The City of London

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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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• Spice up your Christmas Day festivities this year - spend the day at Straits Kitchen in the City

   

  

  Don't fancy cooking Christmas Day lunch at home, and want to try something different this year? Straits Kitchen in the City may be just the place for you. 

• Test Driving The Wolseley City - the famous grand cafe gets a doppelganger

  

  The Wolseley Hospitality Group has finally unveiled their much-anticipated City sibling to The Wolseley. We went to see if it can live up to the original.

• The Wolseley City prepares to open in the heart of the City of London

  

  Updated 24/10/23 with opening date

  Twenty years after Messrs Corbin & King turned a former car showroom into one of London's best-known restaurants, the Wolseley is getting ready to welcome a sibling restaurant to the fold. The Wolseley City will be the second new opening from The Wolseley Hospitality Group (created after Corbin and King's departure), after Manzi's opens in

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• Gaucho City is reopening after a big revamp - take a first look inside

  

  Gaucho in the City has just had a complete overhaul. Take a first sneak peek inside the new-look steak restaurant. 

• Three Uncles doubles up in the City

  

  They already have a place in Liverpool Street (as well as Camden and Brixton) but now Three Uncles are about to double up in the City with a new opening on Old Bailey, just around the corner from St Paul's. 

  If you're unfamiliar with them, they're best known for their Cantonese roast meats. So that's a choice of roasted duck, pork or Hainan chicken served with rice. On top of that, they serve lo

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• Cinnamon Kitchen, Kricket, Cavita and Rambutan join forces for Spice in the City

  

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  To celebrate Cinnamon Kitchen City’s 15-year anniversary, Executive Chef of The Cinnamon Collection, Vivek Singh and Cinnamon Kitchen City Head Chef, Raju Ramachandran, is being joined by cheffing friends Will Bowlby of Kricket, Adriana Cavita of Cavita and Gavin Malleappah of Rambutan for Spice in the City – a special one-off

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• Test Driving Goodman City - a steakhouse at the top of its game

  

  This New York inspired steakhouse is knocking it out of the park - we booked in to see how they've kept the City crowd happy for more than a decade.