What's New in London 2015
Le Chabanais
Inaki Aizpitarte
London is a hotbed of new openings from destination restaurants to designer hotels, from quirky cafes to stylish shops. Find out about the hottest openings in town - if it's new and newsworthy, it's here.
Opens January 2015
Where:
Bleecker Street Burger,
Unit B Pavilion Building Spitalfields Market, London London, E1 6EW
Category:
Bleecker Street Burger, Unit B Pavilion Building Spitalfields Market, London, E1 6EW
Tube: Aldgate East Station, Aldgate East Underground Station, Liverpool Street Station, Aldgate Station
Bleecker Street Burger opens at the end of January 2015.
The stylish Bleecker Street Burger matt black truck has moved around town a bit - it was part of KERB, it's been on the Southbank, in the shadow of the Gherkin and from the end of January 2015 it takes up a permanent pitch in the Old Spitalfields Market. One of London's best loved burger brands, Bleecker serves New York style cheeseburgers and their award-winning Bleecker Black - a double aged beef patties, American cheese, Clonakilty black pudding and special burger sauce.
Opens End of January 2015
Where:
Duck & Rice,
90 Berwick Street, London London, W1F 0QB
Category:
Chinese Cuisine
Duck & Rice, 90 Berwick Street, London, W1F 0QB
Tube: Piccadilly Circus Station, Tottenham Court Road Station
Duck & Rice opens at the end of January 2015.
Hakkasan and Wagamama founder Alan Yau opens 'Chinese gastropub' Duck & Rice on the Soho street famous for its fruit and veg market, silk shops and Flat White. The restaurant, on the site where The Endurance once stood, is just around the corner from Yauatcha, another Alan Yau success story. Details are scarce, but rumours are it's a casual restaurant serving Asian street food and Chinese-inspired cocktails.
Opens February 2015
Where:
Tapas Revolution Shoreditch,
32-42 Bethnal Green Road, London London, E1 6HZ
Category:
Spanish Cuisine
Tapas Revolution Shoreditch, 32-42 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6HZ
Tube: Aldgate East Station
Tapas Revolution opens in February 2015.
Spanish chef Omar Allibhoy continues the expansion of his Spanish food empire which began with Tapas Revolution in Westfield Shepherd's Bush and Tapas Revolution in Bluewater with his third tapas bar, Tapas Revolution on Bethnal Green Road. Omar's take on the bustling tapas bars in his hometown of Madrid, this contemporary Spanish tapas bar is open for all-day dining with a menu divided into four sections; meat, fish, vegetables and egg dishes. Regional and seasonal sharing specials are displayed on a large board and there's 'Paella los Jueves' - paella served on Thursdays, as is the tradition in Spain. If you just want a quick drink, there's a selection of Spanish craft beers, soft drinks and wine from small Spanish producers served in a porron - a traditional wine glass pitcher with a long spout that's perfect for sharing. Interiors are by local Shoreditch based Alexander Waterworth Interiors and include the signature bar will be copper topped as found in all the Tapas Revolution tapas bars.
Opens Mid-January 2015
Where:
The Cocktail Trading Company Development Bar and Table,
22 Great Marlborough High Street, London London, W1F 7HU
Category:
Bars
The Cocktail Trading Company Development Bar and Table, 22 Great Marlborough High Street, London, W1F 7HU
Tube: Oxford Circus Station
The Cocktail Trading Company Development Bar and Table opens in mid-January 2015.
Situated in the basement below Central & Co, on Great Marlborough Street, The Cocktail Trading Co Development Bar & Table, is the place to go for expertly made cocktails in a fun, laid-back environment. The brainchild of award-winning bartenders Andy Mil, Elliot Ball and Olly Brading, co-owners of The Cocktail Trading Co, the 50 capacity bar is an eclectic mix of classic Victoria 'gin palace' mixed with elements of vintage and industrial London. There's a carved wood and copper bar, classic green and oxblood tiles and cast iron and marble tables mixed in with exposed brickwork, classic pub fixtures and street art - the bar hosts exhibitions from young artists. Cocktail memorabilia and paraphernalia sits alongside vintage upholstered Chesterfields - sink in and sip on a cocktail from the constantly changing menu, served alongside dishes from the brasserie upstairs.
Opens 1st February 2015
Where:
Zetter Townhouse Marylebone,
28-30 Seymour Street, London London, W1H 7JB
Category:
New Hotels
Zetter Townhouse Marylebone, 28-30 Seymour Street, London, W1H 7JB
Tube: Marble Arch Station
Zetter Townhouse Marylebone opens in 2015.
Mark Sainsbury and Michael Benyon's Zetter Group - which owns the Zetter and Zetter Townhouse, famous for their eccentric interiors and cool cocktails - opens Zetter Marylebone, a new hotel on Seymour Street in Marylebone in 2015. The 6 storey 24 bedroom Georgian townhouse hotel will have interiors by Russell Sage Studios, a spectacular suite on the top floor and what will not doubt become a destination cocktail bar. The ground floor Georgian drawing room, called Seymour's Parlour, is open for breakfast, afternoon tea and cocktails concocted by Tony Conigliaro with menus by celebrated French chef Bruno Loubet. The brand new building houses 21 bedrooms, 2 studio suites, and a spectacular rooftop apartment, complete with private staircase and a large roof terrace with an alfresco roll top bath. While the original Zetter was home to fictional hostess Wilhelmina, who travelled the world collecting art and curios for her London home, the latest addition to the Zetter family is the home of wicked uncle Seymour. We can't wait to meet him.
Opens 3rd February 2015
Where:
Bonnie Gull Seafood Bar,
55-57 Exmouth Market, London London, EC1R 4QL
Category:
Fish and Seafood
Bonnie Gull Seafood Bar, 55-57 Exmouth Market, London, EC1R 4QL
Tube: Farringdon Station
Bonnie Gull Seafood Cafe re-opens as Bonnie Gull Seafood Bar on 3rd February 2015.
After eight months at Exmouth Market the Bonnie Gull boys Alex Hunter and Danny Clancy have changed their fish restaurant from a cafe to a bar with an extended marble bar and a small plates menu so you can pop in for a quick drink and plate of seafood at the bar - as well as a sit-down lunch or dinner. Executive chef Luke Robinson continues to head up the kitchen working with Gavin Gordon who moves from their successful original restaurant Bonnie Gull Seafood Shack in Fitzrovia restaurant. Sharing plates and bar snack choices are divided into 'sea', 'shore' and 'land' so you can eat salt n' pepper squid and jellied eels or enjoy 'smash your own' Dorset crab. The menu changes with the seasons and the day's catch - so options might include John Dory to share and British oysters from the raw bar, either way you can be sure you're getting fresh, sustainable seafood. Finish with homemade 'Mr Whippy' ice cream or mille feuille with salt caramel and enjoy a cocktail or two while listening to some old sixties and ska tunes on the vintage jukebox.
Opens March 2015
Where:
Ceviche Old Street,
2 Baldwin Street, London London, EC1V 9NU
Category:
South American Cuisine
Ceviche Old Street, 2 Baldwin Street, London, EC1V 9NU
Tube: Old Street Station
Ceviche Old Street opens in March 2015.
Martin Morales duplicates his successful Soho restaurant Ceviche to a second location launching Ceviche Old St within the historic Alexandra Trust Dining Rooms, built in 1898 by Sir Thomas Lipton, of Lipton's Tea as a place for East London's working class to socialise and dine affordably. Returning to its original function the now dining rooms specialise in Ceviche - the national dish of Peru - made from fresh raw fish cured in a combination of citrus juices, spices and chilli. Diners can see the chefs at work making ceviches in front of them when seated at the dedicated ceviche bar within the 70-cover dining room. Street food typical of Lima, barbequed meats and open grill dishes are also served along with 'Pollo a la brasa' - rotisserie chicken cooked in Ceviche's own-recipe marinade. At the separate 60-cover bar area you can also enjoy the full menu, bar snacks, Pisco cocktails and British and Latin American craft beer. Ceviche sparked an apetite for Peruvian food when it first opened in Soho in 2012, followed by Shoreditch's Andina and this restaurant is a welcome addition to the stable. A takeaway menu and local delivery service is also available.
Opens March 2015
Where:
Il Cudega,
Arch 358 Westgate Street, London London, E8 3RL
Category:
Italian Cuisine
Il Cudega, Arch 358 Westgate Street, London, E8 3RL
Tube: Bethnal Green Station
Il Cudega opens in March 2015
Il Cudega co-owners Luca and Giovanni, childhood friends from the small hamlet of Carimate near Lake Como, bring slow food from Lombardy to a railway arch on Westgate Street, in London Fields. Diners can discover lesser-known wine producing areas (like Oltrepo' Pavese e Valtellina) and new dishes like Raspadura (soft Grana Padano from Lodi), Slinzega (a special cut of Bresaola from Valtellina), goose prosciutto from Oltrepo' Pavese, and Risotto Giallo Saltato - saffron risotto fried into a thin layer. Alongside the restaurant is a greenhouse, parking spaces for bicycles, seating area with a veranda, outside mobile food unit selling Lombardy street food and risotto. Host to cultural events, music concerts, literature and theatre events, wine and food tastings and art exhibitions, Il Cudega also has an educational arm, providing classes for local children and young people on how to grow, taste and cook food.
Opens March 2015
Where:
Le Chabanais,
8 Mount Street, London London, W1K 3NF
Category:
French Cuisine
Le Chabanais, 8 Mount Street, London, W1K 3NF
Tube: Bond Street Station
Le Chabanais opens in March 2015.
The first overseas outpost for the well-known Paris bistro Le Chateaubriand, Le Chabanais, open on Mayfair's Mount Street in March 2015, is a cause for celebration for London's luxury restaurant scene. Serving "an accessibly priced a la carte menu that highlights local produce", according to Zagat, the informal dining room seats roughly 90 people on the ground floor, with a downstairs bar offering a different menu. Self-trained Basque chef Inaki Aizpitarte, "one of the most feted chefs in France" (Bloomberg), has put Le Chateaubriand's head chef, Paul Boudier, in charge of the kitchen and Kevin Lansdown, former general manager of Scott's in Mayfair will oversee the restaurant. Style-wise, the informal space - no tablecloths or carpets - is designed by Clement Blanchet who put together, along with Rem Koolhaas, Le Dauphinhis, the white marble wine bar next to Aizpitarte's Paris restaurant.
Opens Early 2015
Where:
M by Montcalm Shoreditch London Tech City,
151 City Road, London London, EC1V 1JH
Category:
New Hotels
M by Montcalm Shoreditch London Tech City, 151 City Road, London, EC1V 1JH
Tube: Old Street Station
M by Montcalm Shoreditch London Tech City opens in early 2015.
One of two new hotels from the Montcalm group set to open in 2014/2015, the M by Montcalm at 151 City Road, close to Old Street roundabout and opposite the Moorfields Eye Hospital, is part of a cluster of towers beginning to form on City Road. The new build 200-room hotel is part of a 23-storey tower development which fuses large scale art, sculpture and architecture in a futurisitc looking tower. And it's not just the outside of the building that's space age. Inside there's "the latest gadgetry, including plasma screens doubling as mirrors, complimentary Wi-Fi and smartphone docks" according to its owners. The building also includes retail and bars, self-storage, business centre, fitness centre and the hotel has an exceptional roof top bar overlooking London - level 42 of the building is given over to a public bar and viewing gallery. The pioneering new building which tapers and twists to allow daylight penetration at street level has been created by architect Will Alsop. He has described the project as "an artwork" which includes a striking 15-storey work by artist Bruce McLean. The Montcalm already operates several hotels in London, The Montcalm at The Brewery London City with the London City Suites By Montcalm nearby, and The Montcalm London Marble Arch with The Marble Arch By Montcalm London just a stone's throw away. This M by Montcalm joins a second new Montcalm hotel, The Royal London House By Montcalm in Finsbury Square.
Opens Spring 2015
Where:
Smith & Wollensky,
1 John Adam Street, London London, WC2N 6HT
Category:
American Cuisine
Smith & Wollensky, 1 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6HT
Tube: Embankment Underground Station, Charing Cross Station, Covent Garden Station
Smith and Wollensky opens in spring 2015.
The Popular American steakhouse Smith & Wollensky comes to London, bringing its USDA Prime beef steaks and signature seafood dishes to a 15,000 square foot space in the Adelphi building on John Adam Street off The Strand. The massive two-storey restaurant has two dining bars, two main dining areas and several private dining rooms, plus a full butcher shop and dry-ageing room. With nine locations across North America, this London location is the first international Smith & Wollensky to open outside the US. Imported dry-aged steaks, premium seafood and award-winning wines are all signature features of Smith & Wollensky and the London restaurant mirrors both this and the classic green and white colours of the brand. Design and construction are being led by London's acclaimed Martin Brudinzki Design Studio (responsible for refits at The Ivy, Hix, Scott's, Le Caprice, and both Scarfes Bar and Holborn Dining Room at the Rosewood) using classic decor in keeping with the unique style of the building - a grade II listed Art Deco structure which dates back to 1938.
Opens Spring 2015
Where:
The Lanesborough,
Hyde Park Corner, London London, SW1X 7TA
Category:
New Hotels
The Lanesborough, Hyde Park Corner, London, SW1X 7TA
Tube: Hyde Park Corner Station
The Lanesborough re-opens in spring 2015.
In December 2013 they sold off everything at The Lanesborough - from the Schimmel Empire grand pianos to the Crystal column chandeliers - to make way for the fully refurbished hotel, re-launched under the Oetker Collection which owns eight other luxury hotels worldwide. The property across from Hyde Park, used as hospital for more than a century, became a luxury hotel in 1991 and in spring 2015 the results of The Lanesborough's 18-month closure are revealed. The upgrade was led by the late interior designer Alberto Pinto who passed away before the project's completion and his vision of a contemporary update of the opulent landmark remains as his legacy. Improvements include new custom furnishings and artworks, as well as keyless technology in the 93 guest rooms and suites while the spa and various dining options have been completely refurbished.
Opens Spring 2015
Where:
Big Fernand,
19 Percy Street, London London, W1T 1DY
Category:
French Cuisine
Big Fernand, 19 Percy Street, London, W1T 1DY
Tube: Tottenham Court Road Station, Goodge Street Station
Big Fernand opens its first London site in spring 2015.
Gourmet French burger brand Big Fernand opens its first London site in spring 2015. If it follows the French formula - and it should do, given the 'best burger in Paris' reviews - it will have a menu where you choose from six different burgers (two made with beef, one with chicken, one with veal, lamb if you're feeling adventurous and one vegetarian. There is an option for every taste. Homemade bread, awesome French cheese, bacon, and really good homemade fries to go with it, plus a drink and if you are really hungry even a dessert. Stop eating burgers, they say. Stuff yourselves with hamburges.
Opens Spring 2015
Where:
German Gymnasium,
26 Pancras Road, London London, NW1 2TB
Category:
British Cuisine
German Gymnasium, 26 Pancras Road, London, NW1 2TB
Tube: King's Cross Station
The German Gymnasium opens in spring 2015.
The historic German Gymnasium in King's Cross, the first purpose-built gymnasium of its type in England, is being transformed into a complex of dining destinations by D&D London, who also own Pont de la Tour, Quaglino's and South Place Hotel. Originally designed by Edward Gruning, the spectacular Grade II listed building was used as a venue for the first National Olympic Games a year after it was first built in 1865 for the German Gymnastics Society. Now the building, which has since been used as offices, storage and an arts and exhibition space, becomes an all-day cafe-come-restaurant inspired by the grand cafes of Europe with two cocktail bars split across two levels, with Conran and Partners working on the design to ensure the grand and elegant German Gymnasium is sensitively converted. The building occupies a prominent location at the southern gateway to the 67 acre King's Cross development, where companies like Central St Martins, Google and Louis Vuitton have moved in, helping with the transformation of the once notoriously seedy area.
