New Openings
Ex-Babbo head chef to launch first solo venture in London
Former head chef of Mayfair Italian Babbo, Carlos Scotto, is set to open his first restaurant in Marylebone later this month, offering a menu influenced by his Neapolitan heritage.
Sausage-only restaurant to open in London
A restaurant dedicated entirely to sausage is set to open in Islington with the aim of reinventing the humble hotdog, offering bangers from Blighty, bratwurst from Germany and kielbasa from Poland.
Winners of the BBC’s Million Pound Menu to open first London venture
The winners of BBC show Million Pound Menu 2018, Rupert Smith and Marita Lietz of Bubble&, are set to open Bubble& Café Bar at chef Atul Kochar’s Amersham restaurant, Hawkyns.
Honey-focused mead bar to open in London
Gosnells, London’s only meadery, is to launch its debut bar upstairs at the Coal Rooms in Peckham next month, serving ‘Original’ and ‘Vintage’ meads with a continually changing menu.
Bocca di Lupo chef to open London restaurant
Conceived by Bocca di Lupo’s head chef Daniele Ceforo and River Cafe’s Joshua Owens-Baigler, Angelina in Shoreditch will fuse Japanese and Italian cuisines.
French restaurant group Big Mamma to open first London venture
Paris-based restaurant group Big Mamma is to open its first London venture called Gloria in Shoreditch, pairing Italian cuisine with flamboyant interiors.
Atul Kochhar to open new London restaurant Kanishka
Atul Kochhar, the first Indian chef in the world to receive a Michelin star, has announced plans to open a new restaurant called Kanishka in March that will showcase cuisine from India’s lesser-known regions.
Eleven Madison Park to open site at Claridge’s
The chef behind the 2017 World’s Best Restaurant, Eleven Madison Park in New York, has confirmed that he will be opening a restaurant at Claridge’s following the closure of Fera late last year.
Flat Iron steakhouse comes to London Bridge
Flat Iron, the popular affordable steak restaurant that champions underused cuts of beef is to open its seventh site on Tooley Street in London Bridge later this month.
WLC Eats: The Baptist Bar & Grill
WLC’S resident sybarite, Lucy Shaw, heads to the sumptuous Baptist Bar & Grill at L’oscar hotel in Holborn for divine smoked cod mousse, sinfully good Dover sole and a heavenly Sauternes.