Soho

Londoners love a good focaccia sandwich. All you have to do is look at the queues going round the block every time a new branch of Dal Fiorentino opens. So we're relatively confident that the arrival this monnth of Fulvio's in the heart of Soho is going to do great numbers.

The folk behind it are the team at Fatto a Mano, a Neapolitan pizzeria that originated in Brighton but now has six pizzerias across town. Apparently, Brighton team member Fulvio made such outstandingly good focaccia, which was used for the team's lunches, that the bread inspired the idea of a sandwich shop to

After appearing first inside Arcade food halls, Solis, the chicken and steak restaurant from the TATA Eater team is going it alone with a standalone restaurant in Soho. We went down to see what they're serving up in their solo digs. 

Updated 30/9/26 with opening date

Another US chain is on its way over to the UK as Jersey Mike's, a sub shop which has over 3000 stores in America, is coming to London. 

Jersey Mike's has been running since 1956 and it's all about sandwiches, made in sub rolls and served to-order, with bread baked throughout the day. Their particular USP is that all the meats are sliced as you order. You'll find subs like Mike's Hot Italian (ham, salami, pepperoni, melted provolone cheese) or the Club Supreme (roast beef, turkey, Swiss, Applewood smoked bacon). There are

Georgian restaurant Aba-Ra opened on Brick Lane back in 2023, and it's clearly been doing well as its founder, Lia Walsh, is getting ready to bring the restaurant to Soho. 

It jumps on a Georgian trend that's doing numbers at the moment, with the success of DakaDaka in Mayfair and Kinkally in Fitzrovia. Soho already has the Georgian Violet's Cafe, but it's sounding like Aba-Ra is going to be a much bigger affair, taking over the space that used to be Inamo. 

They're introducing an open kitchen to the main dining room, where meals will kick off with

They may have split from JKS, but Ardent Pubs (behind The Cadogan Ams, The George and The Hound) are getting ready to open their latest pub. This one is a lot more central than the rest, opening just off Cambridge Circus (i.e. where the Harry Potter play is). 

The new pub is called The Magpie and it's opening in a space that's been a pub for ages, most recently as a BrewDog, but many with longer memories will remember it as the site of Russell Norman's Ape & Bird (here's our very old-school Test

They've known each other since the early Nineties, and now chef Gennaro Contaldo's career is mirroring his protegee Jamie Oliver. He's teamed up with the same restaurant company that recently revived Jamie's Italian to open his first restaurant in almost 20 years.

Bolo, in the heart of Soho, is keeping things very simple. There are just 32 seats and the menu will focus around six specific pasta dishes. As the restaurant's name suggests, various takes on Bolognese are at the heart of the offering, and Gennaro's pork and beef version is served here with tagliatelle. Other pastas

Something of a Soho institution, 40 Dean Street has been serving up a classic Italian menu for more than 20 years. We popped in to remind ourselves why it's lasted so long. 

Soho is getting a new chicken and steak restaurant that you'll definitely want to check out. It comes from the team behind TA TA Eatery, but it's also something you might have come across before. 

There's been a Solis at one of the Arcade food halls in either Battersea or Tottenham Court Road for a while. But now it's the latest from Arcade (following Manna a few weeks back) to go it alone with a completely standalone restaurant. They're taking over a space on Kingly Street that

It's hard to imagine now, in a city where getting great dim sum is easy, but the arrival of Yauatcha in Soho back in 2004 was a BIG deal. Not only was this an egalitarian effort by Alan Yau of Michelin-starred Hakkasan to put great food on the table at a bargain price, but the place looked completely different to anything else out there. We can remember valiantly trying to find our way into the loos in the stygian dark of the dining room. It was a hit from day one.

Now, 22 years later, Yauatcha's owners are hoping to give the place a major facelift, and they've chosen an

A groundbreaking chef and a great restaurateur are the forces behind hot new London restaurant Kid. We took a trip to Soho to see if it could live up to the hype.

Miokuru is part of the great London handroll boom of 2026. We went down to see what it was doing differently to its competitors.

He lives and works in Soho; now Seanie from Italian-American spot Grasso is sharing his favourite bars, shops and restaurants in the area with us.

24/8/26 - Updated with news that the permanent restaurant isn't happening.  

After hearing news from multiple sources that Barang was getting ready to open a permanent restaurant, it seems that that's no longer happening. The restaurant was supposedly going to be taking on the space that once held Darjeeling Express in Kingly Court, but we're now told that there are currently no plans to open a permanent Barang site. 

The modern Cambodian-inspired restaurant comes from Tom Geoffrey (previously a chef at Kiln) and has had successful pop-ups over the

Professor Green has always been a bit of a foodie (we've seen his comments pop up on our reels for years) and cemented that by opening PG Proper Good in Glasgow earlier this year. Now he's following that with a second opening in London, right in the middle of Soho. 

He's taking over a space on Soho Street (one that hasn't been a restaurant before) for the second Proper Good, something that he brought to life with the same team that launched Sides by The Sidemen. Assuming you haven't tried it in Glasgow, it's a fast food restaurant where you build your own meal. Those meals

Change is coming to Broadwick Soho as Monte Carlo's Beefbar has chosen the hotel as its new London home. 

Beefbar has been in London before, of course, having opened as Le Petit Beefbar in Chelsea. That closed in April this year, but they said at the time that they were looking for a new home, and they've found it in Soho.

The restaurant, which originated in Monaco (and has outposts across the world), will be taking over both the ground floor bar and the lower-ground restaurant. Previously known as Dear Jackie (and Bar Jackie), it was originally named after the