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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...

Sino is bringing its contemporary take on Ukrainian food to Notting Hill

Information: 09 April 2025

Following the recently opened Tatar Bunar, another new Ukrainian restaurant is coming to London. Sino comes from Polina Sychova and chef Eugene Korolev, the latter who has worked at Michelin-starred...

Molly Mc's singing pub is coming to Southwark

Information: 09 April 2025

9/4/25 - updated with new pics and an opening date You may have spotted videos on your social (or maybe it's just our algorithm) of a rise in London pubs offering proper sing songs, whether that's trad...

Test Driving The Lavery, an elegant newcomer in an historic building in South Kensington

Information: 08 April 2025

South Kensington is the unlikely location for the arrival of an interesting new restaurant in a historic old building. We went down to try out The Lavery.

Donabe on the South Bank is London's first Japanese clay pot rice restaurant

Information: 07 April 2025

For the past seven years they've been serving up top class sushi on the South Bank. But now the owners of Hannah at County Hall are switching things up a bit, according to Code Hospitality...

Jason Atherton closes Mary's, the original Pollen Street Social site

Information: 07 April 2025

Around this time last year, Jason Atherton announced the closure of his (then) flagship restaurant Pollen Street Social. A few months later, in August, that restaurant was given a light do-over and...

Black Tap Burger's massive Crazy Shakes are descending on Soho

Information: 04 April 2025

If you've been around Piccadilly Square recently, perhaps on your way to The Devonshire right around the corner, you may have seen that Black Tap Burger is incoming. Not familiar with them? Let us...

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