Opens 1st May 2015
Where:
Hyatt Place London Heathrow Hayes,
Hayes Gate House, 27 Uxbridge Road, London London, UB4 0JN
Category:
New Hotels
Hyatt Place London Heathrow Hayes, Hayes Gate House, 27 Uxbridge Road, London, UB4 0JN
Tube: Northolt Station
Hyatt Place London Heathrow/Hayes is due to open in spring 2015.
The UK's first Hyatt Place hotel, the 170-bedroom Hyatt Place London Heathrow/Hayes, aims to "cater for the multitasking traveller with a 24/7 lifestyle" with an open food market offering made-to-order meals and snacks available around the clock, free Wi-Fi, and a well-equipped fitness centre. Located in Hayes, less than 15 minutes from London Heathrow Airport, the hotel is sure to attract travellers visiting London via this busy transport hub which welcomed more than 70 million passengers in 2012. In addition to the guestrooms, the hotel has 1,809 square feet (168 square meters) of meeting space and is conveniently located for businesses in and around Hayes and Hillingdon including Stockley Park Business Park and Brunel University. It may be the first Hyatt Place hotel in the UK but it's the fourth Hyatt-branded hotel in the region, alongside Andaz Liverpool Street London, Hyatt Regency London - The Churchill and Hyatt Regency Birmingham.
Opens Spring 2015
Where:
Galadari,
Crowne Plaza London - The City Hotel, 19 New Bridge Street, London London, EC4V 6DB
Category:
Bars
Galadari, Crowne Plaza - The City Hotel, 19 New Bridge Street, London, EC4V 6DB
Tube: Blackfriars Station
Galadari opens on 8th floor of Crowne Plaza - The City in spring 2015.
A penthouse-inspired restaurant and bar with a stunning 88 metre rooftop terrace Galadari offers diners Japanese food and show-stopping views of St Paul's, No. 1 Blackfriars, The Shard and Tate Modern. Perched high up on the eighth floor of Crowne Plaza London - The City hotel at 19 New Bridge Street, with its own private entrance, Galadari is a Japanese kushiyaki grill with modern tapas, barbecued meats, steak and seafood on the menu. You can even choose the flavour of smoke you want for your steak whether that's oak, cedar or olive. If you're after something lighter for lunch there are izakaya-style small plates including sushi, sticks and skewers for the midday meal. Cocktails, sake, and cigars are a speciality with hand-rolled cigars laid out in the walk-in humidor, best enjoyed on the outdoor terrace next to the sculptured fire-pit and under an all-weather canopy.
Opens 1st June 2015
Where:
Hilton London Bankside,
Great Suffolk Street, London London, SE1 0UG
Category:
New Hotels
Hilton London Bankside, Great Suffolk Street, London, SE1 0UG
Tube: Southwark Station
Hilton London Bankside opens in summer 2015.
The Hilton London Bankside is a purpose built height restricted hotel with a four-storey glass atrium, 292 rooms and fitness centre, complete with swimming pool, and an opulent ballroom with capacity for 700 guests. This is the closest five star hotel to the Tate Modern so visitors who are interested in art can enjoy the short stroll to the gallery - while easy access to Southwark underground station offers easy access to the tube network. This space, adjacent to the NEO Bankside development of luxury apartments, was originally going to be a dual purpose build under the Holiday Inn and Staybridge Suites brands. However the plans changed and the much larger Hilton Southbank hotel was the result with its 31 suites, executive lounge, plus a restaurant, bar and cafe and more than 1,000 square metres of meeting space. The building has been designed by Dexter Moren Architects and features a split level design with one half of the building lower than the other to give two adjoining forms, linked by a glazed entrance and inner lightwell. The facade combines brick, metal and glass with retail outlets located along the hotel's frontage at street level. Work started on the project in 2010 and a 'topping out' ceremony was held on the roof of the hotel in June 2014 ahead of an anticipated summer 2015 opening.
Opens Late May/early June 2015
Where:
Les 110 de Taillevent,
16 Cavendish Square, London London, W1G 9DD
Category:
French Cuisine
Les 110 de Taillevent, 16 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 9DD
Tube: Oxford Circus Station, Bond Street Station
110 of Taillevent or de Taillevent opens late May, early June 2015.
Les 110 de Taillevent is the more relaxed incarnation of the famous two Michelin-starred restaurant near the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Like its Parisian sibling, the London de Taillevent restaurant offers simple but high end classical French food with a focus on wine. The 110 in its name refers to the number of wines - and not only French wines - which are available by the glass, and every dish is paired with four wine choices in four different price ranges. There's an a-la-carte menu, a prix fixe and the menus are similar to Paris, so expect whole turbot, roasted quail, ribs of beef in a Bearnaise sauce and comforting 'childhood memory' desserts of chocolate mousse and rice pudding. Interior architect Pierre-Yves Rochon, who created the decor at the Paris restaurant, and who was responsible for the Four Seasons and the redesign of the Savoy in London, has designed 110 de Taillevent London, converting a listed building that used to be a branch of Coutts & Co on Cavendish Square into a bottle-lined brasserie with room for 70 or 80 diners and a small terrace outside.
Opens May/June 2015
Where:
Newport Street Gallery,
Newport Street, London London, SE11 6AY
Category:
Art Galleries
Newport Street Gallery, Newport Street, London, SE11 6AY
Tube: Lambeth North Station
Newport Street Gallery opens in May/June 2015.
Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery has been built to bring his collection of over 2,000 artworks out of storage and on display to the public. Taking up the whole length of the Vauxhall street, the gallery - a combination of three listed buildings flanked by new buildings at either end - was designed by Caruso St John, the archtects behind the £45m masterplan for Tate Britain's 2013 facelift. It's really six spaces in one which can used in different combinations to show Hirst's private collection - which includes pieces by Francis Bacon, Jeff Koons and British artists Sarah Lucas and Banksy - in small or very large exhibitions. "It's my Saatchi gallery, basically," he told the Observer in a 2012 interview. "It's a place to show my collection of contemporary art. It feels bad having it all in crates."
Opens Mid 2015
Where:
Old Street Courthouse Hotel,
335-337 Old Street, London London, EC1V 3UD
Category:
New Hotels
Old Street Courthouse Hotel, 335-337 Old Street, London, EC1V 3UD
Tube: Old Street Station
Old Street Courthouse Hotel is expected to open mid 2015.
The Old Magistrates Court and Police Station, one of the finest Edwardian civic buildings in London, located in the heart of Shoreditch opposite the old Shoreditch Town Hall becomes a 4 star boutique hotel with a rooftop bar. The Old Street Courthouse Hotel has 128 guest rooms, a mix of new rooms and restoration of existing spaces, suites and function areas. A new build block adjacent to the original building includes a variety of bedrooms and a basement area with a gym, swimming pool, bowling alley and a cinema room as well as space available for functions. The property, originally housing two court rooms was run as a live courthouse for almost a century from 1903 until 1996. The development, undertaken by McAleer and Rushe and Architects Goddard Manton, is described by the company as a "boutique hotel that will be styled to fit with the new modern art and media image" while ensuring the special heritage of the landmark Baroque-style Grade II listed property is preserved.
Opens 1st June 2015
Where:
StreetXo,
15 Old Burlington Street, London London, W1X 1RL
Category:
Spanish Cuisine
StreetXo, 15 Old Burlington Street, London, W1X 1RL
Tube: Oxford Circus Station, Green Park Station
StreetXo opens in 2015.
Young Madrid-born chef David Munoz, who's behind that city's three Michelin starred DiverXo, brings his street-food inspired StreetXo to London in 2015, creating his first restaurant outside Spain and returning to the city where it all started - Munoz trained at top London restaurants including Nobu and Hakkasan before setting up his own restaurant in Madrid. His StreetXo restaurant is influenced by Spain, naturally enough, but also takes in many other elements of his travels - which have taken him across Europe to South East Asia and everywhere in between. The focal point of the restaurant will be the central open kitchen with chefs front and centre, cooking and serving up food and fun - Munoz's is an upbeat approach to cooking. The menu will change often and features just 12 to 14 dishes, but also look out for the trolley laden with one-off creations circulating the room. Open and airy, StreetXo will also have a large bar with cool cocktails and Munoz and his crew will be throwing in extra surprises along the way.
Opens 1st June 2015
Where:
The Modern Pantry,
14 Finsbury Square, London London, EC2
Category:
The Modern Pantry, 14 Finsbury Square, London, EC2
Tube: Moorgate Station, Liverpool Street Station
The Modern Pantry, Finsbury Square, opens in 2015.
Canadian-born, New Zealand raised chef Anna Hansen has blazed a trail with her Clerkenwell restaurant, The Modern Pantry, opened in August 2008 just down the road from her former employer, Fergus Henderson. Londoners have been so taken with her that she's even been awarded an MBE for her services to the restaurant industry. Seven years after the original, she launches a second Modern Pantry in the city, a 3,400 square feet space on the corner of Finsbury Square and City Road with a tapas bar as well as a cafe. Known for its crisp, fresh produce and zingy fusion flavours, The Modern Pantry offers mains like cavolo nero (or curly kale) served with hijiki and manouri cheese, grilled miso marinated onglet steak, baharat and lemon marinated Welsh lamb rump, and roast Cornish monkfish served with garam masala lentils and lime creme fraiche. It's also a great place to go for brunch with choices of fresh, seasonal fruit salad with plain yoghurt and a few toasted seeds on top, gluten-free pancakes, scrambled eggs with chorizo and toast, roast tomatoes and mushrooms.
Opens Late 2015
Where:
Barbecoa Piccadilly,
194-196 Piccadilly, London London, W1J 9EX
Category:
Barbecoa Piccadilly, 194-196 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9EX
Tube: Piccadilly Circus Station, Green Park Station
Barbecoa Piccadilly opens in late 2015.
Set within a new space at the historic Prince's House on 194-196 Piccadilly, Jamie Oliver's Barbecoa comes to Piccadilly following the success of the original upmarket Barbecoa barbecue restaurant by St Paul's Cathedral. Bigger than the original, the second restaurant is a 9,000 square foot space which can cater for more than 300 guests over the ground and basement floors. Barbecoa's menu focuses on flames and fireÂ-based cooking methods - there's "an arsenal of fancy barbecue equipment" (The Independent) - creating wonderful smoke-Âfilled flavours. Quality cuts of meat, all hand selected by in-house butchers, are cooked on a Japanese robata grill, a Texan smoker or in a Tandoori oven so mains are a carnivore feast of rump, fillet and strip steak and burger, lamb skewers and leg steak, pork belly, spatchcock chicken and sticky, smokey ribs. "Stick to the chargrilled meat," says Zoe Williams reviewing the original restaurant in the Telegraph, "and you can't go wrong". Her lamb skewers were "stunning" and the rump steak "a very macho statement of total competence".
Opens Late 2015
Where:
Biblioteka,
12 St James's Street, London London, SW1A 1ER
Category:
Biblioteka, 12 St James's Street, London, SW1A 1ER
Tube: Green Park Station, Piccadilly Circus Station
Biblioteka opens in late 2015.
Restaurateur Leonid Shutov, founder of Bob Bob Ricard, is turning the former Lloyds Bank flagship branch in St James's Street into a 250-seat restaurant, Biblioteka, serving "English classics and Russian delicacies". At 20,000 square feet it's one of the largest restaurants in central London, almost twice as big again as Quaglino's and roughly the same size as Brasserie Zedel, and £9 million has been set aside for the interiors. The restaurant's name - Biblioteka is Russian for library - hints at how the interiors have been designed: the walls of the restaurant display the impressive wine collection like books. This includes "over 100 vintages of Chateau d'Yquem, Krug Champagne going back to 1915; and top Bordeaux including Chateau Haut-Brion, Chateau Margaux and Chateau Cheval Blanc extending back to 1937", according to a report in the Evening Standard. With Michelin aspirations, the restaurant is "the last word in luxury" (Telegraph) with simple food expertly presented in "London's most talked about dining room interior".
Opens 1st December 2015
Where:
Park Plaza Park Royal,
628 Western Avenue, London London, W3 0TA
Category:
New Hotels
Park Plaza Park Royal, 628 Western Avenue, London, W3 0TA
Tube: Park Royal Station
Park Plaza at Park Royal is expected to open in 2015.
The 15 million pound Park Plaza Hotel on Western Avenue, Park Royal, in west London, the conversion of a former office building into a 168-room hotel is expected to open in 2015. Occupying a two-acre site opposite Park Royal underground station, the 6,750 square metre hotel offers four star accommodation over six storeys. On the ground floor there's a bar, restaurant, gym and conference facilities while rooms above have been designed and built off site before being stacked together to form the building. The scheme also includes a four storey office building and a 5,000 square metre data centre. Park Plaza Hotels currently have five hotels in London and this new hotel, added to another two under development - including the group's first UK art'otel in Hoxton, scheduled to open in 2017 - will bring the total to eight.
Opens 2015/2016 2015
Where:
The Red Crate,
Theatre Square, London London, E15 1BN
Category:
Theatres
The Red Crate, Theatre Square, London, E15 1BN
Tube: Stratford Station
The Red Crate is planned to open in 2015/2016.
A striking 220-seat eco-theatre similar to sister building, the National Theatre's temporary Shed theatre, The Red Crate, will be a game-changer for Theatre Royal Stratford East, increasing the number of performances by 92 per cent per year if it opens as planned in 2015-16. Like The Shed, the building has been designed by award-winning architects Haworth Tompkins, but this one will be situated in Stratford's Cultural Quarter alongside Theatre Royal Stratford East, Stratford Circus and Picturehouse cinema. The new building is set to adjoin a new cafe / bar in the adjacent empty catering unit to create a vibrant destination for the local community which will be in place for 10 years if all goes ahead as planned.
Opened 13th January 2015
Where:
Jinjuu,
15 Kingly Street, London London, W1B 5PS
Category:
Korean Cuisine
Jinjuu, 15 Kingly Street, London, W1B 5PS
Tube: Oxford Circus Station
Described by the Evening Standard as one of the "best new London restaurants opening in 2015" before it even opened, Judy Joo's restaurant, Jinjuu, brings quality Korean cooking to Kingly Street in the centre of the city. A partnership between Iron Chef Judy Joo and Kia Joorabchian (founder of Babbo Group), Jinjuu provides Korean comfort foods and draws on the Korean's tradition of never drinking without food. Drinks and 'Anju' (Korean food consumed with alcohol) are served on the ground floor bar, where an illuminated back bar is decorated with beautiful bottles of the Korean spirit Soju - a key ingredient in the cocktail list. Downstairs in the restaurant proper, barbecued meats are cooked on the open grill and wrapped with lettuce, and a Ko-Mex dish of Korean carnitas fries (fries topped with braised pork and Kimchi) is on the menu. Take a seat on a comfortable banquette or at the counter if you want to watch the chefs at work. The Korean influence is also felt in the decor with a distinctive bamboo ceiling overhead, a crane bird pattern burnt into the exposed brick wall and Korean street graffiti hidden around the 85-set restaurant.
