For the first time in its 132-year history, The Savoy hotel in London will be opening an outdoor bar and dining experience in its forecourt in collaboration with Islay distiller Bowmore. 

We profile 11 of the best restaurant and food-related projects due to be unveiled in the coming months. 

Copper Rivet Distillery in Chatham, Kent is to open a new restaurant called The Pumproom this week, housed in its historic home beside the River Medway. 

Chef and restaurateur Adam Handling is to open his first site outside of London: a restaurant and pub with rooms called The Loch & The Tyne in Windsor.

Despite the challenging environment, new players are joining the Hong Kong bar scene providing interesting drinking experiences to guests, from quirky Japanese izakaya bars to Korean Sool-jip.

Wine-focused restaurant chain 28°-50° is to open a new wine workshop and kitchen on the King’s Road in London’s affluent Chelsea district this spring.

While London restaurants remain shuttered, we’ve rounded up 10 new openings we’re looking forward to this year, from seafood sanctum Manzi’s to the Batman-themed Park Row.

Jerusalem-born London-based chef Yotam Ottolenghi has turned his deli on Motcomb Street in Belgravia into a pop-up wine shop in the run up to Christmas

Merlin Labron-Johnson, the former head chef of Portland in Marylebone, is to open a wine bar and deli in Bruton, Somerset, next to his farm-to-table restaurant, Osip.

Missy Flynn and Gabriel Pryce, co-founders of iconic London eatery Rita’s Dining and New York-style sandwich shop Bodega Rita’s, are opening a pop-up bottle shop and deli in Soho.

A luxury boutique hotel where guests can get up close and personal with giraffes is due to open in Kent next year and will specialise in locally made wines.

With car sales having taken a tumble this year, savvy sommelier Bert Blaize has opened a wine shop and deli in a classic car showroom in London’s Highgate.