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It's the ninth restaurant on his CV but the first with him in charge - we try Jun Tanaka's new spot on Charlotte Street 

Updated 11/8/16 with more chefs The ever-popular Meatopia is back at Tobacco Dock again this September, and the details of the line-up have been revealed (as well as an extra day added onto the meat...

Pho, bao buns and more are coming to Greenwich as there's a new  Vietnamese restaurant about to hit. It's called Pho Street and from the same people behind Noodle Street in Docklands. Expect a...

They've had big success in Soho, so much that rotisserie chicken specialists are opening two new spots. First up is their delivery ONLY set-up in the City. So you won't be able to pop up and grab...

The Providores is about to celebrate its 15th anniversary and they've come up with a pretty stellar line-up to do so. They've got some of the best chefs who have ever worked alongside the...

It's all happening over on Hackney's Morning Lane. First came the new wine-focused restaurant Legs, then the new Nike store opened and now there's Farley Macallan. It's a new wine bar and restaurant run by...

For one month only, Soho steakhouse Mash is putting on a wagyu tasting plate allowing diners to try three different Wagyu meats – Kobe XO, Wagyu XO and Australian AACo Wagyu – for £80. TasteWagyu...

There's news today of a massive new market coming to the area between Borough and Elephant and Castle. It's one that originally started in Milan and they're taking over a disused paper factory,...

Updated 3/6/16 with soft launch details In perfect time for the Olympics in Rio this summer is a Brazilian popup hitting London Fields. Rio Boteco is described as a Brazilian corner shop pub and...

Every once in a while a new opening of note slips by us. Upstairs at John the Unicorn on Peckham's Rye Lane is one such place. The pub opened an upstairs restaurant around eight weeks ago and it's of...

You may have seen them on Druid Street Market and their recent (VERY good) residencies and now there's great news that TĀ TĀ have a permanent restaurant on the way.  TA TA is run by Zijun Meng and...

2/6/16 - updated with more details an opening date. There's news, that Berber and Q are coming to Farringdon with their next - the Berber & Q Shawarma Bar. That Middle Eastern cooking trend isn't...

Long promised for Clerkenwell, there's a new Albion on the way. Taking up the other section of the old Turnmill's site (next to Sosharu), here's what to expect from it: It's an all-day British...

As rumoured for a few months now, there's now officially a brand new restaurant from the Galvin brothers on the way. They're opening Galvin at the Athenaeum, part of the huge multi-million pound...

 Moro and Morito have ruled Exmouth Market for years - but what happens when they go east? We head down to find out.  

In a garden in suburban Clapham, we try out a new incarnation of the great British barbecue.

Opened this January in Carnaby, Le Bab is continuing to experiment with all things kebab. And the next stage of that is to be their bi-monthly development Sundays, launching in July. There, they'll be...

Call yourself a pizza lover? Then this event HAS to be a must-book for you. Daniel Young, who's also behind an exhaustive book on where to eat pizza, (which is also launching at the event) this...

Originally best known for their Stoke Newington original, supplied with seafood from their own fishmongers, Sutton and Sons have since expanded to Islington. And now they have a third restaurant on...

It was only a couple of weeks we were last in the bar at Bernardi's but it's just about to get a big overhaul and become a cocktail bar of its own - the Dog House.  As part of that, expect changes to the...