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Opening in November 2025
Dogstar
Former Timberyard head chef James Murray has opened a restaurant in Leith with the team behind local bar Nauticus. Located on Portland Place, Dogstar brings a local atmosphere to Murray’s signature style of hyper-seasonal, produce-led cooking. Despite the chef’s tasting menu background, which also includes Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons and Lyle's, the menu is à la carte only.
WHEN 1st November 2025
WHERE 17 Portland Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, EH6 6LA
FOLLOW @dogstarleith
BOOK dogstarleith.com
Aces Food Craft
Alex Craciun, who some readers may recognise from Jason Atherton's Sosharu in Clerkenwell, is back in London with a new opening in Fitzrovia. Aces Foodcraft serves a casual à la carte menu during the day, with a nine-seater chef’s table offering a high-flying experience in the evenings. Diners can expect Japanese flavours, in which Craciun is particularly well versed.
WHEN 1st November 2025
WHERE Pearson Square, Fitzrovia, W1T 3BG
FOLLOW @aces_food_craft
Bonheur
Australian chef Matt Abé, a senior player in the Gordon Ramsay stable, has opened his new restaurant, Bonheur by Matt Abé. Located in the former home of Le Gavroche, it’s Abé’s first time with his name above the door and he’s gunning for ‘complete contentment’ for the guests that walk through it.
WHEN 4th November 2025
WHERE 43 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, W1K 7QR
FOLLOW @bonheurbymattabe
BOOK bonheurbymattabe.com
Poon's
After a seven-year string of residencies and pop ups, Amy Poon has signed a 10-year lease at Somerset House, reviving her family’s beloved Poon’s, which first opened in Chinatown in 1973.
WHEN 5th November 2025
WHERE Strand, London WC2R 1LA
FOLLOW @poons_ldn
The Marlborough
Britain’s most prolific crowd-pulling publican and London’s most-hyped pizza outfit have joined forces for a new pub in Mayfair. The Marlborough is the new home of Crisp’s thin-base New York style pizza outfit, with the Devonshire’s Oisín Rogers taking care of a buzzing pub atmosphere to go with it.
WHEN 10th November 2025
WHERE 24 North Audley Street, Mayfair, W1K 6WD
FOLLOW @themarlboroughmayfair
Hawksmoor St Pancras
The restaurant at the Grade I-listed St Pancras London hotel has struggled to find its stride in recent years with Patrick Powell (now One Club Row) and Victor Garvey (Sola) both making a go of it. Now Hawksmoor has swooped in with their first London opening in five years. The striking dining room will serve their tried-and-tested steakhouse formula with the addition of a chef’s table and the adjacent Gothic Bar transformed into a martini bar. The launch is set for late November.
WHEN 17th November 2025
WHERE St Pancras London, Euston Road, London, NW1 2AR
FOLLOW @hawksmoorrestaurants
Corenucopia
In addition to her upcoming restaurant at the Admiralty Arch Waldorf Astoria, due in early 2026, chef Clare Smyth will open a ‘luxury bistro’ in Chelsea in November. Given how hard it is to book her exceptional-rated flagship in Notting Hill, we welcome a touch more accessibility from the high-flying chef.
WHEN November 2025
WHERE 18-22 Holbein Place, SW1W 8NL
FOLLOW @corenucopiabyclaresmyth
Restaurants opening in 2025
Trillium
This autumn, Glynn Purnell will launch a new spot in Birmingham’s business district after having closed his 17-year-old flagship, Purnells, in October of last year.
WHEN 10th December 2025
FOLLOW @trilliumrestaurant
BOOK trilliumrestaurant.co.uk
Ogof
As firm fans of Alex Vines’ cooking (40 Maltby Street, Rochelle Canteen), we’re happy to hear that after several years of excellent pops up and residencies, the Pontcanna-born chef is setting down permanent roots with a restaurant and wine shop. Ogof (Welsh for Cave) will open in the old Poca site on Kings Road this autumn.
