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- Pochawa Grill Korean BBQ hits up Chinatown
Updated 19/12/22 with imagery
You might have your favourite restaurant in London’s Chinatown, or are even happily attempting to work your way through them all, but we have a new one for your list and it’s a Korean BBQ concept.
Called Pochawa Grill, the name is inspired by ‘Pocha’, a shortened version of Pojangmacha, which is the term for street food
... - Willows in Clapham mixes brunch boards with cheese and charcuterie
As the year winds down, we're hearing about the odd restaurant that didn't appear on our radar before and one of them is Willows in Clapham.
The restaurant opened in late November and is something they're defining as a "deli-to-restaurant" affair that's inspired by Scandinavian ‘smörgåsbords’. So that means they serve brunch boards all day, and then cheese and charcuterie in the
... - Garum is top Roman chef Arcangelo Dandini's first London restaurant
Five years after popping up in London as part of food writer Daniel Young's Young & Foodish's Spaghetti Wednesday, top Roman chef Arcangelo Dandini is back, this time with a permanent restaurant.
Garum is the chef's 60-seater restaurant in Queensway which opened rather under the radar last month. With it, Dandini is hoping to share his devotion to Roman food with Londoners - "to bring the best ingredients in
... - Nessa is a new British bistro from Tom Cenci in Soho
14/12/22 - updated with a full look at the menu
Tom Cenci first came to fame as the chef of Duck & Waffle, before then launching Loyal Tavern, a restaurant we were impressed with but which ended up being a victim of the pandemic. Afterwards, he was cooking at Stoney Street in Borough but now he's getting ready to open his own place, Nessa.
He's teamed up
... - Vori is hoping to transport Notting Hill residents with its Greek island cooking
Updated 6/1/23 with new opening date
Who among us doesn't fancy a change of scenery every now and then? Trader turned restaurateur Markos Tsimikali was feeling the same way. Having closed his original Greek restaurant, Hungry Donkey in Spitalfields this year, he decided to cross town for his new venture.
Vori, he's hoping, will transport Notting Hill residents to the tiny Greek beach it's
... - Swedish bakery and cafe Soderberg arrives in East Dulwich
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Swedish bakery Soderberg has its main home in Edinburgh - but after opening a cafe in Soho in 2019, they're starting to grow in London too. Coming next for the group is a new cafe in East Dulwich (where Terroirs and Green & Blue used to be).
If you're unfamiliar with them, they essentially serve classic Swedish food, with a big focus on their
... - Lulu's is the next-door wine bar and shop to Herne Hill's Llewelyn’s
Herne Hill's Llewellyn's is opening a new wine bar and shop - right next door to the restaurant.
Lulu's will be a shop during the day (also selling salads and sandwiches) and change into a wine bar at night. In charge is chef Lasse Petersen, who will be putting together a menu that mixes European cuisine with Middle Eastern and Nordic flavours. Dishes on the evening menu
... - The Fat Badger Farm Shop is a new riverside grocers for Richmond
Living in their lovely riverside neighbourhood, Richmond residents could be forgiven for thinking they were really countryside rather than city dwellers. And the arrival of the town's first farm shop will only serve to reinforce that.
The Fat Badger Farm Shop is launching at the Gladwin brothers' Fat Badger restaurant down by the river. It'll be part greengrocer, fishmonger and butcher and deli. There'll be
... - Stack & Still have opened a huge pancake restaurant on Leicester Square
With perfect timing for the Christmas crowds, Scottish pancake purveyor Stack & Still has just opened its first London restaurant on Leicester Square. It's also their first opening outside Scotland and they've picked a massive site. The new restaurant has got room for 225 diners - that's a lot of pancake lovers.
If you haven't heard of them before - and we'll admit we hadn't - the chain currently
... - Sarap Filipino restaurant is looking for a permanent home in Carnaby
Its currently a Heddon Street residency. but Filipino-inspired restaurant Sarap is looking for a permanent home, and is using crowdfunding to get it done.
If successful, it'll be a good track record for the 10 Heddon Street springboard site which has once been home to previous pop-up to permanent restaurants Manteca and Fallow. For the new restaurant, owner Ferdinand
... - Stereo, a new late-night dining and music venue, is coming to Covent Garden
7/12/22 - updated with the opening date
There’ll be a new reason to dance, dine and linger into the wee hours in Covent Garden soon. With the pandemic closure of Roadhouse, once one of the area’s oldest live-music venues, there’s been a gap in the market (actually, beneath Covent Garden Market) waiting to be filled. Step up, Stereo, the latest initiative from global hospitality brand Experimental
... - Oita take their Japanese kitchen to Chinatown from Wood Green
For the past couple of years, chef Fan Yi's Japanese industrial chic kitchen concept Oita has been operating out of the Green Rooms hotel in Wood Green. The Chinese chef decided to go down the Japanese route with his first pop-up after spotting a gap in the market in the area, having lived there for over a decade. Clearly, he was on to something as what was originally planned as a pop-up is now the hotel's
... - Shiro from Aqua brings crystal sushi to Broadgate Circle
9/11/22 - updated with a look at the design and opening details
As sure a sign as we know that the City is getting back on the front foot is news of a swanky new sushi spot opening in that part of town. Shiro will be the Aqua Group's fifth restaurant in London - they already have high-rise restaurants Aqua Shard, Hutong (both at The Shard), Aqua Kyoto and Aqua Nueva (on Regent Street).
The London
... - Sides by Sidemen bring their fried chicken to Wandsworth
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
... - Bar Kroketa is a tapas spot in Carnaby devoted to croquetas
We'd like to think we know a thing or two about croquetas, having been a judge at the Croquetas Challenge for a good few years now. So we're pretty excited at the prospect of a restaurant devoted to the tapas opening in London.
Bar Kroketa is a spin-off from Spanish restaurant group Brindisa
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