Openings
The newest hotels, restaurants and bars in London and Los Angeles, month by month.
Friendship Bar · Santa Monica Canyon · August 2026Friendship Bar is back in the ship-shaped building where Isherwood drank, with soul on Thursdays
Golden Bull bartender Daniel Baker revives Santa Monica Canyon's S.S. Friendship with lantern-lit booths, martinis and a new stage.
ANIMAL · Arts District · July 2026ANIMAL brings a Brooklyn queer bar to the Arts District, with an Airstream and a disco banana
In the old Resident beer garden, a frozen watermelon margarita, free house and disco, and a forest patio that is the point.
Lady of the Grapes · London Bridge · June 2026Lady of the Grapes moves into a chocolate factory, and puts the winemaker on the label
Carole Bryon's bar for women winemakers takes over a Victorian corner of Southwark Street, with a Comté soufflé upstairs and a vaulted speakeasy below.
Sova · Notting Hill · April 2026Sova pours Georgian amber and Ukrainian fizz, with records from Rough Trade on the shelf
Zima's old Notting Hill site becomes a wine and vinyl bar off Portobello Road, with Cristian Vega's eastern list and Denis Calmis's tartare on rye.
Pepperbird · Olympia · 2 April 2026Pepperbird Is a Speakeasy Built Where Hendrix Once Played Olympia
Des Gunewardena's basement bar under Pillar Hall trades in velvet, amber light and cocktails named after records.
Bar di Bello · Silver Lake · March 2026Bar di Bello: a Milanese party room behind velvet curtains on Sunset Boulevard
Alex Wilmot and partners bring Bar Basso-style Negronis, red travertine and Italo disco to a Silver Lake strip mall.
Cato · Covent Garden · 5 February 2026Cato swaps Crazy Bear's red leather for a julep room and a basement sorted by colour
Angelos Bafas and Bart & Taylor honour New York's first celebrity bartender on Mercer Street, with mint upstairs and British synaesthesia below.
Gambit Bar · Fitzrovia · February 2026Gambit Bar gives the sober guest a full page and the dandies a basement
Under The Newman in Fitzrovia, Eder Neto pours rum, rye and picante beneath an amber ceiling, with a mirror-image alcohol-free list and jazz at the back.
Sid's Bar · South Pasadena · December 2025Sid's Bar pours a whiskey named for a Depression-era muralist
The indie promoters behind Sid the Cat have turned a classroom in South Pasadena's old El Centro school into a neighbourhood bar beside their new concert hall.
Vandell · Los Feliz · December 2025Vandell pours a Negroni with 1970s Campari and a Manhattan with 1960s bourbon, on Hillhurst
Two Republique alumni and the Bar Flores group open a walk-in-friendly Los Feliz cocktail bar with a red back room and a bar burger.
The Martini Bar · King's Cross · November 2025The Martini Bar: Hawksmoor's very cold answer to a Gothic cathedral at St Pancras
In the old Gothic Bar of the Midland Grand, Hawksmoor pours martinis under Gilbert Scott's vaults and serves caviar with hash browns.
The Marlborough · Mayfair · 10 November 2025The Marlborough pours a Devonshire-grade Guinness upstairs and sends you down for a square of pizza
Carl McCluskey's Crisp Pizza has moved from Hammersmith into a restored 1892 Mayfair pub, with the Devonshire team behind the bar.
Eagle Bar · Mayfair · September 2025Eagle Bar shakes a layered B-52 beneath the gilded bird that watched over the old US Embassy
Liana Oster runs two rooftop bars at The Chancery Rosewood: a piano-and-fire-pit American bar facing Grosvenor Square and a Hyde Park terrace for sunset.
Bar 109 · Melrose Hill · July 2025Bar 109 is a kelp-salted martini and a Tuesday-night burger in a former furniture shop
Brian Baik, of Eleven Madison Park, fronts his Melrose Hill tasting counter with a dim walk-in bar run by a sake sommelier.
Luna · Shad Thames · July 2025Luna gives Shad Thames the wine bar it was missing
Jay Patel and Matt Beardmore of Legare open a candlelit wine bar, bottle shop and restaurant across the cobbles.