WHEN Autumn 2025
WHERE 11 Kings Road, Pontcanna, Cardiff, CF11 9BZ
FOLLOW @ogofcardiff
BOOK ogofcardiff.co.uk
Blacklock Birmingham
Chophouse champions Blacklock have announced they'll be bringing their popular ‘all in’ chop platters, Sunday roasts and generous servings of white chocolate cheesecake to Birmingham in the autumn. Founded in Soho in 2015, the B Corp group arrived in Manchester in 2024, and their newest 100-cover site overlooking Cathedral Square will bring their count to seven. Sustainably sourced meat from family farmers and butchers Philip Warren in Cornwall will be on the menu along with new suppliers from the Midlands.
WHEN Autumn 2025
WHERE 4 St Philip's Place, Birmingham, B3 2SL
FOLLOW @blacklockchops
Restaurants opening in 2026
Tiella
One of CODE’s Women of the Year 2025 Dara Klein has secured a space for her first standalone restaurant, Tiella Trattoria. The site on east London’s Columbia Road is a stone’s throw from her former employer Brawn and will embody the warmth, comfort and straightforwardly great cooking that she grew up around in her family’s restaurant. It’s due to open in early 2026 and among many highlight from her Compton Arms residency last year, we hope to see the return of her unimprovable bay leaf panna cotta.
WHEN 2026
WHERE 109 Columbia Road, Bethnal Green, E2 7RL
FOLLOW @tiella_trattoria
Forza Wine Soho
Forza Wine is taking a slice of the Soho pie with a sizeable new opening in the works for February 2026. Along with a Peckham rooftop and a plum spot at the National Theatre, this will be their third site serving Italian(ish) small plates with easygoing low-intervention wines and cocktails, and is strategically positioned for casual, quality dining in the West End. An extensive all-weather heated terrace will bring some continental spirit to the grey early months of the year.
WHEN February 2026
WHERE Ilona Rose House, Manette Street
FOLLOW @forzawine
Impala
Kiln’s co-owner and executive chef Meedu Saad (a Chef to Watch contender in The Good Food Guide Awards 2025) has confirmed the opening of his debut restaurant in the spring. Also in London’s Soho, and also part of the powerhouse Super 8 group (Mountain, Brat, Smoking Goat and Kiln), Impala will have been more than four years in the making when it opens, fuelled by residencies, global research trips and Saad’s Egyptian heritage. Also on the team is 30 Under 30 alumnus Fanny Derozier and former Brat head chef Adam Smith.
WHEN Spring 2026
FOLLOW @impala.soho
Kiji
Ellia and Junghyun Park, the husband-and-wife team behind some of New York’s top new-wave Korean restaurants, have announced they will open Kiji in Mayfair, London next year. Their first overseas opening will take over the 60 Curzon site (once home to the historic Mirabelle), serving up an upscale Korean barbecue concept — something quite different from the high rolling, tasting menu style of Atomix or the cool and casual Atoboy.
WHERE 60 Curzon St, London W1J 8PG
Waldorf Astoria Admiralty Arch Restaurant
Clare Smyth (Core by Clare Smyth) and international restaurateur Daniel Boulud have been named as chef partners at the Waldorf Astoria Admiralty Arch Hilton hotel, set to open in 2026.
WHERE The Mall, London SW1A 2WH
FOLLOW @waldorfastoria
Freyja
Northumberland restaurant Hjem will close at the end of this year on December 31st. Their focus will then be on opening a purpose built restaurant with rooms, Freyja, on the Close House Estate in nearby Wylam.
WHERE Heddon-on-the-Wall, NE15 0HT
FOLLOW @restauranthjem
Dishoom Leeds
The mightily popular restaurant group Dishoom is set to take over the former Flannels department store site on Vicar Lane in Leeds city centre, with plans to open in 2026.
WHEN 2026
WHERE Coronation Buildings, 68-78 Vicar Ln, Leeds LS1 7JH
FOLLOW @dishoom
Calluna
Calluna is the second restaurant at the newly revamped Saltmoore. It will be the fine-dining sibling to The Brasserie, led by Adam Maddock.
