Openings
The newest hotels, restaurants and bars in London and Los Angeles, month by month.
Spacca Tutto · Pacific Palisades · 15 October 2026Nancy Silverton opens a steakhouse in the Palisades, and the focaccia comes stuffed with cheese
Spacca Tutto, her first Westside restaurant, opened in Palisades Village on 15 October with Dal Rae-style picanha, a central bar and a patio on the green.
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.
Rumi's Kitchen · Century City · 23 September 2026Rumi's Kitchen brings Atlanta's Persian cooking to Tehrangeles
Chef Ali Mesghali, who first cooked in LA, opens at Westfield Century City with charcoal kabobs, duck fesenjoon and a rooftop pomegranate garden.
Sous Sous · Silver Lake · September 2026At Sous Sous, the stained-glass apostles watch you order a Sazerac
In the 1931 nave of Hotel Lucile, Patrick Costa pairs Marseille with New Orleans, from blackened-polenta trout to a green tomato margarita.
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.
Mish · La Brea · June 2026On La Brea, Mish carves its pastrami by hand and lets the records play to the end
Eric Greenspan's new-school deli sits under hangar-high beams south of Hancock Park, with honey-water bagels, a serious fish platter and a vinyl lounge upstairs.
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.
Bad Roman · Beverly Hills · 26 May 2026Bad Roman puts a neon-collared boar, a cork ceiling and a limoncello with Diet Coke on Canon Drive
Quality Branded's maximalist Italian-American party moves into The Palm's old room, with a flambéed lobster, a raviolo on the steak and a tiramisu ice cream cake.
Brick Lane · Arts District · 22 May 2026Brick Lane serves a biryani under a naan lid in an Arts District warehouse that used to be Italian
Sanjay Rawat, formerly of Kahani, cooks in a wood-fired tandoor on Sixth Street, with a bar built around jaggery, chyawanprash and cardamom.
Sushi Nakazawa · Beverly Hills · 13 May 2026The sushi counter that began with a Facebook message and Google Translate lands on Robertson
Daisuke Nakazawa, Jiro's apprentice, brings Edomae nigiri, bouncy tamago and a charcoal grill to a sea-cave of a room on the Beverly Hills border.
Jacaranda · Hancock Park · 6 May 2026Jacaranda is a ten-course dinner party in a lilac glass box, hosted by a chef and a former music editor
Daniel Patterson, of Coi, and Sarah Lewitinn, move their Hancock Park supper club to Melrose with soft tofu, stuffed morels and a plate called Fruit Anarchy.
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.
Picala · West Adams · April 2026Picala is a Spanish hearth built by an archaeologist, with a free tapa for every early drink
Luis Sierra studied ancient fires before he cooked over one. Under the E Line on La Cienega he serves sardine escabeche, suckling pig and gin tonicas that reward lingering.
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.
Lielle · Pico-Robertson · February 2026Lielle hides a Michelin-starred cellar under a kosher-bakery stretch of Pico
Marcus Jernmark cooks four courses in a cork-vaulted, windowless room, and turns yesterday's bread into tomorrow's miso.
Baldi · Beverly Hills · February 2026Baldi is a Tuscan steakhouse at the Waldorf, and the corn tortellini nearly steals the night
Edo Baldi grills Prime and Japanese beef over olive wood where Wilshire meets Santa Monica Boulevard, with a family name that counts for plenty.
Tiella · Bethnal Green · January 2026Tiella Kept the Pub, the Stained Glass and a Portrait of Cher
Dara Klein's first restaurant turns a Victorian boozer on Columbia Road into a regional Italian trattoria with a pub's soul.
Corenucopia · Chelsea · December 2025Corenucopia is Clare Smyth's luxury bistro, and the potatoes get their own menu
Core's alumni run this Holbein Place bistro off Sloane Square: Dover sole in the fish and chips, a gilt-framed vinegar menu and a dad-rock soundtrack.
Hawksmoor St Pancras · King's Cross · November 2025Hawksmoor grills steak under Gothic conkers, and the ceiling gets first billing
Will Beckett and Huw Gott take over George Gilbert Scott's Midland Grand dining room, with Longhorn beef on the charcoal and a sub-zero martini bar next door.
Khao Bird · Soho · 12 November 2025Chiang Mai Barbecue Moves Into Soho's Old Adult Cinema
Khao Bird makes Brewer Street its first permanent London home, with Burmese mutton chips, a pink neon sign and a vodka-soda called I Am Broke.
