Chicken

Lagom have been in residency for two and a half years at Hackney Church Brewery, but made the decision to step away at the end of 2025 (we'll be looking out for what they have planned next). They built up a great reputation during their time there, but now it's time for someone else to take up their place. 

So, coming next to the brewery is a brand-new residency from the duo currently known as Peck Peck. That's a Hackney chicken shop that was originally launched by Sutton & Sons, best known for its fish and chips. Since then the team running it, Sal Whitehead and

Haven't yet had the chance to make it up to one of the UK's best restaurant Ynyshir yet? Or maybe you haven't even been able to get a booking? Well, now Ynyshir's Gareth Ward is coming to London instead and is teaming up with Carl Clarke for a special Chicken Shop burger.

Bonding through a "shared love of music and rave culture", the pair have teamed up to

Truffle Burger scored a coup last year when they brought over NYC's 7th Street Burger for a pop-up and now they're at it again.

This time the burger company are launching a summer series of special pop-ups in their South Bank location and are kicking things off with another London-first-timer from NYC. This time it's the turn of legendary Harlem institution Charles Pan

If you're an East Dulwich local, you may have been wondering what was happening at the old Il Mirto site on Melbourne Grove. We can now reveal that it's going to be a very interesting new neighbourhood restaurant, Norbert's.

What's interesting about a rotisserie place, you might well think? If we tell you that the folk behind it are John Ogier (ex-The Marksman and Lasdun)

Over in Brixton two seasoned restaurateurs are teaming up for what sounds like a very promising rotisserie restaurant. They're Kieran Monteiro (previously Boma) and Sam Mousawi (who ran the Park Road Kitchen Group in Battersea) and their new place, Chuck's, brings rotisserie chicken and pork to Brixton Village at pretty decent prices. 

Set inside Brixton Village Market,

For his next restaurant, the man behind Gunpowder, Harneet Baweja, is heading in a new direction. This time he's launching a Thai fried chicken restaurant in Spitalfields Market.

Fortune Fried Chicken sees him teaming up with Executive Chef Jane Alty, one of the founders of The Begging Bowl in Peckham. Inspired by a fried chicken dish that originated on

A Hot Dinners exclusive

Lebanese restaurant Aline was originally opened by Tarek Farah and his wife Monika back in 2016 and over eight years, it built a loyal clientele for its traditional Lebanese dishes. Now, three doors down from Aline, the pair are about to kick things up a notch with a more contemporary offering - the new Lebanese rotisserie Toum.

Toum, they told Hot Dinners, "is more of a modern

Lawyers and other city folk working in and around Holborn are about to have an interesting new place landing on their doorstep. Hotori is a slick-looking yakitori restaurant on New Fetter Lane that's going to be all about the 'beak to tail' experience. Owners Mike Zheng and Kuangyi Wei have loved their trips to yakitori spots in Japan, but couldn't understand why there weren't more options here in London, particularly

There's a new menu at Bébé Bob where they've brought in Mr Lyan on cocktail duty alongside some very fancy bar snacks. We took a seat at the counter to test them out.

Whether you fancy it deep-fried, roasted with truffles or hot and spicy, a whole chicken is the perfect sharing dish when going out with friends. Here's our pick of the best that London restaurants have on the menu.

We've heard murmurings of something new coming from Fallow but while we wait to hear about that, they've a new offshoot that's almost next door to their St James restaurant.

Inside St James's Market, they've taken over what was The Beau Brummell, a relatively short-lived pub from Cubitt House. The pop up is called Fowl, and is promising to be a "chicken shop like no other" and in keeping with their

Just coming off a recent residency at The Sea, The Sea, TATA Eatery's Ana Gonçalves and Zijun Meng are planning their next big thing, Solis, which is opening in the new Arcade food hall in Battersea. 

Solis is being billed primarily as a chicken and steak grill, but one with a difference, taking specific influences from Spain,

The fried chicken behemoth that is Morley's (which just opened its 100th store) is trying something a little bit different - a team-up with The Standard hotel and Heinz. 

They're launching a one-month chicken shop pop-up, taking over Double Standard on the ground floor and terrace of the King's Cross hotel (although there will be takeaway too, just

They've been huge hits wherever they landed, first as delivery only and then in Wembley's Boxpark and now The Sidemen are back again with a new Sides, this time heading south to Wandsworth. 

This time, the YouTubers are opening in Gravity Southside in

There were huge queues when Popeyes opened its first restaurant in Stratford, and that was just a concession in Westfield. Other than popping up for delivery-only dark kitchens across town, they hadn't opened any new restaurants in London - until now. They've gone to the opposite side of town to open in Ealing - something that will actually be their first standalone restaurant in