Pizza

17/2/25 - Updated with the opening date

They only recently opened in Westbourne Grove but now Alley Cats are opening their next restaurant on Portobello Road, barely a 15-minute walk away. 

Their latest pizza restaurant is adding something that none of the others have, though - a slice hatch. So if you don't fancy waiting for a table, you'll be able to grab an 18-inch slice from said hatch. If that's not enough for you, then the main restaurant is a large two-floor affair, which also has an off-road terrace space, so it should be generally easier to get a

The Old Queen's Head in Islington had once been the home of Lucky Chip and is also a great place for a Sunday lunch, but now they're about to launch something brand new - Hot Saint Pizza. 

The Islington pub was taken over by the Columbo Group (who also run The Parakeet) 20 years ago, so they're using the excuse of their 20th anniversary for a big overhaul in the food. Hot Saint comes from Tom Budakan, an ex-Dough Hands chef, so he knows what he's doing when it comes to pizza. And apparently, he's even previously been a DJ in the pub. 

His 48-hour fermented pizza

London's pizza scene really exploded in 2025 and 2026 looks like it's off to a similarly strong start with Connie's Pizza. It comes from Andrea Asciuti, the founder of 081 Pizza, based in Peckham and Shoreditch, which has made it onto the Top 50 Pizzas in Europe list. 

Connie's (named after Andrea's wife) will be a little different from 081. As Andrea explains, it's offering up the "UK’s first Bri-talian pizza". That means it will be a London-style crispy pizza, albeit made by Italians. The ingredients will also be very different from your standard pizzeria, too,

A South London brewery that started life in a shed is now working on opening its third tap room. Br3wery, who already have two taprooms in Beckenham, are spreading their wings across to Furzedown.

"We’re excited to announce the opening of our third taproom in Furzedown," they told Hot Dinners. "For the first time, we’re stepping outside the BR3 area to bring our fresh beers to a new neighbourhood.

The move brings the opportunity to double down on current partnerships and bring in new ones. So they'll also serve up wines "from Crystal Palace Wine Club, an exquisite

We're only on day two of 2026 and we're already bringing you news of another new pizzeria gearing up to open in London. Weezie's has taken over the old Biscuiteers site in Eccleston Yards, just around the corner from Victoria Station. The people behind it, Will and Abbie Sandbach, run the Amie Wine Studio, which is right next door in the Belgravia development. They're describing Weezie's, which is named after Abbie's grandmother, as a pizza-focused restaurant and wine bar.

On the menu will be a range of thin-crust pizzas in the London/New Haven-style, along with various small

The space that was The Good Egg at Eat 17 in Walthamstow has just undergone a big transformation. They've teamed up with the people behind East London's Proud Mary olive oil to launch Proud Mary Pizzeria. It'll be taking over the space in the evening (The Good Egg will still be running during the day). 

The room itself has had something of a glow-up, with pink walls

Crisp Pizza's arrival in Mayfair at The Marlborough is peak London food scene hype. We went down to see if those pizzas live up to the sky-high expectations.

A new pizza restaurant is coming to King's Cross with the arrival of the latest Pizza Pilgrims. They're taking over a former hair salon that's on the corner of Caledonian Road and Pentonville Road (and just a few doors down from another popular King's Cross pizzeria, Pizza Union). It's just a two-minute walk from the main station. 

If you've been to Pizza Pilgrims

9/11/25 - Updated with photos and menu details

One of London's big openings for the autumn is the arrival of Crisp Pizza in Mayfair, where they've taken over The Marlborough Head pub on North Audley Street, renaming it The Marlborough. 

For the Mayfair opening, Crisp's and now The Marlborough's owner Carl McCluskey is getting support from the whole team behind The Devonshire:

Pizzarova has four pizzerias in Bristol, having first opened back in 2013, and before that they had started life selling pizzas off the back of a landrover (which is where the name comes from). Now, for the first time, they're opening in London. 

Their London pizzeria is opening inside Pop Brixton, and they'll be serving sourdough pizzas that are apparently made from a 70-year-old

A new pizza residency is on the way. Fresh Hot Pizza have been running pop-ups since the beginning of the year, and now they're settling down in Haggerston. 

It comes from James Fox, who got his pizza experience at Ria's, Dough Hands and Crisp Pizza, so he definitely knows his stuff. The pizzeria got a rave review ...

London's New York-style pizza craze isn't ending any time soon, with the launch of Vincenzo's, a pizzeria that's already found fame in Bushey. 

This opening will be a little different to the original, as it will be all about pizzas by the slice, with those slices starting at £5. Planned for the menu here are the standard margherita, tomato and pepperoni, vodka sauce

Since opening in Notting Hill a couple of years ago, Ria's mix of Detroit-style pizzas and natural wine has proved to be a winning formula. So much so that the people behind it, David and Ria Morgan-Ratcliffe, are getting ready to open a follow-up in Soho. 

Opening just off Carnaby Street, the Soho Ria's will follow a similar approach to the original, although they're describing it as "the older sibling: same DNA, a

To corrupt a phrase, necessity is the mother of reinvention, and that's a lesson that London restaurants know well. From Orasay turned Dove in Notting Hill to the wholesale reworking of the Pachamama group, London restaurateurs that keep their offering fresh and interesting are always going to do well.

The latest to follow in their footsteps is the group who've found recent success with their Marta pizzeria. They've

Carmela's brings the New York-style pizza craze to Islington, and it happens to be run by a team who are very into their pizzas. We went down to try them out.