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Chef Daisuke Hayashi's kaiseki restaurant. 

What happens when two viral food businesses get in bed with each other? We're about to find out as Alley Cats pizzeria has just joined forces with TikTok butter merchant (and restaurateur) Thomas Straker.

If you haven't been to Alley Cats already it's easy to find it when meandering through Marylebone - it's the place with the perma queue outside. For the rest of the month, they'll be adding Straker's Burnt

Updated 29/5/24 with opening date and more details

Back in 2022 when Brindisa opened their spin-off restaurant, Bar Kroketa, devoted to all things croquetas, we were early fans. So we're very much behind the news that they're getting ready to expand with a second restaurant.

They've taken

Marylebone has a hot new restaurant that looks set to challenge Chiltern Firehouse. We pulled up a seat at Lita to see what's the reason for all that buzz. 

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 the chef involved, Luke Ahearne, has a strong London background having previously most recently worked at Gordon Ramsay restaurants and before that was Head Chef at Corrigan's Mayfair.

Next, we have the group of people

Fans of NYC style pizza pies should take note of a new pizzeria that's just opened up off Baker Street. Alley Cats Pizza is from the restaurant group that run Ochre at the National Gallery and (whisper it) Angus Steakhouse. Here in Marylebone their head chef Francesco Macri, who's ex-Pizza Pilgrims and Princi, has put together a tight menu that takes New York's pizza scene as its inspiration.

There are just seven thin

5/1/24 - Updated with the soft launch info

The march of fresh pasta restaurants across London continues, with a fourth Emilia's about to join the fray. This time they're heading to Baker Street, just down the road from Sherlock Holmes' pretend gaff and next to Regent's Park.

As with every Emilia's, all the pasta will be made fresh on-site. Here it'll be in a special pasta station

If the current dire weather has you dreaming about summer sunshine on the Med then the arrival next month of Bellazul in Marylebone might be the cure to your winter blues. Taking over the old Il Baretto site on Blandford Street this sees head chef Simone Serafini running the show having previously been Head Chef of Cecconi's Mayfair and 5 Hertford Street.

Simone's inspirational trawl around the

Ever since their Patisserie chefs Mauro and Daniel won Bake Off: The Professionals 2023 The Landmark London has been doing its best to bring the chefs' top-tier pastry work to the fore. Now, for the festive season, they've opened a cake shop pop-up in the hotel's foyer which will be selling a range of festive French pastries.

What we're particularly interested in though are the range of

More than a decade after opening the doors to his Argentine grill Zoilo, chef Diego Jacquet is expanding. He's getting ready to open a pizzeria just around the corner from his restaurant.

Florencio Pizza will give him a chance to showcase pizzas inspired by his travels around the world including time spent in Patagonia, his life in Argentina and the creative input of Italian immigrants in

You may have already tried his food at Seven Dials Market or the recent World Halal Food Festival (where Big Zuu really, really loved it) but now chef Muzaffar Sadykov is bringing his Uzbek food right into the West End. OshPaz will open on Regent Street, offering a handy place to grab and go for breakfast and lunch and then

Fresh from toasting their triumph in this year's final of Bake Off: The Professionals, the pastry team from The Landmark London hotel in Marylebone are getting ready to showcase their winning bakes to the public.

Head Pastry Chef Mauro Di Lieto and Pastry Sous Chef, Daniel Schevenels won the closely-fought contest after weeks of wowing the judges Benoit Blin and Cherish

Chef Dom Taylor became the first winner of Five Star Chef on Channel 4 and his prize was launching The Good Front Room at The Langham. We went down to take a look.  

Is there room for another glitzy Italian restaurant in London? We ask because news reaches us of an American import, LAVO Ristorante, which is coming our way from America. It's part of the TAO Restaurant group which now also owns Hakkasan and Yauatcha, and this will be the group's first LAVO in Europe - they have several dotted across the states and one in Singapore.

The London restaurant will be part of the new

22/5/23 - updated with opening details

Alberto Landgraf, chef patron of two-Michelin-starred Oteque in Rio de Janeiro, ranked 47 on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, is bringing some Brazilian flavours to London with a new restaurant called Bossa. We'd been waiting to hear more about the