Daisy Margarita Bar · Sherman Oaks · May 2025Daisy is a margarita bar named after its own drink, with a guacamole slushie and a fringed jukebox
Sherman Oaks gets a Norteño cantina from the Mírate team: clarified Clamato, additive-free tequila and a bar lined with glass jugs.
Parasol · Dalston · May 2025Parasol turns the old Nest nightclub into a bar where you can sit down and still hear the disco
Andy Kerr of Discount Suit Company and Tom Gibson of Ruby's put booths, reclaimed malting tiles and early-1980s New York records under the Red Hand.
Waltz · Shoreditch · Spring 2025Waltz: the Shoreditch bar built around one fallen tree and a very calm bartender
Gento Torigata, late of Kwant, pours Japanese-style cocktails over a bar slab cut from a tree from Gibson Square.
CINCO · Dalston · March 2025CINCO is a Dalston basement where Mexican whisky and gin finally get the stage
Corrochio's moves its drinking downstairs: a candlelit cellar, an embroidered passport menu and its own pineapple mezcal.
Night on Earth · Cahuenga Pass · December 2024Night on Earth clarifies the Pornstar Martini and serves it at 16°F, beside the 101
The Thunderbolt team's neon strip-mall bar in the Cahuenga Pass rebuilds the party drinks bartenders once rolled their eyes at, with a teriyaki hot dog on the side.
Godet · Islington · October 2024Godet turns an Islington boozer into a wine pub with decks
A French slang word for a glass, a Hackney wine-bar owner and a hi-fi corner that comes alive after dark.
Below Stone Nest · Chinatown · October 2024Below Stone Nest serves frozen White Russians in a room that has outlasted a chapel, a nightclub and a Walkabout
Jackson and Frank Boxer's walk-in basement off Shaftesbury Avenue has had a Jermaine Gallacher refit, a highball list and, at last, a proper bar menu.
September 2026
July 2026
ANIMAL · Arts District · July 2026ANIMAL brings a Brooklyn queer bar to the Arts District, with an Airstream and a disco banana
In the old Resident beer garden, a frozen watermelon margarita, free house and disco, and a forest patio that is the point.
Palomino · Highland Park · July 2026Palomino gives Gold Line's overflow a disco ball and a seat
The Highland Park team behind the Stones Throw hi-fi bar open a moodier, easier sibling across Figueroa.
CineOpera · Arts District · July 2026CineOpera Puts a Maradona Sandwich and a 170-Inch Screen on an Arts District Roof
Muy Salsa's rooftop wine bar pairs Italian aperitivo with Latin cooking and a film every time the sun goes down.
April 2026
Sova · Notting Hill · April 2026Sova pours Georgian amber and Ukrainian fizz, with records from Rough Trade on the shelf
Zima's old Notting Hill site becomes a wine and vinyl bar off Portobello Road, with Cristian Vega's eastern list and Denis Calmis's tartare on rye.
Pepperbird · Olympia · 2 April 2026Pepperbird Is a Speakeasy Built Where Hendrix Once Played Olympia
Des Gunewardena's basement bar under Pillar Hall trades in velvet, amber light and cocktails named after records.
March 2026
Bar di Bello · Silver Lake · March 2026Bar di Bello: a Milanese party room behind velvet curtains on Sunset Boulevard
Alex Wilmot and partners bring Bar Basso-style Negronis, red travertine and Italo disco to a Silver Lake strip mall.
Drink · Arts District · March 2026Lynx
The Saison chef and his bar director Brandyn Tepper won a Bib Gourmand two months into this Arts District bar, where the Sudachi daiquiri uses no lime.
Drink · Bayswater · March 2026The Alchemy Bar
A herbal, apothecary-style bar inside Six Senses London.
February 2026
Cato · Covent Garden · 5 February 2026Cato swaps Crazy Bear's red leather for a julep room and a basement sorted by colour
Angelos Bafas and Bart & Taylor honour New York's first celebrity bartender on Mercer Street, with mint upstairs and British synaesthesia below.
