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  • Aqua's next is Italian restaurant and cafe Luci in Covent Garden

    Aqua's next is Italian restaurant and cafe Luci in Covent Garden

    9/8/23 - Updated with the opening date

    They opened Shiro in Broadgate only late last year, but the Aqua Restaurant Group already have another restaurant lined up called Luci. They've taken over a space in The Yards section of  Covent Garden (once held by a Jack Wills store

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  • Forza Wine are coming to the National Theatre

    Forza Wine are coming to the National Theatre

    Be it galleries or theatres, it seems that big London institutions have realised that it's now good sense to have an in-house restaurant that's a draw all in itself. Jose Pizarro at The Royal Academy, ...

  • The Piccadilly Cicchetti is moving to a much bigger Grade II listed building

    The Piccadilly Chichetti is moving to a much bigger Grade II listed building

    Cicchetti must be doing rather well for themselves. Owned by the San Carlo Group (the same people who run the Selfridges rooftop restaurant), the Piccadilly Cicchetti is getting ready to move to a much bigger space - just down the road. 

    They're moving to part of the Grade II listed Piccadilly Arcade. It's a two-floored part of the arcade that will be double the

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  • Lavo Ristorante heads to London from LA with its giant wagyu meatballs

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    Is there room for another glitzy Italian restaurant in London? We ask because news reaches us of an American import, LAVO Ristorante, which is coming our way from America. It's part of the TAO Restaurant group which now also owns Hakkasan and Yauatcha, and this will be the group's first LAVO in Europe - they have several dotted across the states and one in Singapore.

    The London restaurant will be part of the new

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  • Lina Stores are bringing their pasta to Clapham

    Lina Stores are opening in Clapham

    2/6/23 - updated with the opening date

    If you've been wondering what was going to take the place of the old site of St Clair in Clapham, wonder no more - it's going to be the latest opening by Lina Stores.  

    This outpost is being billed as a neighbourhood restaurant, so you're not going to get the deli add-on that some of the other Lina Stores have. Instead, it's an Italian restaurant

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  • Previewing Cantinetta Antinori - luxe yet cosy Italian in Knightsbridge

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    Cantinetta Antinori arrives in Knightsbridge as a joint venture between a global restaurant group and a top Italian winemaker.  We popped in to check it out in a recent preview dinner. 

  • Test Driving Carlotta - Big Mamma's Marylebone home continues their winning streak

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    Billed as a more "intimate" Big Mamma restaurant, Carlotta has arrived on Marylebone High Street. We went down to discover exactly what Big Mamma considers intimate... 

  • Terra Moderna is a new Antipodean-Italian restaurant in Belsize Park

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    It’s starting to feel like ‘Antipodean-influenced’ needs to be a whole new subgenre of restaurants, such is its rise in London launches. Belsize Park is now home to a modern Italian restaurant that champions its Antipodean inspiration. It’s called Terra Moderna and comes to you from Italian head chef Mirko Pisano (previously Senior Chef Partie at Apex Temple Court Hotel) and founder Jeffrey Young, who has an Australian

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  • Cantinetta Antinori comes to London with Florentine T-bones and fine wines

    Cantinetta Antinori opening in London

    Updated 31/3/23 with more details

    The Antinori family are arguably the most famous name in Italian wines, so it's fair to expect that their upcoming London restaurant will have a pretty decent wine list. Cantinetta Antinori will be an interesting team-up in Knightsbridge between the Italian winemakers and the Monaco family - the Giraudis - who opened Le Petit Beefbar in London last year.

    The

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  • Mayfair's Bocconcino is opening on the Strand

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    Glitzy Italian restaurant Bocconcino has long been a part of the Mayfair set of dining spots most beloved by footballers and folk who aren't worrying too much about the bill at the end of the meal. But now it looks like they're about to try their luck in another area of London that's getting a lot of restaurant activity recently, the Strand.

    They're taking over a site underneath the Strand Palace hotel, around

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  • Test Driving Jacuzzi - Big Mamma goes extra extra in Kensington

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    The latest restaurant from Big Mamma has arrived in Kensington and we got in early for a preview. Here's what to expect from Jacuzzi.

  • Jacuzzi sees Big Mamma hit up Kensington High Street and go more extreme than ever

    Jacuzzi - Big Mamma Group - Kensington restaurant in London

    17 January 2023 - Updated with a look inside

    Big Mamma never do things by halves but they're taking things one step further as they head west to Kensington for their next restaurant Jacuzzi. 

    It's their next big opening after Ave

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  • Garum is top Roman chef Arcangelo Dandini's first London restaurant

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    Five years after popping up in London as part of food writer Daniel Young's Young & Foodish's Spaghetti Wednesday, top Roman chef Arcangelo Dandini is back, this time with a permanent restaurant.

    Garum is the chef's 60-seater restaurant in Queensway which opened rather under the radar last month. With it, Dandini is hoping to share his devotion to Roman food with Londoners - "to bring the best ingredients in

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  • Tozi Grand Cafe is opening at Battersea's new art'otel

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    The openings at Battersea Power Station are coming thick and fast. On the heels of the main opening last month, we're now hearing about a new Italian coming to the area. TOZI has long been one of the good places to eat down near Victoria station. Way before any of the Nova openings, this critically

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  • US restaurant Sparrow Italia launches in Mayfair

    US restaurant Sparrow Italia to launch in Mayfair

    19/9/22 - updated with images and menus

    If Mayfair wasn’t already buzzing with forthcoming new restaurant openings, here is news of another. This time it’s by way of Los Angeles as well as the southern European coast. Allow us to explain.

    Hospitality group Noble 33 first launched fine-dining Italian restaurant Sparrow Italia in downtown Los Angeles late last year and now they’re

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