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The new Chancery Rosewood hotel in Mayfair is a pretty huge endeavour, taking over the space of the old US Embassy (and retaining the Brutalist look). We've been wondering what they're going to do...

Another year, another awards season and just before we get to next week's new Michelin stars, it's the turn of The Good Food Guide to unveil their gongs. This year, there's been a bit of a shake-up at the...

Ever since a reader brought our attention to an Instagram account for a new restaurant opening in Marylebone called Lita, we've been digging behind the scenes to find out more. First up, we learned that...

South East London caffeine addicts now have a new place to hit up in their neighbourhood. For the past few years Elsewhere Coffee have been roasting beans just behind Deptford station. Now they're...

The Bib Gourmands are billed as being for slightly more affordable restaurants than your average Michelin fare, serving "good food at moderate prices". So with that in mind, here's who got a shiny...

Just before Christmas, Neighbourhood restaurant Calici closed its doors in Belsize village, but it'll be back soon under a new name. It turns out, as first reported by the Ham and High, that celeb...

As anyone who's been on public transport over the past year would already know, Fridays haven't been the same in London since the Pandemic. With so many workers doing a truncated week in the office,...

If like us you covet the amazing crockery you see in London restaurants then the arrival of the new shop at Akub in Notting Hill will be of interest to you. They've just launched an online shop to...

RAI, from the same people behind Islington's Hot Stone, originally launched in Fitzrovia before closing last year. But now the restaurant is back again in a different location, just up the road in...

BAO has arrived in Mayfair - but not as you might expect. They've landed at Dover Street Market for a pop-up kiosk that's as much about their merch as it is about the food. On the merch side,...

It isn't often that a restaurant manages to open in the middle of Soho in a fashion that's so completely under the radar we have to wait for a reader to let us know about it. But that's the case...

The latest restaurant to hit Chinatown is Yiqi, billed as a Pan-Asian restaurant with dishes from all over West and Southeast Asia. In charge of the kitchen is Chef Lum Wah Cheok who comes via...

Updated 23/1/24 with a new opening date It's been quite the year for chef and restaurateur Claude Bosi. He began with the opening of his bistro Socca in Mayfair with Samyukta Nair and then followed that...

It's just over two years since the American fast food fried chicken chain Popeye's arrived in London - and now they're spread all over London in the form of either restaurants or delivery kitchens.  But if...

The Unruly Pig in Woodbridge, Suffolk The annual reveal of the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs list always makes us want to close our laptops and head straight to a cosy pub for a proper pint and a...

Just when you thought the city couldn't possibly fit any more upmarket hotels, another new opening is on the horizon. This time it's the turn of boutique hotel brand Hyde, themselves part of...

We've known for a while that  Larry Jayasekara is opening The Cocochine with gallery owner Tim Jefferies in Mayfair. That restaurant should see the light of day this spring, but it's not the only...