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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...

Lardo is opening Bastardo, its new next-door wine bar

Information: 04 June 2025

It's been promised for a few weeks and now Lardo's new wine bar is nearly upon us. Bastardo is opening right next door to the popular East London pizzeria, and as their window proclaims, it's...

Rastro is Leather Lane's hip new sandwich bar

Information: 04 June 2025

A few years ago we brought you the news about an interesting new Mediterranean sandwich bar Rastro, which had just opened up in East London. Now the same team, which included two Allegra alum moving...

HBR brings smashburgers to Victoria via Kuwait

Information: 03 June 2025

The current smashburger craze shows no sign of slowing down and a brand new addition (at least to this country) has just arrived in Victoria. HBR first started in Kuwait, and this London opening is...

Test Driving Eel Sushi, Dorian's equally hard to get into sushi bar sibling in Notting Hill

Information: 03 June 2025

Directly opposite Dorian, and from the same owners, you'll find Eel Sushi - a sushi bar that comes with bragging rights for those who get a seat here.

A crazy Guinness milkshake is coming to London

Information: 02 June 2025

Even before the opening of the big new Guinness HQ in Covent Garden later this year, there's been talk of whether we've yet reached "peak Guinness" in London (our feature suggested not). Well, this...

With a bar in the old banking vault, Aki is a swanky new Japanese opening on Cavendish Square

Information: 02 June 2025

London's old banks have proved to be a rich source of venues for London's restaurant and bar scene in recent years. Now, over on Cavendish Square behind Oxford Circus, a £15 million refurb of a...

Kerb is launching a weekly street food market in White City

Information: 02 June 2025

A new street food market comes to London, courtesy of Kerb. They're heading west for the first time, opening in White City Place. There will be seven traders on offer at all times, in a line-up that...

A Twin Peaks diner and a Wes Anderson bar are both popping up in London this summer

Information: 30 May 2025

We love a well-themed pop up and this summer, London has two good ones to choose from. To start with, there's the Wes Anderson-themed takeover of the bar at Bob Bob Ricard in Soho. The downstairs...

Tom Kerridge's Butcher's Tap is being relaunched as The Chalk Freehouse

Information: 30 May 2025

Earlier this week, there was news that Tom Kerridge's Chelsea pub, The Butcher's Tap and Grill was closing, with the team behind it saying it gave them "an opportunity to regroup, rethink and...

Test Driving Luna, a City omakase that brings a modern sensibility to the classic sushi experience

Information: 29 May 2025

Featuring the lunar cycle as its theme, this high rise omakase restaurant turns out to be a lot of fun for the dinner guests.

Noren sake and sushi bar is taking over the Roji space in Mayfair

Information: 28 May 2025

We'd been wondering what would happen to Roji omakase bar, since chefs Tamas Naszai and Tomoko Hasegawa moved over to open the excellent Himi in Carnaby - and now we know. Next door to Chisou in...

Thomas Straker opens all day restaurant and deli Acre in Notting Hill

Information: 28 May 2025

Chef Thomas Straker is making things easy on himself with his second restaurant opening, as it's just a few doors further down from his eponymous restaurant in Notting Hill. Acre is being described as a...

48 hours in Paris, our 2025 guide to both new and classic places to eat, drink and stay in the City of Light

Information: 26 May 2025

On our latest trip to Paris, we checked out a new hotel, a newly Michelin-starred restaurant, a new French bistro that looks like it's been there for an age and lots more...

Barbarella is going to be Big Mamma's sexy new Canary Wharf restaurant

Information: 26 May 2025

26/5/25 - updated with the opening date Almost a year ago we brought you the news that the Big Mamma group (Circolo Popolare, Gloria, Carlotta et al) were setting their sights on Canary Wharf. Now...

Rick Stein classic dishes are popping up at Fortnum's

Information: 23 May 2025

You'll see Rick Stein restaurants all over Padstow, but at the moment his only London outpost is in Barnes (a notably great restaurant for riverside dining). But if you fancy trying the chef's...

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