WHEN 2026
WHERE Saltmoore, Sandsend Road, Whitby, YO21 3ST
FOLLOW @saltmoore_
BOOK saltmoore.co.uk
Restaurants opened in 2025
October
St. John at the London Review Bookshop
A meeting of the minds: The London Review of Books and St John have opened a café at the London Review Bookshop in Bloomsbury.
WHEN 1st October 2025
WHERE 14-16 Bury Place, Bloomsbury, London, WC1A 2JL
FOLLOW @lrbbookshop
Vinette
Top flight Edinburgh chef Stuart Ralston, of the Exceptional-rated Lyla, has taken over the space previously occupied by Fhior in Stockbridge. Vinette is a Parisian-style wine bar with bistro cooking, and Vivien, a late-night cocktail bar at basement level.
WHEN 8th October 2025
WHERE 36 Broughton Street, Edinburgh EH1 3SB
FOLLOW @vinette_edinburgh
The Shaston Arms
‘I wish this pub could be replicated in more neighbourhoods’ wrote our inspector about the Waterman’s Arms in Barnes. Happily, the team have replicated their recipe for success at the Shaston Arms in Soho.
WHEN 10th October 2025
WHERE 4-6 Ganton Street, Carnaby, London W1F 7QN
FOLLOW @theshaston.arms
BOOK theshastonarms.co.uk
Bar Shrimp
The team behind top Manchester spots Higher Ground and Flawd, as well as market garden Cinderwood have opened their latest project, Bar Shrimp, a place ‘where drinks, seafood and sound are seamlessly connected’.
WHEN 22nd October 2025
WHERE 7 New York Street, Manchester M1 4JB
FOLLOW @barshrimpmcr
BOOK opentable.co.uk
The Hart
Public House Group – which counts the Bull Inn, Charlbury and the Pelican, Notting Hill among its top-class contemporary pub stable – have launched another London site.The Hart is next door to Chiltern Firehouse in Marylebone with a proper pub on the ground floor and a restaurant with an open kitchen upstairs. The group's Cotswold-based butchery and growing programmes fuels the menus.
WHEN October 2025
WHERE 56 Blandford St, London W1U 7JA
FOLLOW @thehart_w1
BOOK thehartw1.com
Motorino
After a barnstormer with Town (read our First Look here), Stevie Parle is involved in a second opening in six months, this time lending a hand to chef Luke Ahearne, previously of Luca and Lita.
WHEN October 2025
WHERE 1 Pearson Square, London W1T 3BF
FOLLOW @motorino.london
Root Bath
Josh and Holly Eggleton have good form with their South West based Pony family of restaurants, including Root Wells (which we were particularly charmed by) and Root in Bristol. So it’s good news that Bath is getting its own taste of the boldly creative, vegetable-led cooking come 15th October when a third Root opens in the long-empty Jamie’s Italian site in Shires Yard.
WHEN October 2025
WHERE Shires Yard, Bath
Cô Thành
Founded by Brian Woo, Cô Thành is a tribute to Brian’s mentor (the late Nguyễn Thị Thanh) whose street-side noodle soups gained global recognition after appearing on Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations in Vietnam.
WHEN October 2025
WHERE 16 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 8QH
FOLLOW @cothanhlondon
74 Charlotte Street
Restaurant studded Charlotte Street has had another boost with Ben Murphy (formerly of Launceston Place) taking over the old Mere site. 74 Charlotte Street is a partnership with the group behind the Woodspeen, the Clockspire and the Braywood, and is now open.
WHEN 31st October 2025
WHERE 74 Charlotte Street, London, W1T 4QH
FOLLOW @74charlottestreet
BOOK 74charlottestreet.com
Tobi Masa
Masayoshi Takayama, the chef behind New York’s most expensive omakase restaurant, has opened Tobi Masa at the new £1bn Chancery Rosewood hotel in September – another elite sushi arrival for the capital.
