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• The Food District is a brand new food court with a global outlook on Edgware Road

  

  Food courts are very much a thing in London once more, and a new one has opened on Edgware Road that promises a shift away from the usual mix. The Food District is calling itself a "global food court" that also happens to be fully halal. 

  It comes from Shaz Khan, the man behind similar food courts 5 Continents in Stratford and Medz Corner in Kensington, but here

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• Aram at Somerset House will be a river-facing cafe, shop and restaurant by Syrian chef Imad Alarnab

  

  He's best known for being a Syrian chef and refugee who moved from pop up to permanent with Imad's Syrian Kitchen, where he's played host to King Charles. Now chef and restaurateur Imad Alarnab is expanding his empire with a second restaurant, at Somerset House.

  Aram is the first part of the enterprise and that will be a daytime space open for breakfast and lunch. The space, which overlooks the building's river

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• The best new London restaurants of 2025 (so far)

  

  As we've reached the halfway point of the year, it's time to look and the best of the new openings of 2025 in London (so far), running from January to June. Here are the restaurants that really made a mark. 

• Jeremy King to reopen Simpson's in the Strand

  

  Updated 24/7/25 with more details and imagery. 

  Jeremy King is definitely on a roll at the moment. He's opened The Park near Hyde Park, relaunched Le Caprice as Arlington and

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• Platapian sees a second generation restaurateur take over from Patara in Soho

  

  It's all change at one of Soho's longstanding Thai restaurants Patara, which has undergone a full 21st-century reimagining and emerged as Platapian. The new look and menu is the result of second-generation restaurateur Nam Parama Raiva taking over the reins from her aunt Khun Patara Sila-On, who launched the Patara group with head chef Phayom Phimkrua three decades ago.

  Twenty years after it opened its doors on

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• The Manicomio team are behind new City Italian restaurant Campanelle

  

  The City has a brand new Italian worth checking out this summer. Campanelle is from the same team behind such classic London restaurants as Manicomio in Chelsea and Canto Corvino in Spitalfields. They've taken over the restaurant in a Grade II listed building between Fenchurch Street and Leadenhall Market.

  The City has a brand new Italian worth checking out this summer. Campanelle is from the

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• Junk Burger's smash burgers are coming to Marylebone

  

  It would appear that London simply does not have enough smash burger restaurants as Junk is getting ready to open its second burger bar in Marylebone. 

  The first Junk (which hails from France) opened in Soho and they've also opened a Puffy cookie shop right next door. This Marylebone

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• Sushi Fanatics sees the Amsterdam sushi izakaya opening in Islington

  

  Islington's about to get a new sushi restaurant, this time via Amsterdam. Sushi Fanatics, billed as a "hidden sushi izakaya", will be taking over the space from Hot Stone on Chapel Market. 

  The original Amsterdam location has built up something of a fanbase over there for their compact restaurant serving up various options of nigiri, maki, donburi and more. They also have a

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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

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• 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

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• 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 -

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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