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Mar
Camino - SW1E
Spanish
London
Opening 01 Mar 2025
Opening February 2025 on the ground floor of Victoria's Zig Zag building, the former Iberica tapas bar rebranded following a takeover.
Pip - M3
Blackfriars
Opening 19 Mar 2025
Opening late summer 2024 in the Treehouse Hotel on Deansgate, from high-profile former Aumbry chef Mary-Ellen McTague, an all-day restaurant billed as ‘a celebration of everything I am passionate about – seasonal, low-waste cooking, and the incredible produce we have here in the northwest’.
The Lavery - SW7
London
Opening 25 Mar 2025
Opening in late March opposite the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, a restaurant, café and events space in the former home of artist Sir John Lavery. Ex-River Café and Rochelle Canteen chef Yohei Furuhashi is running the kitchen, with a focus on Mediterranean dishes reflecting the seasons.
BEAR by Carlo Scotto, Crazy Bear Hotel - HP9
British, Modern
Beaconsfield
Opening 29 Mar 2025
Acclaimed Chef Carlo Scotto is set to launch BEAR by Carlo Scotto, bringing a new slant to the restaurant offering at the Crazy Bear Hotel in Beaconsfield. It will offer an ambitious tasting menu with a farm-to-plate philosophy, highlighting foraged ingredients and seasonal vegetables. The restaurant is open in Spring 2025 alongside renovations at Crazy Bear's UK properties in Beaconsfield and Stadhampton.
27 Old Compton Street - W1D
London
Opening 31 Mar 2025
Opening late March 2025 in the heart of Soho, a freshly made pasta bar from the team behind nearby Italian 40 Dean Street. It's a small space with a no-booking policy, so expect high tables and fast service.
Berenjak Mayfair - W1K
London
Opening 31 Mar 2025
Opening in 2025 in a new development next to the Barley Mow on Duke Street in Mayfair, the third London venue from high-flying Kian Samyani offering dishes inspired by the kebab shops of Tehran. The Soho original and Borough Market follow-up win consistent high ratings in our guide.
Bluebird City - EC2M
City of London
Opening 31 Mar 2025
he first opening from “evolv” – the renamed group that was D&D London – an extension of the Bluebird name previously synonymous with its landmark Chelsea site, the former Bluebird car garage, which is now set to be cloned in Moorgate as a new identity for the brasserie on the ground floor of the group’s South Place Hotel. It will offer a mix of dishes from Chelsea's menu, along with new ideas from Executive Head Chef Rob Grist. The interior remains largely unchanged from its former incarnation, but the terrace will feature Bluebird's distinctive looks with large umbrellas, planters, and private bookable cabins.
Brasserie Constance - SW6
London
Opening 31 Mar 2025
Promising a riverside dining experience with stunning views of the River Thames, this Spring 2025 newcomer is situated at Fulham Football Club's Fulham Pier development and is the work of Chef Adam Byatt of Trinity fame in Clapham. It is a brasserie offering modern British seasonal dishes, including an à la carte menu and set lunch. The space features floor-to-ceiling windows and a terrace for al fresco dining.
Effie - W2
London
Opening 31 Mar 2025
From the Pachamama Group, this 2025 debut is set to occupy two floors of a monolithic landmark in Bayswater – the former Whiteleys department store. The sunny seas of the Aegean are popular inspiration for restaurant openings currently and this one aims to fish in similar waters.
Emberwood, The Francis Hotel - BA1
British, Modern
Bath
Opening 31 Mar 2025
Part of the multimillion-pound revamp of plush five star – The Francis Hotel – this British brasserie opens in spring 2025 comes complete with open kitchen and charcoal-fired hearth. Executive Head Chef David Hazell will lead the culinary team, offering locally sourced dishes.
Josephine - W1U
London
Opening 31 Mar 2025
Opening in spring 2025 in the former Daylesford Organic premises in Blandford Street, Marylebone, the second helping of Claude Bosi's tribute to the bouchons of his native Lyons (named after his grandmother). The Chelsea original was one of the hit openings of 2024, so it might be difficult to find a table at short notice.