WHEN October 2025
WHERE The Chancery Rosewood, 30 Grosvenor Square, London W1K
September
Landrace Pizza
Bath institution Landrace has added another string to its bow with the addition of a pizza offering in their bakery space in the evenings. The pizzas continue the ethos of the bakery and upstairs restaurant with Landrace Milling flour bases and topping combinations bringing together West Country ingredients from producers including Westcombe Dairy.
WHEN 10th September 2025
WHERE 59 Walcot Street, Bath, Somerset, BA1 5BN
BOOK Walk-ins only
Solaya
Newcastle’s finest fine dining chef Kenny Atkinson is striking out in London with a new restaurant on the rooftop of Hoxton’s Art’otel. Solaya opened in September and focuses on flavours from the Côte d’Azur to complement city views from the hotel’s 25th floor. His Exceptional-rated Solstice, and House of Tides are operating as normal.
WHEN 12th September 2025
WHERE 25th floor, art’otel London Hoxton, 1-3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3DT
FOLLOW @solayalondon
BOOK solayalondon.com
Maré
Brazilian chef Rafael Cagali and his partner Charlie Lee of the Exceptional-rated Da Terra in Bethnal Green, London, have opened their new restaurant, Maré, in Hove. The menu is more accessible than the £245-per-head tasting menu at the flagship and hopes to strike a balance between dining destination and creating a convivial atmosphere.
WHEN 10th September 2025
WHERE 60 Church Rd, Brighton and Hove, Hove BN3 2FP
FOLLOW @marehove
BOOK marehove.com
Luso
Leo Carreira, who brought home The Good Food Guide’s Best Front Row Seat award in 2024 for his dazzlingly cool chef’s table restaurant The Sea The Sea Hackney, has returned to London to lead on the opening of a new restaurant. Luso has taken over the space recently vacated by Lisboeta in Fitzrovia and sees one top Portuguese chef – Nuno Mendes – pass the baton to his peer.
WHEN 15th September 2025
WHERE 30 Charlotte Street London W1T 2NG
FOLLOW @luso.restaurant
BOOK luso.restaurant
Labombe by Trivet
Jonny Lake and Isa Bal, the chef and master sommelier duo behind Trivet in Bermondsey, have opened their new restaurant, Labombe by Trivet, in partnership with COMO Metropolitan London on Park Lane.
WHEN 16th September 2025
WHERE 19 Old Park Ln, London W1K 1LB
FOLLOW @labombebytrivet
The Elizabeth
Anthony Demetre of Wild Honey is lending his culinary direction to the Elizabeth in Belgravia (formerly the Ganymede pub) which opened in September.
WHEN 16th September 2025
WHERE 139 Ebury Street, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9QU
FOLLOW @theelizabethsw1
Kudu
Kudu Collective, the South African-inspired restaurant group from husband-and-wife duo Amy Corbin and Patrick Williams, has relocated to central London after eight successful years in Peckham. The new site, on Moxon Street in Marylebone, brings Kudu’s three distinctive spaces; the flagship Kudu Restaurant, open-fire concept Kudu Grill, and private dining space Curious Kudu; under one roof for the first time, with a bold new look by Fabled Studio.
WHEN 16th September 2025
WHERE 7 Moxon Street W1U 4EP
FOLLOW @kudurestaurant
BOOK kuducollective.com
Michael Caines at The Stafford
With Lympstone Manor newly part of the Stafford Collection, chef Michael Caines has opened his new restaurant at the London hotel. Michael Caines at the Stafford has replaced the Game Bird and serves classics like Dover sole and beef wellington alongside a tasting menu. A 'city to coast' package will encourage guests to get a flavour of both restaurants in a combined trip.
