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7/9/26 - updated with the opening date

Just over a year ago, Sally Abé left The Pem, the restaurant she launched at The Conrad St James, four years before (she's since opened the very successful Teal). While her OG restaurant had been running well since then, it's been without a named chef at the helm, and that's now changing. 

Taking over is Romy Gill, a chef who has actually cooked there before, once teaming up with Sally Abé as part of their "The Pem Presents" series. In recent years, she's been best known for her bestselling cookbooks, and this will be

7/9/26 - updated with the opening date

Endo Kazutoshi has had a very busy time of late. Following a fire, he relocated Endo at the Rotunda to Annabel's for five months, and he's also getting ready to launch a new Sumi restaurant in Marylebone.

Where one door closes, another opens. And as chef Gabriel Waterhouse prepares to resurrect his former Water House Project restaurant in another Bethnal Green space, we already know what's taking over his old space. Iranian-born chef Yma Apa was behind The Drunken Butler restaurant in Clerkenwell. Now he's teamed up with restaurant owner Sahar to open Pardeh.

Talking to Hot Dinners, he said that while the restaurant's name (and inspiration) is Persian - it means

We've seen a lot of restaurants pivoting into something new recently, and a subset of that is the team change. That's when the restaurant changes, but some of the original team stay on to run its new incarnation. A recent example of that was Sesta, which saw the head chef of Pidgin launch a restaurant in the same place (which is now Sally Abés Teal). 

Now there's another one to look out for. Last weekend, Bianca's in Stoke Newington, from the same team as Michelin-starred Casa Fofo, announced it was closing. However, it wasn't quite the end as two members of the team are

Updated 3/9/26 with opening date

We only recently wrote about Dishoom lining up another opening on the South Bank before its latest in London Bridge had even opened the doors, and now it looks like Din Tai Fung are pulling off a similar trick. They're opening in King's Cross, but it seems they already have plans to follow that with a restaurant in Soho

2/9/26 - updated with the opening date

Just a few weeks ago, chef Will Devlin opened the London outpost of his restaurant Birchwood at The Conduit in Covent Garden. But that was only part of his London plans, as the rooftop at The Conduit was also up for a revamp. Now we know what it's going to be, as the chef is opening Nettle up there. 

It'll be a different approach to the ground floor, with ever-popular fire-led cooking being

It really is the time to launch a new burger bar, it seems. Last week we had a new Bleecker in Camden.This week Dumbo is coming to Soho. And now it's the turn of Manna. 

Up until now, Manna have been behind smash burger bars that have been exclusive to the Arcade Food Halls in Battersea, Soho and Covent Garden. But for the first time, they're going standalone (in

We're still waiting for the opening date for the new Dishoom close to Borough Market, but now it turns out they already have another opening lined up, and it's not too far away.

First reported by hospitality website Caterer, they're taking over what was once a Las Iguanas restaurant in Royal Festival Hall. That's the corner section facing the river and also has a pretty extensive terrace, so it's certainly one of the prime sites in the area. The reason the news is breaking now is because they're planning a big overhaul to that terrace, most importantly adding a retractable roof.

You know how it is. You wait ages for a shop devoted to tiramisu, and then two come along at once. Hard on the heels of Marrone in Soho comes Giuseppe's Tiramisu, which is about to open up at Boxpark Shoreditch. The man behind it, Giuseppe Federici, hasn't worked in hospitality before, but it's most definitely in his blood with his Sicilian grandparents having an Italian restaurant in Stoke on Trent and his parents running an ice cream business.

What's different about Giuseppe's

Back in the 1920s, it was built as a branch of Woolworths. Now, a hundred years later, instead of an American retail giant, we've got a Canadian brand taking over the space on Kensington High Street. LaCage is a Montreal institution that's the place to watch hockey games. Here in London, it's taking a broader approach to the types of sports shown, but the food is going to be broadly the same.

The London branch (their first outside Canada) is a massive space, set across two floors and with space designed to show a whole range of sporting fixtures whether you're into footie, rugby,

It's currently in the top 10 of the UK's Top 50 Cocktail Bars (it last topped the list in 2024), and has previously reached no. 59 on the World's 50 Best bars list. Now one of Manchester's best bars is doing an Andy Burnham - it's coming to London. 

The Manchester bar is run by brothers Joe and Daniel Schofield, who have both worked in London bars before, at Coupette and The American Bar at The Savoy. They've won a slew of awards since opening their bar, which they say is a "tribute to the cocktail heyday of the 1930s".

The London bar is taking over the

28/8/26 - Updated with more details about the move and the opening date

Just over a year ago, chefs Brad Carter and Tom Brown teamed up for their upmarket surf-and-turf restaurant Island, opening above Mare Street Market. The food there was certainly impressive, but the massive room never seemed like the perfect fit (the last time we were there, the few diners in that evening were dwarfed by the huge space). 

Now comes the news

In the five years since they opened their first restaurant in Islington, the plant-based Chinese restaurant group Tofu Vegan has gone from strength to strength. Not only did they manage to turn the blighted site on Upper Street, which had seen off a string of other restaurants over the years, into a huge success, but they've also opened four more branches across town since then. And whenever we go past the one in Fitzrovia it's always rammed, so clearly they're doing something right.

Now they're about to head further into town with a restaurant planned for the Strand this autumn.

If August was a quiet month, September is usually the busiest for new restaurant openings and this year is no different. Everyone's back from their summer holiday and there are some really big names in the mix, featuring everything from modern Turkish and classic French food through to French toast with a Filipino touch. 

Updated 27/8/26 with menu details and opening date

Levan has been a Peckham mainstay since 2018, with Bar Levan joining it next door in 2023. But if you haven't made it into the Peckham restaurant yet, the team behind it, Mark Gurney and Matt Bushnell, are about to open a place in the middle of town.

Cassette is opening in Covent Garden (taking over the Maiden Lane space from Grind). While its sibling restaurant in Peckham has a wider European menu, Cassette will be centred around French food, with a particular Parisian bistro influence. They've brought in Essa