This month we're ghosting our usual restaurants and flirting with new ones. Oh, the thrills of new beginnings. That's why we've put together a list of the hot new places in town.
Address: The All England Lawn Tennis Club, Church Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 5AE
Opening Date: 1-14 July 2024
A pop-up restaurant run by Keith Prowse (Wimbledon's Official Hospitality Partner) and overseen by Michel Roux and his team for the duration of the Championship, with seats starting at £2305pp.
Address: Westfield Stratford City
Opening Date: 1 July 2024
Opening its largest site yet.
Address: 341-351 Finchley Rd, London NW3 6ET
Opening Date: 1 July - 1 September 2024
Hampstead Beach is back with hours of fun and a variety of food pop-ups from a selection of handpicked caterers throughout the summer. Plus, the JW3 Café will be open as normal, selling a selection of savoury and sweet food, as well as hot, cold and alcoholic drinks.
Address: 10 Blossom Street, London E1 6PL
Opening Date: 1 July 2024 / Soft Launch from 22 June 2024
Wenjun Xiang is opening the third and flagship XI home, focusing on dumplings, with their supersize xiao long bao (soup dumping) being the star of the show.
Address: Terminal House, 52 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0AU
Opening Date: 2 July 2024
Richard Caring is bringing Harry's to Belgravia.
Address: 273 Fulham Road, London SW10 9PZ
Opening Date: 2 July 2024
Opening Offer: Three days of free tastings 2-4 July
Known for their pasta or burgers from their stalls across London (at Mercato Metropolitanos, Camden Market or Crate Walthamstow), founders Leonardo and Simone, two Italian friends from Florence, are now opening their first standalone restaurant, with a retro design, serving a mix of pasta, pizza and Tuscan burgers.
Address: The Yards, 8 Slingsby Place, London WC2H 9JZ
Opening Date: 2 July 2024
A16 seats Japanese hand roll counter dining spot serving up temaki and sashmi by chef Konstantin Tskhay (ex head chef at Sumosan). A downstairs dining room with space for up to 20 more is due to open in September.
Address: 320 Old Street, London EC1V 9DR
Opening Date: 3 July 2024
Kirk Haworth (the Great British Menu 2024 winner) and his sister Keeley are opening a plant-based restaurant in Shoreditch.
Address: 23 Kentish Town Road, London NW1 8NH
Opening Date: 4 July 2024
The team behind the Electric Ballroom bring us a food and music space: street food, themed brunches, day parties, live acts and DJS. The courtyard has a capacity of 300 guests and will have two main food vendors: Pizza & Dumplings (for Neapolitan wood-fired pizzas and gyoza) and Wray & Nephew (for drinks).
Address: Gunnersbury Park, London W3 8LQ
Opening Date: 4 July 2024
If you have friends who are member of Soho House or feel like splurging for the hottest membership in the capital, then definitely sign up to this foodies paradise. There will be unlimited food from: Soho House barbecue BBQ, complete with a seafood spread that includes fresh lobster, prawns and scallops and a wide variety of food stalls: Cecconi’s, Pen Yen, Berenjak, Symplicity, Neat Burger, Crosstown Doughnuts, Churros Garcia, Breddos Tacos, Riddle & Finns, Big Mum’s Samosas, Cue Point, Ruben’s Reubens, and Farmacy.
The bars will also have unlimited drinks from: Patrón (serving Picantes and Palomas), St-Germain (St-Germain Spritzes), Moët & Chandon, Woodford Reserve, Double Dutch, Rock Angel and Peroni, as well as Water Junkie, Nespresso and Grind coffee.
For desserts they have Little Moons, Häagen-Dazs, Blondie's Kitchen and Peppersmith.
But is not all about food here as they have great entertainment, with full line-up is here, with Jessie Ware, Chaka Khan, DJ Spoony presents Garage Classical Orchestra, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Good Neighbours and Future Utopia on the main stage. And on the park stage, don’t miss 2ManyDJs (DJ set), The Blessed Madonna, Kenya Grace, Dan Whitlam, and Soft Launch.
There will also be beauty treatments: hair styling and treatments from Briogeo and The GelBottle Inc, Pavan Beauty Henna Bar, Cowshed for mini massages, tarot card reading, a floral headdress-making workshop with Porsche and, as always, a mini fun fair with rides
Definitely our favourite event of the year!
Address: 135 Wood Street, London E17 3LX
Opening Date: 4 July 2024
DJ Simon Bear is taking over the old Wood Street Deli to open a 'community-focused' bar offering mainly wines from Borough Wines, craft beer from local brewery Pillars, and bar food, such as cheese toasties and pork pies from Melton Mowbray.
