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New dining rooms, old institutions reopened, and the one dish to order.
One Dish · LondonJeremy King brings back London's least fashionable dish, carved at the table
Shut since 2020, the old chess house's Grand Divan carves Devonshire rib at the table again, with railway mutton curry and Wolseley veterans in the kitchen.
First Look · LondonNieves Barragán's Legado serves suckling pig's head and no croquetas
In Shoreditch, the Sabor chef's largest restaurant roasts Zamora lamb in Madrid-built wood ovens. Order the Legado sandwich, two days in the making.
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Dishoom Borough · Borough · 12 October 2026Dishoom's eighth London café moves into the Victorian Hop Exchange
Borough gets its own Keralan pepper chicken and a Black Label flip made with Thums Up. Book before 6pm; after that, everyone queues.
Endo · Chelsea · 1 October 2026Endo: a 200-year-old Kyoto counter, a vinyl-and-tea bar upstairs, and a waitlist
Endo Kazutoshi's omakase counter has settled into a Chelsea townhouse, with a listening bar called Moga on the floor above.
Cassette · Covent Garden · 23 September 2026Cassette is a Paris bistro with a mixtape, rare Grundig speakers and a pie with a claw
The Levan team's first central London restaurant brings oysters in warm butter sauce, a coq au vin jaune pie for two and a Calvados-and-tonic to a former stained-glass workshop on Maiden Lane.
Nakimushi · Notting Hill · 7 September 2026Nakimushi, the crybaby ramen house, takes over a Notting Hill townhouse
Two beloved pop-ups, Urchin and Robin's Ramen, settle into three floors of oxblood tile and pale pine.
KID · Soho · 1 September 2026KID: the Soho Turkish grill named after a goat, from a Mangal II chef
Sertaç Dirik, of Dalston's Mangal II, and David Carter turn Frith Street into a candlelit brick kiln for fire-cooked Anatolian food.
Dante Mayfair · Mayfair · June 2026Dante has swapped MacDougal Street for Claridge's, and the martini hour comes with a pianist
Linden Pride and Nathalie Hudson's Greenwich Village bar now runs the grand Mayfair dining room for good: shrimp cocktail, charcoal bread, a fluffy Garibaldi and a Vesper with lychee sorbet.
Vesper · Clerkenwell · May 2026Vesper is Jackson Boxer's love letter to London, with crab-fat rice and a rationed burger
On Exmouth Market's old Taqueria corner, a whitewashed bistro with a studded zinc bar serves crisps in evening dress and a half chicken worth the booking.
Oudh 1722 · Borough · 1 May 2026Oudh 1722 is a Nawab's feast in a Borough hatter's house, and the biryani comes with a lid
Aktar Islam's first London restaurant cooks Lucknow court food on Union Street: mushroom kebabs to spread on bread, a chicken leg gone creamy, and an oxtail biryani sealed to be cracked open.
Igni · Mayfair · April 2026Igni takes Humo's fire and turns it to turbot, oysters in the embers and a potato bao
Theo Clench, late of Cycene, runs a seafood-led tasting menu from a Mayfair counter close enough to feel the heat.
Teal by Sally Abé · Hackney · 26 March 2026Teal is Sally Abé's little British bistro, named for a duck
A Ledbury and Harwood Arms alumna goes solo on Wilton Way, with savouries, crab royale and a Penny Lick.
Burro · Covent Garden · 11 March 2026Burro means butter, and Trullo's Conor Gadd cooks the veal, the sole and the potatoes in it
Gadd's first solo restaurant, in Covent Garden's Floral Court, pairs Trullo-trained pasta with Irish hospitality and a tiramisu that arrives as a doughnut.
Eat · Strand · 3 March 2026Simpson's in the Strand
Shut since 2020, the old chess house's Grand Divan carves Devonshire rib at the table again, with railway mutton curry and Wolseley veterans in the kitchen.