Luna - SE1
London
Opening 31 Mar 2025
Scheduled to open in spring 2025 next door to Le Pont de la Tour on Shad Thames, a cosy wine bar from the team behind nearby Legare, with a terrace for warmer weather. Expect biodynamic wines accompanied by light meals.
Noisy Oyster - E1
Fish & seafood
London
Opening 31 Mar 2025
This spring 2025 newcomer is a new seafood bistro set in the heart of Shoreditch. Co-founders Madina Kazhimova and Anna Dolgushina are to feature sustainably sourced seafood, martinis, in a design-led interio crafted by Harry Nuriev, to reflect Shoreditch's creative scene and post-industrial vibe. The press release promised a space "where food, fashion, and art seamlessly come together” and will feature oysters, crudo, plus classic whole fish dishes.
Oak by Chris Emery - OX44
Toot Baldon
Opening 31 Mar 2025
Opening Spring 2025 in the Crazy Bear boutique hotel, a new 'British fine dining' restaurant under Chris Emery, former head chef at Jason Atherton's New York outpost The Clocktower. Expect a modern take on British cuisine, as this longstanding venue relaunches following a management buyout.
Osteria Angelina - E1
Italian
London
Opening 31 Mar 2025
Open in London's Norton Folgate from March 2025, a new pasta and grill restaurant from the Angelina Dalston team, with owners Joshua Owens-Baigler, Amar Takhar, Laura Horta and chef Usman Haider. Similarly inspired by Japanese and Italian cuisine, it will offer a menu featuring fresh pastas with a Japanese twist, alongside Italian and Japanese inspired ‘big cut’ Binchotan grill dishes. There is a diverse wine list, Sake selections, and cocktails.
Permit Rooms - W11
Indian
London
Opening 31 Mar 2025
Dishoom impresarios, Shamil and Kavi Thakrar are set to open the first London branch of their successful spin-off chain in Notting Hill's Portobello Road in Spring 2025. Known for its Indian cuisine, the new venue is expected to offer a variety of sharing plates and cocktails inspired by Bombay’s permit rooms (essentially drinking dens during 1940s Prohibition Indian style). The four storey Victorian property, formerly a gin distillery, will house this fourth branch in the formerly out-of-London chain and has taken about £2 million to get off the ground.
Regina's - B3
Birmingham City Centre
Opening 31 Mar 2025
Scheduled to open in January 2025 on the former site of Purnell's Bistro in Newhall Street, a 'modern European' restaurant with a snazzily designed interiors. The 60-seat bar is expected to be a big draw.
Rockfish - DT7
Lyme Regis
Opening 31 Mar 2025
Opening in early 2025, the latest branch of this Devon-based fish and seafood specialist has taken over the site of Mark Hix’s Oyster and Fish House (which closed in December 2024). Expect a good range of fish supplied from Brixham, where founder Mitch Tonks has his own day boat.
Seven North - EC2M
Mediterranean
London
Opening 31 Mar 2025
Originally slated to open in autumn 2023, the new Sircle Hotel in Devonshire Square, near Liverpool Street station, features a restaurant from Israeli chef Eyal Shani, who is making his presence felt in the capital with two branches of Miznon and Tel Aviv-style Lilienblum near Old Street. Seven North, already up and running in Vienna, combines pan-Mediterranean and German culinary influences.
Tatar Bunar - EC2A
East & Cent. European
London
Opening 31 Mar 2025
Opening March 2025, a Ukrainian restaurant in Curtain Road, Shoreditch. A London debut from Ukrainian restaurateurs Alex Cooper and Anna Andriienko, showcasing Alex's grandmother's recipes from Tatarbunary, a small city in the south of the country (Alex remains in Kyiv, running the couple's restaurants there).
The Garden Cobham - KT11
Cobham
Opening 31 Mar 2025
Opening in 2024, the kitchen return of chef Ashley Palmer-Watts, for almost 20 years Heston Blumenthal's no. 2 as head chef of the Fat Duck and launch chef at the Mandarin Oriental's Dinner by Heston. Expect kitchen perfection in the 35-seat restaurant, along with a bigger wine bar, cafe and bakery, with luxury accommodation following soon.
