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  • Here's where to eat and drink at the newly-opened Battersea Power Station

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    So the final piece of the redevelopment at Battersea is now in place - Battersea Power Station itself has now reopened. And that means there are LOTS of new places to eat in the area. 

    Here's what's opened now:

    Control Room B - From the people behind Mr Fogg's this is a 1950's

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  • Longboys hit up Coal Drops Yard for their flagship doughnut store

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    You may have spotted their stall at the occasional market in Coal Drops Yard. Now doughnut folk Longboys are getting ready to open their biggest store and cafe there.

    Former Hakkasan pastry chef Graham Hornigold will be serving up his finger doughnuts alongside gourmet soft serve ice cream, coffee from award-winning roasters Assembly and fresh sodas.

    Inside there'll be 10 seats if you want to

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  • Supa Ya Ramen bring their "inauthentic" ramen to Peckham

    Supa Ya Ramen bring their "inauthentic" ramen to Peckham

    They moved from pop-up to permanent restaurant in Dalston and now Supa Ya Ramen are getting ready to open their second place, this time in Peckham. 

    Luke Findlay’s ramen bar specialises in what he calls "inauthentic" ramen which is influenced by British produce and flavours. So the ramen includes:

    • Roast Chicken & Corn - chicken soup, sesame miso,
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  • Regents Canal gets floating bar Bruno's from the people behind Caravel

    Regents Canal gets floating bar Bruno from the people behind Caravel

    What’s just as good as a restaurant on a barge? A cocktail bar on a barge next to it. That’s right, the people who brought you this summer’s floating restaurant hit Caravel are putting the bar into barge and upping the stakes with a drinks boat called Bruno's. But ‘drinks

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  • Paradise Green will be Daisy Green's huge new restaurant at 100 Bishopsgate

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    It's been a busy few weeks for Aussie-inspired cafe group Daisy Green. Hard on the heels of their opening in St John's Wood comes news that they're about to unveil their largest restaurant to date in the City.

    Paradise Green will be a huge space in the 100 Bishopsgate development at Liverpool Street. They're describing it as an art gallery style restaurant where the art is as important as the

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  • Stars is the new Soho restaurant coming to @sohoplace theatre

    Stars is the new Soho restaurant coming to @sohoplace theatre

    A Hot Dinners exclusive

    The Crossrail/Elizabeth line work in London has led to some big changes in London - and some of the biggest can be seen in Soho, close to Tottenham Court Road station. We've already seen the creation of Ilona Rose House and its hidden Soho courtyard (where the new Milk Beach lives). And close to that there's another big opening - @sohoplace, a

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  • The Audley and Mount St Restaurant see Artfarm opening in Mayfair

    The Audley is a brand new public house (and restaurant) for Mayfair

    Artfarm, the hospitality arm of the modern art gallery group Hauser & Wirth, have already opened the 5-star boutique hotel The Fife Arms in Braemar and Somerset’s Roth Bar & Grill.Now

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  • Daisy Green's latest is Johnny Green in St John's Wood

    Daisy Green's latest is Johnny Green in St John's Wood

    Coming off the back of the very successful Peggy Jean riverside barge opening in Richmond, the Daisy Green group aren't slowing down. They've just opened the next in the series of Australian-inspired cafes, Johnny Green, in St John's Wood.

    Taking over from what used

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  • Cocktail maestro Salvatore Calabrese is opening Velvet bar at Corinthia London

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    There's no safer way to ensure the successful launch of your bar in London than to secure the services of Salvatore Calabrese. Also known as The Maestro, Salvatore came to fame with his legendary martinis at Duke's Hotel and, more recently, was behind the drinks list at the Donovan Bar at Browns Hotel in Mayfair.

    Now it's the turn of Corinthia London to bask in Salvatore's reflected glory. He's been

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  • Sichuan restaurant ZhangLiang Malatang hits London

    Sichuan restaurant Zhang Liang Mala Tang is coming to London

    A Hot Dinners exclusive 

    It's all go in Chinatown with the latest new opening being one of China's big chain restaurants (there are over 5000 of them), ZhangLiang Malatang.

    It's a serve yourself Sichuan restaurant, with mala tang soup as the base.

    Just browse and select the ingredients which, overseas, range from options like crab legs, fish balls and

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  • Humble Grape wine bar is coming to Crouch End

    Humble Grape wine bar is coming to Crouch End

    When you’re onto a good thing, open another one, seems to be hospitality philosophy, with the news that Humble Grape is about to cut the ribbon on its sixth wine bar. Having launched its first site in Battersea in 2015 followed by a Fleet Street outlet (2016), Islington (2017), Liverpool

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  • Clays is opening a clay pigeon shooting bar in Canary Wharf

    Clays is opening a clay pigeon shooting bar in Canary Wharf

    London's continued obsession with competitive socialising is continuing ever apace. They already have a venue in Moorgate, but now indoor clay pigeon shooting bar Clays is getting ready to open in Canary Wharf.

    As you might expect, these aren't real clay pigeons (that would get very messy) but the virtual kind. You can pull together a team of up to 20 people for a 90-minute clay pigeon

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  • The Da Terra team are opening Elis, a second restaurant at the Town Hall Hotel

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    4/10/22 - updated with the opening date

    Chef Rafael Cagali is already running the two Michelin-starred restaurant Da Terra at the Town Hall Hotel in Bethnal Green. And from this autumn, he'll be taking over the hotel's second restaurant (which used to be Corner Room).

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  • Deliveroo Hop in London is the delivery company's first real-life store

    Delveroo Hop is their first real-life store in London

    We've seen Amazon take on the high street with its Amazon Fresh shops, and now Deliveroo is giving it a go too. 

    They've just opened their first real shop on New Oxford Street called Deliveroo Hop, something they've put together with the help of Morrisons. So, like Amazon Fresh before it (but without the automatic paying), it'll be primarily a grocery store, with a focus on the Morrisons

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  • The Korean Cowgirl picks Camden for its mashup of Korean fried chicken and Texan BBQ

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    A new Camden restaurant is aiming to bring the best of Texas BBQ and Korean fried chicken to the canalside at Camden. The Korean Cowgirl first opened down in Faversham in Kent, where it made a big deal of its passion for Korean flavours and the low and slow Texan BBQ style.

    So their menu features items like USDA Texas-style brisket & Korean BBQ sausage, smoked overnight for 15 hours alongside more mashed-up

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