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Max Lewis brings New Haven-style apizza to Henrietta Street.
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Cassette · Opened 23 September 2026Cassette is a Paris bistro with a mixtape, rare Grundig speakers and a pie with a clawThe 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.
Burro · Opened 11 March 2026Burro means butter, and Trullo's Conor Gadd cooks the veal, the sole and the potatoes in itGadd'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.
Cato · Opened 5 February 2026Cato swaps Crazy Bear's red leather for a julep room and a basement sorted by colourAngelos Bafas and Bart & Taylor honour New York's first celebrity bartender on Mercer Street, with mint upstairs and British synaesthesia below.
Town · Opened May 2025Town turns Drury Lane into a seventies spaceship, with beef dripping for the breadStevie Parle's biggest restaurant yet puts the kitchen in the middle of the room and names every farm on the menu, from Wildfarmed beef to his brother's cheese.Also in October 2026
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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.
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All storiesCassette · 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.
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.
Opinion · LondonLondon's most exciting restaurants of 2026 were reopened, not built
Simpson's, Hawksmoor under the Midland Grand and Bonheur on the old Le Gavroche site all trade on rooms that already carry a history.