Gambit Bar · Fitzrovia · February 2026Gambit Bar gives the sober guest a full page and the dandies a basement
Under The Newman in Fitzrovia, Eder Neto pours rum, rye and picante beneath an amber ceiling, with a mirror-image alcohol-free list and jazz at the back.
December 2025
Sid's Bar · South Pasadena · December 2025Sid's Bar pours a whiskey named for a Depression-era muralist
The indie promoters behind Sid the Cat have turned a classroom in South Pasadena's old El Centro school into a neighbourhood bar beside their new concert hall.
Vandell · Los Feliz · December 2025Vandell pours a Negroni with 1970s Campari and a Manhattan with 1960s bourbon, on Hillhurst
Two Republique alumni and the Bar Flores group open a walk-in-friendly Los Feliz cocktail bar with a red back room and a bar burger.
Stable Wines · Islington · 1 December 2025Stable Wines hides a candlelit bar in an Islington bank vault
A natural-wine shop on Essex Road with a labyrinth of arches and iron railings below.
November 2025
The Martini Bar · King's Cross · November 2025The Martini Bar: Hawksmoor's very cold answer to a Gothic cathedral at St Pancras
In the old Gothic Bar of the Midland Grand, Hawksmoor pours martinis under Gilbert Scott's vaults and serves caviar with hash browns.
The Marlborough · Mayfair · 10 November 2025The Marlborough pours a Devonshire-grade Guinness upstairs and sends you down for a square of pizza
Carl McCluskey's Crisp Pizza has moved from Hammersmith into a restored 1892 Mayfair pub, with the Devonshire team behind the bar.
September 2025
Drink · Soho · 29 September 2025Kamara
The Brother Marcus founders and bartender Angelos Bafas take the old Blind Pig on Poland Street, pouring tsipouro, mastiha and a tsoureki Old Fashioned.
Eagle Bar · Mayfair · September 2025Eagle Bar shakes a layered B-52 beneath the gilded bird that watched over the old US Embassy
Liana Oster runs two rooftop bars at The Chancery Rosewood: a piano-and-fire-pit American bar facing Grosvenor Square and a Hyde Park terrace for sunset.
July 2025
Bar 109 · Melrose Hill · July 2025Bar 109 is a kelp-salted martini and a Tuesday-night burger in a former furniture shop
Brian Baik, of Eleven Madison Park, fronts his Melrose Hill tasting counter with a dim walk-in bar run by a sake sommelier.
Luna · Shad Thames · July 2025Luna gives Shad Thames the wine bar it was missing
Jay Patel and Matt Beardmore of Legare open a candlelit wine bar, bottle shop and restaurant across the cobbles.
May 2025
Daisy Margarita Bar · Sherman Oaks · May 2025Daisy is a margarita bar named after its own drink, with a guacamole slushie and a fringed jukebox
Sherman Oaks gets a Norteño cantina from the Mírate team: clarified Clamato, additive-free tequila and a bar lined with glass jugs.
Parasol · Dalston · May 2025Parasol turns the old Nest nightclub into a bar where you can sit down and still hear the disco
Andy Kerr of Discount Suit Company and Tom Gibson of Ruby's put booths, reclaimed malting tiles and early-1980s New York records under the Red Hand.
March 2025
Waltz · Shoreditch · Spring 2025Waltz: the Shoreditch bar built around one fallen tree and a very calm bartender
Gento Torigata, late of Kwant, pours Japanese-style cocktails over a bar slab cut from a tree from Gibson Square.
CINCO · Dalston · March 2025CINCO is a Dalston basement where Mexican whisky and gin finally get the stage
Corrochio's moves its drinking downstairs: a candlelit cellar, an embroidered passport menu and its own pineapple mezcal.
October 2024
Godet · Islington · October 2024Godet turns an Islington boozer into a wine pub with decks
A French slang word for a glass, a Hackney wine-bar owner and a hi-fi corner that comes alive after dark.
Below Stone Nest · Chinatown · October 2024Below Stone Nest serves frozen White Russians in a room that has outlasted a chapel, a nightclub and a Walkabout
Jackson and Frank Boxer's walk-in basement off Shaftesbury Avenue has had a Jermaine Gallacher refit, a highball list and, at last, a proper bar menu.