Opened 12th January 2015
Where:
Harringay Local Store,
581C Green Lanes, London London, N8 ORG
Category:
Supermarkets
Harringay Local Store, 581C Green Lanes, London, N8 ORG
Tube: Turnpike Lane Station
Harringay locals, couple Ebony and Paul Harding, are behind this supermarket with a difference. Harringay Local Store unites their two passions, stocking locally made products and fine wines, and houses a specialist music shop in the back - satisfying their love of vinyl and music. It's the place to go for organic fruit and veg supplied by British farms, free range and responsibly farmed meat, tea and coffee supplied by local companies, London-brewed beers, daily fresh breads and pastries (including brownies from Batch Bakery), and everyday food essentials like pies from Finest Fayre and Scotch eggs from Scotch Tails. Inside, the decor has a contemporary feel, with white walls, blackened metal shelving, and a stripped back resin coated concrete floor. Help with the design and fit-out of the store came from architectural and interior designers Kathryn Mazure and Meagan Roberts.
Opened 10th January 2015
Where:
Honest Burgers Clapham,
75 Venn Street, London London, SW4 0BD
Category:
American Cuisine
Honest Burgers Clapham, 75 Venn Street, London, SW4 0BD
Tube: Clapham Common Station
Gourmet burger chain Honest Burgers, launched in Brixton Market in 2011 by founders Tom Barton, Dorian Waite and Phil Eeles, has added a ninth restaurant to the group with this rustic wood-and-concrete cafe on Venn Street, near Clapham Common underground station. With all the classic burgers their fans expect to see, as well as their Indian inspired Special burger, they offer great quality ingredients from The Ginger Pig, well cooked and served with fresh orange juice and bottomless coffee locally roasted by Caravan Coffee. Setting you up for the day, the Honest Burgers weekend breakfast menu (previously only available in their Liverpool Street restaurant) includes the Honest Muffin, Breakfast Bun, the vegetarian Rosti Muffin and the Honest Full English. Honest, good, food.
Opened 5th January 2015
Where:
Darwin Brasserie,
20 Fenchurch Street, London London, EC3M 3BY
Category:
Brasseries
Darwin Brasserie, 20 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 3BY
Tube: Monument Station, Bank Station, Cannon Street Station
An all-day brasserie inspired by nature, Darwin Brasserie is a modern, stylish restaurant on level 36 of 20 Fenchurch Street with wonderful views to enjoy while eating carpaccio of Scottish beef with truffled mascarpone rocket and parmesan. Overlooking the Thames, the restaurant has stunning a riverside panorama and serves classic European cuisine. Signature dishes include Cornish lamb cutlets and bubble and squeak with Cumberland jelly, and "rhubarb's" croissant-doughnut combination with passion fruit curd and coconut ice-cream. One floor above is the Fenchurch Seafood Bar and Grill which includes a private dining room with space for 18 guests and one floor below on level 35 is the Sky Pod bar, a contemporary space with all-day food including lunch time snacks and charcuterie in the evenings to accompany cocktails at sunset.
Opened 5th January 2015
Where:
Fenchurch Seafood Bar and Grill,
20 Fenchurch Street, London London, EC3M 3BY
Category:
Fish and Seafood
Fenchurch Seafood Bar and Grill, 20 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 3BY
Tube: Monument Station, Bank Station, Cannon Street Station
High up on level 37 of 20 Fenchurch Street (Rafael Vinoly's top heavy building also known as the Walkie Talkie) is the Fenchurch Seafood Bar and Grill, an all-day restaurant serving oysters, fish, lobster and crustaceans of all types. As well as seafood - roasted day boat cod with Judion beans and chorizo, and fillet steak on the bone with marrowbone shallot sauce will be signatures - there's seasonal game, meat and vegetarian dishes. The restaurant also includes a beautiful private dining room with space for 18 guests. The restaurant is part of the Sky Garden on top of the Walkie Talkie where 'rhubarb' operate two restuarants - Fenchurch Seafood Bar and Grill one floor above the Darwin Brasserie - four events spaces and the Sky Pod bar on level 35 serving food all day from breakfast to charcuterie and cocktails in the evenings.
Opened 5th January 2015
Where:
Sky Garden,
20 Fenchurch Street, London London, EC3M 3BY
Category:
British Cuisine
Sky Garden, 20 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 3BY
Tube: Monument Station, Bank Station, Cannon Street Station
The free-to-access Sky Garden, occupying the top three floors of Rafael Vinoly's 37 storey, 525ft 20 Fenchurch Street (aka the Walkie Talkie), gives diners several different dining spaces and beautiful landscaped gardens at the top of one of London's landmark buildings. Visitors to the Sky Garden will arrive by express lift at a beautiful landscaped garden at level 35 designed by award-winning landscape architects Gillespies. A bar serving champagne and canapés, a chic brasserie and viewing area can be found at level 36, and a public terrace, seafood bar and grill restaurant and cafe at level 37. The food is by "rhubarb" who also run Gallery Mess at Saatchi Gallery, "rhubarb" at the Royal Albert Hall, and Bond & Brook by "rhubarb" at Fenwick. The company also works with Michelin starred chef Heston Blumenthal and will be offering events at 20 Fenchurch Street. Visitors have the option to visit the Sky Garden without dining but booking must be made online at least three days in advance. Be sure to read the terms and conditions too - security restrictions include only liquids of less than 100ml and no bags larger than 8 x 17 x 19 inches.
Opened January 2015
Where:
The Tommy Tucker,
22 Waterford Road, London London, SW6 2DR
Category:
Pubs
The Tommy Tucker, 22 Waterford Road, London, SW6 2DR
Tube: Fulham Broadway Station
Award-winning chef Claude Compton, together with Jim Morris and George McCabe - the team behind critically acclaimed neighbourhood restaurant Claude's Kitchen - have created their perfect local in The Tommy Tucker. The trio, who also own champagne bar, Amuse Bouche, bring a playful approach to the pub - 'Tommy Tucker', as any true Londoner knows, is cockney rhyming slang for 'supper'. And supper will be served, along with lunch and bar food, by Claude who left Michelin-Âstarred Petersham Nurseries to launch his award-winning street food van Green Goat before setting up his first restaurant, Claude's Kitchen, and all before he turned 30. The menu at the 80 cover site reflects the deliciously colourful dishes he is renowned for, bridging flavoursome street food with the quality and elegance of Claude's Michelin kitchen experience. An adventurous wine, beer and spirits list includes home-infused gins and bourbons and experimental takes on pub classics like the Bloody Mary.
Opened January 2015
Where:
Z Shoreditch,
136-144 City Road, London London, EC1V 2RL
Category:
New Hotels
Z Shoreditch, 136-144 City Road, London, EC1V 2RL
Tube: Chancery Lane Station
Z Hotels, the boutique-budget hotel group which offers out-of-town prices in city central locations in London, Liverpool and Glasgow opens its sixth property in London's Shoreditch in 2015. It will be the fourth hotel for the group in London, adding to existing hotels Z Soho, Z Victoria and Z Piccadilly which launched in summer 2014. The 107-bedroom Z Shoreditch hotel is housed within a former office building in The Bower, a new mixed-use 320,000 square foot development in the Old Street area close to Shoreditch Grind and Silicon roundabout. The development includes a restaurant set within landscaped public spaces, Gymbox on Old Street, and retail units. As well as compact, pocket friendly rooms which are ideal for a night or two, the Z hotel offers creature comforts like free Wi-Fi, 40in LED high-definition TVs with Sky Sports and Sky Movies, power showers in en suite wet rooms, organic fibre beds from the Natural Mat company and lambs' wool duvets.
Opened 12th December 2014
Where:
Cycle Republic,
Unti 4 Euston Tower, 286 Euston Road, London London, NW1 3DP
Category:
Bicycle Shops
Cycle Republic, Unti 4 Euston Tower, 286 Euston Road, London, NW1 3DP
Tube: Warren Street Station, Euston Square Station, Great Portland Street Station
A cycling-only specialist store from Halfords, Cycle Republic opened its first London site at this 4,000 square metre unit in Euston Square in December 2014. Cyclists in the market for a new bike can 'try before you buy' on a range of bikes picked especially for the city cyclist, from high end £7,000 Pinarello road bikes to the stylish vintage-look Victoria Pendleton bikes as well as Cinelli road bikes, Quella fixies, and the award-winning Boardman brand whose elite bikes sell for as much as £9,000. The Euston team provides bike servicing and repairs and offer courtesy bikes if your two wheeler needs more extensive repairs. The store has all the clothing, helmets and footwear you could want or need including well known brands like Lezyne, Giordana, Sealskinz and Hump.
Opened 11th December 2014
Where:
Bar Termini,
7 Old Compton Street, London London, W1D 5JE
Category:
Bar Termini, 7 Old Compton Street, London, W1D 5JE
Tube: Leicester Square Station, Tottenham Court Road Station, Covent Garden Station
Authentic Italian pit stop Bar Termini does two things: coffee and cocktails. And does them well. Coffee is overseen by Marco Arrigo, head of quality for Illy, cocktails are supervised by Tony Conigliaro, who is credited with creating cool cocktails at 69 Colebrooke Row and Zetter Townhouse. It's a small space with room for just 25 people, and there's seated service only, unless you're having a quick, single shot espresso on the run. The coffee list has just four brews, ideal as a morning starter, while the cocktails - high up there among the best in London - are just the thing for a pre-dinner sharpener. Prices for coffee are higher than the norm but you do get a triple espresso shot. Cocktails, by contrast, are cheap for this quality and the Soho location. The alcohol list has three negronis, four 'aperitivi', three wines, and a bottled beer. Bar Termini does also offer food: baked goods from L'Anima in Shoreditch by day, charcuterie and cheese by night.
Opened 10th December 2014
Where:
Cereal Killer Cafe,
139 Brick Lane, London London, E1 6SB
Category:
Cafes and Delis
Cereal Killer Cafe, 139 Brick Lane, London, E1 6SB
Tube: Whitechapel Station
It's breakfast all day at the Cereal Killer Cafe where 100 cereals from all over the world can be customized with 13 different milks and 20 toppings. "Cereal has been kept in the confines of people's homes for too long," say the founders of Cereal Killer Cafe, identical twins Alan and Gary Keery, and they're doing something about it. Given the multi cultural nature of the city it's wise that the breakfast loving boys have sourced cereal from America, France, Australia, South Africa and South Korea so you can have your favourite Weet-Bix as well as your Cheerios and Coco Pops. They also serve 18 flavours of pop tarts, toast, and coffee from Allpress coffee on Redchruch Street. Not just a cafe, the two floor space also houses a huge collection of cereal memorabilia, made up of 80 vintage cereal boxes including, Pokemon, Bill and Ted, The Addams family, and Cabbage Patch Kids. Best of all, it's open until 8pm so you can enjoy your favourite bowl of cereal any time of day.
Opened 10th December 2014
Where:
The Queensbury Kitchen,
68 Walm Lane, London London, NW2 4RA
Category:
British Cuisine
The Queensbury Kitchen, 68 Walm Lane, London, NW2 4RA
Tube: Willesden Green Station
From the team behind The Queensbury gastropub and right around the corner from it, comes The Queensbury Kitchen, a moden Briitsh restaurant, bar and grill open for breakfast, coffee, lunch and dinner seven days a week (and brunch at weekends). The 50-seat restaurant includes long wooden tables for communal eating, leather seats at the bar, and steaks, burgers and chicken from the grill. Regular events like the Monday night supper club help to create a feeling of community in the restuarant where cocktails come in jam jar glasses and drinks include craft beers and Cotswold ciders.
Opened December 2014
Where:
Babaji Pide,
73 Shaftesbury Avenue, London London, W1D 6EX
Category:
Italian Cuisine
Babaji Pide, 73 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 6EX
Tube: Leicester Square Station, Piccadilly Circus Station, Tottenham Court Road Station
Alan Yau, the restaurateur who created Wagamama, Busaba Eathai, Hakkasan, and Yauatcha, is behind this Turkish pizzeria on Shaftesbury Avenue. Babaji Pide specialises in pide (pronounced 'pee-day') and Lahmacun ('La-ma-joon') - the Turkish equivalent of pizza minus the cheese - cooked in the wood burning oven.
Opened 1st December 2014
Where:
Bocconcino Pizzeria,
19 Berkeley Street, London London, W1J 8ED
Category:
Italian Cuisine
Bocconcino Pizzeria, 19 Berkeley Street, London, W1J 8ED
Tube: Green Park Station
Authentic wood-fired pizzas and freshly made pasta dishes are the order of the day at Bocconcino Pizzeria, a high-end pizza place on Mayfair's Berkeley Street. Moscow restaurateur Mikhail Gokhner was inspired by the vibrant flavours experienced in Forte dei Marmi, a seaside town in Northern Tuscany, and opened the first Bocconcino restaurant on Moscow's Strastnoy Avenue in 2006. A celebration of the simple culinary culture of Italy - top quality ingredients, first class service and great Italian wine - wood-fired pizza come with classic marinara toppings, indulgent calzone four cheeses and more unusual combinations of gorgonzola and pear. Homemade pasta includes linguine with cuttlefish and squid ink or you can opt for oven-baked meat and fish dishes. The wine list is exclusively Italian, leaping across the country, from Lombardia to Puglia taking in well-known brands and small, artisan producers. Cocktails also celebrate Italian classics like the Bellini, Negroni and Aperol Spritz. To mark the launch, there's 30 per cent off food, available from 1st December 2014 until the end of January 2015, simply access a voucher by signing up at www.bocconcinorestaurant.co.uk.
Opened Early December 2014
Where:
Jago Restaurant,
68-80 Hanbury Street, London London, E1 5JL
Category:
Middle Eastern Cuisine
Jago Restaurant, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL
Tube: Aldgate East Station
Jago, the Shoreditch restaurant with Southern European, Middle Eastern and Ashkenazi influences, is the first solo form Louis Solley who was previously head chef at Ottolenghi in Notting Hill. He has joined up with Hugo Thurston, previously General Manager of Morito in Exmouth Market, to create this all day restaurant where dishes include grilled Challah bread with labneh and house compote; fresh figs, goat's curd, honey, toasted coriander; spiced baked beans and eggs; grilled cauliflower, endive, almonds and sultanas; and cured cucumbers, dill, anchovies, sour cream and sweet paprika. Pickles - including endive, scotch bonnet and naturally, cucumber - can be enjoyed with a glass of Vergano Chinati Bianco or an Alhambra Reserva beer. And at lunch, the pickled cucumbers are served atop gem lettuce and anchovies on toast.
Opened 1st December 2014
Where:
Kitty Fisher's,
10 Shepherd Market, London London, W1J 7QF
Category:
Kitty Fisher's, 10 Shepherd Market, London, W1J 7QF
Tube: Green Park Station
At the heart of Mayfair's historic Shepherd Market, and named after the infamous 18th Century courtesan, Kitty Fisher's is a small, atmospheric bar and dining room, serving "proper drinks" and food from the wood grill cooked by Young British Foodie Chef of the Year 2014 Tomos Parry and former Pitt Cue Co sous-chef Chris Leach. A sample menu includes bread and burnt onion butter, taleggio on grilled bread, salt cod croquettes and buratta, salt baked beetroot and clementine. But it's the steak, lamb cutlets and even grilled potatoes that put this place on the map. Given four stars by Fay Maschler who says "don't miss" the steak tartare if it's on offer when you go, Kitty Fisher's is all about "louche dining", says the Financial Times, "with banquettes lit by candles burning in the old bread ovens" of this former bakery.
Opened Mid December 2014
Where:
The Ealing Park Tavern,
222 South Ealing Road, London London, W5 4RL
Category:
Gastropub
The Ealing Park Tavern, 222 South Ealing Road, London, W5 4RL
Tube: South Ealing Station
One of Ealing's most historic pubs, the Ealing Park Tavern, re-opens in mid-December 2014 under new owners Tom and Ed Martin whose ETM Group is also responsible for the award-winning Gun in Docklands, the Jugged Hare in the City, The Botanist on Sloane Square and One Canada Square, Canary Wharf. The tavern, with a history that goes back to 1728 when it operated as the Lewis Furnell Brewhouse, returns to its brewing past - which took place on site until the mid 1800s - with an on-site microbrewery. Bitters, pale ales and special seasonal additions are available at the bar and for tastings, tutorials and beer and food matching dinners. Lunch, dinner, bar snack menus and Sunday lunches are made with well sourced British and European seasonal produce and there's an extensive list of over 100 accessible wines. Take a seat in the 60-cover restaurant, at the large bar or in the expansive walled garden and enjoy the charms of this historic Edwardian pub.
