The City of London

• Murger Han head to The City for their third Xi’an restaurant

  

  Murger Han, the Xi’an restaurant with restaurants in Mayfair and Euston is expanding. This time they're heading east to the City for their third restaurant. 

  As in its other incarnations, they'll have a menu of Xi’an dishes made to family recipes with the Biang Biang noodles and the murgers themselves (slow-cooked meat in flatbread) being the biggest draw.

  Also on the menu will

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• Test Driving the Ned's Sunday Feast as it reopens for the new normal

  

  The Ned's epic Sunday Feast buffet is back in action, post lockdown. We went to see how a Covid-era buffet works in practice. 

• The Ned is reopening, and the legendary Sunday feast is coming back

  

  Updated 16/7/20

  The huge City establishment with 10 restaurants, bars, a private club and a hotel has slowly begun reopening its restaurants - with both Kaia - their Asian-Pacific restaurant and also their British brasserie Millie's Lounge, being the first back.

  To begin with current climate meant that their popular range of limitless buffets - in particularly the Ned's Sunday Feast were on hold. But the Sunday Feast is back from

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• Mark Hix is back - taking on the food and drink at 1 Lombard Street

  

  Early on in the lockdown, Mark Hix announced that all his restaurants were to close. And while we may well still see a Hix-owned restaurant make a return in the future, the chef himself isn't sitting around. He's just joined Soren Jessen's 1 Lombard Street, overseeing all the food and beverage at the City restaurant. 

  He'll be

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• Brigadiers becomes the retro off-licence Daru Shop, selling "Naanzas"

  

  There's something of a change happening to Brigadiers, the city bar/restaurant that's run by the people behind Gymkhana. As it'll be a while before it can return completely to normal, it's being transformed into a retro Indian off-licence - aka the Daru Shop. 

  Everything will be served through a hatch and there are two very important elements. First, you'll be able to get a takeaway

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• Pascal Aussignac launches meals-to-go at Comptoir Gascon

  

  Returning to the City today is Pascal Aussignac and his restaurant Comptoir Gascon, kicking off a new collection service. It's the first week Pascal's takeaway selection has been available since lockdown and, much like the restaurant, there's a very classic French feel about the dishes on offer with the chef's signature foie gras making an appearance.

  Here's a selection of

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• New York chef Angie Mar in one-week takeover of New Street Grill

  

  If you’ve been thinking about going to one of New York’s must-visit restaurants, then sit tight because the chef is coming to you. Provided you can get to London’s New Street Grill near Liverpool Street between 9 and 14 March, you can experience the cooking skills of Angie Mar, Owner and

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• Chef Michael Thompson takes on a residency at Crispin restaurant, promising "sustainable luxury"

  

  Spitalfields restaurant, café, and natural wine bar Crispin has announced the latest in its run of guest chef residencies. It’s the sustainability-focused Michael Thompson, formerly head chef of Cub in Hoxton and also known for his Fodder pop-up, which focuses on foraged ingredients.

  For six weeks, Michael will present a menu focused on what Crispin is calling ‘sustainable

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• Test Driving Bar Douro City - a Portuguese haven in Broadgate

  

  They're big in London Bridge and now this top Portuguese restaurant has opened in the City too. We head down for a look. 

• Test Driving 14 Hills - where the views aren't the only thing creating a buzz

  

  The City's latest high rise restaurant looks pretty amazing, but having a top chef in the kitchen means there's more to Insta than just selfies of yourself and those views.

• Test Driving Ned's Feast - unlimited Sunday lunch in the City

  The Ned has an unlimited Sunday lunch that frankly dwarfs the competition, with unlimited roasts, oysters, lobsters and more. It's already one of the hardest for Londoners to get a table at - so we went to find out why.

• Vagabond Monument offers self-pour wines and beers in the old Santander bank

  

  Perfectly timed for the end of Dry January, Vagabond Wines are opening a huge new wine bar in the heart of the City. Vagabond Monument is taking over the space occupied by the old Santander Bank.

  The Monument branch is the eighth Vagabond in the group and it's a big one. The general premise is to serve yourself wine - so you load a card with money and then use the enomatic machines to pour your own glass of wines. The new City branch

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• Flat Iron in Aldgate goes back to basics

  

  You may remember that Flat Iron opened up a restaurant with a big focus on wines by the magnum and serving up bavette steaks only last year (in a team-up with Winemakers). Well, things have changed a little and the restaurant is about to re-open as a standard permanent Flat Iron this week (Called Flat

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• Bar Douro City will bring Portuguese food and wine to Broadgate

  The original Bar Douro in Flat Iron Square (near London Bridge) has proven such a hit that they're getting ready to open a second. This time they'll be bringing their Portuguese wine and food to a big new development near Broadgate. 

• Zia Lucia are bringing their pizzas to Aldgate East

  With restaurants in Islington and Hammersmith already, Zia Lucia have won many fans for their pizzas - available in four types of dough from vegetable charcoal to the more traditional. This sees them heading to the City with their third pizza restaurant.