Poon's · Somerset House · 5 November 2025Poon's returns to London, cooking without a wok burner
Amy Poon revives her parents' Michelin-starred name in Somerset House's New Wing, with claypot rice, Magic Soup and a prawn toast built on lardo.
Bonheur by Matt Abé · Mayfair · 4 November 2025Bonheur takes Le Gavroche's old room, adds a Japanese milk loaf and collects two stars
Matt Abé, formerly of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, cooks a lighter, warmer classical menu on Upper Brook Street, and Michelin noticed within three months.
Maydan Market · West Adams · 2025Maydan Market is a covered town square where one fire feeds tlayudas, kebabs and Thai grills
Rose Previte's West Adams market hall puts seven kitchens around a single hearth, a short walk from the E Line, and rewards anyone who wanders.
Super Peach · Century City · October 2025Super Peach brings Momofuku to the mall with a wagyu kimbap and a martini that comes two ways
David Chang's group fills a corner of Westfield Century City with green tile, orange steel and a flap board, and the kimbap is why to go.
Michael Caines at The Stafford · St James's · 17 September 2025Michael Caines brings Brixham sole and a table-side Wellington to the quietest corner of St James's
A Devon chef with two decades on Dartmoor opens his first London restaurant in The Stafford's old dining room, and the scallop ceviche is the order.
Carbone · Mayfair · September 2025Carbone puts a Rat Pack supper club in the old US Embassy, and the pasta is only half the show
Major Food Group's tuxedoed red-sauce theatre fills Saarinen's Grosvenor Square landmark with burgundy damask, a tableside Caesar and a dessert tray that does laps.
Kudu · Marylebone · 16 September 2025Kudu has crossed the river, and the first thing to order is the bread with its pan of butter
Amy Corbin and Patrick Williams bring Peckham's open-fire braai to Moxon Street, with a monkey-gland pork chop, a torched Kit Kat and a bar upstairs.
Lilibet's · Mayfair · September 2025Lilibet's puts a raw bar where Elizabeth II was born
Bone Daddies founder Ross Shonhan's Mayfair seafood house serves one fish three ways beside new fireplaces, on the site of her demolished birthplace.
Darling · West Hollywood · 31 August 2025Darling is Sean Brock's wood-fire kitchen with a DJ booth and a burger on a strict allowance
Appalachian cooking meets California produce on North Robertson, next to a listening bar with Tannoy speakers and a wall of 45s.
Island · Clerkenwell · July 2025Island moves its mixed grill above a Clerkenwell pub, and the floor is a mosaic of St George
Brad Carter's meat and Tom Brown's fish share one menu, one Victorian staircase and a chocolate cake large enough to share.
Town · Covent Garden · May 2025Town turns Drury Lane into a seventies spaceship, with dripping on the bread and a risotto everyone mentions
Stevie 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.
Tom Brown at The Capital · Knightsbridge · 10 April 2025Tom Brown has gone home to Basil Street, and the crab custard is the reason to follow him
A Cornish cook returns to the Knightsbridge dining room that launched his London career, with a seafood tasting menu that starts in the kitchen and ends in a Michelin star.
Firstborn · Chinatown · 28 March 2025Firstborn puts mapo tofu inside a steak tartare and a brasserie inside Chinatown
Anthony Wang, never once employed in a Chinese kitchen, cooks the food of his family with French technique in the old Pok Pok corner of Mandarin Plaza.
The Lavery · South Kensington · 25 March 2025The Lavery serves River Café lunches among a painter's mirrors and the Groucho's borrowed chairs
Yohei Furuhashi, nine years at The River Café and lately at Toklas, cooks a daily-changing, Balcaskie-led menu on the first floor of Sir John Lavery's old South Kensington home.
Alba · West Hollywood · 6 February 2025Alba parks a yellow car on Melrose and sells the first night of a holiday
Adam Leonti's 'vacation Italian' turns a former car park at Melrose and La Cienega into a pink-walled garden, with a chicken dish worth the late table.
Restaurant Ki · Little Tokyo · January 2025Restaurant Ki hides a Michelin-starred Korean counter behind a Little Tokyo cocktail bar
Ki Kim's tasting menu serves perilla sorbet, binchotan lobster and an omija granita that is the standout.
Dove · Notting Hill · January 2025Jackson Boxer Kept the Room, Dropped the Fish and Fried the Lasagne
Dove takes over Orasay's dining room on Kensington Park Road with a short menu of the dishes people love and never cook at home.
Zaytinya · Culver City · 17 December 2024José Andrés brings Zaytinya's halloumi and hearth to a hotel beside the Culver City train
The first West Coast Zaytinya cooks mezze over wood fire at The Shay, with a blue Mediterranean mural, a big patio and a kebab platter for four.
