News & reviews

Updated with soft launch details. Very much developing into a trend this year is an influx of Spanish restaurants into London (note - we see this as "A Good Thing"). The latest addition is Bravas...

26/2/13: Updated with opening date and soft launch details Almost immediately after its opening in early 2012, 10 Greek Street won itself a loyal Soho following. Now they've announced a soon-to-open follow up -...

"Three full days of great music, delicious food and good times for all the family" is how Jamie Oliver describes The Big Feastival - the music and food festival he's helped organise for the past...

Feast your eyes on the newest limited edition burger to hit the menu at Byron this month. The B-Rex is Byron chef Fred Smith's homage to the first burger he can ever remember eating - a bacon burger...

Updated 25/2/14 with opening date Just down the road from the Old Vic, Cyrus Todiwala of Cafe Spice Namaste fame is planning to open a Portuguese restaurant with Indian influences. The 108-seat...

The ultra luxe Rosewood hotel in Holborn reveals its new brasserie - we head along to give it a whirl.

With alumni from Eleven Madison Place and Elliot's Cafe running it - this riverside spot in Battersea is drawing people from all over London.

Bowling, live music AND a New York menu - Hot Dinners checks out Brooklyn Bowl at the O2.

Update 18/3 - Barnyard is open now - check out the menu here. 2014 is shaping up to a very interesting year in terms of restaurant openings. And surely one of the ones that'll be keenly anticipated...

Hot dogs may well be a big thing at the moment but for many people (us included) the whole trend was started by Big Apple Hot Dogs, who remain the best. Their stall in Old Street and also at many...

We've seen some big openings and some big announcements over the last couple of weeks - so it's time to give you all another run-down of the movers and shakers in our Coming Soon page and the...

In recent years, the biggest food story in London has been all about the humble burger patty, now a new kind of patty is attempting to take them on. Theresa Roberts is setting up the Jamaica Patty...

(Update - 4/3/14 - we've now been to Chiltern Firehouse - check out our Test Drive) Well we've been wondering who would be heading up the restaurant at André Balazs new London hotel Chiltern...

A burger you have to show ID for to order? That's the idea behind the BrewBurger - a collaboration between craft beer company BrewDog and Honest Burgers. The burger contains so much craft beer that...

To celebrate its coming of age Quaglino’s, which turns 21 this year, has five months of celebrations planned. Next month the Mayfair restaurant will launch a pop-up rainbow Bellini Bar which until...

We've already had Scotch egg challenges, Burger Bash face-offs, and Mince Pie Projects. Now the next face-off is incoming as a collection of chefs get ready to serve up the best pork pie possible. The Princess...

A new generation of restaurateurs is hitting the London scene, having been brought up in the trade. We already know about Sophie and Rose Gordon who are opening up Villiers a few doors down from...

News reaches us of a newcomer to Borough as new neighbourhood brasserie, Edwins, gets ready to open in March (and see below for soft launch details). It's a small upstairs restaurant seating 40,...

The Cat & Mutton pub has been a mainstay of Broadway Market for very long time indeed - 300 odd years - and although it closed late last year, it's about to be reopened by Tom Gibson, who is also...

Running a site dedicated to the numerous restaurant openings in London means you can often find us trawling through mounds of over inflated press releases, each restaurant claiming to be the most...