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25/6/26 - updated with the opening date.

The railway arches on Forest Gate's Winchelsea Road are about to get a boost from Roost, a new rotisserie chicken restaurant that's been set up by a local trio. 

It comes from the team of chef Amil Ourabah (previously sous chef at The Coach & Horses), Jake Salter and Andrew Neilson, the latter touting his local credentials as being the great-nephew of Terrance Messenger, the last Mayor of Leyton.

The rotisserie chicken on offer at Roost will feature their own bespoke Algerian spice

25/6/26 - updated with menu and opening date

At the end of last year, Douglas McMaster's Silo shut the doors in Hackney Wick (over Crate Brewery), but now Uncle Hon's BBQ is taking the space over, having completed a successful Kickstarter. 

Founder Man Hon Luk (who lives in the area) has learned his BBQ know-how the proper way, learning his skills in the home of BBQ: Austin, Texas. Since then, he's been popping up all over London and eventually

Updated 25/6/26 with opening date

They're called hg here in the UK but are much better known under their European name Honest Greens. And having gone down an absolute storm with their first healthy dining restaurant in Soho it looks like the group is already planning a second opening for London.

An application has gone in to Westminster Council to open in a coworking space right beside Victoria Station. And it looks to be a pretty decent-sized restaurant too, taking over the corner to the south of the station. There will be room for more than 200 diners

If

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Unless you're going out with Lewis Hamilton, used to be married to Brad Pitt or are an A-list model that once bathed in Champagne at a London hotel, you're unlikely to already be a member of one of the Estelle members clubs. But the good news is that over in Notting Hill at their newest club opening, you're actually now able to pop in and try the club restaurant.

Celeste is the main eatery at Estelle's latest opening which was unveiled on Ledbury Road in the spring, taking over the old Beach Blanket Babylon space. The restaurant is now open to the public. But if you want access to

Victoria is about to get a new food hall as Market Place, which also has halls in St Paul's, Vauxhall and more, is getting ready to open inside the station.

Indeed, they're touting it as the UK's very first food hall that's actually inside a London station. Now Victoria already has a food hall courtesy of Market Hall which is just opposite the entrance to Victoria but this will be the first in a station itself. They've taken over 5000sq ft, but we're not exactly sure where they're fitting this in, so if any readers have on-the-ground info, let us know. 

They'll have

Updated 23/6/26 with opening date

A full 135 years after their first cookie store opened in Chicago, followed by a slew of Paris openings in the 80s onwards, the Chicago/Paris chain Laura Todd is finally getting around to opening their first London store.

Gloucester Road tube station is the site they've chosen for their entry into the London bakery scene and they'll be opening in the actual listed station building itself.

If you haven't tried their cookies in France or Belgium before, then this is rather an upmarket offering with raw sugar, free range

This week, chef Will Devlin brings the sustainably-led Birchwood to London, Asma Khan opens Darjeeling Express in a new location and Stokey gets a new pub.

21/6/26 - updated with the opening date

Last December, after over 30 years, Ryan's Bar closed its doors for good in Stoke Newington. But very soon the space is going to be relaunched as a brand new pub, The Mary Wollstonecraft (who, of course, has a fairly memorable sculpture in nearby Newington Green). 

The pub is coming from Nick Bailey, who opened The Robin Ale & Cider House in Stroud Green back in 2023. An independent pub with a big focus on real ale, one of the main aims of the pub was to be a proper neighbourhood pub, and we're assuming that's just

We've been following the progress of this one for quite some time now, but there's finally a date in the diary for Ebi Wines to open its doors. This is going to be one of those extremely interesting wine bars you're going to want to know about. Why? Well, because the founder is Raku Oda a very well-respected sommelier and master of wine who was previously the sommelier at Heston's The Fat Duck in Bray.

For a year or so now, Raku's been having Ebi Wines pop-ups at the Islington hair studio Teto, which have been run by his wife Tomoko while he searched for somewhere permanent to

London's great Med takeover continues as Mour gets ready to open, coming to The Leonard hotel in the space that used to be Seymour's restaurant (we see what they did with the name there). 

Set within a Georgian townhouse, the space here has had a major makeover. And the space also enjoys a feature that makes it stand out from other venues in this part of town, with a covered, hidden courtyard that's part of the restaurant. 

For the food, dishes on the menu are going to range from tataki di seabass with roasted garlic ponzu to brie tortelloni with

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 London right now. But we have to say that the vision for the

17/6/26 - updated with more details and an opening date

Earlier this year, The Crusting Pipe, a mainstay of Covent Garden for over 45 years, closed. It was sad to see it go but, in fairness, the last time we were in the area, it was almost empty. 

And now its replacement, Mr Fogg's Market Tavern, is nearly upon us. Mr Fogg's is a group that has taken over quite a few difficult sites and made a success of them, so perhaps they're the ones who can bring

Whatever chef Sertaç Dirik was going to do as a follow-up to his tenure at his family's restaurant Mangal II was always going to be the kind of place to get us excited. And now we know exactly what he's planning. He's opening KID and, crucially, he's chosen a seriously impressive partner to get into bed with, David Carter. Carter, you'll probably know best as the man behind such massive hits as Borough's Oma and Agora, along with Smokestak.

This will be Sertaç's first solo venture, and it's going to see him explore the Turkish food he grew up with, with a strong focus on amazing