BEST RESTAURANTS AND BARS OPENING IN LONDON IN FEBRUARY 2025

This month our motto is "Come hungry, Leave Happy". All these amazing restaurants offer promising dreams of feasts and delights and we can't wait to share them all with you. 

 

Gordon Ramsay at 22 Bishopsgate

Address: 22 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AJ

Opening Date: 4 February 2025

Five new, unique Gordon Ramsay culinary experiences are coming to London’s tallest office building: a Lucky Cat restaurant, a Lucky Cat terrace bar on the top floor, a Bread Street Kitchen on the 59th floor, a cookery school - The Gordon Ramsay Academy, and a three-Michelin-starred Restaurant Gordon Ramsay will host a 14-seat chef's table on level 60.

 

Ling Ling's

Address: 614 High Rd, Tottenham, N17 9TA

Opening Date: 5 February 2025

Chef Jenny Phung launches a longterm residency at The Bluecoats pub, running weekly from Wednesday to Sunday.

 

La Môme London

Address: The Berkeley, Wilton Pl, Knightsbridge, London SW1X 7RL

Opening Date: 7 February 2025

The Berkeley Hotel is replacing Marcus Wareing's restaurant, which closed a year ago, with restaurateurs' Ugo and Antoine Lecorché Southern French restaurant La Môme (with branches in Cannes and Monaco). The menu focuses on Mediterranean dishes, and there will be a 10-seater bar and a newly-created terrace.

 

Gaucho - Tower Bridge

Address: 2 More London Pl, London SE1 2AP

Re-opening Date: From 13 February 2025

Re-opening Offer: 50% off ALC Menu Soft Launch, 10th - 12th February

Our beloved Tower Bridge restaurant will be re-opening just in time for Valentine’s Day with a stunning revamped look to mirror the opulence of a Spanish Ambassador’s residence.

 

Dough Hands Residency at The Old Nun's Head

Address: The Old Nun's Head, 15 Nunhead Grn, Nunhead, London SE15 3QQ

Opening Date: From 13 February 2025

Dough Hands by pizza chef Hannah Drye has had a residency in Hackney's Spurstowe Arms and they are doing a second one at The Nun's Head pub.

 

Senza Fondo

Address: 1 Rufus St, Shoreditch, London N1 6PE

Opening Date: 24 February 2025

Joe Worthington (ex Hawksmoor bar manager) is opening a 'premiumised lasagneria' serving Italian-American dishes and focusing on bottomless lasagna, on the former Rossopomodoro space.

 

The Knave of Clubs

Address: 25 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch, London E1 6JX

Opening Date: 27 February 2025

James Dye (owner of The Camberwell Arms, Franks, and Bambi) and Benjy Leibowitz (ex JKS and The NoMad in NYC) have teamed up with Chef Patrick Powell (ex Midland Grand and Allegra) and Atilla Gellen (also previously at Allegra) to revive The Knave of Clubs pub.

On the ground floor it will have a pub kitchen focusing on rotisserie grill. and beers from Allsopp’s Brewery (owners the pub in 1930s) and Guinness, and upstairs there will be a restaurant called One Club Row.

 

Effie

Address: The Whiteley London, 149 Queensway, London W2 4YN

Opening Date: 28 February 2025

New restaurant by the Pachamama Group (owner of two Pachamamas, Chicama and Zephyr), a large space over two floors with a menu inspired by the Aegean coast.

 

Noodle & Beer

Address: 27 Wardour Street, Chinatown, London W1D 6PR

Opening Date: February 2025

Noodle & Beer in Spitalfields founded by Xiaoxiao Wang is opening a second restaurant in Chinatown, focusing on Sichuan noodles.

 

Sandwich Sandwich

Address: 70 Mark Lane, Fenchurch Street station, London EC3R 7NQ

Opening Date: February 2025

After the recent success of their first London sandwich shop which opened this summer, Sandwich Sandwich is now opening UK's "biggest sandwich shop" at 3500 sq ft.

 

Cálong

Address: 35 Stoke Newington Church St, London N16 0NX

Opening Date: February 2025

Chef Joo Won won a Michelin star for Galvin at Windows and is now opening his own pop-up kitchen serving French and European dishes, on the former Rubedo restaurant site, after being inspired by a recent trip to Korea.

 

Alba

Address: 1st Floor, 70 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 1ER

Opening Date: February 2025

High-end Italian inspired by the Amalfi Coast opening opposite Harrods and designed by yacht design studio Yodezeen to have real citrus trees inside.

 

Oorja

Address: 117 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8AF

Opening Date: February 2025

Indian restaurateur Gobind Chona (owner of Gura Gura) is opening his second restaurant, a casual Indian restaurant inspired by Northern Indian cuisine.

 

Applebee's

Address: 5 Stoney Street, Borough Market, London SE1 9AA

Re-opening Date: February 2025

One of Borough Market's oldest restaurants, open since 1998 by Jack Applebee and his two brothers, is having a makeover for its 25th birthday. New Executive Chef is Frankie van Loo (chef for13 years at Jason Atherton’s Social Company restaurant group and Head Chef of City Social) who will focus on British seafood from Brixham Fish Market.

 

Officina 00 - Covent Garden

Address: 8-10 Dryden St, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9NA

Opening Date: February 2025

Artisanal pasta restaurant will take over one of the newly developed spaces on Dryden Street, with a central pasta lab hosting workshops.

 

BLOODsports

Address: 27-29 Endell St, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9BA

Opening Date: February 2025

Scott Collins, founder of MEATliquor, opens a sports bar in Covent Garden.

 

Crunch

Address: 60 Dean Street, Soho, London W1D 6AW

Opening Date: February 2025

After the success of their stall at Spitalfields Market selling brioche sandwiches, Sacha Yonan, Michael Medovnikov and Joni Francisco (ex Gauthier Soho, Chiltern Firehouse and the Experimental Group) are taking over the former Maitre Choux to open a stand alone restaurant.

 

The Hand & Marigold

Address: 244 Bermondsey St, SE1 3UH

Re-opening Date: February 2025

South London wet-led pub is re-opening with Alice and Oli as new owners, serving small snacks and decent crisps so there focusing more on the drinks.

 

 

 

*This guide is updated daily so check again for new restaurants

 

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