Bumpkin W11 – the Notting Hill country-style brasserie – is to open a second branch, in South Kensington, in early September. The site, in the Old Brompton Road, will shortly cease trading as the last London branch of Abbaye.

The new 120-seater will be the first of a roll-out of a planned five new branches in the capital. The site of the next opening has apparently already been identified.