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Jun
Noisy Oyster - E1
Fish & seafood
London
Opening 30 Jun 2025
This summer 2025 newcomer is a new seafood bistro set in the heart of Shoreditch. Co-founders Madina Kazhimova and Anna Dolgushina 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 menu offers oysters, crudo, classic whole fish dishes and an aged tuna cheeseburger.
Jul
Brasserie Constance - SW6
London
Opening 15 Jul 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.
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.
Effie - W2
London
Opening 31 Jul 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.
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.
ROAM - TQ9
Stoke Gabriel
Opening 31 Jul 2025
On Sandridge Barton wine estate overlooking the River Dart in the South Hams, taking over the venue that was Circa, this new restaurant from an experienced team promises bold European and Basque-style bistro cooking. Open only for lunch, with Friday and Saturday dinner following later in 2025.
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.
Aug
Berenjak Mayfair - W1K
London
Opening 31 Aug 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.
Sep
Aki - W1G
Japanese
London
Opening 30 Sep 2025
Another grand Victorian bank now put to arguably better use – this Japanese-inspired restaurant and cocktail bar is open from autumn 2025 in a Grade II listed building on Cavendish Square, behind Oxford Circus, following a reported £15million refurb by its Maltese owners. The original Aki was launched in Valetta in 2020 and offers a contemporary take on classic Japanese dishes.
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.
Carbone - W1K
London
Opening 30 Sep 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.
Cô Thành - WC2E
London
Opening 30 Sep 2025
A tribute – via Hong Kong – of Ho Chi Minh’s street food ‘Lunch Lady’, Nguyen Thi Thanh – this September 2025 newcomer opens on the former Covent Garden site that was once Frenchie (RIP). On the menu: bun thai, bun mam, and banh mi (baguette sandwiches).
Francesco Mazzei at Corinthia London - SW1A
London
Opening 30 Sep 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.
Le Caprice - W1K
London
Opening 30 Sep 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.
Oct
Bonheur by Matt Abé - W1
London
Opening 31 Oct 2025
Walking in the footsteps of a legend is never an easy act, so this autumn 2025 debut featuring chef-patron Matt Abé backed by Gordon Ramsay may have its work cut out as it relaunches the truly iconic Mayfair basement site quit in 2023 by the Roux family and Le Gavroche. The previously 1980s-tastic interior is undergoing a makeover with ‘subtle nods to Abé’s Australian roots’ (incorporting a new 6-seat chef’s table), while the release promises menus featuring ‘classically rooted cuisine with a contemporary touch, utilising the finest seasonal ingredients’ [could be anywhere TBF?]. Aussie Abé started working for Big Sweary aged 22 and has spent the last 18 years at Gordon Ramsay Royal Hospital Road maintaining his mentor’s three Michelin Stars. Here, one imagines the aim is to win from the tyre man the same three stars as in SW3 (and also that this site once won for the first time in Britain under Michel & Albert Roux, but which were subsequently denied to Michel Albert Roux, aka Michel Roux Jr). The publicity win for Michelin in calling this as three stars will mean it will have to fall notably short to be denied them. The PR isn’t setting their sights low either: ‘…as he steps into one of London’s most iconic dining venues – one that has seen some of the world’s most celebrated chefs work its kitchen. Bonheur will honour its storied legacy, while developing a new generation of talent poised to shape the future of fine dining’. No pressure…
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.
Nov
Casa Como - EC4A
Italian
City of London
Opening 30 Nov 2025
On the ground floor of what was once the Daily Telegraph’s Fleet Street HQ, a sister concept to Emerald Hospitality Group’s Como Garden. This late 2025 opening will house a salumeria (Italian deli), restaurant, bar, and 60-seat terrace.
Dining on the Clouds - EC4A
Japanese
City of London
Opening 30 Nov 2025
Spanning the eighth and ninth floors of what was once the Daily Telegraph’s Fleet Street HQ, this new pan-Asian fusion concept will major in Japanese cuisine – with a dedicated sushi counter and open robata grill – but also with Thai and Chinese dishes. The ninth-floor rooftop terrace will become a bar and lounge complete with a panorama of the nearby cityscape.
Everything on Fire - EC4A
Steaks & grills
City of London
Opening 30 Nov 2025
On the seventh floor of what was once the Daily Telegraph’s Fleet Street HQ, the aim is a theatrical dining concept centred around the open-flame headlined by the name. We are promised an extensive selections of premium meats, prepared on a central clay grill in a dramatic open kitchen.
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.
Kauri - W1U
London
Opening spring 2025 in Marylebone Village, a restaurant and wine bar from Hamish Brown, for 15 years executive head chef of the Roka group. Expect Japanese-inspired dishes using prime British produce cooked over wood fire, with a few Kiwi touches from the NZ-born founder.
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'.
