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- Sabor's Nieves Barragán opens Legado in Shoreditch
18/7/25 - updated with the opening date
Seven years after opening the wildly successful (and Michelin-starred) Sabor on Heddon Street, Nieves Barragán is getting ready to open her next restaurant. She'll be opening Legado (which means "legacy") in Shoreditch.
Once again, it's a team-up with JKS restaurants (also behind Gymkhana), and this restaurant is focused around "Spain's
... - Margot Green sees the Daisy Green group bring their Aussie vibes to Clapham
It might seem like an absolutely no-brainer to open an Aussie-style cafe in Clapham given how many expats live there, but it's taken until this year for the Daisy Green group to get the memo and take their all day cafe group to the area. Owners (and fellow Aussies) Prue Freeman and Tom Onions have just opened Margot Green in Clapham Old Town and they're hoping for a big hit.
The new restaurant has taken over the old
... - Bonheur by Matt Abé is the restaurant replacing Le Gavroche
We've known for a while that Restaurant Gordon Ramsay chef Matt Abé was taking on the old Le Gavroche site (snapped up by Gordon himself), and now we have a name: Bonheur by Matt Abé.
It's early days right now, so very little information has been released. We know that
... - Cô Thành to bring a taste of Southern Vietnam to Covent Garden
If you were wondering what would replace Frenchie in Covent Garden we finally have the answer and it’s great news for fans of Vietnamese food: Cô Thành is coming. Inspired by the international legend that is the Lunch Lady, aka Mrs Nguyễn Thị Thanh (who sadly died in May), Cô Thành already has an outpost in Hong Kong
... - A new Ta’mini Lebanese Bakery to open in Kensington
When you can’t have too much of a good thing, along comes the third Ta’mini Lebanese Bakery in London. After successful launches in Fulham (during the first COVID lockdown of 2020) and Bloomsbury (in 2023), Ta’mini will next waft the aromas of freshly baked date bread through the streets of Kensington.
The husband-and-wife team behind the concept - Ali from North Lebanon and Nermin from Beirut -
... - Leytonstone welcomes Forno’s second London bakery
Hang onto your delicate strawberry and elderflower tarts, some lovely Italian patisserie news should cheer the good people of East London this week: Forno has opened a branch in Leytonstone.
If you’re not au fait with Forno, it’s an Italian bakery from the founders of Ombra, and gained an obsessive following when it
- Pick & Cheese brings its cheese conveyor belt to Camden
There are many great places for food inside Seven Dials Market, but the one that understandably gets most of the attention is Pick & Cheese. From the same people behind The Cheese Bar, that's the restaurant that's based around a moving conveyor belt of various cheese dishes. It's quite the thing and worth the trip to the food hall alone to have a look. But soon it won't be the only cheese
... - Manchester's Med-inspired Fenix is coming to Mayfair
Tattu, the high-end Chinese restaurant with a view on the top of the Now Building, originally started as a group of restaurants in the North. Now the same team behind that are bringing another of their restaurants to London. This time it's the Mediterranean-inspired Fenix.
Currently only in Manchester, Fenix will be taking over the space that was Henry's on Piccadilly (which closed mid
... - Speedboat Bar motors west to open in Notting Hill's Electric Bar
9/7/25 - updated with the opening date
It's all change over in Notting Hill where Soho House's Electric Bar has jettisoned its diner, getting ready instead to open the second iteration of the hugely popular Speedboat Bar in Soho.
If you're a fan of the original, then the West London version of the restaurant will look a little different. "This time around, the interiors are less Bangkok shophouse
... - Cult Hoxton pub The Macbeth now has an ex-Four Legs chef in charge
For more than a century, they've been pulling pints in the Hoxton pub The Macbeth. More recently than that, the pub forged quite the reputation as a live music venue with everyone from Florence + The Machine to Fontaines DC playing there. Now the pub's got a new owner and it looks like the food side of things is about to take a sharp turn for the better.
Jamie Allan has been best known for being part of the Four Legs
... - The Shaston Arms in Soho is being relaunched by The Watermans Arms team
Back in 2023, the founder of Patty & Bun, Joe Grossmann, got into the pub business, opening The Watermans Arms in Barnes. It turned out to be an excellent pub, blessed with a fantastic view of the Thames and with a great menu by chef Sam
... - Queen's Park pub The Salusbury is hoping to be The Devonshire of North West London
To open any really successful pub in London, you need a dream team. The Devonshire in Soho has that in spades, so does the group behind The Pelican and The Hero. Entering the fray next, in Queen's Park, are the group behind the reopening of neighbourhood pub The Salusbury.
First up is co-owner Gareth Cooper who might not have done pubs before but knows a thing or two
... - Angela Hartnett's latest Cafe Murano is opening in Marylebone
Updated 5/7/25 with soft launch info
It's been some time since Angela Hartnett opened the last Cafe Murano (over five years ago in Bermondsey) but now she's getting ready to open a new branch, this time in Marylebone.
The latest cafe is opening on Dorset Street (taking over the old AOK Kitchen site). Expect it to be similar to the others, serving up a short,
... - Bad Boy Pizza are opening a permanent pizzeria in Bethnal Green with NYC-style slices and more
3/7/25 - updated with the opening date
Bad Boy Pizza Society have so far been such a big success at their residency in Tulse Hill, Seven Dials Market and Vinegar Yard that they've been named National Pizza of the Year at the National Pizza Awards in both 2022 and 2024. Now they've decided that it's time to go permanent with a new pizzeria in
... - Brasserie Constance is the new Fulham Pier restaurant, with Trinity's Adam Byatt in charge
3/7/25 - updated with the opening date and menu details
We've already had the opening of impressive new development beside Fulham Football ground called Fulham Pier. But following that is a very interesting new restaurant
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