Opened 30th November 2014
Where:
Bo Drake,
6 Greek Street, London London, W1D 4DE
Category:
Korean Cuisine
Bo Drake, 6 Greek Street, London, W1D 4DE
Tube: Tottenham Court Road Station, Leicester Square Station
This casual-dining Korean restaurant is the brainchild of Jan Lee, alumni of the award-winning Roka, who grew up in his parent's restaurants along the Scottish borders. Bo Drake delivers the big flavours and smoky meats Jan found on his travels, through his Chinese heritage, British upbringing and through his wife Yoo Jay - who he met at the Royal College of Art - who introduced him to South Korean cuisine. Using British seasonal produce, the menu is East Asian BBQ with an emphasis on smoked cooking, and traditional South-East Asian sweet and pickled flavours. The 50-cover restaurant's signature meat dishes include smoked Bobo chicken, with sriracha, lime and herbs, Dan Dan smoked belly, with chanterelles, spring onions, peanut and noodles, and pork and eel dumpling, with Sichuan peppercorns & chilli oil. Seafood dishes of Loch Ryan oysters, with apple and kimchi mignonette, and fatty tuna bowl, with avocado, jalapeno remoulade & rice are served alongside vegetarian dishes - spicy buckwheat noodles with cucumber and Korean pear, grilled corn cob with cotija cheese, and Jan's kimchi and potato pancake are just some examples.
Opened 30th November 2014
Where:
Fields,
2 Rookery Road, Clapham Common, London London, SW4 9DD
Category:
Cafes and Delis
Fields, 2 Rookery Road, Clapham Common, London, SW4 9DD
Tube: Clapham South Station
An all-day cafe on Clapham Common located next to the skate park on Rookery Road SW4, Fields is the brainchild of Julian Porter, who at the age of just 21 opened M1LK in Balham with his partner Lauren Johns. Three years on, Fields becomes a big sister to M1LK, a 30-cover cafe with a heated terrace area for a further 80 people which also has its own herb roof garden. Coffee is a specialty. Paying homage to Julian's Australian cafe culture upbringing (his mother owns a group of popular cafes in Melbourne), Fields serves specialty coffee from Workshop Coffee Co. and Koppi of Sweden. The menu is made up of coal-grilled sausage bao, kewpie, pickled shallot and iceberg, and peat-smoked mutton with beans, garden herb butter and sourdough, cooked on the cafe's in-house on-site smoker, using earthy elements of hay, peat and leaves during cooking. Sweet options include sticky rice pudding, apple, soured cream ice-cream and sake, and banana bread, Nesquik mascarpone and salted panela. Provenance and quality are very much at the heart of the menu, with emphasis on local produce and suppliers.
Opened 30th November 2014
Where:
Snaps & Rye,
93 Golborne Road, London London, W10 5NL
Category:
Scandinavian Cuisine
Snaps & Rye, 93 Golborne Road, London, W10 5NL
Tube: Ladbroke Grove Station
Breakfast on homemade Danish pastries and enjoy traditional Danish rye bread for lunch at Snaps & Rye where meatballs and cured salmon are a speciality. The first culinary venture from Westbourne Grove locals Kell and Jacqueline Skott, this is a contemporary Danish restaurant and takeaway which takes its name from the main elements of the menu... 'Snaps' - a drink served traditionally with meals - and 'Rye' the base of their traditional Smorrebrod (or open sandwiches on rye bread). Chef Trine Vennerstrom Eriksen-Johnson is responsible for the menu which has a strong focus on classic Danish cuisine. Smorrebrod is served on homemade organic rye bread with classic toppings such as house-cured herring and 'Rullepolse' ('rolled sausage' in Danish). The national dish of meatballs is, of course, also on the menu, complemented by Akvavit cocktails, Tuborg beer and house-infused Akvavit snaps.
Opened 28th November 2014
Where:
M restaurants,
2-3 Threadneedle Walk, London London, EC2 8HP
Category:
M restaurants, 2-3 Threadneedle Walk, London, EC2 8HP
Tube: Bank Station, Monument Station, Liverpool Street Station, Cannon Street Station, Moorgate Station
The first solo project from Martin Williams, who left his role as Managing Director of Gaucho Restaurants after almost a decade, M is a vast and impressive venue with two restaurants, a wine tasting bar, a destination cocktail bar, private dining rooms, event spaces and a secret den. The two 100-cover restaurants are different in style but both are presided over by executive chef, Michael Reid who has teamed up with head chef Jarad McCarroll, formerly of Chiltern Firehouse. The Grill restaurant, with wing back chairs in Savile Row fabrics and cobalt blue leather, specialises in top quality steak - including Wagyu from both Japan and Australia - as well as exotic meats like crocodile and kangaroo. Raw is more of a casual dining concept with a tartare and tiradito bar, featuring brightly coloured seating, sharing tables and high stools. Interiors by award-winning expert, Rene Dekker Design Team, go from cool blues and ebony tones in the Grill restaurant to rich reds in the Raw bar while the mezzanine bar is done up in copper, charcoal and gold hues. Added to these are private dining spaces for parties of eight to fifty and a small 'secret' bar with personal bottle lockers, table football, a humidor and a 32-inch television screen which doubles as a mirror.
Opened 28th November 2014
Where:
Pennethorne's Cafe Bar,
The New Wing Somerset House, London London, WC2R 1LA
Category:
Cafes and Delis
Pennethorne's Cafe Bar, The New Wing Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA
Tube: Temple Station
Named after the 19th century English architect Sir James Pennethorne, the man who designed the Somerset House New Wing in which its based, Pennethorne's Cafe Bar offers all day dining, freshly baked breads and a menu inspired by Pennthorne's Grand Tour travels to France and Italy. The 85-cover cafe bar offers speciality breads - banana bread, orange brioche, walnut and raisin - all baked on site. Lunch is a delicious array of salads and sweets from the chef's deli table, roast beef, blue cheese, grilled red onions, maple syrup on rye, smoked Cornish mackerel and pickled white cabbage. Dinner brings small plates of beef, celeriac, crispy shallots; pickled Cornish mackerel, white cabbage and caraway seeds; and watercress, soft egg and pancetta - all served on toast. Desserts are traditionally comforting choices of French apple tart, Cambridge burnt cream, baked Pecorino with honey caramel and milk tart, and coffee cream. All in one of London's most iconic settings.
Opened 24th November 2014
Where:
Brew Putney,
162-164 Lower Richmond Road, London London, SW15 1LY
Category:
Cafes and Delis
Brew Putney, 162-164 Lower Richmond Road, London, SW15 1LY
Tube: Putney Bridge Station
At 3,000 square feet Brew Putney on Lower Richmond Road is the fourth and largest Brew Cafe, offering not just top quality coffee and all-day dining but 'breakfast in bed'. Recline on a Bedouin inspired bed and lie out on the terrace under the shade of a 150 year old olive tree while enjoying poached Turkish eggs served with hung yoghurt and hot chilli butter. Run by Jason Wells, who began his career as a butcher in his native Australia, the menu at Brew Putney, like sister sites in Wandsworth, Battersea and Wimbledon, is inspired by his travels, with particular influence coming from Israel and New York. In a nod to Jason's first trade, there's a 'Butcher's Shop' complete with dry aging fridge where you can get cut-to-size and cook-to-order steaks. Wood-fired pizzas are another speciality, cooked in the handmade clay oven from where freshly baked breads emerge. Pastries and cakes are made in the patisserie by Jennie Svesson, available to eat in with a Allpress 'brew', freshly roasted in Shoreditch daily, or take away. On the weekend, unplugged music sessions play from the early afternoon into the evening.
Opened 22nd November 2014
Where:
Quaglino's,
16 Bury Street, London London, SW1Y 6AJ
Category:
Modern European Cuisine
Quaglino's, 16 Bury Street, London, SW1Y 6AJ
Tube: Green Park Station, Piccadilly Circus Station
Quaglino's was the place to see and be seen in the mid-1990s, bringing in swarms of celebrities for late night dining, champagne breakfasts and arguments with Toby Young. Refreshed and re-opened following a full-scale, multi-million pound renovation in 2014, the restaurant has a contemporary European menu from executive chef Mickael Weiss and a programme of events and late-night live music. Russell Sage Studio has redesigned the Art deco interior restoring the sweeping staircase, balcony bar, main restaurant and mezzanine private dining rooms and adding a glamorous central cocktail bar as well as a stage. The 240-cover restaurant features a contemporary European menu of Cheltenham beetroot with goat's curd, winter leaves, walnuts and dried apricots, Seared hand-dived Kings scallop in the shell with tomato, samphire and Ligurian olive oil and Lobster raviolo, spinach, golden raisins, espelette chilli and lobster emulsion. Dishes to share include spiced Romney Marsh lamb shoulder, young spinach, apricot, almond, parsley and goat's curd. Quaglino's, always a place to see and be seen, continues to uphold its place as a London hotspot, opening its doors until 3am on Friday and Saturday nights, letting the party go on into the early hours.
Opened 21st November 2014
Where:
Pisco Embassy,
176 Upper Street, London London, N1 1RG
Category:
Bars
Pisco Embassy, 176 Upper Street, London, N1 1RG
Tube: Highbury & Islington Station
The 12 cocktails on the menu at Pisco Embassy all offer a twist on classics like the pisco sour. Drinks are expertly served by head bartender Jose Francisco-Modonese, previously sommelier at SushiSamba, who uses the grape brandy pisco - his birth country's national spirit - as a base for all the drinks served here. Cocktails like Machu Picchu Nights (pisco infused with Shisho leaves, lemon juice, red basil syrup, mixed berry puree and pressed apple juice) are made using Jose's homemade infusions. And Jose visits the vineyards, Bodegas and specialised Pisco bars of Peru to find inspiration and exchange new ideas and concepts to bring back to London so you can be sure this is as authentic as it gets.
Opened 20th November 2014
Where:
Dishoom King's Cross,
Stable Street, London London, N1C 4AA
Category:
Indian/South Asian Cuisine
Dishoom King's Cross, Stable Street, London, N1C 4AA
Tube: King's Cross Station
The third restaurant from the team behind Dishoom, the Bombay cafes in Shoreditch and Covent Garden, is also their largest - and the largest restaurant opening at King's Cross. The 9,000 square foot space on Stable Street, by Granary Square, occupies a former stable block within the Western Transit Shed. Originally used to house horses to move goods and wagons around the Granary complex from 1850-1900, the restaurant has retained the vaulted brick arches and lofty trusses of the building's previous use. Speaking of this latest addition to the Dishoom family, founder Shamil Thakrar said: "We're so pleased to be joining this iconic development at King's Cross and our new restaurant will be as unique as the environment that we're moving into." Dishoom is one of nine new restaurants, bars and cafes due to open in King's Cross between summer 2014 and 2015 including a new gastropub from the operators of the Thomas Cubitt in Belgravia, openings by the founders of the Wasabi and The Real Greek, and restaurants from Jamie Oliver and D&D London, the operators of Le Pont de la Tour and Quaglino's who are turning the German Gymnasium into a restaurant, set to open in spring 2015.
Opened 20th November 2014
Where:
Simmons Fitzrovia,
28 Maple Street, London London, W1T 6HP
Category:
Bars
Simmons Fitzrovia, 28 Maple Street, London, W1T 6HP
Tube: Warren Street Station, Goodge Street Station, Great Portland Street Station, Euston Square Station
The folks that brought you Simmons King's Cross and Simmons Camden have now made their way to Fitzrovia with whimsical watering hole Simmons Fitzrovia. Serving up a variety of cocktails, craft beers and an eclectic programme of entertainment, the bar offers affordable drinks, bar snacks, friendly staff, a house party vibe and local DJ's pumping out old school tunes. Decked out in mismatching vintage lamps - a signature staple of Simmons Bars - the two storey bar has funky wallpaper, neon light signs and odd shaped clocks. Airy and bright with wooden floors and a sparkling mirrored skull discoball - another signature feature - the bar has seating at high tables or you can head to the downstairs drinking den. With space for up to 100 people, arched caves, a full bar and DJ station, this basement space is the perfect place for an office party, birthday or a fun night out with friends. If it gets too hot inside, converge at the seating area out front. With fire blazing heaters and canopys, it works whatever the weather.
Opened 17th November 2014
Where:
Honest Burgers Liverpool Street,
12 Widegate Street, London London, E1 7HP
Category:
American Cuisine
Honest Burgers Liverpool Street, 12 Widegate Street, London, E1 7HP
Tube: Liverpool Street Station, Aldgate Station, Aldgate East Underground Station
A firm favourite on London's ever-growing burger scene, Honest Burgers now has an outlet in Liverpool Street, open from late 2014. With other branches in Soho, Camden, King's Cross and Brixton - where the original was opened back in 2011 - the no-frills chain from Tom Barton and Phil Eles specialises in top quality hamburgers and chips made with all British produce and meat supplied by the Ginger Pig. The menu is simple but well executed, with a handful of beef burgers, a chicken burger and a veggie burger available, as well as regular specials and sides such as rosemary salted chips and onion rings. Plus, this location is branching out with a breakfast offering, serving a range of muffins, coffee and, for an indulgent start to the morning, rosti chips. Takeaway is available but there is no booking - expect to queue at peak times.
Opened 14th November 2014
Where:
Deluxe,
2 Ely's Yard, London London, E1 6QR
Category:
Modern European Cuisine
Deluxe, 2 Ely's Yard, London, E1 6QR
Tube: Aldgate East Station
Don't tell Rudolph! They're serving smoked reindeer with pickled blackberries, mascarpone and rocket at Deluxe, a temporary restaurant in Ely's Yard, near Spitalfields, open from Friday 14th November 2014 for a month. The menu, which includes tagliatelle with lobster and truffle oil and Panettone bread and butter pudding with white chocolate custard, has been designed so that guests can easily recreate it in their own homes when the restaurant shuts up shop - or when the pop-up pops off. New dishes appear on the menu every week, as voted by visitors across the restaurant's social media channels. Deluxe will also host regular Tuesday wine tastings showcasing a selection of the restaurant's quality wines.
Opened 14th November 2014
Where:
Medcalf Traiteur,
38 Exmouth Market, London London, EC1R 4QE
Category:
British Cuisine
Medcalf Traiteur, 38 Exmouth Market, London, EC1R 4QE
Tube: Farringdon Station
Ten years after Exmouth Market favourite Medcalf opened - when it was praised for its "rollicking, cheery, relaxed approach to life" by Matthew Fort in The Guardian - Medcalf Traiteur launched at the tail end of 2014 in the small annex next door. Billed as "a bustling lunch time spot by day, and bijou old world wine bar by night", the Traiteur offers a simpler menu than its neighbour, as well as products including charcuterie, home made pickles and terrines to enjoy at home. Mains of slow cooked pork belly and grilled salmon are cooked on the Big Green Egg BBQ during the day and at night the emphasis is on the central dining table where food and carafes of old world wines are served by candlelight. An intimate space with comfortable burgundy banquets and delicious plates of salt beef and sauerkraut.