WHEN 17th September 2025
WHERE 16-18 St James's Place, London SW1A 1NJ
BOOK thestaffordlondon.com
Alta
From the team behind Moi on Wardour Street, Alta is the latest opening from the Mad restaurant group. Spread across two floors with space for 100 guests, including outdoor tables and a private dining room, the restaurant centres around an open grill. Head Chef Rob Roy Cameron, whose background includes El Bulli and Gazelle, draws on a decade spent in northern Spain to create a menu deeply influenced by the region’s flavours and traditions.
WHEN 22nd September 2025
WHERE Kingly Court, Carnaby Street, London, W1B 5PW
FOLLOW @alta.london
BOOK sevenrooms.com
Cicoria
The notion of ‘good views, bad food’ is dispelled by Angela Hartnett's new restaurant and roof terrace bar at the Royal Opera House. It joins Richard Corrigan’s Very Good-rated restaurant at the National Portrait Gallery and Forza Wine at the National Theatre, which overlooks the Thames.
WHEN 26th September 2025
WHERE The Royal Opera House, Bow St, London WC2E 9DD
BOOK rbo.org.uk
Franc
Dave Hart and Polly Pleasence from Folkestone Wine Company have opened a new venue in their hometown of Canterbury. Franc is a daytime wine bar and small plates spot on Canterbury’s Northgate, at the entrance to the beautiful almshouses of St John’s Hospital.
WHEN September 2025
WHERE 49 Northgate, Canterbury, CT1 1BE
FOLLOW @francofcanterbury
BOOK franc-canterbury.com
August
Pignut & The Hare
The Hare at Scawton in the North York Moors has changed hands as Laurissa and Tom Heywood of Pignut, Helmsley have taken over from current proprietors Liz and Paul Jackson. Pignut and the Hare, the 12th-century inn with four bedrooms and land for a kitchen garden serves as a destination setting for Tom’s 'full' or 'half' tasting menu with a focus on sustainability.
WHEN 1st August 2025
WHERE Scawton, Helmsley, Thirsk YO7 2HG
FOLLOW @pignutandthehare
BOOK restaurantpignut.co.uk
The Jolly Gardeners
Chester-born bothers Ben and Joe Wright, the team behind popular tapas restaurant Porta, have taken on The Gardeners Arms. The pub has opened as The Jolly Gardeners after extensive restoration with George Prole (ex-Covino) leading the kitchen.
WHEN 11th August 2025
WHERE 33 Christleton Road, Chester, CH3 5UF
FOLLOW @jollygardeners
BOOK jollygardenerschester.co.uk
The Macbeth
The Macbeth in Hoxton has reopened with a Four Legs alumnus (the Plimsoll, Tollingtons) running the kitchen.
WHEN 20th August 2025
WHERE 70 Hoxton St, London N1 6LP
FOLLOW @themacbethhoxton
BOOK sevenrooms.com/themacbeth
Legado
Chef Nieves Barrágan Mohacho has opened a new restaurant in Shoreditch. Legado follows Sabor’s footsteps drawing on culinary traditions from all over Spain and is backed by JKS Restaurants (Gymkhana, Plaza Khao Gaeng, Lyle’s among many others).
WHEN 28th August 2025
WHERE Montacute Yards, Shoreditch High Street, E1 6HU
FOLLOW @legado_ldn
BOOK legadorestaurants.com
The General Tarleton
Having nailed the art of a great pub with The Abbey Inn (winner of Britain’s Best Sunday Roast), Oldstead-born chef Tommy Banks is branching out to bring once-great pubs back from the brink. Under a new business, Jeopardy Hospitality, the first revival is The General Tarleton, an old coaching inn two miles north of Knaresborough.
WHEN 29th August 2025
WHERE Harrogate Rd, Ferrensby, Knaresborough HG5 0QB
FOLLOW @general_tarleton_ferrensby
BOOK generaltarletonferrensby.co.uk
Dishoom Glasgow
The rapidly growing Dishoom restaurant group has opened a second Scottish site in Glasgow this summer. Founded in London’s Covent Garden in 2010, the bustling all-day Bombay-inspired cafes, famous for their bacon naan breakfasts and decadent black dahl, now have 14 sites across the UK, including their drinks-led Permit Rooms.
