London to open at Undercroft (which, in a surprise twist, was taken over by Aldo Zilli before opening). Now the chef, best...

Singburi uproots itself from Leytonstone to Shoreditch for a reimagined Singburi 2.0

Information: 13 June 2025

Updated 13/6/25 with opening date and booking info The North East London restaurant and all-round institution, which closed late last year under the guise of taking a longer-than-usual sabbatical, has made a...

CÉ LA VI in Paddington will be the highest rooftop restaurant in West London

Information: 13 June 2025

13/6/25 - updated with a look at the new restaurant's design If you've ever watched Crazy Rich Asians and wondered what it was like dining at the top of that amazing hotel in Singapore, well you're soon...

Mitch and Ben Tonks are taking over the Donovan Bar in Mayfair for the summer

Information: 13 June 2025

Together they run one of the UK's best seafood restaurants. The only trouble for Londoners is that you have to travel all the way to Devon usually to try their food. But this summer Mitch and Ben...

Base Face Pizza are coming to Richmond

Information: 13 June 2025

They already have pizzerias in Putney and Barnes and now Base Face Pizza are getting ready to open their next location a little further west in Richmond. It's planned to be their flagship space,...

Latin American restaurant Tigermilk is big in France and now it's coming to London

Information: 12 June 2025

12/6/25 - soft launch details added They have multiple restaurants across France (as well as one in Brussels) and now French restaurant group Tigermilk are getting ready to open in London too. But...

Test driving Marjorie's - a wine bar with lots of Parisian style in Soho

Information: 12 June 2025

Marjorie's in Soho combines a wine bar with a menu of French small plates and is just what Soho needs. We went down to try it out...

BAO are going back in time with £3.50 baos for their 10th birthday

Information: 11 June 2025

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...

Fink's are taking over the Clissold Park cafe in Stoke Newington

Information: 11 June 2025

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...

La Mia Mamma brings its mammas to Battersea

Information: 11 June 2025

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...

Test Driving Myrtos, a Greek addition to South Kensington that hits all the right notes

Information: 10 June 2025

Ex-Pied à Terre chef Asimakis Chaniotis has launched his own Greek restaurant in South Kensington. We went down to check it out.

The Ritz crowned best restaurant in the UK by the National Restaurant Awards 2025 - here's the full list

Information: 09 June 2025

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...

Ravneet Gill unveils her chophouse restaurant Gina

Information: 09 June 2025

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...

Rudy's takes over the old Dairy spot on Clapham Common

Information: 06 June 2025

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...

London has just two restaurants on the World's 50 Best Restaurants 51-100 list

Information: 05 June 2025

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...

Lai Rai hopes to entice Peckham folk with its Vietnamese snacks and cocktails

Information: 05 June 2025

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...

The team behind Ibai are opening Harley's butcher and rotisserie in Hampstead

Information: 05 June 2025

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...

Little Fires will serve up rare mezcals and Oaxacan small plates in Shoreditch

Information: 05 June 2025

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...

Mayfair gets a new boutique hotel with The Shepherd Mayfair

Information: 04 June 2025

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...

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