London's hottest restaurants + new reader offers, Banquet 88 Test Drive, terrace dining in Knightsbridge, news & more...

EDITOR'S LETTER

This is a bit of a bumper edition of the newsletter today, as we're taking a week's holiday and so have a LOT to tell you about before we go.

We've got two useful offers (one pasta-led, the other very useful for concert-goers), there's the June edit of London's hottest restaurants and we check out a glammed up terrace in Knightsbridge.

Catherine, Editor - Hot Dinners

RESTAURANT DEAL

Get 25% off your bill at Notto this month

Enjoy the late spring menu at fresh pasta bars Notto in Piccadilly and Covent Garden and save 25% off your total bill.

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HOT RIGHT NOW

London's hottest restaurants - the June edit

This month sees lots of new additions, from a pub set up by hospitality royalty to two celeb-owned restaurants that are actually good, a chicken caesar wrap phenomenon and more...

Read our guide

RESTAURANT DEAL

Save up to 40% at Studio Five restaurant near Wembley Stadium

If you're heading to Wembley in June (super handy for Harry Styles or the Summertime Ball), we have a great offer at the lovely Studio Five restaurant at Wembley Park. 

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RESTAURANT NEWS

Popular Highbury café N5 Kitchen is hitting up Clerkenwell with its amazing lunches and baked goods

As longstanding local customers to N5 Kitchen in Highbury, we can personally attest to the happiness that Clerkenwell workers and residents are going to feel when they open there this month.

Read all about the new N5 Kitchen

Here's everything you need to know about St Clement, the hot new riverside hotel from Soho House's Nick Jones

It'll have two new restaurants (one of them from Florence Knight) and a late-night bar.

Highbury coffee shop Profile is having a month of London bakery collabs

The coming month will see four hot London bakeries descending on Highbury.

Brook Green pub The Bird in Hand is given new life by the Holland's Max de Nahlik

He made The Holland a local hit and now he's hoping to repeat that success in Brook Green.

Top Islington bakery Quince is gearing up to open its own cafe, Clementine

The new cafe will be just across the road from Quince.

Mandy Yin's Malaysian restaurant Sambal Shiok has closed

We're particularly sorry to see this closure.

TERRACE LAUNCH

Trying out the chic new-look Fifth Floor Terrace at Harvey Nichols Knightsbridge

Harvey Nichols' Fifth Floor Terrace in Knightsbridge has just reopened for the summer after a glow-up. We took the lift to the store's top floor for a lovely lunch in the sunshine.

What to order on the terrace this summer

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TEST DRIVE

Test Driving Banquet 88, a riverside dim sum spot by Tower Bridge where it pays to dine with a group

London has plenty of restaurants that are great for dates, but we also need restaurants that are perfect for group dining. Step forward Banquet 88, a new high-end dim sum spot on St Katharine Docks.

Here's what we thought of Banquet 88

NEW THIS WEEK

The new restaurants and bars opening in London this week

This week, Buvette returns to London, Greek and Cypriot cuisine unite in Covent Garden, a female-led wine bar comes to London Bridge and more...

What's opening, and where

SPOTTED SOMETHING?

Noticed something restaurant or bar-related that we should know about?

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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