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Another week, another restaurant pivot and this time we're heading to Willesden Green where, after a decade of serving cheeseburgers and beer, Beer & Burger has turned into Little Brother. It's now a bakery and cafe during the day, transforming into a neighbourhood bistro in the evenings.

What's particularly exciting is the chef they've brought on board to help realise the new vision. Ismail Hossain started out as a kitchen porter in Barrica before working his way up to head chef at places like St John's Tavern in Archway and Riding House Cafe. And this year he reached the

Hot on the heels of Bara Café opening in Peckham comes another fully-fledged Welsh food business, hoping to entice Londoners through its doors.

Anyone hailing from Cardiff will know about Donald's, which is actually a Kiwi-inspired pie and coffee shop that started life as a street food business, selling pies from a cricket club in the Cardiff suburb of Radyr. Now friends Gareth Owens and Harri Rees have opened their first place outside Wales, in Hackney Wick.

Right now it's a weekend-only affair serving up pies like Mince Beef & Cheddar, Butter Chicken Curry,

Another US chain is on its way over to the UK as Jersey Mike's, a sub shop which has over 3000 stores in America, is coming to London. 

Jersey Mike's has been running since 1956 and it's all about sandwiches, made in sub rolls and served to-order, with bread baked throughout the day. Their particular USP is that all the meats are sliced as you order. You'll find subs like Mike's Hot Italian (ham, salami, pepperoni, melted provolone cheese) or the Club Supreme (roast beef, turkey, Swiss, Applewood smoked bacon). There are about 30 options on the American menu, so you can

Wine bars really have made a huge comeback in the past few years and this next opening really highlights that trend. One of the Savoy's main cocktail bars is about to get a complete relaunch as The Beaufort Wine Bar. 

The bar is set almost at the centre of the hotel's ground floor and has been subject to quite a few revamps over the years. The latest sees it getting a 250-bottle list, with about half of that available by the glass, as they'll be making good use of the Coravin system. Head Sommelier Romain Audrerie will be in charge. He opened Chiltern Firehouse and most

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We already knew that both Clare Smyth and Daniel Boulud were opening at the big new Waldorf Astoria at Admiralty Arch, but now we also know who will be joining them. It's the latest bar opening from the Inception Group, also behind Mr Fogg's, Cahoots, Control Room B in Battersea and more. 

Called The Admiral's Mess, it's going to be a standalone bar for them (similar to the Control Room B approach inside Battersea Power Station), although it will be one

This week, the September opening rush continues with the latest from the Dorian team, an LPM spin-off, a City pub from the Goodman/Wild team and more...

7/9/26 - updated with the opening date

Just over a year ago, Sally Abé left The Pem, the restaurant she launched at The Conrad St James, four years before (she's since opened the very successful Teal). While her OG restaurant had been running well since then, it's been without a named chef at the helm, and that's now changing. 

Taking over is Romy Gill, a chef who has actually cooked there before, once teaming up with Sally Abé as part of their "The Pem Presents" series. In recent years, she's been best known for her bestselling cookbooks, and this will be

7/9/26 - updated with the opening date

Endo Kazutoshi has had a very busy time of late. Following a fire, he relocated Endo at the Rotunda to Annabel's for five months, and he's also getting ready to launch a new Sumi restaurant in Marylebone.

Where one door closes, another opens. And as chef Gabriel Waterhouse prepares to resurrect his former Water House Project restaurant in another Bethnal Green space, we already know what's taking over his old space. Iranian-born chef Yma Apa was behind The Drunken Butler restaurant in Clerkenwell. Now he's teamed up with restaurant owner Sahar to open Pardeh.

Talking to Hot Dinners, he said that while the restaurant's name (and inspiration) is Persian - it means

We've seen a lot of restaurants pivoting into something new recently, and a subset of that is the team change. That's when the restaurant changes, but some of the original team stay on to run its new incarnation. A recent example of that was Sesta, which saw the head chef of Pidgin launch a restaurant in the same place (which is now Sally Abés Teal). 

Now there's another one to look out for. Last weekend, Bianca's in Stoke Newington, from the same team as Michelin-starred Casa Fofo, announced it was closing. However, it wasn't quite the end as two members of the team are

Updated 3/9/26 with opening date

We only recently wrote about Dishoom lining up another opening on the South Bank before its latest in London Bridge had even opened the doors, and now it looks like Din Tai Fung are pulling off a similar trick. They're opening in King's Cross, but it seems they already have plans to follow that with a restaurant in Soho

2/9/26 - updated with the opening date

Just a few weeks ago, chef Will Devlin opened the London outpost of his restaurant Birchwood at The Conduit in Covent Garden. But that was only part of his London plans, as the rooftop at The Conduit was also up for a revamp. Now we know what it's going to be, as the chef is opening Nettle up there. 

It'll be a different approach to the ground floor, with ever-popular fire-led cooking being

It really is the time to launch a new burger bar, it seems. Last week we had a new Bleecker in Camden.This week Dumbo is coming to Soho. And now it's the turn of Manna. 

Up until now, Manna have been behind smash burger bars that have been exclusive to the Arcade Food Halls in Battersea, Soho and Covent Garden. But for the first time, they're going standalone (in