Tom Brown at The Capital - SW3
London
Opening 31 Mar 2025
Open in early 2025, a new seafood specialist restaurant in the Knightsbridge hotel, close to Harrods, from the former head chef when it was operated by Nathan Outlaw. Tom Brown has since gone on to make a major name for himself with Cornerstone (RIP) and Pearly Queen in East London.
Treehouse Hotel - M3
Manchester
Opening 31 Mar 2025
The UK's second Treehouse hotel will now open in Manchester in early 2024, with a ground-floor restaurant by Mary-Ellen McTague and a 14th-floor destination restaurant and bar from Sam Grainger.
Uyare - LS2
Leeds city centre
Opening 31 Mar 2025
Scheduled to open in early 2025 in the Victoria Gate rooftop site vacated by Issho (RIP), the new venture from hit South Indian outfit Tharavadu is expected to follow the same Karalan small-plates theme, but on a larger scale with up to 300 guests at a time.
Apr
The Duck & Rice - SW11
Chinese, Dim sum
London
Opening 30 Apr 2025
After nearly 10 years, this individual concept – a “British pub and chop suey kitchen” (originally dreamt up by Alan Yau, now in other hands) has spawned this large sibling – a 185-cover space on Level 1 of Battersea Power Station. The aim here is more sleek and contemporary and necessarily less pub-like, so how much of a family feel there will be is debatable: indeed the press release says: “Expect sleek, contemporary interiors that still feel warm and inviting—a departure from the cosy old-school pub aesthetic of its Soho sibling.”
The Kerfield Arms - SE5
London
Opening 30 Apr 2025
This April 2025 opening occupies the former Crooked Well pub in Camberwell, a second upscale gastropub from the team behind The Baring in Islington. It’s aiming for a 'considered' seasonal menu of mainly produce, backed up by a list of mainly natural wines.
May
Ara - E1
Fusion
London
Opening 01 May 2025
Ara Restaurant, from Turkish-born chef-patron Murat Kilic (who also owners Amber and Route), is a May 2025 newcomer near Shoreditch in the Aldgate East area. The 76 indoor-cover restaurant (with 20 outdoors) aims to offer a fusion of global flavors inspired by Murat's travels, with a menu showcasing eclectic dishes and a focus on environmentally conscious practice. Sample dishes include: Grilled potato flatbread with homemade cultured butter, Mussels skewers with roasted chicken wings in butter sauce, Blackened leeks with muhammara and XO sauce, and Slow-cooked short rib with date demi-glaze.
Cinnamon Kitchen Leeds, Queen’s Hotel - LS1
Leeds
Opening 31 May 2025
Open May 2025 in the city centre's Queens Hotel, the first foray outside London for restaurateur Vivek Singh of Cinnamon Club. The third branch of his more affordable Cinnamon Kitchen offshoot will take inspiration from the railway hotels of India, with dishes from across the subcontinent.
Francesco Mazzei at Corinthia London - SW1A
London
Opening 31 May 2025
Opening mid-2025 in this grand hotel off Trafalgar Square, a flagship restaurant from the top-class Italian chef, most recently of Sartoria and Fiume. He's taking over what was the Northall, with Tom Kerridge's Grill just along the corridor.
Hannah, The Stratford Hotel - SE1
Japanese
Stratford
Opening 31 May 2025
It’s goodbye south bank, hello Olympic Park for Daisuke Shimoyama and his team who are shifting their operation from the centre of town to this sleek new building in the East End. This has long been an under-the-radar success story for the Japanese chef: perhaps here in Stratford he will attract the spotlight that he maybe unfairly missed stuck away at the back of County Hall.
Locatelli - WC2N
London
Opening 31 May 2025
Taking over the mezzanine dining room in the National Gallery's Sainsbury wing, an all-day Italian restaurant from Giorgio and Plaxy Locatelli – a more casual follow-up to their famous Locanda Locatelli off Portman Square (now closed). It's a good looking space overlooking the square that's never before properly found its mojo. Maybe it's time is now? Branded with the name of the famous Italian chef, it will be run by British caterers Searcy's. On the ground floor there is also an espresso bar, Bar Giorgio, specialising in Roman maritozzi brioche buns.