Opened 14th November 2014
Where:
Radicals and Victuallers,
59 Upper Street, London London, N1 0NY
Category:
American Cuisine
Radicals and Victuallers, 59 Upper Street, London, N1 0NY
Tube: Angel Station
Serving up an unusual selection of burgers - filled with fried egg and peanut butter, or Nik Naks and pastrami - as well as other US diner classics Radicals and Victuallers is a fun diner/bar on Islington's busy Upper Street. With a natty interior - think reclaimed wood and curved banquettes at the back - and a secret side garden, this place encourages customers to settle in and enjoy a bowl of chorizo mac 'n' cheese washed down with a beer, wine or whatever you fancy - they do a good line in homemade cocktail concoctions. A mixture of restaurant-style tables and high stools cater for everything from a post-work tipple to a full on feast, and the courtyard al fresco area, with its canopy of fairy lights, makes for a fun open air option - with heaters to ward off the frost on winter nights.
Opened 8th November 2014
Where:
Heddon Street Kitchen,
3-9 Heddon Street, London London, W1B 4BE
Category:
British Cuisine
Heddon Street Kitchen, 3-9 Heddon Street, London, W1B 4BE
Tube: Piccadilly Circus Station, Green Park Station
Heddon Street Kitchen hit the headlines the day it opened, on Saturday 8th November 2014, as 100 diners failed to show up for their bookings prompting owner Gordon Ramsay to cry "sabotage!" Whether a genuine effort to ruin the business before it began or a cheap publicity trick, the restaurant is now taking bookings - and confirming them. At the helm is Head Chef Maria Tampakis - formerly of Bread Street Kitchen and the three-Michelin-starred Jean-Georges in NYC - who offers an all-day menu of blueberry buttermilk pancakes and avocado on pumpernickel toast with poached egg and mustard mayo for breakfast. Signature mains include stone bass with avocado puree, slow-roasted Dingley Dell pork belly with spiced apple sauce, and - the most expensive dish on the list - king crab thermidor with thick and golden. The two floor restaurant is a stylish mix of vintage and modern, with leathers, woods and shimmering steel, flashes of neon and specially curated artworks. Ideal for brisk breakfasts and post-shop pit-stops, working lunches, dinner dates and after-work cocktails.
Opened 7th November 2014
Where:
108 Brasserie,
The Marylebone Hotel, London London, W1U 2QE
Category:
British Cuisine
108 Brasserie, The Marylebone Hotel, London, W1U 2QE
Tube: Bond Street Station
Located on Marylebone Lane, in The Marylebone Hotel on the corner of Bulstrode Street, the spacious and stylish 108 Brasserie offers an all-day modern British menu of octopus carpaccio, healthy salads and grilled meat and fish dishes. Starters of crispy pigs cheeks or smoked salmon on Guinness brown bread are followed by mains from the Jasper Grill including free range Suffolk pork and Tiger prawns. More in the way of mains are roasted monkfish with curried lentils, or confit breast of lamb, followed by a warm chocolate fondant for dessert. The brasserie is split into two distinct areas - the dining space, with its orange mohair furniture, and the bar where small plates of squid, crab, and cheese from La Fromagerie are served alongside cocktails and a wine list of more than 40 bins. The dark oak bar, parquet flooring and antique mirrors, all courtesy of Alexander Waterworth Interiors - who were behind a 2014 revamp of High Road House in Chiswick and won Restaurant and Bar Design Awards in 2013 and 2014 - create a modern, stylish place to dine for hotel guests and non-residents alike.
Opened 7th November 2014
Where:
The Viktor Wynd Museum Of Curiosities, Fine Art and Natural History,
11 Mare Street, London London, E8 4RP
Category:
Museums
The Viktor Wynd Museum Of Curiosities, Fine Art and Natural History, 11 Mare Street, London, E8 4RP
Tube: Bethnal Green Station
Viktor Wynd launched his Little Shop of Horrors in 2009 and in 2014 it re-opened as a museum of rare and priceless marvels of the natural and scientific worlds. Hovering halfway between theatre and sculpture, shop and museum, The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History is, like its founder, both an installation and a performance. Unusual and contrasting items include Dodo bones and McDonald's Happy Meal toys, Old Master etchings and mad women's doodles. Any attempt at categorization is bound to fail. The museum is divided into two parts: the Upper Galleries, with up to two art exhibitions a year, and the double-vaulted basement Wunderkabinett, displaying the permanent collection of Curiosities, Natural History and Fine Art, from old master etchings to tin toys and extinct birds in custom-built and salvaged museum cases. Also on the upper floors are a coral reef aquarium, a minute gift shop and a tiny macabre baroque cocktail bar and cafe. Added to these are talks on taxidermy and The Occult, lubricated with the finest cocktails, and for the more adventurous there's The Lion Room - tucked deep in the bowels of the lower galleries - available for private hire for dinners and intimate encounters for up to ten people.
Opened 3rd November 2014
Where:
Roka Aldwych,
71 Aldwych, London London, WC2B 4HN
Category:
Japanese Cuisine
Roka Aldwych, 71 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4HN
Tube: Temple Station, Holborn Station
One of two new Roka restaurants to open in 2014, Roka Aldwych occupies a huge space with over 150 covers both at the bar and in the restaurant. Offering a unique style of contemporary Japanese robatayaki cuisine with the robata grill located in the heart of the restaurant, Roka has built up a reputation for excellent casual yet up-market dining, smooth service and a western-friendly take on Japanese food. Stand out dishes include sashimi platter served in a giant granite bowl filled with crushed ice, skewered scallops with wasabi cream, black cod marinated in Yuzu miso, crab and crayfish dumplings, Korean spiced lamb cutlets, and (for those with deep pockets) Wagyu beef. Deserts include the five inch high chocolate mousse with a Buddha face which comes accompanied by exotic fruits. Aldwych House, previously an office block, has been designed by Claudio Silvestrin, the man behind L'anima and Princi London. Roka Aldwych and Roka Mayfair both opened in 2014 bringing the total number of Rainer Becker's contemporary Japanese restaurants in London to four, along with the original Roka Charlotte Street and Roka Canary Wharf.
Opened 1st November 2014
Where:
Bone Daddies Whole Foods Market,
63-97 Kensington High Street, The Barkers Building, London London, W8 5SE
Category:
Japanese Cuisine
Bone Daddies Whole Foods Market, 63-97 Kensington High Street, The Barkers Building, London, W8 5SE
Tube: High Street Kensington Station
Two years on from the ramen boom of 2012, when Bone Daddies ramen bar arrived in Soho with a bang, Bone Daddies comes to Kensington with a concession within Whole Foods Market on Kensington High Street. For the first time, Ross Shonhan, chef proprietor of Bone Daddies and Flesh & Buns, gives us his signature ramen and buns on the same menu. Prior to launching the Bone Daddies family Ross Shonhan held head chef positions and top Japanese restaurants Nobu, Dallas and Zuma, London. But at Bone Daddies there's a far more casual approach. Here you're positively encouraged to slurp up hearty, delicious and terribly naughty bowls of thick noddle soup and enjoy great bowls full of curry ramen. There are also chashu pork, jalapeno and cheese croquettes to snack on as well as gyoza filled with chicken and prawn and pork and truffle. Buns appear on the menu as 'tiger eating...' - the literal translation of 'hirata' - with dishes like Tiger eating chilli chashu pork served assembled, as opposed to DIY style at Flesh & Buns. To finish, try soy caramel filled chocolate fondant served with green tea ice cream.
Opened Novemer 2014 2014
Where:
Hub by Premier Inn Covent Garden,
110 St Martin's Lane, London London, WC2N 4BA
Category:
New Hotels
Hub by Premier Inn Covent Garden, 110 St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4BA
Tube: Leicester Square Station, Charing Cross Station, Covent Garden Station, Piccadilly Circus Station, Embankment Underground Station
Guests staying at the tech-savvy flagship hub by Premier Inn Covent Garden can use the hotel's app to check availability and book a room and then use the same app to control room settings during their stay. Everything from changing the TV channel to adjusting the room temperature can be done through the app which also gives guests a guide to the local area. Developed through four years of research and testing, hub by Premier Inn which revealed that what guests want is technology to make their everyday lives easier. As a result, each room comes with the latest technology, including a 40-inch smart TV with access to movies, games, the internet, and catch-up TV. And there's free, high-speed Wi-Fi available throughout the hotel. Rooms are 'compact' so they've had to be clever with space - pull-out desks and plenty of under-bed storage make the best use of the 11.4 metres square allocated to each room. The rooms may be small but there's enough room for a double bed fitted with pocket-sprung mattress while excellent soundproofing ensures a great night's sleep even in a busy city centre location.
The flagship Covent Garden hotel, open in November 2014, is the first of 11 Hub hotels planned by 2018 in London and Edinburgh. These include nine London hub hotels in Covent Garden, Tottenham Court Road, Tower Hill, Spitalfields, Kings Cross, Shoreditch, Bank - City of London, Farringdon and Westminster.
Opened 27th October 2014
Where:
Jackson & Rye Richmond,
Hotham House, 1 Heron Square, London London, TW9 1EJ
Category:
American Cuisine
Jackson & Rye Richmond, Hotham House, 1 Heron Square, London, TW9 1EJ
Tube: Richmond Station
Inspired by 1920s Brooklyn bars and Manhattan speakeasies, Jackson and Rye is the place to go for US classics like Mac and cheese, crispy crab cakes and rye cocktail concoctions. The interior of the Richmond branch has deep olive banquette seating and sage leather bar stools, gold hanging pendant lights and quirky desktop lamps, mirrors and dark wood paneling. A great place for a weekend brunch - choose from corn bread, yoghurt and granola, or eggs with bacon, and grilled toast - lunch or dinner, the menu includes American favourites like mac and cheese, crispy crab cakes and the toasted Reuben sandwich. The 'Steaks and Grill' section offers New York strip and spiced flat iron, whole lobster and grilled yellow fin tuna steak with roasted vine tomatoes and fries. Indulgent desserts include chocolate sundae with milk ice cream, chocolate brownie with butterscotch sauce, and toasted marshmallows served with Pecan Pie with rye whiskey ice cream. Which leads us neatly onto whiskey. Cocktails include Old Fashioneds and Manhattans, a fruity Breakfast Sour of Buffalo Trace and indulgent Black 'n' Rye with Rittenhouse, Kahlua, coffee and sugar.
Opened 25th October 2014
Where:
Information Age,
Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London London, SW7 2DD
Category:
Museums
Information Age, Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD
Tube: South Kensington Station
A major permanent gallery on the second floor of the Science Museum, open on 25th October 2014, Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World is the biggest and most ambitious gallery within the museum and features over 800 objects. Divided into six zones, each representing a different information and communication technology network, Information Age includes many remarkable objects and tells the stories behind them. Here you'll find Thomson's original galvanometer used to receive the first telegraph messages sent across the Atlantic between President Buchanan and Queen Victoria in 1858; the original Marconi radio transmitter that made the first public broadcast in 1922 with the famous words 'This is 2LO calling', announcing the arrival of the BBC and the birth of British broadcasting; and two of the world's fastest supercomputers from the 1960s.
Opened 22nd October 2014
Where:
Le Chalet,
Selfridges & Co, 400 Oxford Street, London London, W1A 1AB
Category:
Le Chalet, Selfridges & Co, 400 Oxford Street, London, W1A 1AB
Tube: Bond Street Station, Marble Arch Station
No need to book that expensive trip to the Alps, from 22nd October 2014, Le Chalet brings the apres-ski to us with a winter Alpine-style restaurant on the roof of Selfridges. The second of the store's 'On The Roof With...' residencies, the rooftop restaurant follows the success of sister restaurant, Q Grill, which popped up here in the summer and just like it, the menu consists of hearty dishes using quality seasonal produce locally sourced and simply cooked. Operated by Des McDonald, the man behind Islington's The Fish & Chip Shop and the Rosewood hotel's Holborn Dining Room, Le Chalet transports customers to a wintry retreat poised on top of one of London's best known department stores. Designed by Alexander Waterworth Interiors, the restaurant decor has been designed with a traditional ski chalet in mind so you'll be surrounded by wintry ferns, timber branches, and soft low lighting entwined with branches. Drinks options are an assortment of wines, beer, cocktails, soft drinks and there's a hot chocolate cocktail bar on the outdoor terrace.
Opened 20th October 2014
Where:
Rosa's Chelsea,
246 Fulham Road, London London, SW10 9NA
Category:
Thai Cuisine
Rosa's Chelsea, 246 Fulham Road, London, SW10 9NA
Tube: West Brompton Station
The first West London Rosa's Thai Cafe, Rosa's Chelsea brings Thai dishes with a modern twist to a Grade-II listed building on Fulham Road. Set up by husband and wife team, Alex and Saiphin Moore, who began with a popular street food stall on East London's Brick Lane, Rosa's comes to SW10 with a first for the brand - a dedicated cocktail bar serving exotic fruit and spiced blends at great value. Perch on a comfy leather stool, next to the steel-topped bar and order Thai Rum Coffee Cocktail - rum with a shot of espresso coffee, Kahlua and vanilla syrup, or a ginger and pomelo leaf martini. Drinks go well with the seasonally changing menu which includes spicy grilled pork neck salad, stir-fried crispy pork with kra prow, and Northern Thai sausage with a kick of ginger. The interior is divided into two distinct areas, a living room in the bar at the front complete with feature fireplaces, and a more minimalist restaurant at the back with dining chairs and banquette seating on a terrazzo-style flooring. White ceramic brick wall tiles, chalked-up menu blackboards and traditional Thai artwork complete the kitsch but contemporary look. The expansion of Rosa's Thai Cafe continues apace with restaurants in Spitalfields, Soho, Westfield Stratford, Carnaby and Chelsea (open late October 2014), followed a month later by a North London restaurant on Theberton Street, Angel.
Opened 14th October 2014
Where:
Spring,
Somerset House, London London, WC2R 1LA
Category:
British Cuisine
Spring, Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA
Tube: Temple Station
Australian chef Skye Gyngell, who famously left Petersham Nurseries in Richmond in 2012, shortly after the restaurant was awarded a Michelin star, sets up Spring as her first solo venture in a wing of Somerset House that housed the Inland Revenue for the past 150 years. "There will be 18 chefs," according to the Evening Standard, "and everything from breads, cheeses and even vermouths will be made on-site." The kitchen is adjacent to the grand dining room and covered garden atrium that makes up the 100-cover restaurant. Well known for her culinary style, and her highly creative and delicious use of fruits and vegetables, the menu - which features scallops with fennel, dandelion and gorgonzola dressing to start and turbot with porcini, breadcrumbs and bonemarrow and fillet of beef with anchovy, brown butter and wild greens as mains - makes use of in-season ingredients. After becoming culinary director at Heckfield Place in Hampshire, Skye has told reporters that she is craving city life and with this new restaurant she's certainly back in the spotlight as far as London's dining cognoscenti is concerned.
Opened 10th October 2014
Where:
Ippudo,
Central Saint Giles, London London, W2CH 8AG
Category:
Japanese Cuisine
Ippudo, Central Saint Giles, London, W2CH 8AG
Tube: Tottenham Court Road Station, Covent Garden Station
Across 120 restaurants in nine different countries, Ippudo was serving 40,000 bowls of ramen each day - and that was before they even opened this flagship 80-seat venue in London's Central Saint Giles, their first European branch. With over 100 restaurants worldwide covering New York, Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney, Ippudo has nearly thirty years of history and tradition behind it, serving an authentic menu of Hakata-style ramen. A Tonkotsu soup (pork-based) is the foundation of Ippudo's famous ramen, made in-house by boiling pork bones over two days to give it a rich flavour and creamy texture. Signature dishes include the Shiromaru Hakata Classic, Hirata Buns and Wagyu-Tataki - seared wagyu sirloin served rare with spring onions, black olives and a ponzu and wasabi soy sauce.
