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- Alley Cats Pizza confirms its Notting Hill arrival
15/8/25 - updated with the opening date
Popular pizza spot Alley Cats is on the expansion trail again - this time to the area that it seems everyone's trying to break into, Notting Hill.
Alley Cats are taking over the space that was once Italian restaurant Verderame (that's a few doors down from Sunday in Brooklyn). The space will look pretty familiar to anyone
... - ADOH! sees the Kolamba team bringing Sri Lankan street food to Covent Garden
14/8/25 - updated with the opening date
Having already launched two London restaurants devoted to great Sri Lankan food, the couple behind Kolamba are getting ready to open a much more casual affair. ADOH! (a Sri Lankan word which is used both in greeting or to express surprise) is taking over a former Franca Manca space next door to Rules on Maiden Lane. And it's much more of a quick dine and dash
... - Amsterdam live fire restaurant Nela kicks off The Whiteley's reinvention in Bayswater
14/8/25 - updated with the opening date
Plans are well underway to bring Whiteleys, now renamed The Whiteley, back to its former glory, albeit this time as a hotel, apartments and restaurants. The people behind Bottarga and Nina are due to open
... - Richoux is coming back to London with a very French all-day café
14/8/25 - updated with the opening date
Back in 2021, one of the early casualties of Lockdown was cafe and patisserie Richoux. When its owner went into administration, all the Richoux sites closed. The name was briefly revived for a Piccadilly opening that was more of a restaurant, but that also closed a few years later.
Now, the people who bought
... - Lagana brings Med flatbreads and skewers to Shoreditch, taking over from Pachamama East
The team behind Pachamama have spent the last year moving their restaurants' culinary inspiration point from Peru to the Mediterranean. It's been an extremely successful transformation, with both Bottarga on the King's Road and Nina in Marylebone being big hits. Now, the final restaurant, Pachamama East, gets the Med makeover, being reborn as Lagana.
This Greek-inspired
... - Scandinavian restaurant Punk Royale brings its caviar bumps to Mayfair
13/8/25 - updated with launch details
They've been here before in the guise of a pop-up at Carousel, but now Punk Royale is coming to London for their first permanent restaurant outside of Scandinavia.
The restaurant is taking a space in Mayfair that recently held two restaurants - Amethyst and London Stock. Neither of those survived long, so it's a
... - Napoli on the Road in Soho will offer London's first pizza tasting menu experience
There are two things that have become very big trends in 2025 - smash burger bars and pizzerias. Napoli on the Road adds another pizzeria to London, but this one is doing something a little differently.
It'll be a two-floor approach where upstairs will be a more standard pizzeria, but the downstairs space will feature a tasting menu experience. They say that
... - SOLA's Victor Garvey kicks off a crowdfunder for Materia Prima in Marylebone
Upon the news of the surprisingly quick closure of The Midland Grand, we revealed that Victor Garvey was already getting ready to open another restaurant in Marylebone. Now, thanks to a crowdfunder, we have more details about what's planned.
Called Materia
... - Kamara sees Brother Marcus opening an Eastern-Med-influenced cocktail bar in Soho
The team behind Brother Marcus (best known for their Mediterranean brunches) are trying something a little different for their next opening. They've taken over the bar space that was the original Blind Pig bar (above Jason Atherton's Social Eating House), and they're launching their own Eastern-Med-influenced cocktail bar.
They've teamed up with
- The team behind Notting Hill's Gold set their sights on Richmond
In recent weeks there's been a flurry of activity on the riverbank at Richmond where the old Pitcher & Piano used to be. It's a huge site, with gardens leading down to the river. So naturally locals have been wondering what's opening there next.
Well, we think we have the answer. Following up reports on the ...
- Hoxton’s art’otel will open 25th floor restaurant Solaya from Kenny Atkinson
7/8/25 - updated with the opening date
When the swanky art’otel chain opened its second London outpost in Hoxton in 2024, we told you about its ground-floor dining experience Brush East London Grand Café. Well, the hotel has just announced its latest restaurant, and
... - Yangguofu Malatang brings its spicy hot pots to London's Chinatown
Hot pot restaurants are ten a penny in London but the arrival of another new one in the centre of town has got fans rather excited. Yangguofu Malatang is a beast of a restaurant chain from China with over 7000 restaurants all over the world. Up till now if you wanted to try their food in the UK you had to head on over to Hammersmith, but a few weeks ago they unveiled their first restaurant in central
... - Café Ciel opens in The OWO from the founder of Miel bakery
The OWO might be one of London's most expensive new hotels, but it hasn't had the most trouble-free launches. Chief among those was one of the restaurants, Café Laperouse, which had a dire review from Jay Rayner who also called attention to the low hygiene rating. Even though the latter was quickly resolved, the restaurant closed just two years after opening.
Now, something new has
... - Berenjak brings its Persian cuisine to Mayfair
1 August 2025 - updated with new early 2026 opening window
They have restaurants in Soho and Borough Market (not to mention as far afield as Doha and Dubai) and next up for Berenjak is Mayfair. As revealed on their own Instagram page, they're taking on a space on Duke Street right next to The Barley Mow (it's a new development so there hasn't been a restaurant there
... - Carmela's pizzeria brings East Coast USA style pizzas to Islington
1/8/25 - updated with opening date and menu details
Earlier this year, Nordic restaurant Skal closed its doors for good in Islington, and now we know who will be taking over that space on Upper Street. Moving is Italian/American pizzeria Carmela's.
It comes from Phil Chaykin, the man behind Ugly Dumpling in Carnaby, who's teamed up with Gerry del
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