Marjorie's - W1F
French
London
Opening 31 May 2025
On a site off Carnaby Street, that was till recently poke vendors Kua ‘Aina, this new French restaurant and wine bar is a May 2025 arrival May. Headed by owners Michael Searle & Josh Anderson and chef Giacomo Peretti, the aim is to import a slice of Paris to this corner of Soho, with a modern take on French cuisine while still respecting the classics with a cozy interior inspired by Parisian wine bars and 47 covers split over two floors. Sample dishes: Chicken liver rocher, hazelnut & morello; Fried courgette, rouille & trout roe; Brie de Meaux, summer beans & apricot; Escargot, seaweed & pine nut cream; Crab tart with crab bisque; Red mullet, bouillabaisse & tapenade; Bavette, egg yolk & girolles; Mille-feuille, strawberries & chantilly; Raspberry & tarragon sorbet. All this alongside an all-French wine list selected by Searle.
Myrtos - SW3
Greek
London
Opening 31 May 2025
Celebrated Pied a Terre Chef Asimakis Chaniotis, is behind this May newcomer in South Kensington. Inspired by his Greek heritage, it will offer traditional Greek cuisine in a bright and spacious setting. The restaurant, named after Kefalonia's Myrtos beach, aims to provide a neighbourhood dining experience rooted in Greek culture and ingredients and is the latest in a series of more ambitious Greek openings in the capital. It will feature a mix of small plates, sharing dishes, and desserts, all sourced from top suppliers in Greece and the UK.
The Azalea - KA26
Scottish
Ballantrae
Opening 31 May 2025
A new dining experience set in the estate's Victorian glasshouse and bothy. Led by Executive Chef Peter Howarth, it is to focus on a "seed-to-service" approach, offering indoor and outdoor dining with locally sourced ingredients and a menu reflecting the seasonal produce. With its relaxed yet elegant approach featuring gardens, wildlife, and a stargazing experience, this immersive dining destination aims to showcase Scotland's finest produce in a sustainable and memorable manner, while complementing the Castle's existing fine dining offerings. Sample dishes: St. Bride’s Chicken with Wild Mushrooms and Tarragon Sauce, Rib Eye of Prime Scottish Beef ‘Au Poivre’ with Pomme Frites and Glenapp Garden Salad
Jun
Carbone - W1K
London
Opening 30 Jun 2025
Opening summer 2025 in the Rosewood Chancery hotel, in the former US Embassy in Mayfair’s Grosvenor Square, a London branch of the New York Italian whose retro style and ‘red sauce’ cooking has been hugely popular in the past 10 years. Its competition with Le Caprice at the opposite corner of the hotel will be fun to watch.
Le Caprice - W1K
London
Opening 30 Jun 2025
Opening summer 2025 in the Rosewood Chancery hotel, in the former US Embassy in Mayfair’s Grosvenor Square, the revival of Le Caprice, the one-time celeb-magnet in St James’s that closed down during the pandemic. Owner Richard Caring promises a “chic, comfortable and classic” mix of old and new.
Mareida - W1W
South American
London
Opening 30 Jun 2025
Opening June 2025, a Chilean restaurant in Fitzrovia, showcasing dishes and wine from the coast and mountains of the South American country. Chefs Trinidad Vial Della Maggiora and Carolina Bazán (voted best South American female chef in 2019) will be supported by a rota of guest chefs from Chile.
Jul
CÉ LA VI London - W2
Middle Eastern
London
Opening 31 Jul 2025
Towering over Paddington and the station, this rooftop venue sits atop a new glass cube of a London landmark created by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. It’s a biggie, spanning the 17 and 18th floors that will make it West London’s highest rooftop restaurant. with over 400 covers. On Level 17, the restaurant will seat 180, with 124 in the bar/lounge, with a further 120 covers on the floor above. The operator has siblings in Singapore, Dubai, Taipei, and Tokyo and the cuisine will be modern Asian.
Chotto Matte - M2
Fusion
Manchester
Opening 31 Jul 2025
There's a while to wait for Mancunian fans of the Japanese-Peruvian food - the St Micheal's development, where this rooftop terrace restaurant will open, isn't due to be finished until 2024.
