Rooftop

• Kaso is the new rooftop bar and restaurant at One Hundred Shoreditch

  

  It's been just two years since the East London hotel One Hundred Shoreditch opened its doors, but it's already changed both of its restaurants in that short time. On the ground floor Sticks 'n' Sushi has taken over from the original spot Goddard & Gibbs and now on the rooftop, the unimaginatively named The Rooftop has given way to Kaso.

  Although the look hasn't changed, the menu certainly

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• 1864 Bar and Kitchen is the new-look John Lewis rooftop

  

  They've had restaurants up on their rooftop before, but this year John Lewis Oxford Street are trying something new with 1864 Rooftop Bar & Kitchen (which is named after the year John Lewis was founded).

  This time around, it's a team-up with Benugo, and it sounds like they're going for more of a party vibe than before, with space for 200 standing, but only just over 60 if you

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• The Devonshire is doing bar food now AND it's opened the roof terrace

  

  Unless you've been hiding under a very capacious rock you'll know that getting a table at The Devonshire in Soho is currently one of the hardest restaurant reservations to secure in London right now.

  So we're happy to bring you news of two changes at the pub that have radically enhanced your chances of

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• Endo Kazutoshi opens Kioku by Endo restaurant and bar at The OWO

  

  24/4/24 - updated with opening details

  The (nearly) last piece of the puzzle that is The OWO is coming into place. The prime spot in the refurbished Old War Office, the rooftop, is being taken up by top chef Endo Kazutoshi, who will be opening Kioku by Endo there. 

  Kioku, is the Japanese word for memory. The restaurant, Endo says, "will combine

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• Test Driving TT - smoking on the rooftops of Shoreditch

   

  TT in Shoreditch has made its rooftop restaurant permanent and brought in a chef who's behind a new wood-fired menu. We popped up to the roof to see what he's cooking.  

• The old House of Fraser building on Oxford Street is getting a rooftop restaurant with panoramic views

  

  Have you been wondering what the plans are for the old art deco House of Fraser building on Oxford Street? Well, it's getting more than £130m thrown at it in a massive refurb that's planned to bring with it new shops, a gym and even an indoor swimming pool. The building is being renamed The Elephant, but you can guarantee we'll all be calling it the old House of Fraser

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• The Med-inspired Circe's Rooftop Bar takes over from Bar Elba in Waterloo

   

  Earlier this year, Waterloo rooftop venue Bar Elba closed, but that's not the end for one of the few rooftop spaces in this area. It's being reborn as Circe's.

  Taking over the rooftop of Mercury House, it comes from bar veteran Tobias Jackson. He's worked on bars like The Escapologist and Blame Gloria as part of Adventure Bar Group. As with Bar Elba,

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• Test Driving Brooklands at The Peninsula London - a hot new rooftop spot for Londoners

  

  With jaw-dropping views over London and interiors to match the rooftop restaurant at bar at The Peninsula London need to be seen in person. 

• NYC's Peruvian Llama Inn comes to Shoreditch

  

  Updated 14/8/23 with soft launch info

  A new Peruvian restaurant is coming to London via a somewhat unexpected route - New York. 

  Llama Inn opened in New York back in 2015 and has been a hit ever since. Just this year it made it onto the New York Times' Top 100 Restaurants list and its chef Erik Ramirez was a finalist on the James Beard "Outstanding Chef" list this year too. So

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• Test Driving The Portrait Restaurant - Richard Corrigan's rooftop blockbuster

  

  Boasting great views over central London, the arrival of Richard Corrigan to run this rooftop restaurant at the National Portrait Gallery proves to be a real draw.

• The Berkeley opens its rooftop pool bar in Knightsbridge to all

  

  We're always on the lookout for a hot new rooftop bar and the one opening up at The Berkeley sounds on point. There's long been a lovely swimming pool and lounging space up at the top of the Knightsbridge hotel, but that's always been reserved for guests only - until now.

  From next month The Berkeley Rooftop Bar will be open to all in the evenings, and it has amazing views over central London. There's a lift to whisk

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• Taking to the rooftop for the Florattica weekend brunch

  

  If you love a rooftop brunch then new City restaurant Florattica is the place to go

• The Dorchester rooftop bar is reopening with an English country garden makeover

  

  You know it's definitely summer when The Dorchester reopens its rooftop bar. This year the space will bring the English country garden vibes and serve up an all-day brunch menu by the hotel's culinary director Martyn Nail (ex-Claridge's).

  Brunch, Dorchester-style, means dishes like caviar, oysters and fruit de mer, grilled Cornish lobster fregola, côte de boeuf and truffle

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• Florattica, a new rooftop bar, is opening in East London

  

  Got friends and family in town for the festive season and can’t think of where to take them? Or just finding it difficult to get a table at your favourite rooftop bar at this time of year? Then Christmas has come early with the announcement that Florattica is opening in East London. It’s a rooftop bar with views across to St Paul’s Cathedral, Canary Wharf and the Thames, no less. No need to let the

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• Cavo is a huge new Mediterranean restaurant with roof gardens opening by Tottenham Court Road

  

  2/11/22 - updated with the opening date

  The Tottenham Court Road end of Oxford Street's days as the shabbier part of the shopping thoroughfare appears to be drawing to a close. Hard on the heels of the Elizabeth Line opening, the attendant developments at that end of the street are starting to unveil their plans, and many of them contain restaurants.

  Tattu was the first to open back in April and we've also

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