Spitalfields

They only just opened their first London restaurant on Charing Cross Road last year, but Tigermilk have already lined up their second.

This time they're opening in Spitalfields, and it's a pretty huge endeavour, fitting in 280 people (230 inside, 50 on the terrace). That makes it the French-originating group's biggest place ever, out of the 13 restaurants they've opened across Europe so far. It's also certainly one of the largest restaurants in Spitalfields. Apparently, it won't all be one massive dining room, though, as it's being made as "a fully realised hacienda unfolding room

9/2/25 - updated with the opening date and more details

After making a big splash in Notting Hill with their first restaurant last year, Holy Carrot already has a second site lined up, this time in Spitalfields. However, this time around they'll be adding some vegetarian dishes, ditching the solely plant-based approach that the Notting Hill restaurant focused on. 

It's run by Irina Linovich and ex-Acme Fire Cult chef Daniel Watkins, and of the original restaurant, we said it was "a plant-based menu that pushes what's possible with vegan food without feeling like boundaries

Updated 29/12/25 with opening date

Song Que Cafe in Hoxton has long been both one of the area's best Vietnamese restaurants and also one of the best in London. It's been doing great business since opening all the way back in 2002, and now they've decided it's time to launch something new. 

To that end, they've taken over what was once Pearly Queen in Spitalfields (Tom Brown's former seafood restaurant) to open Song Que Pho Bar. As the name suggests, here they'll be focusing on their pho noodle soup, and they tell us that they'll be serving up "all our

Around this time last year, Noodle Inn opened in Soho and was an instant sensation. It immediately became the restaurant with some of the longest queues in Soho and has remained hugely popular to this day. Well, now they're about to open a second restaurant.

The new Noodle Inn will be in Spitalfields, opening in one of the many brand new developments

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

Already an instant hit from the word go, we visited Osteria Angelina, the new restaurant from the Angelina Dalston team, to see what the secret of their success is.

For his next restaurant, the man behind Gunpowder, Harneet Baweja, is heading in a new direction. This time he's launching a Thai fried chicken restaurant in Spitalfields Market.

Fortune Fried Chicken sees him teaming up with Executive Chef Jane Alty, one of the founders of The Begging Bowl in Peckham. Inspired by a fried chicken dish that originated on

Z He from Bun House shares her favourite food and drink places in Spitalfields.

If you've been following Hot Dinners for a while you'll know that there's nothing we enjoy more than a well made martini, so the arrival of a seafood bistro in Shoreditch that puts the martini at the centre of its drinks offering certainly piqued our interest.

The place in question is Noisy Oyster which is going to be opening in the Norton Folgate development beside Shoreditch train station (where

Regular Hot Dinners readers will know that we're very much in favour of all the new wine bars opening in London of late and this latest Spitalfields addition sounds very promising. 

68 & Shanghai comes from the team behind 68 & Boston in Soho, who also run the nearby Yuu Kitchen (as well as Opium, The Last Talisman and Lucy Wong). It's replaced what was the

As Christmas approaches, expect London's competitive socialising venues - from darts to cricket - to do very well. Now another place is about to join the ranks and this one's all about indoor boules (or pétanque if you're being pedantic). 

Boulebar originally launched in the UK on the South Bank (it's also in Sweden and Denmark) and now they're coming to Spitalfields for round two. There

Five years after opening in Soho, Kolamba have gone east for their second restaurant, bringing Sri Lankan food to the City. We went down to try Kolamba East.  

Looking for somewhere new to get your spicy fried chicken fix? With cocktails too? Then head East London way, as Dang’s is taking up a prime position in a basement bar below Slurp Noodles in Spitalfields.

Accessed either via Slurp or from its own entrance down the side of the building, Dang’s is all about Thai fried chicken, aka Hat Yai chicken (a nod to the

21/7/24 - Updated with the opening date

After finding success with their first Sri Lankan restaurant in Soho, Kolamba founders Eroshan and Aushi Meewella are going east for their second opening. 

It's opening as part of the Norton Folgate development just off Bishopsgate, which is pretty much right on the edge of Spitalfields, Shoreditch and The City. As for

There's a classic French brasserie right on the edge of Spitalfields Market. We went down to see what they're cooking up at 65a.