Greenpoint Fish & Lobster Co Pop-Up
Address: The Prince Arthur, 95 Forest Rd, Hackney, London E8 3BH
Opening Date: 4 July 2024
Celebrate US Independence Day down at The Prince Arthur gastropub's pop-up from Greenpoint Fish & Lobster Co (Brooklyn-based sustainable seafood suppliers), who’ll be serving up shrimp cocktails, lobster rolls, fish tacos and tuna smash burgers, with fish sourced from Fin & Flounder. Also cooking in the Prince Arthur kitchen July 5-6.
Address: The Coaling Jetty, Battersea Power Station Pier, London SW8 4NR
Opening Date: 5 July 2024
With a big indoor space in Battersea Power Station, Arcade Food Hall is now going alfresco too by taking over the Coaling Jetty jetty by the riverside, featuring a retractable roof and three bars. They will be doing food deliveries from the main Arcade Food Hall right to your table, from their vendors: BAO, Solis, Manna and Sushi Kamon.
Address: 20-24 Shaftesbury Ave, London W1D 7EU
Opening Date: 5 July 2024
Opening Offer: Giveaways every Thursday in July
Albert Schloss Bavarian beer hall is coming to London taking over the former Rainforest Cafe/ Jungle Cave space so expect lots of schnitzels, bratwursts and sharing fondues, from the group behind Rudy’s Pizza Napoletana. It is a massive two-storey Alpine-themed beer hall with five bars and live entertainment, pilsner, schnapps and shuffleboard.
Address: 100 Shoreditch High St, London E1 6JQ
Opening Date: 5 July 2024
One Hundred Shoreditch hotel will transform The Rooftop (tacos restaurant) into Kaso, with a new Eastern Mediterranean menu as well, by Head chef Ilknur Celik.
Address: Hartwell St, Dalston, London E8 3DU
Opening Date: 5 July 2024
A new food, drinks and events space from Dominic Cools-Lartigue (The Tramshed Project and Street Feast), featuring a mix of events, art, music and more. Food wise there will be a permanent restaurant and various residencies, such as Andrew Clarke (of Acme Fire Cult) launching the Butcher of Dalston, Budgie Montoya (Sarap), Gizzi Erskine and Roseau, (a "late-night bakehouse"). For drinks there will be seven bars in this huge 27,000 sq ft site.
Address: Highbury Fields, at the Tennis Court end
Opening Date: 5 July 2024
The man behind Street Feast, Max Tobias, is opening a third site for a few months, sort of, in a brand new converted Citroen Relay, serving a range of bread and pastry, hot and cold drinks, toasties and lots more.
Address: 2-4 Boundary Street, Shoreditch, London E2 7DD
Opening Date: 5 July - September 2024 (Tuesday - Saturday only)
A residency by chef Joseph Denison Carey (ex Pidgin, The Water House Project, Caravel and Bread + Butter supperclub) takes over Boundary.
Summer Fiesta at the Brunswick
Address: Brunswick Centre, Unit 57, Bernard St, London WC1N 1BS
Opening Date: 6 July 2024
Annual food festival (formerly 'Go Greek') with street food, live music and dance performances from around the world.
Address: Woolwich Works, 11 No 1 St, Royal Arsenal, SE18 6HD
Opening Date: 6 July 2024
Curated by food writer Anna Sulan Masing, this is a one day food and literature festival with famous chefs such as Joké Bakare (of Chishuru), critic Jimi Famurewa and authors Melissa Hemsley and Melissa Thompson taking part in a series of discussions, cookery workshops, performance and partying. Beanfeast started in 1773 when King George III pulled his barge into Woolwich and had a big party with beans and bacon.
Address: 37 Orford Road, Walthamstow Village, London, E17 9NL
Opening Date: 6 July 2024
New cafe in Walthamstow Village serving crispy buttermilk fried chicken thighs, salt beef bagels, and beef chilli nachos.
Address: Rivington Greenwich, 178 Greenwich High Rd, Greenwich, London SE10 8NN
Opening Date: 7 July 2024
A new British restaurant with a seasonal menu and a raw seafood bar by David O'Brien (former development director at Caprice Holdings) and Irish Head Chef Fionnan Flood (ex The Chelsea Pig and in Murphia list). Focusing on premium local ingredients, there will be a separate raw bar menu, with fresh seafood and raw Hereford beef. Designed after a "modern Georgian Townhouse', it has Clark Crown (ex-Palomar) heading the bar.
Address: London Wall, 26 Copthall Avenue, London, EC2R7DJ
Opening Date: 8 July 2024
Their fifth store in London.