Opened 9th October 2014
Where:
Herman Ze German - Fitzrovia,
33 Charlotte Street, London London, W1T 1RR
Category:
Herman Ze German - Fitzrovia, 33 Charlotte Street, London, W1T 1RR
Tube: Goodge Street Station, Tottenham Court Road Station
It all started in 2008 when German-born, Brighton-based friends Florian Frey and Azadeh Falakshahi started importing homemade sausages from their family butcher in the Black Forest to sell in Brighton. Now Herman Ze German is in three London locations and their wursts have a near cult following. Each wurst is made to an authentic German recipe, using the freshest free-range meat sourced from family-run, quality butchers in Germany's Black Forest. The sizzling sausages are gluten and lactose-free and have a meat content of 95% - earning themselves the nickname 'Tube Steaks'. There are three varieties of 27-centimetre weiners - Bratwurst, Chilli Beef and Brockwurst - all grilled to perfection and served with toppings including sauerkraut, onions and lashings of mustard, as well as fat-free chips cooked without oil. Meatballs also grace the menu, while some say Herman Ze German's famous Currywurst is ze best to be tasted both inside and outside Germany. Wash down with some Fritz-Kola or a cup of Union coffee, and you're all set. This Charlotte Street branch is the third Herman ze German in London, alongside the original restaurant on Villiers Street in Covent Garden and a second outlet on Old Compton Street, Soho.
Opened 9th October 2014
Where:
The Beaumont,
8 Balderton Street, London London, W1K 6TF
Category:
New Hotels
The Beaumont, 8 Balderton Street, London, W1K 6TF
Tube: Bond Street Station, Marble Arch Station
Restaurateurs Jeremy King and Chris Corbin are behind this boutique hotel overlooking Brown Hart Gardens at 8 Balderton Street in the former Avis building, a 1920's Art Deco structure originally used as a garage. The Beaumont, a 75-room hotel in Mayfair, features an inhabitable sculpture of a crouching man, called 'Room', by 'Angel of the North' artist Antony Gormley which has become an instant landmark for the area. King and Corbin, who have made their name with top notch eateries like The Wolseley, The Ivy and Le Caprice have developed the £40 million in partnership with property firm Grosvenor to a design by ReardonSmith architects who have previously worked on the Four Seasons on Park Lane, The Savoy, and Claridge's. The boutique hotel at 8 Balderton Street comprises a royal suite, Colony Grill Room restaurant, a small private private dining room, Jimmy's, the American lobby bar, spa and leisure facilities as well as the 75 guest rooms.
Opened 8th October 2014
Where:
The Fish & Chip Shop City,
Dashwood House, 69 Old Broad Street, London London, EC2M 1QS
Category:
Fish and Seafood
The Fish & Chip Shop City, Dashwood House, 69 Old Broad Street, London, EC2M 1QS
Tube: Liverpool Street Station, Moorgate Station
Following the hugely successful launch in 2013 of The Fish & Chip Shop on Upper Street Islington, a second Fish & Chip Shop has come to The City. Owned by former CEO of Caprice Holdings, Des McDonald, The Fish & Chip Shop City offers much the same as the Islington site - "a proper bloody fish restaurant" (Giles Coren) - but with some new dishes as well as seating for 16 outside. Fresh, responsibly sourced fish is the key ingredient here whether you're opting for 'posh fish and chips', or for seafood from the raw bar. The kitchen is headed up by Steve Wilson, formerly of Scott's and Daphne's, whose food can be washed down with a choice of wine, Champagne and sparkling wine, bottle and draft beer, or seaside themed cocktails - try the Dirty 'Fish' Martini and you'll get a concoction of vodka, anchovy brine and anchovies. Interiors of the 60 cover restaurant, designed by Box 9 Design, pay homage to the traditional British cafe with accents of salvaged timber, antique Georgian glass, duck egg blue panelling and burgundy-glazed tiles. Want to takeaway? There's a dedicated window for those who want to fish and fly.
Opened 4th October 2014
Where:
The Qube Project,
191 Victoria Street, London London, SW1E 5NE
Category:
Nightclubs
The Qube Project, 191 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5NE
Tube: Victoria Station
Promising to "submerge party-goers into a cornucopia of pleasure" The Qube Project basement club opened in Victoria in October 2014 with music from some of Europe's most hailed and respected DJs. The 1,500 capacity club is divided into three rooms, a small disco room, a garage room, and the main room fitted with state of the art sound and lighting. On the DJ list are names like: Klingande - two 24-year-olds from Croix in northern France united by their love of electro - Cyril Hahn, Crom and Thanh, Miguel Campbell, Finnebassen, Krankbrother, and Edu Imbernon - a Spanish DJ has enjoyed spectacular global success whose sounds include an anthemic remix of The XX.
Opened 1st October 2014
Where:
Bubba Gump Shrimp Company,
Trocadero, 13 Coventry Street, London London, W1D 7AB
Category:
Fish and Seafood
Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, Trocadero, 13 Coventry Street, London, W1D 7AB
Tube: Piccadilly Circus Station, Leicester Square Station
Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, the seafood restaurant chain inspired by the 1994 film Forrest Gump, comes to London opening at the Trocadero site once occupied by Planet Hollywood which has since moved to Haymarket. The menu at this famous chain of seafood restaurants features shrimp, as the name suggests, including Shrimp Shack Mac & Cheese, Dumb Luck Coconut Shrimp, and Shrimper's Heaven. But it has also won awards for its dixie style baby back ribs and its drink menu which includes margaritas hand-shaken at your table. They also do a selection of fish starters, steak, chicken dishes, crisp salads, and fun children's meals. If you've still got room indulge in all-American puds like Chocolate Chip Cookie Sundae. If all goes according to plan the London restaurant will be the first of a series of Bubba Gump Shrimp openings throughout the UK.
Opened September 2014
Where:
Ethos,
48 Eastcastle Street, London London, W1W 8DX
Category:
Vegetarian Cuisine
Ethos, 48 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8DX
Tube: Oxford Circus Station
Ethos serves a global menu including unique, homemade BBQ 'ribs' and Hyderabadi Scotch eggs that should appeal to all, even the meat eaters among you. Open all day, they serve everything from your morning coffee to seasonal salads for lunch, through to spicy curries, hearty Tuscan stews and creative cocktails for post-work dinner and drinks. Other dishes include Thai corn fritters, Colombian crema de Aguacata soup, and Lebanese green bean and tomato salad, loubieh - see, we told you it was a global menu. If you've still got room for pudding, try indulgent cake balls, a lemon and raspberry posset or gevulde speculaas biscuits - a Dutch-inspired dessert. On the drinks menu are juices, cocktails and wines, coffees and speciality teas. Contemporary interiors are decked out in silver birch trees and neutral whites and blues with gold accents, airily lit through floor-to-ceiling windows.
Opened End of September 2014
Where:
Spiaggia,
461-465 North End Road, London London, SW6 1NZ
Category:
Italian Cuisine
Spiaggia, 461-465 North End Road, London, SW6 1NZ
Tube: Fulham Broadway Station
Spiagga brings the Italian Riviera to Fulham (the name means 'beach' in Italian) through a sunny Mediterranean palette of warm yellows and cool aquas, sunloungers, and a menu of piadinas - thin Italian flatbreads - and piattini, Italian tapas. Restaurant owner Mish Haddad took inspiration from living and working in Italy to bring diners salami napoli, mozzarella and San Marzano tomatoes and Provolone cheese and roasted peppers with borlotti bean and chilli mash piadinas, salads, authentic pasta dishes and spiedini - skewers from the robata grill. Those with a sweet tooth will love the Bella Donna piadinas made with Nutella, banana and Baileys. It's all served up in a chilled out way with the 50-seat restaurant decorated in painted tongue-and-groove timber, vintage arcade games, and retro neon signs saying 'dive in' and 'relax' - in Italian, of course.
Opened 30th September 2014
Where:
Dandelyan,
Mondrian London, 20 Upper Ground, London London, SE1 9PD
Category:
Bars
Dandelyan, Mondrian , 20 Upper Ground, London, SE1 9PD
Tube: Blackfriars Station
A sumptuous, Art Deco-inspired interior designed by Tom Dixon and views over the South Bank, Dandelyan is no unwanted weed. Instead it's a cut above your average hotel hangout with its green marble bar and dramatic views of the Thames. On the ground floor of the Mondrian hotel, tucked away at the rear of the building, Dandelyan references the luxurious cruise liners of generations past. And the feature space at the end of the room - pink sofas and gentleman's club green walls - takes its cues from an original 1978 Warren Platner-designed light that the team found in the building at the start of the project. The drinks menu has been created by award-winning bar impresario Ryan Chetiyawardana, A.K.A Mr Lyan, with innovative cocktails and refined interpretations of the classics, taking the botanical wilds of the British countryside and around the world as inspiration.
Opened 30th September 2014
Where:
Mondrian London,
20 Upper Ground, London London, SE1 9PF
Category:
New Hotels
Mondrian London, 20 Upper Ground, London, SE1 9PF
Tube: Bermondsey Station
Intended to be a luxury hotel when it was first designed in the 1970s, Sea Containers House fulfills its original purpose when it opens as a Tom Dixon designed hotel in late summer 2014. The building, situated between the OXO Tower and Blackfriars Bridge, will become the Mondrian London, a luxury hotel from the Morgans Hotel Group - the New York based boutique hotel group who brought us swanky hotels the Sanderson and St Martin's Lane. Tom Dixon's Design Research Studio, responsible for the design, is planning a transatlantic theme; "the copper-clad lobby gives a nod to the convex shape of a ship's hull" according to Vogue magazine which predicts the Dandelyan bar will be "the hip port of call" with its views across the river to St Paul's, its green marble bar, and the trio of bar masters who have come from the White Lyan bar in Hoxton. Most of the hotel's 359 guest rooms and suites have spectacular river and city and the hotel also houses a riverside bar and brasserie with outdoor seating, and an exclusive rooftop lounge and terrace. As with all Morgans hotels, the spa will be a luxury affair, branded to fit in with the signature Agua style with six treatment suites, relaxation space and a manicure and pedicure room. Spaces for hire include the 56-seat private screening room, break out and meeting rooms.
Opened 30th September 2014
Where:
National Theatre: Dorfman Theatre,
National Theatre, South Bank, London London, SE1 9PX
Category:
Theatres
National Theatre: Dorfman Theatre, National Theatre, South Bank, London, SE1 9PX
Tube: Temple Station, Waterloo Station
Replacing the National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre, which closed on 23rd February 2013, the Dorfman Theatre will see the site redeveloped, with a greater capacity, more comfortable seats, better sight-lines and enlarged foyer spaces. The National Theatre's smallest space will be renamed after philanthropist Lloyd Dorfman, founder and chairman of Travelex, who provided a large donation towards the National's £70m future development programme. Improvements including additional and more comfortable seating will mean that an extra 27,000 people each year can gain access to what are often sold-out performances. Further refurbishments include balconies with improved sightlines, equipping the auditorium for daytime education use, much needed new foyer space, improved acoustics, lighting and signage and a lift, making the Dorfman fully accessible for the first time. In the meantime, during the Cottesloe's closure, a temporary performance space called The Shed has been set up at the front of the South Bank building.
Opened 28th September 2014
Where:
Locanda Locatelli,
Hyatt Regency Hotel The Churchill, 8 Seymour Street, London London, W1H 7JZ
Category:
Italian Cuisine
Locanda Locatelli, Hyatt Regency Hotel The Churchill, 8 Seymour Street, London, W1H 7JZ
Tube: Marble Arch Station
This superb restaurant within the Hyatt Regency Hotel The Churchill opened in 2002 as the first solo venture of Giorgio Locatelli (formerly Head Chef at Zafferano) and has since won praise from virtually every visitor and the Michelin men who first awarded it a star in 2003. The decor is reminiscent of the more stylish side of the New Romantic era, all tasteful drapes and elegant retro fittings, and the service is bright and friendly. The menu includes Italian classics and a few innovative twists, but the strength of this menu comes from the total commitment to ingredients. All the food is sourced from Italy and all pastas, marinades and the likes are freshly made on the premises. Such attention to detail gives the ideal foundation for classic Italian cooking. Every menu item here is cooked in a simple but loving style, and the well-balanced dishes allow the flavours to shine through. Competing for the title of "best Italian kitchen in London", you'll have to book early but it's well worth it for a meal that will stay with you for years to come. First class.
Notes:
Book early.
Opened 25th September 2014
Where:
Hoxton Holborn,
199-206 High Holborn, London London, WC1V 7BD
Category:
New Hotels
Hoxton Holborn, 199-206 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7BD
Tube: Holborn Station, Covent Garden Station
Eight years after it first opened its doors the hip Hoxton Hotel in Shoreditch replicates itself and sets up the east London favorite in Holborn. Just like the mothership, the 174-bed Hoxton Holborn has quirky design touches and rooms which are "cleverly designed to maximise comfort, space and style". Rooms are divided into four categories - Shoebox, Snug, Cosy, and Roomy - and while each differs in size all share the same design and features, like a leather armchair and wood-and-leather headboard. Shoeboxes, on the top floor of the hotel, may be small but they have far-reaching views over the city and offer very affordable accommodation for this location, while Cosy rooms are a great size for London. All rooms have 300-thread count sheets, rain showers, free WiFi, and come with complimentary breakfast bags. The hotel has two restaurants run in partnership with the Soho House Group: Hubbard & Bell restaurant set in an airy conservatory, and a Chicken Shop serving rotisserie chicken. There's the Holborn Grind run by the people behind Shoreditch Grind, and the Cheeky beauty salon if you want a bit of pampering.
Opened 25th September 2014
Where:
Tredwell's,
4a Upper St Martins Lane, London London, WC2H 9NY
Category:
British Cuisine
Tredwell's, 4a Upper St Martins Lane, London, WC2H 9NY
Tube: Leicester Square Station, Covent Garden Station, Charing Cross Station
Marcus Wareing, the chef behind Michelin-starred London restaurant MARCUS at The Berkeley Hotel, turns restaurateur with Tredwell's, a casual British restaurant open seven days a week in Seven Dials. His restaurant company's first standalone venue that's not in a hotel, Tredwell's is a 130-seat restaurant on three floors with a bar in the basement. The informal interior design is by Robert Angell who has used racing green leather banquettes and booth seating and allowed in lots of natural light via large windows and a skylight. The cocktail list comes from Dav Eames, Bar Manager at The Gilbert Scott, and the food is British with worldly influences. While this restaurant is under the Marcus Wareing Restaurants banner he is not in the kitchen, that's where head chef Andrew Ward resides. He has created a menu which will include dishes such as crayfish and quinoa salad with black rice, salmon with spirulina, cauliflower, chilli and soy, and lamb chops with minted bean chutney.
Opened 19th September 2014
Where:
NOW Gallery,
1 Green Place, Greenwich Peninsula, London London, SE10 0PE
Category:
Art Galleries
NOW Gallery, 1 Green Place, Greenwich Peninsula, London, SE10 0PE
Tube: North Greenwich Station
Designed by London Eye artchitects Marks Barfield, NOW Gallery is a gallery in the Greenwich Peninsula intended as a space for a series of commissions, each lasting for three months. The gallery lends itself to immersive installations and site-specific works. "The space is a unique canvas for artists, sculptors, fashion designers, graphic artists and creatives to conjure up exhibits that are playful, inspiring and that bring alive our unconventional gallery space" said NOW Gallery curator Jemima Burrill before the gallery opened in September 2014.
