The City of London

• Helix restaurant and Iris bar at the Gherkin are London's latest high-rise drinking and dining spots

  It’s all change at the top of the Gherkin as Searcys revamp the food and drink offering with a new restaurant, Helix, and a new bar, Iris (with a space open to the public for the first time). 

• The Library Bar at The Ned offers a martini trolley alongside truffle pizzas

  An intimate new bar at The Ned, the hotel and club from Soho House and the Sydell Group, The Library Bar features a big champagne list and high-end cocktails.

• Test Driving Brigadiers - an extraordinary Indian gastropub in The City

  We head to The City to Brigadiers to find out what an Indian Gastropub looks like when it's from the same people as Gymkhana and Hoppers.  

• Brigadiers is the City's new Indian barbecue restaurant from the Gymkhana folks - updated

  Charred, smoked and grilled is the name of the game at Brigadiers, which will be cooking up all manner of kebabs, chops, tikka and feasting options for hungry City sorts, with a huge selection of beer to wash it all down.

• The Devonshire Club's new Number Five restaurant opens to non members

  Tucked in off Bishopsgate the Devonshire Club's new chef is bringing a fresh seasonal menu to the table while opening the doors at weekends to non members.

• Coya City

  Peruvian in The City

• BunCo are bringing unconventional bao to London at Monument

  Istanbul bao purveyors BunCo are bringing their take on the bao craze to London, promising non-traditional fillings.

• Honi Poke brings their take on poke bowls to workers by Fenchurch Street

  Fenchurch Street is the latest part of the City to get its own poké restaurant and Honi Poké is open from breakfast through to post work sustenance.

• Amber restaurant will have Middle Eastern via Aldgate East

  Murat Kilic and Pierre Apri have taken some hefty inspiration from the region, but given it a European flavour, meaning Amber's menu is Middle Eastern food, but not as you know it, making it a perfect fit for its high end Piazza Square address.

• New Liverpool Street pub Lady Abercorn’s Pub & Kitchen serves up bottomless Yorkshire puddings

  City hotel the Andaz London Liverpool Street has just opened a public house brewing its own beer and serving up a roast every day of the week

• Test Driving Koya City: udon bar expands its repertoire for the City

  Soho's perenially popular udon noodle bar Koya has expanded to the City. We went along to see how the newer, bigger restaurant was doing.

• Jose Pizarro brings a warming paella menu to Bermondsey

  

  We have to admit, at this time of the year, good comfort food really does make it easier to bear the cold weather. So the news from Jose Pizarro's, Pizarro in Bermondsey about the introduction of a paella menu is just the sort of thing we want to hear. 

  There are three paella dishes on the menu, including the ones pictured above - "‘rabbit & chicken in escabeche" and "black rice, prawns, cuttlefish, herbs

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• Randy's Wing Bar opens in the City with newly extended menu at Aldgate

  The duo behind Randy’s Wing Bar love chicken wings, so much so they even once drove across the US in the hunt for the best sauce. Now they’re branching out from their original Hackney Wick base to bring all that saucey, chickeny goodness to hungry folk in the City.

• Aviary

  Bar and restaurant overlooking Finsbury Square

• Racine’s Henry Harris is running the menus at THREE new pubs in London

  

  8/12/17 - updated with Three Cranes soft launch details

  There was much rejoicing when it was announced that Maida Vale's Truscott Arms would reopen (to be renamed Hero of Maida), home to top roasts and a widely beloved upmarket boozer, with none other than Racine’s

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