The City of London
- Uber Eats' Restaurant of the Year Sandwich Sandwich is coming to London
12/7/24 - updated with the opening date
They've been, literally, huge in Bristol and now the winners of the Uber Eats Restaurant of the Year award are getting ready to bring their massive sandwiches to London.
The person behind it is Josh Kleiner, who runs the sandwich business with his dad and brother, and they already have five sandwich shops in
... - Selin Kiazim is back with Leydi, a Turkish restaurant in the City
We already knew that the new Ennismore hotel, Hyde London City, was planning a new restaurant for when it opened, opposite the Old Bailey. Now we're able to reveal what was pretty much an open secret, that Selin Kiazim, the chef behind Oklava and Kyseri, is going to
... - Sweetings
Seafood restaurant that's a London institution
- The Ned
Soho House's impressive hotel and collection of restaurants in the City
- Bob Bob Ricard City
Bob Bob Ricard's lavish City outpost
- Origin City
Seasonal food in the City
- Roti King are bringing their Malaysian street food to Spitalfields
Roti King has been on the expansion drive of late, having recently opened at Waterloo and Battersea alongside the original Euston restaurant. Now the specialists in Malaysian street food are getting ready to open in the City.
The new spot is opening on Artillery Lane, just off Bishopsgate. While we don't know too much about the restaurant yet, we do know it'll be a two-floored
... - Test Driving Cloth - an excellent wine-led bistro in historical City surroundings
Cloth sees some very knowledgeable wine folk teaming up with a chef with an enviable CV, all in a properly historical City of London building. We went down to take a look.
- Ex-D&D CEO Des Gunewardena is launching Engel and Jang at The Royal Exchange
15/4/24 - updated with full details
He stepped away from D&D in 2022 (he was one of the Ds) and now Des Gunewardena has announced his first solo venture - which is a pretty big one.
He's launching not one, but two new "concepts" at the Royal Exchange, called Engel and Jang. They will take over the North South and East mezzanines above the
... - The Tipperary, London's "oldest" Irish pub in the City is reopening with a complete makeover
26/3/24 - updated with opening details
It's been closed since 2020 but now the pub that's touted as being London's oldest Irish pub, although that claim is contested, is coming back.
Long a City haunt - there's been a pub on this spot since the 15th century with the current building dating back to just after the Great Fire of London
... - Los Mochis London City is their new rooftop restaurant in Broadgate
12/3/24 - updated with the opening date
Following the success of their Notting Hill restaurant, and their recent ...
- Dream Xi’an in Tower Hill is the latest opening from Master Wei's Guirong Wei
Guirong Wei, the chef behind Master Wei, does like to do things quietly. Very much under the radar, she's just opened her latest restaurant Dream Xi’an in Tower Hill.
This latest opening, like Master Wei (in Bloomsbury) and Xi’an Impression (in Highbury) before it, is focused on Shaanxi cooking, with hand-pulled noodles making up many of
... - Test of Time: Revisiting Galvin La Chapelle on its 15th birthday
The Galvin brothers are celebrating 15 years of Galvin La Chapelle in its amazing Grade II listed surroundings. We went down to see how the 15 years have treated the Michelin-starred restaurant.
- Hyde London City hotel is opening on Old Bailey, complete with a modern Turkish restaurant
Just when you thought the city couldn't possibly fit any more upmarket hotels, another new opening is on the horizon. This time it's the turn of boutique hotel brand Hyde, themselves part of Ennismore, the people behind the Hoxton hotels. They're opening Hyde London City on Old Bailey.
It's not the first time that this particular building has been a hotel.
... - Dom's Subs are on the move in the City, heading to Ludgate Circus and Leadenhall
17/1/24 - updated with opening details.
Just a few short months after they closed their store in Bevis Marks, to the despair of City workers, sandwich folk Dom's Subs are storming back, opening up not one but two sandwich shops in the Square Mile again. Back in October, they opened at Ludgate Circus in an incredibly small space described by them as a "little teeny tiny sandwich
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