WHEN 29th August 2025
WHERE 6–11 Nelson Mandela Place Glasgow G2 1QY
FOLLOW @dishoom
July
Roam
At the end of last summer, the impressive Circa restaurant at Sandridge Barton wine estate upped sticks for a more seasonally dependable home on the High Street in nearby Totnes. Now there’s a new restaurant in the space from the co-owner of North London pub St John’s Tavern and two of its alumni. Suited to its beautiful Dart Valley setting, Roam is seasonally and sustainably minded.
WHEN 9th July 2025
WHERE Sandridge Barton Wines, Totnes TQ9 6RL
FOLLOW @roam.restaurant
BOOK roamrestaurant.co.uk
Luna
Jay Patel and Matt Beardmore of the deliciously dependable Legare have opened their new wine bar in Shad Thames. The classic-leaning list is shored up by a sharp, produce-led menu of oysters, French fries and seasonal small plates.
WHEN 8th July 2025
WHERE Unit 6, 36 Shad Thames, Butlers Wharf Building, London SE1 2YE
FOLLOW @luna_winebar
BOOK lunawinebar.co.uk
Brasserie Constance
Trinity chef Adam Byatt has opened a neighbourhood restaurant next to Fulham Football Club. Brasserie Constance has opened on the first floor of the new Fulham Pier development behind Craven Cottage, with a British menu of ‘approachable, seasonal dishes’.
WHEN 15th July 2025
WHERE Fulham Pier, Stevenage Road, Fulham, SW6 6HH
FOLLOW @brasserieconstance
BOOK brasserieconstance.com
Vraic
Big news for Guernsey as Welsh chef Nathan Davies opens his new restaurant, Vraic, on the north shore. Davies, a former head chef at Ynyshir, made his name at the helm of SY23 in Aberystwyth (rated Exceptional in the Guide) which closed in December 2023 after his departure. The new restaurant serves a tasting menu for just 25 guests, with a focus on cooking over fire using the top-quality local ingredients from the land and sea.
WHEN 23rd July 2025
WHERE Mont Cuet Rd, Guernsey, GY3 5AT
FOLLOW @vraicrestaurant
BOOK vraic.gg
Moi
Moi is a new Japanese-inspired restaurant in the heart of Soho. Head chef Nick Tannett brings experience from Endo at the Rotunda alongside group executive chef Andy Cook whose CV boasts a decade of working for Gordon Ramsay all over the world.
WHEN 29th July 2025
WHERE 84 Wardour Street, London W1F 0TQ
FOLLOW @moi.soho
BOOK moirestaurant.com
Island
Chefs Brad Carter and Tom Brown have joined forces on a surf and turf style restaurant at Mare Street Market Kings Cross.
WHEN July 2025
WHERE Mare Street Market, 2 Lewis Cubitt Square, King’s Cross, N1C 4DY
FOLLOW @island_london
BOOK marestreetmarket.com
Speedboat Bar at the Electric
Chef Luke Farrell heads to Notting Hill to open a sequel to his buzzy Chinatown restaurant Speedboat Bar. The new branch at the Electric is in partnership with JKS Restaurants and Soho House Group.
WHEN July 2025
WHERE 191 Portobello Road, London W11 2ED, United Kingdom
FOLLOW @speedboatbar
BOOK speedboatbar.co.uk
Almanac
Chef Luke Payne announced last month that he would be opening his second site, a restaurant in Glossop called Trillium. In the same week, Glynn Purnell announced his new Birmingham restaurant would also be named after the spring flowering plant. The clash of names ended with Glynn Purnell’s trademarked version winning out. Luke Payne launched a last minute crowdfunder to help cover the costly sum of rebranding Trillium Glossop to Almanac in the final days before launch. Almanac is now open.
WHEN July 2025
WHERE 54 High Street West, Glossop SK13 8BH
FOLLOW
