New opening

• 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,

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• 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

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• 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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• Sourdough Sophia is Hampstead's new micro bakery

  

  It's been a busy couple of months for North London micro bakery Sourdough Sophia. Having opened in Highgate in May, owner Sophia Handschuh is moving across the heath for her next opening, this time targeting Hampstead. The bakery is about to open in the old Redemption Roasters site on Perrin's Court, in between the High Street and Heath Street.

  "It's the biggest space for us so far in terms of seating,"

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• Shanghai Me is the new rooftop restaurant at The London Hilton on Park Lane

  

  2/7/24 - Updated with the opening date

  Ever since the Galvin Brothers announced that they were closing their rooftop restaurant at the London Hilton on Park Lane after 18 successful years, there was speculation on what was going to take its place. Hot Dinners was originally the first to

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• Kora brings London's Mediterranean trend to the King's Road

   

  It's been a big trend in London restaurants over the past couple of years, and another Mediterranean restaurant is on the way, this time to Chelsea. 

  Kora is opening in Beaufort House, taking over what was their brasserie space, transforming it into a restaurant that "takes timeless Mediterranean classics and reimagines them with creativity and modern flair." That translates as a

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• Phil Howard's Notto pasta bar is coming to the City

  

  His main home may be Elystan Street, but Phil Howard's other business looks like it's doing pretty well. Fresh pasta bar Notto is clearly doing great business on Piccadilly and in Covent Garden, because a third is on the way to the City. 

  If you're as yet unfamiliar with the restaurant, our original Test

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• Junk branch out with a Puffy cookie and coffee shop in Soho

  

  When burger joint Junk first opened in Soho last year there was a lot of love expressed by fans for its dessert option - cookies from the Parisian bakery Puffy (which is owned by the same restaurant group). Such has been the success of those cookies that they've now decided to open the first London branch of Puffy, next door to Junk.

  The cookie shop will serve up seven varieties, ranging from the standard milk and dark

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• The big new London restaurants opening in July 2025

  

  With half of the year behind us, here are the restaurants to look forward to in July. From Adam Byatt at Fulham to The Duck and Rice celebrating their tenth birthday with a brand new restaurant, here's what's opening in London this month. 

• Bleecker hit up Soho for their next restaurant

  

  26/6/25 - updated with the opening date

  Is it a sign of the times that a celebrity-backed vegan burger restaurant's former site in Soho has been taken over by a longstanding London independent group? Well, that's what has happened on Old Compton Street, where Lewis Hamilton-backed Neat Burger's old space is being turned into a Bleecker Burger.

  Bleecker Founder Zan Kaufman is clear that she sees it as

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• Ace Pizza are opening their first pizzeria, in Victoria Park, serving up London-style slices

  

  If you've been to The Pembury Tavern, you might have come across Ace Pizza by Rachel Jones, where its been a hugely popular residency. Well, now she's getting her own place, just off Victoria Park.

  Jones has developed her own style of pizza now dubbed "The London-style Pizza". It's designed to have "the chew and char of Neapolitan dough with the structure and

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• Sushinoya are about to explode onto the London sushi scene

  

  Right now they only have one restaurant open, in St Pancras, but Sushinoya are about to hit the London restaurant scene hard with three central London openings planned this year. And if you're a sushi stan then the arrival of this mid-tier fast food sushi restaurant definitely sounds like it's going to be an interesting addition. The key thing is the man behind it, Korean businessman Dong Hyun Kim who founded Wasabi. Sushinoya is

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• Kerb Social Club is coming to Spitalfields with an American sports bar vibe

  

  Kerb are on something of a roll at the moment. They have just announced a new weekend market in Leyton, hot on the heels of their big Canada Water opening, and

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• Ippudo bring their classic tonkotsu ramen to Islington's Essex Road

  

  There's a corner restaurant site in Islington that is well known to locals, originally as a pub and most recently as Japanese restaurant Akari (which closed late last year). Now, the same space on Essex Road is about to be reborn as the latest Ippudo. 

  It'll be the fifth outpost of the ramen chain that has lots of restaurants all over the globe. It's also Islington's second big ramen brand, as there's

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• Fan arrives in Notting Hill from Peru with its Nikkei omakase

  

  For the past two years, a group of friends have been creating waves in Lima's white-hot dining scene with their omakase Nikkei restaurant Fan. And when a city's Nikkei scene also includes the current World's Best Restaurant (Maido), that's really saying something.

  Now Fan has arrived in London, opening rather under the radar in Notting Hill. We know precious little about what their London restaurant will be

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