Seline · Santa Monica · December 2024Seline follows one ingredient all night, from celery root ice cream to a frozen mustard leaf
Dave Beran's Main Street tasting menu behind a garden gate feels like a Midwestern home, and ends in a caramel corn soup.
Pinna · Mayfair · December 2024Pinna is the Mayfair bank that pays out in Sardinian pasta
Achille Pinna cooks andarinos with venison ragù beside Shepherd Market, for the owners of Goodman and Burger & Lobster, in a room that feels as if it has always been there.
Somni · West Hollywood · 24 November 2024Somni begins with a giraffe, a courtyard of clouds and a cow-shaped cracker
Aitor Zabala's West Hollywood tasting menu hides its jokes inside caviar meringues and a tempura shiso leaf, and now holds three Michelin stars.
AngloThai · Marylebone · November 2024AngloThai swaps lime for sea buckthorn and still wins a Michelin star
John and Desiree Chantarasak's Marylebone restaurant builds Thai flavour from British larder, from rhubarb to Dorset hogget, and was recognised three months after opening.
Fonda · Mayfair · 3 October 2024Fonda is a Mexican canteen with no avocado, no lime and a sloth on the ceiling
Santiago Lastra's looser sequel to Kol cooks on a clay comal off Regent Street, and a pumpkin-seed dip does the work of guacamole.
Bottarga · Chelsea · October 2024Bottarga moves the King's Road to the Aegean, with olive oil from the chef's father
The Pachamama Group turned its old Peruvian seafood room into a candlelit Greek bistro, where bottarga orzo, charcoal ribeye and a very large burnt cheesecake do the talking.
Companion · Venice · September 2024Companion is a Venice coffee shop that turns into a Cal-Italian trattoria with a record player
On Lincoln Boulevard, the Gnarwhal Coffee owners and chef Jack Goode serve thin New Haven-style pizza, a hand-rolled weekend pasta and orange wine.
Komal · Historic South-Central · September 2024Komal makes Mercado La Paloma a temple to heirloom corn
Fátima Juárez and Conrado Rivera's stall nixtamalises native Mexican maize daily and turns it into tlacoyos, molotes and a taco named Sonia.
Udatsu Sushi · Hollywood · September 2024Udatsu Sushi hides a Tokyo counter behind a Meiji-era door above Sunset
Hisashi Udatsu's Michelin-starred Nakameguro omakase has landed in a former Hollywood recording studio, with hay-smoked tuna and two coasts of uni.
Leydi · Farringdon · September 2024Leydi serves börek at seven, opposite the Old Bailey, and the hummus arrives bubbling
Selin Kiazim's all-day Turkish kitchen in Hyde London City runs from tahini spirals at breakfast to mangal lamb at night, and rewards anyone who orders in stages.
October 2026
Spacca Tutto · Pacific Palisades · 15 October 2026Nancy Silverton opens a steakhouse in the Palisades, and the focaccia comes stuffed with cheese
Spacca Tutto, her first Westside restaurant, opened in Palisades Village on 15 October with Dal Rae-style picanha, a central bar and a patio on the green.
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.
September 2026
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.
Rumi's Kitchen · Century City · 23 September 2026Rumi's Kitchen brings Atlanta's Persian cooking to Tehrangeles
Chef Ali Mesghali, who first cooked in LA, opens at Westfield Century City with charcoal kabobs, duck fesenjoon and a rooftop pomegranate garden.
Sous Sous · Silver Lake · September 2026At Sous Sous, the stained-glass apostles watch you order a Sazerac
In the 1931 nave of Hotel Lucile, Patrick Costa pairs Marseille with New Orleans, from blackened-polenta trout to a green tomato margarita.
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.
June 2026
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.
Mish · La Brea · June 2026On La Brea, Mish carves its pastrami by hand and lets the records play to the end
Eric Greenspan's new-school deli sits under hangar-high beams south of Hancock Park, with honey-water bagels, a serious fish platter and a vinyl lounge upstairs.
Eat · Venice · 4 June 2026San Damián
The Pujol chef's mariscos restaurant takes the old Atla site on Abbot Kinney, with an uni-topped rockfish ceviche and a Sunday dinner that starts at three.
May 2026
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.
Bad Roman · Beverly Hills · 26 May 2026Bad Roman puts a neon-collared boar, a cork ceiling and a limoncello with Diet Coke on Canon Drive
Quality Branded's maximalist Italian-American party moves into The Palm's old room, with a flambéed lobster, a raviolo on the steak and a tiramisu ice cream cake.