Address: Royal Exchange, London EC3V 3LL
Opening Date: 8 July 2024
Des Gunewarden (former D&D CEO) is opening his own restaurant at the Royal Exchange, on the North South and East mezzanines, with two new "concepts": Engel and Jang.
Engel will be a "cocktail bar and performance space inspired by 1920s Berlin" serving an all-day Austrian and German café menu. Jang will offer a modern Korean-Japanese cuisine, with Dana Choi (ex Judy Joo's Jinjuu and Seoul Bird) leading the kitchen.
Address: Market Place Vauxhall, 7 S Lambeth Pl, London SW8 1SP
Opening Date: 8 July 2024
Wicked seafood, burgers & dogz. Opening second location after its success in Hackney Wick.
Address: 171 Mare Street, London Fields, E8 3RH
Opening Date: 9 July 2024
Dom's Subs team are opening their first bar, on the former Deep Cuts bar space, where they used to bake their bread, so expect hot dogs, beers and martinis. Run by Greg Boyce (founder of Dom's Subs) and Simon Bazeley (from The Blue Posts).
Address: 25 Leinster Terrace, Baywater, London W2 3ET
Opening Date: 10 July 2024
A new wine bar by Gabriel Chipperfield and his partners at Wendover property group, who also run Fort Road hotel (in Margate) and Shreeji News and Foreign Exchange News coffeeshops. Mina Holland (food and wine writer) will look after the wine list and chef Henry Farrow will run the kitchen.
Address: 9, Market Parade, Forest Rd, Walthamstow, London E17 6DY
Reopening Date: 10 July 2024
The much-loved deli and pizzeria is moving their pizzas, meatball pies and pistachio cannoli 15-minute away from the initial site.
Mare Street Market King’s Cross
Address: 10 Lewis Cubitt Square, London N1C 4BY
Opening Date: 11 July 2024
Second home in a huge space after Hackney success.
Marylebone's Summer in The Square
Address: Portman Square Gardens, London W1H 6LT
Opening Date: 9 -14 July 2024
Marylebone’s award-winning annual summer festival is returning this summer with the very best of Marylebone’s dining scene. There will be sporting events on the big screen, a Guest Kitchen with popular local restaurants on rotation, quality food and drink stalls, family fun and health and wellness activities. It ties in with the Wimbledon Tennis Championship which you can watch on their big screen from a deck chair (with a drink in hand!) in the tranquil setting of Portman Square Garden. They are celebrating their 10th anniversary this year and entry is free. It will return with 'Games In The Garden' on 7-11 August for the Paris Olympics.
Mercato Metropolitano (MM) Ilford
Address: 114 Postway Mews, Ilford IG1 1EQ
Opening Date: 11 July 2024
MM food hall was launched in 2016 at the Milan World Expo and opened in London in 2017, opening first in a disused paper factory near Elephant & Castle, followed by a disused Victorian church in Mayfair and then in Canary Wharf’s new Wood Wharf development. Ilford is the first site in the outer suburbs and London’s first sustainable community food market.
Address: 15 St Cristopher's Place, W1U 1NJ
Opening Date: 12 July 2024
Opening Offer: £1 coffees all day on 12 July
Morena, a Latin-American inspired restaurant with a modern twist, was founded 4 years ago around Covid by Juliana and Valentina, two sisters from Colombia. They are now opening a new site in Marylebone.
Address: Clapham Common, Windmill Dr, London SW4 9DE
Opening Date: 13 July 2024
North-America's largest vegan festival is coming to London. Expect major musical artists, interactive art, free samples, food stands, over 75 vendors, all coming together to 'realise a world without animal exploitation'.
Address: The Gun, 235 Well St, Hackney, London E9 6FE
Opening Date: 13 July 2024
Jay Claus, Peter Ward and Syrus Pickhaver (ex Acme Fire Cult, Brat and Quo Vadis) will be cooking British classics and lost old school dishes, as well as focusing on whole beast butchery, as well as focusing on sustainable Cornish fish.
Address: 4-5 Fortis Green, London N2 9HP
Opening Date: 15 July 2024
Award-winning Indian restaurant is expanding. Popular in Hampstead for their Indian tapas from all over India and for receiving the best chef in North London Award from the London Curry Awards in 2022.
Address: 156 Portobello Road, Notting Hill, London, W11 2EB
Opening Date: 16 July 2024
Opening Offer: Soft launch with 50% off all food from 11 July to 14 July
After a fantastic two years, they are relocating from their site in Knightsbridge to a stunning new location in the heart of Notting Hill.
Address: 210 Chiswick High Rd., Chiswick, London W4 1PD
Opening Date: 17 July 2024
The Crown pub on Chiswick High Road is being resurrected by JKS (of Gymkhana), making this their third JKS pub, in partnership with publican Dominic Jacobs, after The Cadogan Arms in Chelsea and The George in Fitzrovia.
