The official month celebrating love is upon us and as our love for you, our dear readers, is unconditional, we have filled this guide with new date and restaurants inspiration so that your V-Day plans can be memorable.
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.
Address: 1 Lakeside Dr, London NW10 7HQ
Opening Date: 4 February 2025
Famous US burger chain does a one-day pop-up at Regency Heights in Park Royal, after similar appearance in Hendon and Finchley Road last year.
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.
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.
Address: 113 Queensway, London W2 4SJ
Opening Date: 7 February 2025 at 12pm
Opening Offers: 50% Off All Pancakes, 100 Free Drinks to the first 100 customers with their order, Free Ice Cream Scoop for Children with every child’s meal, chance to Win Free Pancakes for a Month (Scan the QR code in-store to enter a draw)
North America’s leading and largest soufflé pancake & dessert cafe opens new site in Queensway, bringing its world-renowned Japanese signature light, cloud-like pancakes to one of London’s most vibrant and diverse neighbourhoods.
Address: 5 Stoney Street, Borough Market, London SE1 9AA
Re-opening Date: 12 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.
Address: 27-29 Endell St, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9BA
Opening Date: 12 February 2025
Scott Collins, founder of MEATliquor, opens a sports bar in Covent Garden. Their Hideout Coffee is due to open at the end of February.
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.
Address: 1st Floor, 70 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 1ER
Opening Date: 14 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.
Address: 21-22 New Row, London WC2N 4LA
Opening Date: 17 February 2025
Opening Offer: 50% off for the first week
The UK’s first Tree-to-Cup concept café opens new site.
Address: 6A-8A Lonsdale Road, Queen’s Park, London, NW6 6RD
Opening Date: 19 February 2025
Lula has been transformed into PYRÃ with Head Chef Mattia Caddeo (ex The Ivy Collection and Novikov) in the kitchen. They will also launch an upstairs vinyl bar The Loft a few weeks after the opening.
Address: 64 Long Acre, London WC2E 9JD
Opening Date: 20 February 2025
Gail Mejia opened the first GAIL’s bakery in Hampstead in 2005, baking fresh, handmade bread, pastries and cakes every day.
Address: 35 Stoke Newington Church St, London N16 0NX
Opening Date: 21 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.
Address: 157 Tower Bridge Road, Bermondsey, London SE1 3LW
Opening Date: 22 February 2025
Opening Offer: Soft launch on 21 February 2025
Agave bar, famous for their Mirror Margarita, is moving from Brixton to Bermondsey on the former Bermondsey Larder, in the Locke hotel complex, with Nopalito as the same kitchen partners as in Brixton.
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.
Address: 117 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8AF
Opening Date: 24 February 2025
Indian restaurateur Gobind Chona (owner of Gura Gura) is opening his second restaurant, a casual Indian restaurant inspired by Northern Indian cuisine.
Address: 13 Norfolk Place, Paddington, London W2 1QJ
Opening Date: 24 February 2025
For their 15th anniversary the Neapolitan pizzeria are opening a new site at The Frontline Club.
Address: 5 Redman Place, Stratford Cross, London E20 1JQ
Opening Date: 25 February 2025
Modern European wine bar and restaurant, sister to Darkhorse, with chef Richard Sinclair (ex Lardo and Pied a Terre) serving small plates and sharing dishes.
Victor Garvey at The Midland Grand
Address: St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, Euston Rd., London NW1 2AR
Opening Date: 25 February 2025
Following Patrick Powell's departure from St Pancras restaurant The Midland Grand Dining Room, the restaurant will relaunch with Victor Garvey (ex Michelin-starred SOLA) leading the kitchen, along with Harry Handelsman (of The Midland Grand and Chiltern Firehouse), focusing on French cuisine.
Address: Unit CR32 Crossrail Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AR
Opening Date: 26 February 2025
The restaurant group opens their fourth site, with a private dining room for masterclasses and a 'show kitchen'.
Address: 36 Hill St, Richmond TW9 1TW
Opening Date: 26 February 2025
Yotam Ottolenghi opens new deli in South East London, serving their famous salads and cakes.
Address: 25 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch, London E1 6JX
Opening Date: 22 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.
Address: 36 Goodge Street, Fitzrovia, London W1T 2QN
Opening Date: 26 February 2025
Li Zhang (owner of Sichuan Sanxia Renjia) opens a new Hubei and Cantonese restaurant with Chef Qian (ex Gouqi, Mimi Mei Fair and Hakkassan) curating the menu, with a "Three Ways of Eating Geoduck" as the special, on the former Trattoria Mondello space.
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.
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