Opened 17th September 2014
Where:
Rabbit,
172 Kings Road, London London, SW3 4UP
Category:
British Cuisine
Rabbit, 172 Kings Road, London, SW3 4UP
Tube: Sloane Square Station
Set up by the Gladwin brothers - who have already proved they can cook and run a successful restaurant with The Shed in Notting Hill - Kings Road brasserie Rabbit brings a taste of the country to town through 'British Wild Food' with an emphasis on seasonal British, wild and foraged produce. Having grown up on a farm in Sussex they're the real deal when it comes to sourcing - "Gregory raises livestock and digs and delves in Nutbourne, West Sussex, near the family vineyard" wrote Fay Maschler in the London Evening Standard who "enthusiastically" recommends the brown crab bomb 'mouthful'. Rod Liddle loves the place, giving the food five stars and the restaurant an overall 9 out of 10 in the Sunday Times Magazine. And when speaking to The Telegraph, Oliver - who invented the mushroom marmite, just one of their "ingenious" recipes - highlighted, "a playful twist on ham, eggs and pineapple, using pine-apple weed, emulsified eggs and crispy pig's head" which features on the menu. Not only does the majority of the meat - pork, lamb and beef - come from Gregory's farm, but their parents' wine is sold at both of the Gladwin brothers restaurants.
Opened 12th September 2014
Where:
Artist Residence London,
52 Cambridge Street, London London, SW1V 4QQ
Category:
New Hotels
Artist Residence London, 52 Cambridge Street, London, SW1V 4QQ
Tube: Victoria Station
Artist Residence London is a ten bedroom hotel with a ground floor restaurant overlooking a lovely garden in the London neighbourhood of Pimlico, just a 5 minute walk from Victoria Station. The hotel has eight individually designed bedrooms and two suites, ranging from Small to Grand Suite with the Loft on the third floor which includes a seating area for two. The young owners, Justin Salisbury and Charlotte Newey, already have two successful hotels in Brighton and Penzance, and, like them, Artist Residence London is furnished in a relaxed style using exposed brick set off by pieces sourced from antique shops and original artwork. Michael Bremner's restaurant, 64 Degrees, concentrates on doing a few things very well and has a mix of tables, kitchen bar seating, and some cubicles while the basement bar can be a comfy cafe during the day or a cocktail lounge in the evenings. There's also a private dining area which can double as a meeting room or temporary workspace.
Opened 4th September 2014
Where:
Basement Sate,
8 Broadwick Street, London London, W1F 8HN
Category:
Bars
Basement Sate, 8 Broadwick Street, London, W1F 8HN
Tube: Tottenham Court Road Station, Piccadilly Circus Station
What a sweet idea. London's first bar serving only cocktails and desserts, Basement Sate combines inventive cocktails made with unusual ingredients like seaweed and salted caramel, with a choice of six seductive sweets. But these are not your typical after dinner treats. The dessert menu has been created by Dorian Picard, a French pastry chef who has worked for the likes of Gordon Ramsay and Pascal Aussignac. It's all served up in a basement bar in Soho, complete with exposed brick work, copper topped tables and intimate lighting.
Opened 4th September 2014
Where:
The Victoria,
110 Grove Road, Bow, London London, E3 5TH
Category:
Pubs
The Victoria, 110 Grove Road, Bow, London, E3 5TH
Tube: Mile End Station
The award-winning Yummy Pub Co has expanded recently with their latest London venture of transforming The Victoria in Mile End into a trendy gastropub. Formerly a typical east London boozer with a bland façade and chabby chic interior, the pub has now been given a new lease of life and will be a welcome addition for locals - especially with the recent closure of seven pubs in the area. Following the same format as the company's King's Cross venue, the Somerstown Coffee House, The Victoria now boasts three distinctive themes across its three floors. On the ground floor guests are welcomed into a stylish gastropub that serves a range of beers, cask ales and food, including a tempting range of British tapas dishes such as scotch eggs and breaded brie. This floor is also home to a newly created artisan coffee bar, open early every day and accessible from both inside and out. Venturing onto the first floor, diners will find the Ssshh Supper Club, a trio of themed rooms including The Kitchen Room, where you can watch the chefs at work; The Board Room, ideal for parties and small gatherings with its hidden stash of aged and oaked scotch; and the Lodge Room, a kiddie free area that's perfect for a quiet Sunday Lunch or romantic date. Meanwhile, the basement houses the hidden Magri's Cocktail Bar - the entrance to which we are keeping firmly under wraps! On top of all that, Yummy also plan on taking advantage of the building's flat roofs by using the space to grow their own fruit and vegetables, and keep chickens to lay fresh eggs, while the generous sized beer garden is home to a cocktail caravan and ingenious sheltered booths to ensure the garden is inviting all year round. We know where we're going to be at the weekend from now on.
Opened September 2014
Where:
Eelbrook,
Eel Brook Common, New King's Road, London London, SW6 4SE
Category:
British Cuisine
Eelbrook, Eel Brook Common, New King's Road, London, SW6 4SE
Tube: Fulham Broadway Station
Set in what was originally the common's groundsman building, Eelbrook opens up onto Eel Brook Common offering scenic seating for up to 22 people on its covered and heated terrace outside. Inside, where there's seating for up to 50, the dining room has been designed using natural blonde wood finishes to link the interior with the trees outside - the work of Haruo Morishima (Wagamama, Hakkasan, Yauatcha) and architectural designer Kok Loong Wong. The Eelbrook menu promises an eclectic mix of dishes made from the best of British ingredients with influences from throughout the Mediterranean - with flavours from Spain, Italy, Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean (Turkey, Lebanon and thereabouts) and North Africa. This promise translates into sandwiches like lobster roll, cucumber, chive mayonnaise for lunch, and appetisers of Lindisfarne rock oysters and courgette flowers on the a la carte menu. Mains are a mix of fish and meat with choices like grilled wild bream, cod confit, and roasted poussin served with Middle Eastern influences of allspice rub and fattoush. One note of warning: don't get Eelbrook confused with the nearby The Eel Brook pub, previously the Southern Cross, which also faces the common and is located on New Kings Road.
Opened 31st August 2014
Where:
The King of Ladies Man,
The Breakfast Club, 5-9 Battersea Rise, London London, SW11 1HG
Category:
Bars
The King of Ladies Man, The Breakfast Club, 5-9 Battersea Rise, London, SW11 1HG
Tube: Clapham South Station
Now that enough people have successfully found The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town, accessed via a Smeg fridge in the Spitalfields branch, The Breakfast Club have opened another hidden bar, The King of Ladies Man. The delicious and gut-busting meals served at the American diner-style outlets have fast grown in popularity and more often than not you can expect to queue for your helping of pancakes and milkshakes. But, only those in the know can enjoy the secret bars. Housed within the Battersea branch, the entrance to The King of Ladies Man is concealed behind a secret sliding wall in the launderette and is certainly worth finding. The 1970s style bachelor pad is decked out with kitsch pink flamingos and bamboo, while Hawaiian-shirted bartenders serve cocktails such as Pina Coladas, Tequila Sunrises and Mai Tais. Food options include grilled cheese sandwiches, mac 'n' cheese and palm potato fries.
Opened 30th August 2014
Where:
Grill Market,
10 Theobalds Road, London London, WC1X 8PN
Category:
Cafes and Delis
Grill Market, 10 Theobalds Road, London, WC1X 8PN
Tube: Chancery Lane Station
Inspired by the traditional delis of New York, Grill Market in Holborn offers city workers a tasty alternative to bland pre-packed lunches. Following a month-long refurbishment, the deli reopened in mid-2014 with a stylish new interior of tiled floors, wooden benches and large windows, creating an industrial yet rustic feel that's warm and welcoming for a lunchtime bite. Offering fresh, sustainable and hearty food, Grill Market has a daily changing menu of meat, vegetarian and salad lunchboxes, available to eat in or take away. There's also a range of daily specials with options such as pulled pork in a brioche bap, Persian lamb flatbread, seasonal soups and stews. Plus, healthy breakfasts and Caravan coffee provide the perfect way to start the day and in-house baked goods such as carrot cake and chocolate brownies are available for a tempting treat.
Opened 20th August 2014
Where:
Carousel,
Blandford Street, London London, W1U 8AB
Category:
Carousel, Blandford Street, London, W1U 8AB
Tube: Marble Arch Station
Three stylish floors playing host to world-renowned chefs, innovative pop-ups and extraordinary events, right in the heart of Marylebone, Carousel is the brainchild of Shuttlecock Inc, award-winning purveyors of London's most irreverent pop-ups, parties and events. Using flavour, design, performance and music to create unforgettable experiences, Carousel is behind some of the more unusual events you'll encounter in London. With this permanent venue in Marylebone's Blandford Street, the company is expected to be here for the next five years, hiring out the venue to other like-minded event planners while also hosting one-off food events downstairs.
Opened 18th August 2014
Where:
Skypool at the Shangri-La Hotel,
Floor 52, Shangri-La Hotel at The Shard, London London, SE1 9SY
Category:
Skypool at the Shangri-La Hotel, Floor 52, Shangri-La Hotel at The Shard, London, SE1 9SY
Tube: London Bridge Station
High up on the 52nd floor of the highest hotel in Western Europe sits the highest pool in Western Europe. The 11 by 4 metre heated Skypool offers a tranquil escape for guests of the Shangri-La Hotel (staying at the luxury hotel for a dizzying £450 per night). At night the separation screens are drawn back as the sun sets and the pool becomes part of Gong, the hotel's hip bar and the highest place to sip cocktails in London. The pool is overshadowed by an oversized 'paint scroll' which appears to float overhead as swimmers do their lengths while looking west across the City, taking in views of St Paul's Cathedral, the London Eye and Westminster. If you really want to push the boat out, the 30-cover poolside area can also be hired for the most spectacular sky-high party.
Opened 18th August 2014
Where:
Tom's Kitchen,
1 Commodity Quay, St Katharine Docks, London London, E1W 1AZ
Category:
Brasseries
Tom's Kitchen, 1 Commodity Quay, St Katharine Docks, London, E1W 1AZ
Tube: Tower Hill Station
Set in newly developed Commodity Quay, the 130-seater Tom's Kitchen restaurant overlooks the luxury yachts in St Katharine Docks, Central London's only marina. Dishes include spicy crab cake, seven hour confit lamb and truffled macaroni cheese, familiar to fans of Tom's Kitchens which have already established a name for chef Tom Aikens with branches in Chelsea, at Somerset House and Canary Wharf. Alongside these are changing, seasonal dishes such as spatchcock baby chicken with BBQ sauce, cucumber salsa and haddock with sweet corn fritter, parsley and girolles. Puddings include the famed baked alaska to share and milk chocolate mousse profiteroles. Adjacent to the main restaurant is Tom's Kitchen Deli which offers an array of homemade seasonal sandwiches, soups, hotpots and salads to go. For something sweet to go with your coffee there's jam-filled doughnuts and flourless chocolate fudge cake, enjoy while taking in the waterfront which can be seen through the restaurant's glass facade.
Opened 11th August 2014
Where:
106 Baker St,
106 Baker Street, London London, W1U 6TW
Category:
Cafes and Delis
106 Baker St, 106 Baker Street, London, W1U 6TW
Tube: Baker Street Station
Open from breakfast until 7pm, and ideal for lingerig over a weekend brunch, 106 Baker St is a cute all day cafe serving fresh salads, great coffee and hot dishes with a Mediterranean influence. Ingredients are sourced locally from London markets and from Italy for dishes like ravioli filled with roasted veal and melt-in-the-mouth cepes mushrooms. As well as good quality coffee there are freshly pressed juices in unusual flavours like cantaloupe and watermelon. And there are sweet treats like cacao-beetroot cake, chocolate biscotti and butter shortbreads to have with your flat white. Sit at small tables for two while borrowing one of the newspapers hung on poles, and take in the old fashioned floor tiles and fire place. Head to the terrace/garden outside and you can enjoy your cuppa while overlooked by a white bicycle hanging on the wall.
Opened 1st August 2014
Where:
Duck & Dry,
333-337 King's Road, London London, SW3 5ES
Category:
Hair and Grooming
Duck & Dry, 333-337 King's Road, London, SW3 5ES
Tube: South Kensington Station
Duck & Dry is not your typical salon experience. Don't come here for a hair cut, instead it's the place to go for an updo or blow dry before a big night out. They have a menu of eight signature blow drys and eight updos offered in a fresh and stylish space at a fixed price, regardless of hair type or length. Open daily 7.30am until 7.30pm, the team caters for all lifestyles and occasions whether you want a pre-party or a post-work fix with nibbles and drinks on tap.
Opened July 2014
Where:
Hixter Bankside,
Metal Box Factory, Great Guildford Street, London London, SE1 9EP
Category:
British Cuisine
Hixter Bankside, Metal Box Factory, Great Guildford Street, London, SE1 9EP
Tube: Borough Station
First Mark Hix brought us Tramshed in Shoreditch then Hixter came to the City. Both restaurants - where the choice is chicken or steak, to share - have proved so popular that a second Hixter has been brought to the Metal Box Factory, Bankside, round the corner from Tate Modern. Meat is good quality, marbled Himalayan salt dry-aged steak comes from hand-selected cows and chicken is barn-reared at Swainson House Farm in Lancashire. Mains can be top and tailed by starters and puddings which change with the seasons. The large 7,000 square foot Hixter Bankside also includes a Mark's Bar, similar to the original and award-winning Mark's Bar in Soho. Located in the basement, the bar space gives a nod to the building's past with a sunken bar circling the old metal cooling pool, adorned with salvaged cinema-style seating and an art installation by Helen Chadwick that replicates a London underground tube carriage. Two private dining rooms for 8 to 50 guests are the perfect way to feast with friends from a range of private dining menus.
Opened Late July 2014
Where:
Pizza Pilgrims Pizzeria & Frigittoria,
11 Kingly Court, London London, W1B 5PW
Category:
Italian Cuisine
Pizza Pilgrims Pizzeria & Frigittoria, 11 Kingly Court, London, W1B 5PW
Tube: Oxford Circus Station, Piccadilly Circus Station
The second restaurant from Pizza Pilgrims James and Thom Elliot is in Kingly Court just off Carnaby Street, serving not only their popular pizzas but also offering monthly specials inspired by the street food scene in Naples. The 'friggitoria' part of the name, Pizza Pilgrims Pizzeria & Frigittoria, refers to a traditional frying section so you'll find dishes like arancini with slow-cooked ragu and mozzarella, plus Pizza Fritta calzones, with sundried tomato, salami, mozzarella, parmesan cheese, ricotta and basil. The menu also offers crispy potato and mortadella croquettes, courgette flowers and melanzane and zucchini fritti (aubergine and courgette in batter). Desserts focus around Bocca di Lupo's Gelupo gelati, served by cone or cup, as well as Pizza Pilgrims' Nutella Pizza Ring. Hackney's Terrone Coffee Co supply the coffee, and an authentic Italian feel is brought about by table football, 1990s songs, and arcade games. An outdoor seating area and an outdoor gelati kiosk in Kingly Court is ideal for al fresco summer dining.
Opened 26th July 2014
Where:
Munki,
12 Putney High Street, London London, SW15 1SL
Category:
Bars
Munki, 12 Putney High Street, London, SW15 1SL
Tube: Putney Bridge Station
Cocktails for cheeky monkeys are served at Munki, a late night bar offering sophisticated drinks at a 100-cover venue split over three floors and overlooking Putney Bridge. Monkeys will feel at home swinging through the trees etched onto the windows of the glass fronted ground floor bar, and there's sure to be a bit of monkeying around once a few of the gin based martinis have been imbibed. But there's no need to go over the top - a bar menu supplied by the Putney Pantry opposite is perfect for nibbling on while selecting which cocktail to have next. Different areas mean Munki can cater for everything from an intimate date to a group of friends, whether in the speakeasy bar, the library room, or the walled garden at the back, and there are lovely river views from the mezzanine level.
