Openings
The newest hotels, restaurants and bars in London and Los Angeles, month by month.
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.
House of Gods · Canary Wharf · 21 September 2026House of Gods brings Orient Express cabins and a Versailles bedchamber to Canary Wharf
The Edinburgh and Glasgow brand that treats every guest as famous opens its biggest hotel yet on Eden Dock, with a rooftop garden bar and canopy-bed suites.
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.
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.
The Derby London City · The City · May 2026A leopard in a bowler hat guards the old bank on Great Tower Street
The Derby turns a former City bank into a Curio Collection hotel, with AvroKO interiors, a brass Treasury Wall and a stained-glass bar facing the St Dunstan in the East garden.
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.
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.
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.
Hotel Indigo London K West · Shepherd's Bush · March 2026Hotel Indigo swaps the fringed chandeliers of the old K West for terrazzo in a former BBC studio building
Relaunched in March 2026, Kensington House in Shepherd's Bush gets a 1970s palette, Roberts radios and a wood-fired pizza kitchen called Flock.
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.
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.
The Newman · Fitzrovia · 1 February 2026The Newman dresses Fitzrovia's history in bangle bedposts, with a rooftop sauna for the penthouse
Kinsfolk & Co's first hotel, designed by Lind + Almond at 50 Newman Street, takes its bathroom tiles from a neighbouring façade and its bedposts from Nancy Cunard's bangles.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sir Devonshire Square · Spitalfields · September 2025Sir Devonshire Square fills an East India Company warehouse with Bauhaus colour and a gallery wall you can buy from
Samuel Wright of Maison 191 dresses the brick courtyard hotel in Anni Albers-inspired geometry, with a lobby wine bar and a shop of local makers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Templeton Garden · Earl's Court · April 2025In Earl's Court, seven Victorian houses finally turn round to face their garden
Miiro's first British hotel adds a conservatory-style glass extension by Holland Harvey, interiors by Thurstan and a hand-painted garden mural by Tess Newall.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Park Hyatt London River Thames · Nine Elms · 8 October 2024Park Hyatt arrives in Nine Elms with William Morris walls and a Cantonese tea trolley
Super Potato's English interiors fill the lower floors of a Kohn Pedersen Fox tower, with Yú Gé's Hakkasan-trained head chef cooking above the river.
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.
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.
Hyde London City · Farringdon · September 2024Beneath a Victorian hotel opposite the Old Bailey, Hyde has hidden a Tokyo-style record bar
Studio Moren restores the 1874 Spiers & Pond building at 15 Old Bailey, with Timorous Beasties wallpaper upstairs and Turkish cooking by Selin Kiazim at street level.
Coming next
Waldorf Astoria Admiralty Arch
A hotel inside Admiralty Arch, with dining from Clare Smyth and Daniel Boulud.
Stay · Mayfair · Opening soonCambridge House
An Auberge hotel in the former Naval and Military Club on Piccadilly.
Stay · Mayfair · Opening soonThe St. Regis London
St. Regis comes to the former Westbury site, with a Le Perroquet by Daniel Rose.
Eat · Covent Garden · Opening soonLenny's
Max Lewis brings New Haven-style apizza to Henrietta Street.
October 2026
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.
House of Gods · Canary Wharf · 21 September 2026House of Gods brings Orient Express cabins and a Versailles bedchamber to Canary Wharf
The Edinburgh and Glasgow brand that treats every guest as famous opens its biggest hotel yet on Eden Dock, with a rooftop garden bar and canopy-bed suites.
Drink · Hackney · 10 September 2026Marrion's Bar
Elliott Kaye of Norman's pours wine alongside comfort food.
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
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.
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.
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.
The Derby London City · The City · May 2026A leopard in a bowler hat guards the old bank on Great Tower Street
The Derby turns a former City bank into a Curio Collection hotel, with AvroKO interiors, a brass Treasury Wall and a stained-glass bar facing the St Dunstan in the East garden.
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
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.
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.
Stay · Bloomsbury · April 2026The Zetter Bloomsbury
The Zetter Bloomsbury's garden of about 1,000 sq m, by the Rich Brothers, backs onto the British Museum, and every guest gets a coin for a drink.
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
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.
Hotel Indigo London K West · Shepherd's Bush · March 2026Hotel Indigo swaps the fringed chandeliers of the old K West for terrazzo in a former BBC studio building
Relaunched in March 2026, Kensington House in Shepherd's Bush gets a 1970s palette, Roberts radios and a wood-fired pizza kitchen called Flock.
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.
Drink · Bayswater · March 2026The Alchemy Bar
A herbal, apothecary-style bar inside Six Senses London.
Stay · Bayswater · 1 March 2026Six Senses London
The brand's first British hotel takes a quarter of the 1911 Queensway store, whose marble staircase Foster + Partners had rebuilt by hand in Devon.
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.
The Newman · Fitzrovia · 1 February 2026The Newman dresses Fitzrovia's history in bangle bedposts, with a rooftop sauna for the penthouse
Kinsfolk & Co's first hotel, designed by Lind + Almond at 50 Newman Street, takes its bathroom tiles from a neighbouring façade and its bedposts from Nancy Cunard's bangles.
December 2025
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sir Devonshire Square · Spitalfields · September 2025Sir Devonshire Square fills an East India Company warehouse with Bauhaus colour and a gallery wall you can buy from
Samuel Wright of Maison 191 dresses the brick courtyard hotel in Anni Albers-inspired geometry, with a lobby wine bar and a shop of local makers.
Stay · Mayfair · 1 September 2025The Chancery Rosewood
The Chancery Rosewood, restored by David Chipperfield with suites by Joseph Dirand, has Carbone, Tobi Masa and a roof bar beneath Roszak's gilded eagle.
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
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.
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.
May 2025
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.
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.
April 2025
Templeton Garden · Earl's Court · April 2025In Earl's Court, seven Victorian houses finally turn round to face their garden
Miiro's first British hotel adds a conservatory-style glass extension by Holland Harvey, interiors by Thurstan and a hand-painted garden mural by Tess Newall.
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.
March 2025
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.
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.
Park Hyatt London River Thames · Nine Elms · 8 October 2024Park Hyatt arrives in Nine Elms with William Morris walls and a Cantonese tea trolley
Super Potato's English interiors fill the lower floors of a Kohn Pedersen Fox tower, with Yú Gé's Hakkasan-trained head chef cooking above the river.
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
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.
Hyde London City · Farringdon · September 2024Beneath a Victorian hotel opposite the Old Bailey, Hyde has hidden a Tokyo-style record bar
Studio Moren restores the 1874 Spiers & Pond building at 15 Old Bailey, with Timorous Beasties wallpaper upstairs and Turkish cooking by Selin Kiazim at street level.