Brick Lane · Arts District · 22 May 2026Brick Lane serves a biryani under a naan lid in an Arts District warehouse that used to be Italian
Sanjay Rawat, formerly of Kahani, cooks in a wood-fired tandoor on Sixth Street, with a bar built around jaggery, chyawanprash and cardamom.
Sushi Nakazawa · Beverly Hills · 13 May 2026The sushi counter that began with a Facebook message and Google Translate lands on Robertson
Daisuke Nakazawa, Jiro's apprentice, brings Edomae nigiri, bouncy tamago and a charcoal grill to a sea-cave of a room on the Beverly Hills border.
Jacaranda · Hancock Park · 6 May 2026Jacaranda is a ten-course dinner party in a lilac glass box, hosted by a chef and a former music editor
Daniel Patterson, of Coi, and Sarah Lewitinn, move their Hancock Park supper club to Melrose with soft tofu, stuffed morels and a plate called Fruit Anarchy.
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.
April 2026
Picala · West Adams · April 2026Picala is a Spanish hearth built by an archaeologist, with a free tapa for every early drink
Luis Sierra studied ancient fires before he cooked over one. Under the E Line on La Cienega he serves sardine escabeche, suckling pig and gin tonicas that reward lingering.
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.
March 2026
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.
February 2026
Lielle · Pico-Robertson · February 2026Lielle hides a Michelin-starred cellar under a kosher-bakery stretch of Pico
Marcus Jernmark cooks four courses in a cork-vaulted, windowless room, and turns yesterday's bread into tomorrow's miso.
Baldi · Beverly Hills · February 2026Baldi is a Tuscan steakhouse at the Waldorf, and the corn tortellini nearly steals the night
Edo Baldi grills Prime and Japanese beef over olive wood where Wilshire meets Santa Monica Boulevard, with a family name that counts for plenty.
November 2025
Hawksmoor St Pancras · King's Cross · November 2025Hawksmoor grills steak under Gothic conkers, and the ceiling gets first billing
Will Beckett and Huw Gott take over George Gilbert Scott's Midland Grand dining room, with Longhorn beef on the charcoal and a sub-zero martini bar next door.
Khao Bird · Soho · 12 November 2025Chiang Mai Barbecue Moves Into Soho's Old Adult Cinema
Khao Bird makes Brewer Street its first permanent London home, with Burmese mutton chips, a pink neon sign and a vodka-soda called I Am Broke.
Poon's · Somerset House · 5 November 2025Poon's returns to London, cooking without a wok burner
Amy Poon revives her parents' Michelin-starred name in Somerset House's New Wing, with claypot rice, Magic Soup and a prawn toast built on lardo.
Bonheur by Matt Abé · Mayfair · 4 November 2025Bonheur takes Le Gavroche's old room, adds a Japanese milk loaf and collects two stars
Matt Abé, formerly of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, cooks a lighter, warmer classical menu on Upper Brook Street, and Michelin noticed within three months.
October 2025
Maydan Market · West Adams · 2025Maydan Market is a covered town square where one fire feeds tlayudas, kebabs and Thai grills
Rose Previte's West Adams market hall puts seven kitchens around a single hearth, a short walk from the E Line, and rewards anyone who wanders.
Super Peach · Century City · October 2025Super Peach brings Momofuku to the mall with a wagyu kimbap and a martini that comes two ways
David Chang's group fills a corner of Westfield Century City with green tile, orange steel and a flap board, and the kimbap is why to go.
September 2025
Michael Caines at The Stafford · St James's · 17 September 2025Michael Caines brings Brixham sole and a table-side Wellington to the quietest corner of St James's
A Devon chef with two decades on Dartmoor opens his first London restaurant in The Stafford's old dining room, and the scallop ceviche is the order.
Carbone · Mayfair · September 2025Carbone puts a Rat Pack supper club in the old US Embassy, and the pasta is only half the show
Major Food Group's tuxedoed red-sauce theatre fills Saarinen's Grosvenor Square landmark with burgundy damask, a tableside Caesar and a dessert tray that does laps.
Kudu · Marylebone · 16 September 2025Kudu has crossed the river, and the first thing to order is the bread with its pan of butter
Amy Corbin and Patrick Williams bring Peckham's open-fire braai to Moxon Street, with a monkey-gland pork chop, a torched Kit Kat and a bar upstairs.
Lilibet's · Mayfair · September 2025Lilibet's puts a raw bar where Elizabeth II was born
Bone Daddies founder Ross Shonhan's Mayfair seafood house serves one fish three ways beside new fireplaces, on the site of her demolished birthplace.
