Chelsea

• Kora brings London's Mediterranean trend to the King's Road

   

  It's been a big trend in London restaurants over the past couple of years, and another Mediterranean restaurant is on the way, this time to Chelsea. 

  Kora is opening in Beaufort House, taking over what was their brasserie space, transforming it into a restaurant that "takes timeless Mediterranean classics and reimagines them with creativity and modern flair." That translates as a

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• Tom Kerridge's Butcher's Tap is being relaunched as The Chalk Freehouse

  

  Earlier this week, there was news that Tom Kerridge's Chelsea pub, The Butcher's Tap and Grill was closing, with the team behind it saying it gave them "an opportunity to regroup, rethink and rebuild".

  It turns out that they didn't need that much thinking time, because there are already plans to reopen it as a new pub, The Chalk Freehouse. 

  The new pub will be

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• BookBar is expanding to Chelsea with its social offering for book lovers

  

  Four years down the road of having charmed the residents of Blackstock Road with their winning mix of books, coffee and wine, the founder behind BookBar is heading west. Making the announcement yesterday, founder Chrissy Ryan said that she'd be opening her second place over in Chelsea.

  If you haven't been before, the concept's pretty simple and is all about promoting the social side of reading. So the original Highbury branch

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• New Chelsea bakery Reemies is all about the banana bundt

  

  Reemies, by Reem Abu Samra, started life as a cake delivery business and over the years has found itself a huge following, Now, the first Reemies bakery is getting ready to open.

  The cake business started back in 2018 with Reem originally baking cakes in her own flat and gradually expanding to a larger kitchen in Vauxhall and a much bigger business. Over that period she also built up

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• The best restaurants in Chelsea

  

  From longstanding neighbourhood favourites to more glitzy, new establishments, this part of town has it all. We pick out the best restaurants in Kensington and Chelsea for your delectation. 

• The all-day European Cafe Linea is opening next to the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea

  

  A new cafe and restaurant is opening next door to The Saatchi Gallery (taking over what used to be the gallery's restaurant), called Cafe Linea. The new space is planned as an all-day opening, inspired by cafes in arcades across Europe. 

  Run by Greg and Felicity Godik (incidentally Greg's Dad Zeev is  the founder of Gaucho so he should know his way around

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• Josephine Bouchon

  Traditional country pub in South Ken

• Elystan Street

  Philip Howard's Chelsea restaurant is a more casual affair than before.

• Marta pizzeria in Chelsea is all about thin Roman-style pizzas

  

  In the run-up to the end of last year, we were so focused on the recent openings of Alley Cats and Zia Lucia in Chelsea that we missed another very promising new Chelsea pizza opening, called Marta. 

  It opened on Fulham Road (taking over the space from L'Artigiano) and it shifts away from the predominant Neapolitan focus of many London pizzerias and instead is all about Roman pizzas. Those are large,

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• The best restaurants in Kensington

  

  We've picked out the best restaurants in Kensington. From top Michelin-starred restaurants to glittzy fare from Big Mamma, here are the best places to eat out in the area.

• Test Driving Fantômas - Chelsea gets a sexy new restaurant where the food's as stylish as the surroundings

  

  Fantômas sees the power restaurant duo George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya Demichev teaming up with chef Chris Denney in Chelsea. We wandered down the King's Road to check it out

• Simon Rimmer and Tom Kerridge team up for a charity Sunday Brunch burger

  

  If you fancy trying the combined culinary efforts of a TV host and Michelin-starred chef then you'll need to head to Chelsea this month. Sunday Brunch host Simon Rimmer and chef Tom Kerridge have pooled their creative talents to create a burger that's being sold throughout November for charity.

  ‘The Everyday Sunday Brunch’ burger is a beast of a burger and features a patty topped with cheese, Lyonnaise

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• The Wee Sister is chef Anna Haugh's new wine bar in Chelsea

  

  Five years after throwing open the doors of her Irish restaurant just off the King's Road, chef and writer Anna Haugh is now in the process of unveiling her latest enterprise in the area. The Wee Sister is Haugh's new wine bar and it really is a close sibling, being right next door to the restaurant.

  The bar has taken over another wine space, Last Drop Wines. As Anna explained to us, "It's an Irish wine bar

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• Bottarga takes over from Chicama, shifting to the Mediterranean

  

  Recently Chicama, from the people behind Pachamama, closed in Chelsea. However, they've hung on to the space and are opening a new restaurant there pretty sharpish, called Bottarga. 

  This new opening will actually be closer to the group's restaurant in Notting Hill, Zephyr, albeit a more casual version, and will see them switch to a Mediterranean influence. The menu here also

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• Fantomas sees ex-Fiend chef Chris Denney join the Wild team in Chelsea

  

  19/9/24 - Updated with lots more detail about what to expect

  Restaurant duo George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya Demichev appear to be vying for the title of busiest restaurateurs in London. Having only very recently opened the hugely successful Lita and with places like Goodman, Wild and Belvedere under their belts, just to name a few, they're now getting ready to open

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