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The UK's best new countryside inns + Test Driving Berenjak Mayfair, Easter weekend events, hot cross buns, eggs & more...

EDITOR'S LETTER

How are your plans shaping up for the four-day bank holiday weekend? If you wish you'd sorted out an escape from town, our new feature on the best new countryside inns to stay at will be handy for the May bank holidays at least. But if you're staying in London, we do have a roundup of some fun stuff going on around town.

What might be useful to do, as town empties out, is to try and get a booking at the new Berenjak in Mayfair. Here's what we thought of it.

Catherine Hanly - Editor, Hot Dinners

GET INN

The UK's best new countryside inns to stay at in 2026

If you're looking for stone floors, open fires, glorious countryside and great food, you'll need our guide to the best pubs with rooms and country inns that have opened up since last summer.

Where to go

RESTAURANT NEWS

James Cochran's Around The Cluck fried chicken is back

If you've been missing the chef's amazing chicken burgers, then there's now a new place in town serving them up.

The Duke of Connaught in Belgravia could be Cubitt House's next gastropub

If plans succeed, they'll be turning an old post office into one of their lovely pubs.

Michelin has just updated its guide again

And there are nine new London entries on there.

And if you missed our April Fool story this year...

New Shoreditch bar Seedy will channel the nineties with CDs rather than vinyl. (Frankly, we think it's a solid business idea)

TEST DRIVE

Test Driving Berenjak Mayfair, the Persian restaurant has really upped the glam factor

For their third London restaurant, Berenjak have opened a very glamorous restaurant in Mayfair. We went down to check it their latest location and to try the new dishes on the Persian-inspired menu.

Here's what we thought

EASTER IN LONDON

Things to do in London over the Easter bank holiday weekend

If you haven't already booked your ski trip, aren't in smug possession of a friend with a weekend cottage and your Ryanair/Easyjet escape fund is currently dry, then you are stuck in London for the Easter weekend. We've got you covered...

Your four day weekend planner

London's luxury Easter eggs

If you're swerving Cadbury's and want something with a higher cocoa count.

This year's best hot cross buns

You're running out of time to enjoy these seasonal delights.

NEW AND COMING SOON

JUST OPENED

Hell's Kitchen - Marylebone
It originally launched in Las Vegas and now Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen restaurant (a spin-off of the series) has arrived in London, inside The Cumberland near Marble Arch.

Auguste - London Fields
Auguste has taken over the old Papi space in Hackney and they'll have an Italian/Abruzzo menu with a particular focus on grilled skewers

Pillar Hall - Olympia
Ex-D&D head Des Gunewardena is behind this opening in the newly refurbed Olympia, which features a restaurant, speakeasy-style bar and a huge events space.

MORE NEWLY OPENED LONDON RESTAURANTS

OPENING SOON

Weezie's - Belgravia
Coming from the team that run the nearby Amie Wine Studio, this is a pizza-focused restaurant and wine bar with a range of thin-crust pizzas in the London/New Haven-style. Opens 7 April 2026

Mitsu - Shoreditch
Taking over the space that used to be Nobu Shoreditch, this is a new Japanese restaurant that's reimagined the space, giving it more of a Shoreditch vibe, with the food including sharing robata dishes cooked over Japanese charcoal. Opens 6 April 2026

Acme Taco - Walthamstow
Acme Fire Cult continues its association with 40FT Brewery at their Walthamstow location as chef Andrew Clarke launches a regional Mexican take on tacos, using double tortillas. Opens 3 April 2026

PLUS MANY MORE UPCOMING LONDON RESTAURANTS

READER OFFER

Our readers save 50% off the a la carte menu at The Pem in Westminster

Enjoy refined British cuisine in the heart of Westminster at The Pem, saving 50% with this exclusive reader deal. Better still, use this offer if you've got any family or friends visiting London over Easter.

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SPOTTED SOMETHING?

Noticed some restaurant or bar news we should know about?

Have you spotted a new restaurant about to open in your neighbourhood? Seen a celebrity dining out in London? Heard a piece of hospitality gossip you feel we ought to know about? Unburden yourself and tell us all about it.

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