New opening

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. And now there's news about his next big opening, and

London has seen a lot of restaurant closures over the past year, and one of the higher-profile examples was The Water House project, which finished in May. That was because the lease of the restaurant was up, but it turns out that chef Gabriel Waterhouse, together with his wife Patricia Wakaimba, has already been able to line up a new space.

The pair will be opening in an old Victorian warehouse that's not too far from their old digs, and this time they're ditching the whole "project" bit as the restaurant and wine bar will be called Waterhouse. 

First up is

If you're a Clapton local, you'll probably already be acquainted with Uchi's game. By day, they're a bakery serving up beef curry buns, sandos and black sesame lattes. In the evening, that changes up to a Japanese diner. Now they're bringing the bakery element of their offering over to Islington.

Their new place will be on Camden Passage, a street which already has some interesting Japanese offerings from the Katsute 100 tea house and the exemplary Sushi Show to the newest Kanazawa curry bread kiosk.

We haven't seen the menu yet, but they're promising their lovely sandos,

The space that was once cafe and events space Hatch has, in the past few weeks, quietly been revived. It's returned as Nostra and is once again working as a cafe and events space - albeit with a few differences. 

First off is the cafe part. For this, they're bringing in rotating residencies and first up is Monella, which previously operated as a supperclub. Open every day from 10am-4pm, they'll be serving up a series of bakes that include a lemon and rosemary olive oil cake, banana bread, madeleines, Anzac biscuits and more. Those are being backed up by focaccia sandwiches,

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21/7/26 - updated with more details about the opening, including an opening date

The Queen Adelaide pub in Shepherd's Bush closed last summer, but the pub is now returning under a new guise, called The Talli Queen. 

It comes from chef Avi Shashidhara, who previously worked at Claude Bosi's Hibiscus and then had a long stint at The River Cafe before launching the kitchen at Pahli Hill Bandra Bhai in Fitzrovia (which won a Michelin Bib Gourmand). He also won the starter section of Great British Menu in 2023, so you might also remember him from that

Smithfield Market is about to see a major new influx of foodies this winter with the opening of the Museum of London in its new home. The reason? Well, there's going to be a restaurant, bar, cafe and rotating residency spot, all of which sound worth a look.

The museum's contract was won by catering company Green & Fortune, who have brought in chef Robin Gill and expert mixologist Ryan Chetiyawardana (aka Mr Lyan) to give some serious heft to the food and drink offering. They're also using top restaurant designers Russell Sage Studios to do the interiors. So, here's your guide

Big Kid Ice Cream, which launched in 2022, has quickly become one of the best places for ice cream in London. Now, perfectly timed for the summer season, they're taking things one step further with Whippies, their new soft-serve outlet in Seven Dials Market. 

Behind it all will be their new Vanilla Whippy, a signature serve made with organic milk, brown butter and real Madagascan vanilla, which already sounds great on its own. That's then being used in an array of fabulous sundaes, including:

• Solero Knickerbocker - Peaches, mango

A new wagyu-led restaurant that originates in Fukuoka, Japan, is getting ready to bring late-night wagyu steaks to Fitzrovia.

Wagyu Yakiniku USHIO is taking over the site that used to be Palms of Goa, which itself closed last year, after over 30 years on Charlotte Street. It's based on Fukuoka restaurant USHIO Haruyoshi Bettei, and the head chef from the original restaurant is coming over to launch the London outpost. 

Open only for dinner, everything here is led by lean cuts of Japanese Akami Wagyu, which is a little less marbled than you might expect wagyu to

The roll-out of new restaurants and bars at the huge Battersea Power Station development continues with the reveal last week that one of the next openings will be a pub. The Hero's Return sees the same group behind pasta restaurant Bancone, moving into the pub market. And they've brought an interesting chef into the mix to help them.

Jonathan Woolway will be the pub's executive chef, looking after the menu here. He's also the chef patron of the highly rated restaurant The Shed in Swansea and, before that spent a formative 17 years at St John. He and his team are promising the

This week, The Crusting Pipe is reborn as a new bar, Coppa Club takes up a prime riverside space and a new matcha bar arrives in Soho.  

We were the first to tell you about the arrival of the Korean matcha house Tokkia in Covent Garden. And we were there on day one to check out their drinks and salt breads and stick with them on the ride to the position they have now with a perma-queue outside.

Founder Sooji Im really found a gap in London's often saturated drinks market with her elevated take on matcha and the popular seasonal blends she offered. Most recently the cafe did a sellout range in

Updated 17/7/26 with opening date and menu details

For over a year now, there have been rumblings that Mayfair hotel, The Beaumont, was gearing up to open a second restaurant. That would add to their existing offering, Rosi, by the hotel's Culinary Director Lisa Goodwin-Allen.

Now we can reveal that plans for Pearl are fully underway, with the restaurant taking over the elevated section of Brown Hart Gardens in front of the hotel. On the food front, it might not surprise you to learn that the menu here is going to be Mediterranean-led, like so many new openings in

16/7/26 - Updated with more about the food and drink and an opening date. 

Recently, there have been a lot of fancy new Mayfair hotels opening, from the Chancery Rosewood on Grosvenor Square to the upcoming St Regis Hotel, taking over what used to be The Westbury. Also planned for a while, but finally due to open is The Shepherd Mayfair, which is more of a boutique affair.

The hotel has taken over what used to be the Park Lane Mews