Hyll Hotel - GL55
Chipping Campden
Opening 31 Jul 2025
A boutique hotel open in the North Cotswolds from early summer 2025. It’s owned by Madfabulous Hotels, founded by Paul Baker (who founded the international bakery brand St Pierre Groupe) and Sarah Ramsbottom (who helped remodel Chester’s Soughton Hall). The hotel features a restaurant led by head chef Mark Coleman focused on local Cotswold producers.
Studio Frantzén - SW1X
Scandinavian
London
Opening 31 Jul 2025
Opening in summer 2025, Studio Frantzen from Swedish superstar chef Bjorn Frantzen, offering his individual take on French and Japanese cuisine with Nordic influences. It occupied a prime slot at Harrods for two years before closing in the New Year, and is to reopen at an address yet to be announced.
Sep
Blacklock Birmingham - B3
Steaks & grills
Birmingham City Centre
Opening 30 Sep 2025
The second out-of-London outpost of Gordon Ker's all-conquering group is open from Autumn 2025 in Birmingham city centre, offering a modern take on the Great British chophouse. Situated in St Philip's House, the restaurant features a 100-seat dining area and bar overlooking Cathedral Square. Known for their quality meat sourced from award-winning Cornish family farmers, Blacklock prides itself on using the whole animal to create a diverse menu; with a focus on sustainability and exceptional value.
Oct
Freyja - NE15
Heddon-on-the-Wall
Opening 31 Oct 2025
Scheduled for a late 2025 opening, a modern Scandi-style restaurant to
be built in the walled garden of Close House in the Tyne Valley, now
part of a golf course. It's from the high-achieving owners of Hjem in
Wall – Swedish chef Alex Nietosvuori and his Northumberland-born partner
Ally Thompson – who will work their magic on produce from the garden and
meat, game and fish from within a 30-mile radius.
Jan
RH London - W1S
London
Opening 31 Jan 2026
Opening in 2025/6 in Mayfair, where it has taken over the former Anercrombie & Fitch store off Savile Row, a lavish interiors showroom from the luxury US giant fka Restoration Hardware, with a restaurant, coffee shop, three bars and a roof terrace. This follows RH's palatial European debut at Aynho Park, a 17th-century stately home in north Oxfordshire.
Opening Date to be Confirmed
Aram - WC2R
Syrian
London
Overlooking the riverside terrace at Somerset House: a Syrian cafe, deli, and restaurant in founded by the amiable and expertly self-promoting Imad Alarnab. It will offer authentic Syrian cuisine using produce imported directly from Syria, with dishes inspired by the fourteen provinces of Syria, such as Zaatar croissants and Maarouk donuts.
Circolo Pololare - M2
Manchester City Centre
From Gloria in Milan to Barracuda in Barcelona, France's Big Mamma group continues to storm Europe with its brand of maximalist retro fun-spots. And where better than the new St Michael's development off Deansgate to launch ’up North (there is already a Corcolo Popolare in London… and Madrid for that matter). It’s big – 280 covers – and aims to "take guests on the ultimate celebratory Italo-escape" with a "buzzing jasmine-clad trattoria… inviting you to a huge alfresco festa on the hedonistic island of seductive Sardinia" complete with "twinkling festoon lights sprawled across the eucalyptus-clad ceiling of the wild overgrown courtyard floor". Well, that's what the press release says anyway. On the menu pizza or sharing plates or burrata or prosciutto. There will be a "three litre amaro bottle that's circulating the room" – sounds just the job for central Manc.
Restaurant TBC at Admiralty Arch Waldorf Astoria - SW1A
London
Due to open in 2025, the new hotel in Admiralty Arch will have unparalleled views from two restaurants, including one on the rooftop.
Nammos - SW7
Mediterranean
London
(Update - originally announced for 2023, articles from June 2024 now slate this as a 2024 opening. Meanwhile the group have also purchased a site in Mayfair). High-end Mediterranean seafood and beef top the menu at this chichi outfit from a group based in Mykonos, with offshoots in Cannes and Dubai. It's reservations-only, to minimise disturbance in tranquil 'Knightsbridge village'.
