News & reviews

4/11/16 - updated with soft launch details If you’ve always dreamed of visiting Westminster’s majestic Cinnamon Club, but haven’t yet found the right special occasion/outfit/windfall to revel in all...

3/11/16 - updated with soft launch info. There's a new Portuguese restaurant in town - and it's coming to the new south London development Flat Iron Square (also soon to be home to Where the...

Let's hope you've eaten before you cast your eyes on this wondrous-looking item. This, my friends, is their Steak Slice - a meat pasty that knocks the original pastry item that inspired it into a...

2/11/2016 - updated with extended soft launch info. There's always a lot of excitement when a new Tonkotsu opens, but now the people behind it, Emma Reynolds and Kensuke Yamada, are coming up with...

OK, we flat out LOVE this idea. I mean, look at that picture, who wouldn't want to try partying in an igloo right alongside the river Thames? This frankly genius winter alfreso invention is the...

The Bloomsbury Club Bar is kicking off its new Club Residencies Project this November with a visit from world-famous The Clumsies. All the way from Athens, the first residency will be providing all...

Fans of the popular City lunch hotspots the Anthologist, and the Folly and Fable, will be pleased to know that there’ll soon be a new opening from the group on Old Broad Street: The Otherist. If its...

Hot on the heels of the spate of 'all-under-one-roof' openings comes the freshly re-opened Magic Roundabout, a dine, drink and dance destination with a winter theme in Old Street. If you're after...

We return to Islington's LeCoq to check out their brand new menu with a lot more than chicken in the rotisserie. 

Those living in the leafy outskirts of south west London will be treated to the arrival of Antipodea, a new all-day restaurant from the people behind Brew Cafe. Operating rather charmingly out of...

James Cochran, previously of Ledbury and Restaurant Fix fame - and more recently from a stint at B.Y.O.C Soho - plans to warm things up this autumn with a brand new restaurant near Liverpool Street...

31/10/16 - updated with opening info.  We've been noting with interest that the Clove Club have been tweeting about recruiting staff for a new restaurant and now we have all the details - and it's...

Having only just opened in Shoreditch, Beijing street food restaurant Mamalan's Ning Ma is about to launch their special series of Dumpling takeovers, starting with Duck & Waffle's Dan Doherty.  He's...

You may well have seen The Flour Station  in markets across town.  They apparently originally started in the Kitchen of Jamie Oliver's Fifteen - something we didn't know - before expanding across...

Inspired by the knees-up watering holes of Chicago and New Orleans, FOX BAR is a new underground drinking den hitting Brixton. It follows the original Fox Bar, also by Soho House, which launched in...

Sumosan Twiga will open in Sloane Street in November, after the Japanese half of the venture makes the short jump from its previous home in Mayfair. The new restaurant will serve award-winning...

We've had plenty of one-dish restaurants in town of late, but there's always room for more and we do like the sound of one coming our way - that's all about biryani.   Called Dum Bryani House, it's...

27/10/16 - updated with soft launch details.  A new tapas joint is heading to Soho - the second Lobos Meat and Tapas from the same team who opened the original in Borough. Of that original, Marina O'...

The Dorsett Hotel’s newest branch will be the home to two East End arrivals in early 2017. First up, there’ll be Shikumen, an Asian restaurant providing dim sum and Chinese tea, which first cut its...

The Savile Row Martini. Updated 27/10/16 with Test Drive Like the sound of strong cocktails and brilliant Italian bites to accompany them? Who wouldn't? Italian mixologist Simone Caporale (who used to...