The City of London

• 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.

• Test Driving Fazenda London - the rodizio grill comes to the City

   

  They're big up North and now the South American rodizio grill has arrived in London. We went to the City to see just how much meat we could eat... 

• Taking to the rooftop for the Florattica weekend brunch

  

  If you love a rooftop brunch then new City restaurant Florattica is the place to go

• Fazenda is bringing its rodizio grill restaurant to London

  

  5/6/23 - Updated with the opening date

  Following restaurants like Six by Nico and Mowgli, another

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• Seven North is Miznon chef Eyal Shani's next London restaurant

  

  London is getting a lot of new hotels over the next year, with big names like Mandarin Oriental and Rosewood opening new central London spaces. But there's plenty of room for boutique hotels too, and that's just what's coming to the City. Sircle London comes from hotel group Sircle

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• KöD, a Danish steakhouse, opens in the City

  

  There has been much written about the cosy art of Danish ‘hygge’ but at the time of writing, London’s weather is still doing its best frosty Scandi impersonation, so a new Danish steakhouse called KöD in Devonshire Square is worth investigating.

  First opening in Denmark’s second-largest city Århus in 2014, Restaurant KöD hopes to bring some Danish vibes via way of juicy steaks to the City (‘köd’ means ‘meat’

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• Bar Douro City

  Portuguese City restaurant

• The City gets a new Portuguese wine and tapas bar in Bar 1790

  

  If you're not doing Dry January, you might be interested to learn about a new Portuguese wine bar that opened up just before Londoners broke for the Christmas holidays. Bar 1790 might be a brand new addition to the City, but it's following a more than 230 year old tradition for the Sandeman port company which has been based in St Swithin's Lane since 1790, hence the name of the bar.

  Billed as a

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• Langbourns serves up seafood and steak to City folk in Leadenhall

  

  Just in time to the run up to the festive season, the City of London has a fine new bar that's just opened its doors. Langbourns, from the Metropolitan Pub Company, looks to furnish local workers with everything they need in the way of seafood and steaks.

  The bar, which is part of the new 77 Gracechurch Street development and just around the corner from Leadenhall Market, features its own oyster bar serving

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• Florattica, a new rooftop bar, is opening in East London

  

  Got friends and family in town for the festive season and can’t think of where to take them? Or just finding it difficult to get a table at your favourite rooftop bar at this time of year? Then Christmas has come early with the announcement that Florattica is opening in East London. It’s a rooftop bar with views across to St Paul’s Cathedral, Canary Wharf and the Thames, no less. No need to let the

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• Chef Kerth Gumbs takes over at high rise City restaurant Fenchurch at Sky Garden

  

  It's all change at high rise City restaurant Fenchurch at Sky Garden, with the arrival of Kerth Gumbs as Head Chef.

  Gumbs, you may recognise from his stints as a finalist on the Great British Menu (back when he heading up the kitchens at Ormer in Mayfair). He's also due to get a lot of screen time next year when he joins BBC Three's new Young MasterChef as a judge.

  It's a good move for Sky

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• Shiro

  Crystal sushi and more from the Aqua group

• City institution Simpson's Tavern is fighting for survival

  

  One of London's oldest restaurants is fighting for survival after a face-off with its landlords. Yesterday Simpson's Tavern in the City issued an appeal and began a crowfunding campaign to help it fight demands by its landlords over unpaid rent. The issue arose over rent arrears that happened over the lockdowns when the City was a ghost town.

  In a post they explain; "For 265 years we have stood, undaunted by fire,

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