August 2025
Darling · West Hollywood · 31 August 2025Darling is Sean Brock's wood-fire kitchen with a DJ booth and a burger on a strict allowance
Appalachian cooking meets California produce on North Robertson, next to a listening bar with Tannoy speakers and a wall of 45s.
Eat · Shoreditch · 28 August 2025Legado
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.
March 2025
Firstborn · Chinatown · 28 March 2025Firstborn puts mapo tofu inside a steak tartare and a brasserie inside Chinatown
Anthony Wang, never once employed in a Chinese kitchen, cooks the food of his family with French technique in the old Pok Pok corner of Mandarin Plaza.
The Lavery · South Kensington · 25 March 2025The Lavery serves River Café lunches among a painter's mirrors and the Groucho's borrowed chairs
Yohei Furuhashi, nine years at The River Café and lately at Toklas, cooks a daily-changing, Balcaskie-led menu on the first floor of Sir John Lavery's old South Kensington home.
January 2025
Restaurant Ki · Little Tokyo · January 2025Restaurant Ki hides a Michelin-starred Korean counter behind a Little Tokyo cocktail bar
Ki Kim's tasting menu serves perilla sorbet, binchotan lobster and an omija granita that is the standout.
Dove · Notting Hill · January 2025Jackson Boxer Kept the Room, Dropped the Fish and Fried the Lasagne
Dove takes over Orasay's dining room on Kensington Park Road with a short menu of the dishes people love and never cook at home.
December 2024
Zaytinya · Culver City · 17 December 2024José Andrés brings Zaytinya's halloumi and hearth to a hotel beside the Culver City train
The first West Coast Zaytinya cooks mezze over wood fire at The Shay, with a blue Mediterranean mural, a big patio and a kebab platter for four.
Seline · Santa Monica · December 2024Seline follows one ingredient all night, from celery root ice cream to a frozen mustard leaf
Dave Beran's Main Street tasting menu behind a garden gate feels like a Midwestern home, and ends in a caramel corn soup.
Pinna · Mayfair · December 2024Pinna is the Mayfair bank that pays out in Sardinian pasta
Achille Pinna cooks andarinos with venison ragù beside Shepherd Market, for the owners of Goodman and Burger & Lobster, in a room that feels as if it has always been there.
November 2024
Somni · West Hollywood · 24 November 2024Somni begins with a giraffe, a courtyard of clouds and a cow-shaped cracker
Aitor Zabala's West Hollywood tasting menu hides its jokes inside caviar meringues and a tempura shiso leaf, and now holds three Michelin stars.
AngloThai · Marylebone · November 2024AngloThai swaps lime for sea buckthorn and still wins a Michelin star
John and Desiree Chantarasak's Marylebone restaurant builds Thai flavour from British larder, from rhubarb to Dorset hogget, and was recognised three months after opening.
October 2024
Fonda · Mayfair · 3 October 2024Fonda is a Mexican canteen with no avocado, no lime and a sloth on the ceiling
Santiago Lastra's looser sequel to Kol cooks on a clay comal off Regent Street, and a pumpkin-seed dip does the work of guacamole.
Bottarga · Chelsea · October 2024Bottarga moves the King's Road to the Aegean, with olive oil from the chef's father
The Pachamama Group turned its old Peruvian seafood room into a candlelit Greek bistro, where bottarga orzo, charcoal ribeye and a very large burnt cheesecake do the talking.
September 2024
Companion · Venice · September 2024Companion is a Venice coffee shop that turns into a Cal-Italian trattoria with a record player
On Lincoln Boulevard, the Gnarwhal Coffee owners and chef Jack Goode serve thin New Haven-style pizza, a hand-rolled weekend pasta and orange wine.
Komal · Historic South-Central · September 2024Komal makes Mercado La Paloma a temple to heirloom corn
Fátima Juárez and Conrado Rivera's stall nixtamalises native Mexican maize daily and turns it into tlacoyos, molotes and a taco named Sonia.
Udatsu Sushi · Hollywood · September 2024Udatsu Sushi hides a Tokyo counter behind a Meiji-era door above Sunset
Hisashi Udatsu's Michelin-starred Nakameguro omakase has landed in a former Hollywood recording studio, with hay-smoked tuna and two coasts of uni.
Leydi · Farringdon · September 2024Leydi serves börek at seven, opposite the Old Bailey, and the hummus arrives bubbling
Selin Kiazim's all-day Turkish kitchen in Hyde London City runs from tahini spirals at breakfast to mangal lamb at night, and rewards anyone who orders in stages.