Italian

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

  

  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

  

  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

   

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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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• Salt Yard have brought Mediterranean tapas to Borough

  

  Salt Yard are growing again. They only recently expanded to Westfield and now the latest Salt Yard has opened in Borough. 

  As with their previous openings, it's a combo of Spanish and Italian tapas in a venue that's decked out with lots of exposed brickwork. The

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• Test Driving Maria G's - seasonal Italian excellence in Kensington

  

  Maria G's is the latest restaurant from Robin Gill which sees the chef creating an Italian restaurant in Kensington. We went in to check it out. 

• Lina Stores expands its pasta empire to The City and Marylebone

  

  18/05/21 - updated with Marylebone opening date

  Fans of Lina Stores, the distinctive pistachio-green pasta restaurant and deli, are being rewarded with a couple of new openings. 

  First up (and open now), Lina Stores City has taken over the Bloomberg Arcade site that was previously

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• Palazzo in Crystal Palace is an Italian bar and diner from the Made of Dough boys

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  If you're a Crystal Palace resident wondering what's happening at the old Church Grill site on Church Road, well we have news for you. The space has been taken over by the team behind pizzeria Made of Dough and will reopen as Palazzo - an all-day Italian bar and diner.

  Music is going to be at the heart of this new SE19 place. They'll have a record library and a regularly changing DJ

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