Pub

30/10/26 - Updated with the opening date and menu details.

A couple of decades ago, there were advanced plans, if you can credit it, to demolish the lovely Victorian buildings that surround Smithfield Market. Happily, the whole area has now been protected as part of the new London Museum development, and to add to the general joy, we also have a new pub on the way.

The Poet comes from the same stellar team that are behind Sune in

Is there something special in the water in EC1? Or some secret big stakes game going on where the only way to win points is to be pouring pints in your own pub in Clerkenwell? We're asking because the boozer scene in that part of town is fully on fire at the moment.

Leading the game, of course, was the arrival of Bouchon Rachine into the Three Compasses. Most recently we saw the Public House Group play a blinder with the opening of The Horses. Next, and perhaps most

When it comes to upcoming London openings, "James Bond opens a pub" definitely wasn't on our bingo card. But, according to The Times, that's just what we're getting. 

The very impressive trio of Nick Jones (St Clement), Charlie Carroll (The Devonshire) and Daniel Craig (er... James Bond) have apparently joined together to take over Clerkenwell pub The Horseshoe. At least that explains why Craig has recently been spotted

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

It's been a year of new pubs with great food and there's still more to come with the relaunch of The Grosvenor Arms in Earlsfield. 

Now run by a completely new team, it's getting a bit of a refresh before opening as an all-day pub. So you will be able to pop in for a coffee from first thing in the morning, but it will also have a chef in residence. And their first residency is absolutely one to check out. 

Leading the kitchen for the first couple of months is Fergus Wilford. He's an ex-head chef of Fallow and he's also recently had a very successful residency at

A huge new pub has opened in the City and it just happens to be from the same people behind Goodman and Wild. We went to take a closer look at The Albatross and put their seafood menu to the test. 

If you're in or around Brixton, fancying a pizza and a pint you can't go wrong with a trip to The Ferndale. We headed to one of Brixton's newest openings to check it out.

Updated 14/9/26 with menu details and soft launch info

It was known as The Coach & Horses for 228 years before a rebranding turned it into The Coach. Now, new owners the Public House group are dropping the coach, but reinstating the horses. The Horses in Clerkenwell will be the next pub to get the stylish makeover that's seen their other pubs like the Pelican, the Hart and The Fat Badger become such huge hits.

Let us give you a little potted history. Having been nothing more than a much-loved backstreet boozer for years, beloved by Guardian journos whose

Updated 10/9/26 with images and new opening date

They run Faber seafood restaurant in Hammersmith and The Somers Town Coffee House in King's Cross, and now the same team are celebrating their 20th anniversary with a new opening. This time, it's a new pub in Canary Wharf. 

The menu here promises to feature classic pub fare as well as "celebrating British ingredients with a wholesome, sustainable focus." In practice, that means dishes like: 

• Fish & chips that come with a wally (gherkin) and tartare sauce
• Steak & ale pie

28/8/26 - Updated with more details about the move and the opening date

Just over a year ago, chefs Brad Carter and Tom Brown teamed up for their upmarket surf-and-turf restaurant Island, opening above Mare Street Market. The food there was certainly impressive, but the massive room never seemed like the perfect fit (the last time we were there, the few diners in that evening were dwarfed by the huge space). 

Now comes the news

For a while now, we've known that the Wild Group have been planning a pub in the City. But they're only now ready to reveal the details. If you know where Wild Izakaya is on Old Jewry, they've taken over the former Browns site. And we haven't been this excited about a new pub opening in London since The Devonshire. Why? Well, once you know who's behind it, you'll get the gist.

First up is the restaurant group's back catalogue. George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya Demichev are behind

At the beginning of last year, a fancy new pub opened in Belgravia in the shape of The Prince Arthur. It offered something genuinely different on the London gastropub scene, specialising in a menu of Basque cuisine; they even had their own-brand caviar. It was definitely not your typical pub, but quickly found an audience, and we were also impressed. 

Since then, the same team didn't have as much luck with their second opening, the trio of  Arthur's Market, ASA and

Almost a decade after getting into the pub business, singer James Blunt is doubling down by buying a second London pub. Following on from his purchase of The Fox and Pheasant in Chelsea back in 2017, he's just announced that he's taking over The Carpenter's Arms in Hammersmith.

It's a quick turnaround for Wren Pubs, who have had the 19th-century boozer for just two years. They also run other popular West London pubs The Surprise and The Walmer Castle, and are next opening up on Sloane Square.

In a post on Instagram, Blunt said of the decision to take it over: "It’s an

21/7/26 - updated with more details about the opening, including an opening date

The Queen Adelaide pub in Shepherd's Bush closed last summer, but the pub is now returning under a new guise, called The Talli Queen. 

It comes from chef Avi Shashidhara, who previously worked at Claude Bosi's Hibiscus and then had a long stint at The River Cafe before launching the kitchen at Pahli Hill Bandra Bhai in Fitzrovia (which won a Michelin Bib Gourmand). He also won the starter section of Great British Menu in 2023, so you might also remember him from that

The roll-out of new restaurants and bars at the huge Battersea Power Station development continues with the reveal last week that one of the next openings will be a pub. The Hero's Return sees the same group behind pasta restaurant Bancone, moving into the pub market. And they've brought an interesting chef into the mix to help them.

Jonathan Woolway will be the pub's executive chef, looking after the menu here. He's also the chef patron of the highly rated restaurant The Shed in Swansea and, before that spent a formative 17 years at St John. He and his team are promising the