Opened 23rd July 2014
Where:
Lima Floral,
14 Garrick Street, London London, WC2E 9BJ
Category:
South American Cuisine
Lima Floral, 14 Garrick Street, London, WC2E 9BJ
Tube: Leicester Square Station, Covent Garden Station, Charing Cross Station
Virgilio Martinez's Lima, the first Peruvian restaurant to win a Michelin star, expands to a second site on Covent Garden's Garrick Street in mid July 2014. In the new Lima Floral restaurant by Peruvian chef Virgilio Martinez and his partners, Gabriel and Jose Luis Gonzalez there are two spaces: the main restaurant and a 'piqueos bar', a bar serving tapas dishes. The menu, overseen by Martinez and head chef Robert Ortiz, features some of Lima's most popular dishes as well as new dishes. Highlights include scallops with chia ceviche, Amazonian fish with warm causa and kholrabi and quinoa tiradito. New tastes and experiences include innovative use of rare native Peruivan ingredients from the Amazon and the Andes. The bar menu, ideal for sharing, includes small piqueo dishes like grouper with rocoto tiger's milk ceviche and tuna and seared aubergine tiradito. B3 designers, also responsible for Gymkhana, Bubbledogs and Roka, have transformed the historic building, originally built as a monastery, making use of large arched windows to create a bright and airy dining room on the ground floor. In the comfortable drinking den in the basement cocktails are variations on the classic Pisco Sour - Pisco, lime juice, egg white, sugar syrup and bitters - are shaken with ice to a frothy finish.
Opened 19th July 2014
Where:
IWM London (Imperial War Museums),
Lambeth Road, Elephant and Castle, London London, SE1 6HZ
Category:
Museums
IWM London (Imperial War Museums), Lambeth Road, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6HZ
Tube: Lambeth North Station
The IWM London, the flagship Imperial War Museum which offers a thoughtful look at what day-to-day life is like for both citizens and soldiers in times of conflict, re-opened on 19th July 2014 with a dramatic new atrium space by Fosters + Partners, and new permanent First World War Galleries, a highlight of which is a trench complete with periscopes, sounds and projections recreating what life was like behind the front line on the Western Front. Entering the museum, visitors see 'Witnesses to War', nine iconic objects including a Harrier, Spitfire and V2 rocket suspended from the ceiling. Level 1 of the transformed space presents 'Turning Points: 1934-1945' with key stories from the Second World War. 'Peace and Security' on level 2 explores contemporary conflicts from 1945 through to present day while 'Curiosities of War' on level 3 presents some of the more obscure objects in the museum's collections including a bar where the dambusters crew used to drink, and a sofa which troops in Afghanistan made out of hesco fencing. The museum also has three shops, a museum cafe run by Peyton and Byrne which opens out onto the Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, as well as new and improved visitor facilities.
Opened 19th July 2014
Where:
Pancras Square Leisure,
5 Pancras Square, London London, N1C 4AG
Category:
Pancras Square Leisure, 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG
Tube: King's Cross Station
Located in the heart of Kings Cross, Pancras Square Leisure centre offers a 25 metre swimming pool, smaller teaching pool, two exercise studios with over 25 classes per week and a 90 station gym and fitness facility. Opened in July 2014, the leisure centre sits as part of the 14-storey 5 Pancras Square building, designed by leading architectural practice Bennetts Associates, which incorporates a library, customer access centre, cafe and Camden Council offices. The triple-height lobby of the street-level public entrance on Pancras Road provides direct access to the leisure facilities which are spread across the lower two floors - on the lower ground and basement - As well as the swimming pool and gym in the basement there's also a fantastic sauna and steam room for you to relax in after your workout.
Opened 19th July 2014
Where:
Pancras Square Library,
5 Pancras Square, London London, N1C 4AG
Category:
Libraries
Pancras Square Library, 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG
Tube: King's Cross Station
In July 2014 St Pancras Library closed in its former location, Argyle Street, and relocated to shiny new premises at 5 Pancras Square, a new-build 14-storey building in the heart of Kings Cross which provides a modern and welcoming space in which to borrow books and use the computers and enjoy classes like baby bounce and rhyme time. Pancras Square Library offers a wide selection of books, CDs and DVDs to borrow, newspapers and magazines to read on site, and computers with free internet access. Added extras include a youth zone and a children's library located next to the cafe.
Opened 15th July 2014
Where:
Le Restaurant de Paul,
29 Bedford Street, London London, WC2E 9ED
Category:
French Cuisine
Le Restaurant de Paul, 29 Bedford Street, London, WC2E 9ED
Tube: Covent Garden Station, Leicester Square Station, Charing Cross Station, Embankment Underground Station
Popular French bakery chain Paul has branched out with its very first all-day dining brasserie and they've made the leap on the site of their flagship bakery and patisserie shop in Covent Garden. Le Restaurant de Paul is open from breakfast until diner, serving up plentiful portions of traditional French favourites alongside the brand's already popular soups, salads, cakes and pastries. For a hearty feast try tender, succulent Coq au Vin, delicately prepared Confit de Canard aux Olives and delicious Entrecote a la Bordelaise - 'steak et frites' - just a few of the new 'plats du jour' on the menu.
Le Restaurant de Paul is open from 7am to 11pm Monday to Friday; 8am to 11pm Saturday and from 8am to 10.30pm on Sunday. The original PAUL bakery remains in the entrance and closes at 9pm daily.
Opened 15th July 2014
Where:
Peyton and Byrne Greenwich,
20-22 Greenwich Church Street, London London, SE10 9BJ
Category:
Cafes and Delis
Peyton and Byrne Greenwich, 20-22 Greenwich Church Street, London, SE10 9BJ
Tube: New Cross Station (East London line closed. Bus service operates)
Oven fresh, home-made artisan bread, cakes, and pastries are baked daily at Peyton and Byrne, the cafe chain set up by restaurateur and Great British Menu judge Oliver Peyton. As well as sandwiches using bread baked that day they offer hot baked pies and tarts from sausage rolls to individual goat's cheese tarts. Start the day with a blueberry and yoghurt muffin for breakfast and indulge in sweet goodies like West Country apple cake and the chocolate, caramel explosion cake come tea time. They also sell over 40 exclusive blends of teas and coffee ground on-site as well as beautifully packaged grocery items like pear, date and ale chutney and a particularly spicy, tangy and crunchy piccalilli.
Opened 9th July 2014
Where:
Silk and Grain,
33 Cornhill, London London, EC3V 3ND
Category:
British Cuisine
Silk and Grain, 33 Cornhill, London, EC3V 3ND
Tube: Bank Station, Monument Station, Cannon Street Station
Combining a ground floor cocktail bar and first floor restaurant with steak featuring prominently on the British-inspired menu, Silk & Grain is a laid back, contemporary place to enjoy a Moscow mule pick-me-up or a slow roasted pork belly lunch in the City. Highlights on the grazing menu include Clonakilty black pudding scotched quail's eggs, crispy pig's ears, and British cheeses and charcuterie. Upstairs in the main restaurant more substantial mains make the most of the steaks cooked on the Josper grill but there are also lighter options like a tomato, mint and quinoa salad with goats' cheese and beetroot pickled eggs.
Opened 7th July 2014
Where:
Barrafina Adelaide Street,
10 Adelaide Street, London London, WC2N 4HZ
Category:
Spanish Cuisine
Barrafina Adelaide Street, 10 Adelaide Street, London, WC2N 4HZ
Tube: Charing Cross Station, Embankment Underground Station, Leicester Square Station, Covent Garden Station
After a five year wait, restaurateurs Sam and Eddie Hart open the second branch of Barrafina, this time occupying a corner site on Adelaide Street in Covent Garden. Much like the original and hugely popular Barrafina on Frith Street in Soho, the menu here will be made up of classic and contemporary tapas, using meticulously sourced and seasonal ingredients from Spain and the British Isles, but with the addition of some new dishes which take inspiration from recent trips to Spain. The restaurant includes a long marble top bar, with 29 stools and an open kitchen, and there's a lower ground floor space for private dining and events which has an open kitchen with its very own plancha. Nieves Barragan Mohacho, who has worked with the Hart Brothers for over ten years oversees the running of the kitchen as Executive Head Chef, and the fabulous Jose Etura heads up the front of house operations. Just as at the original, it's first come, first served - form an orderly queue, tapas lovers, it's worth it.
Opened 7th July 2014
Where:
Scarpetta,
110 Cannon Street, London London, EC4 N6EU
Category:
Italian Cuisine
Scarpetta, 110 Cannon Street, London, EC4 N6EU
Tube: Monument Station, Cannon Street Station, Bank Station, Mansion House Station
Canon Street Italian Scarpetta offers fresh pastas from the regions of Southern Italy via a menu created by chef Pierluigi Sandonnini who trained under three Michelin-starred chef, Gualtiero Marchesi. Pasta here is made with semolina flour making them lighter and healthier, created by Michele Fiore who has 25 years' experience and three generations of knowledge. Customers and diners can watch him in action making pasta from scratch at a special workbench while they enjoy the results of his labours. It's an all-Italian team at Scarpetta which has been set up by founders and great friends, Uberto Jasson D'Oria who grew up on his family's farm and restaurant in Puglia and Patrick Philion, who grew up in Parma, an Italian culinary hub. Feel free to enjoy every last drop of your pasta dish, taking a piece of bread and wiping your plate clean with it - that's the very meaning of the word 'Scarpetta'.
Opened 7th July 2014
Where:
The Strand Dining Rooms,
1-3 Strand, Grand Buildings, London London, WC2N 5EJ
Category:
British Cuisine
The Strand Dining Rooms, 1-3 Strand, Grand Buildings, London, WC2N 5EJ
Tube: Charing Cross Station, Embankment Underground Station, Leicester Square Station
Looking for somewhere to enjoy all-day dining close to Trafalgar Square? The Strand Dining Rooms, a 180 cover British restaurant from Mark Harris, may just fit the bill. Harris has previously held positions at The Capital Hotel, Simon Parker Bowles' Green's Restaurant & Oyster Bar, and Searcy's at The Gherkin. For this venture, part of the redevelopment of the grand looking 1-3 Grand Buildings, he has teamed up with Russell Sage Studios interiors who have created an interior based on a traditional Pullman Coach with rich polished wood finishes and beautiful detailing. Promising exceptional service and value for money - "very much at the core of everything I believe in", according to Harris - wine will also play an important part at this quintessentially British restaurant, with wines from specialist suppliers like Bibendum, Corney & Barrow, Flint Wines and Decorum Vintners. In the words of Russell Sage, this is "sure to be one of the stand out restaurant openings of 2014".
Opened 5th July 2014
Where:
Hawksmoor Knightsbridge,
3 Yeoman's Row, London London, SW3 2AL
Category:
American Cuisine
Hawksmoor Knightsbridge, 3 Yeoman's Row, London, SW3 2AL
Tube: Knightsbridge Station
Located nearby to iconic department stores Harrods and Harvey Nichols, Hawksmoor Knightsbridge is the latest addition to the high-end chain of steak restaurants. Opened in mid-2014, it boasts a glamorous Art Deco interior that matches its sophisticated neighbourhood, while also staying true to the masculine Hawksmoor style of leather seating and marble touches. As well as the steak for which Hawksmoor has become famous, this branch also sees seafood feature heavily on the menu. Diners can feast on Singapore-style devilled lobster, raw citrus scallops with chilli & ginger, and a lobster roll with sriracha & yuzu. Perfectly crafted cocktails and indulgent desserts complete the five-star dining experience.
Opened June 2014
Where:
Dorsett Hotel, Shepherds Bush,
58 Shepherd's Bush Green, London London, W12 8QE
Category:
New Hotels
Dorsett Hotel, Shepherds Bush, 58 Shepherd's Bush Green, London, W12 8QE
Tube: Goldhawk Road Station, Shepherd's Bush Market Station (Hammersmith and City Line), Shepherd's Bush Station (Central)
The Dorsett Regency, Shepherd's Bush is a four star hotel within a Grade II-listed red brick landmark building which opened as the Pavilion Cinema in 1923. Unoccupied since 2001, the building has undergone a complete rebuild - just the facade of the original building remains - with a stunning blue tinted glass exterior attached to the brick facade. Located next to what used to be a rather noisy (now closed) Walkabout pub, the hotel has 317 rooms, two restaurants and a spa and occupies a prominent site on Shepherds Bush Green, neighbouring the Shepherds Bush Empire music venue. Run by Asian group Dorsett Hospitality International, the hotel is expected to become part of its mid-priced Dorsett Regency brand when it opens in 2014. Hilary Cross transfers from the nearby K West Hotel & Spa to become General Manager at the Dorsett Shepherds Bush.
Opened June 2014
Where:
T.E.D (Think.Eat.Drink) Restaurant,
47-51 Caledonian Road, London London, N1 9BU
Category:
T.E.D (Think.Eat.Drink) Restaurant, 47-51 Caledonian Road, London, N1 9BU
Tube: King's Cross Station
T.E.D (Think.Eat.Drink) restaurant puts the 'green' into gourmet with quality ingredients cooked in a way that makes the most of their nutritional benefits. So whether you want a power smoothie or a feast of seasonal vegetables T.E.D can satisfy your healthy hunger pangs with homemade salads, cured meats and well sourced fresh fish. In the evening, dishes are larger and more structured so you get choices like pan fried fillet of sea bream with soft fennel and fresh herb dressing, herb marinated Scottish beef fillet with roasted red pepper, salsa verde, broccoli or pearl barley risotto with porcini and truffled herb mascarpone. Biodynamic, carbon-neutral and traditional wines are among the choices on offer and the bar has organic spirits and mixers as well as cocktails made from fresh ingredients. Housed over two floors, the eco-sensitive interior makes use of reclaimed tiles, up-cycled tables and chairs, a lava top bar and re-used stained glass windows. An open-plan kitchen reveal the chefs at work whilst a counter displays an array of salads and tempting homemade breads and pastries. The man behind T.E.D, Jamie Grainger-Smith, was previously at The River Cafe, he helped Jamie Oliver to set up Fifteen Restaurants and co-founded Arthur Potts Dawson's multi award-winning Acorn House (now closed) in Kings Cross before launching the T.E.D consultancy which offers advice and support to the food and drink industry on sustainability.
Opened End of June 2014
Where:
Workshop Coffee Co. Fitzrovia Coffeebar,
80a Mortimer Street, London London, W1W 7FE
Category:
Cafes and Delis
Workshop Coffee Co. Fitzrovia Coffeebar, 80a Mortimer Street, London, W1W 7FE
Tube: Amersham Station
Located just off Regent Street, this 20-seat outlet of the Workshop Coffee Co. serves delicious traceable coffee, in surroundings that take their inspiration from the literary heritage of the local area - once the haunt of Dylan Thomas, Virginia Woolf and Pygmalion playwright George Bernard Shaw. In homage to these artists and writers, the Fitzrovia Coffeebar has a traditional look and feel and the bar itself is made from Madagascan granite, polished to a pearl blue finish. The coffee, roasted on site at Workshop's flagship Clerkenwell store, is prepared and served by highly trained baristas from a La Marzocco Linea PB espresso machine and the ever faithful collection of Mazzer grinders. And a separate area in the basement is where home brewing masterclasses are run. The summer 2014 opening of this Fitzrovia Coffeebar brings the total number of Workshop Coffee Co. branches in London to four, alongside the original Workshop Coffee Co. in Clerkenwell, the Marylebone Coffeebar, and the Workshop Holborn Viaduct - a sizeable space on the ground floor of Amazon's London HQ in Holborn.
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