Address: Abney Park, Stoke Newington High Street, Hackney, London N16 0LH
Opening Date: 17 July 2024
Abney Park has undergone a £5m restoration and now has a modern new cafe by Toby Williams and wife Lianna Jewell, who also run catering company Sabel Food catering company (caterers for Lost Village and Wilderness) and do private events and TV and film shoots. There will be "ingredient-led, taste-focused menus" and a garden events space for hire.
Address: 1 Gresham St, London EC2V 7BX
Opening Date: 18 July 2024
Uber Eats restaurant of the year winner are coming to London from Bristol, run by Josh Kleiner with his dad and brother.
Address: 147-149 Wardour Street, Soho, London W1F 8WD
Opening Date: Mid-July 2024
Address: 2 St Anne's Court, London W1F 0AZ
Opening Date: Mid-July 2024
Danish steakhouse which opened last year in the City is now opening its second place, this time in the West End, on the former Zelman Meats and Block Soho site.
Address: 39-45 Bermondsey Street, Bermondsey, London SE1 3XF
Opening Date: 20 July 2024
Opening Offer: 50% off food bill 17-19 July (for Nudge Members)
Burmese restaurant Lahpet is expanding South for itsthird Lahpet on the former The Hide bar space. There will be a central open kitchen and the menu will offer sharing plates and bowls, highlighting ingredients from Myanmar and focusing on regional Burmese cooking technique.
Address: Business Design Centre, Islington
Opening Date: 20-21 July 2024
The festival offers a taste of some of the world’s most exciting culinary destinations, so you can expect everything from masterclasses, live cooking demos from chefs such as Nadiya Hussain, Nisha Katona and Matt Tebbutt, guided tastings of wines, hear leading food writers, including Özlem Warren, Yui Miles and Alex Jackson, discuss their latest releases in Speakers’ Corner, and grab a bite from one of the street food vendors, who’ll serve everything from fusion bao buns to Brazilian picanha steak.
Emilia's Summer Pasta Festival 2024
Address: Emilia's Crafted Pasta (Canary Wharf), 12 George Street London E14 9QG
Opening Date: 21 July 2024
London’s one and only Pasta Festival, hosted by Emilia’s Crafted Pasta, is back to Canary Wharf. The modern restaurant and outdoor areas, riverside terrace and surrounding parks and greenery will all be transformed into a summer street-food style festival filled with live music, various pasta-themed masterclasses, kid’s activities and much more. The entry is free, whilst the fresh pasta stations and outdoor bars will still be open for takeaway food and drinks which can be enjoyed in our dedicated festival ‘pasta picnic’ areas. Plus, there’ll be deckchairs, riverside benches, blankets and more open space dance spots.
Address: 116 Anerley Road, South London
Opening Date: 22 July 2024
One of London’s best new-age bakeries is expanding with a second site three doors up from the original site at 120a, to 'help meet sarnie demand', by co-founders Sian Evans and Tom Mathews. It will be a walk-in bakery with a bigger menu, hosting breadmaking workshops and pizza nights, and serving treats such as sarnies, soda bread, baguettes, and savoury pies.
Address: 1 Harefield Road, Brockley, London SE4 1LW
Opening Date: 22 July 2024
Bar serving cocktails, nice drinks and homestyle plates, locally owned and operated by a couple, Daniel and Heleena, famous for their former Jerk Off BBQ in Creekside in Deptford.
Address: 27 Eccleston Pl, Belgravia, London SW1W 9NF
Opening Date: 23 July 2024
Opening Offer: Soft launch with 30% off food 23 July - 3 August 2024
The team behind Medlar in Chelsea are opening atop the Ice Factory (a recently refurbished warehouse, a wellness and workspace hub) a high-rise (fourth-floor) and high-end restaurant.
Gary Foulkes (worked with Gary Rhodes and Philip Howard at The Square) will be Executive Head Chef, the man responsible for Angler's first Michelin star.
Address: 2nd Floor, Hawley Wharf Market, 3 Camden Lock PLC, London NW1 8AA
Opening Date: 24 July 2024
Bangladesh’s spicy street-food goodness will be a new addition to the Hawley Wharf development.
Address: 4a tisbury court W1D 6BG
Opening Date: 25 July 2024
Opening Offer: 100 free ice creams on opening day
A summer store pop-up in Soho with flavours like mango sticky rice, dirty horchata, and kalamansi gochujang sorbet.
Address: 16-18 Ritherdon Rd, Tooting Bec, London SW17 8QD
Opening Date: 26 July 2024
Opening Offer: Free delicious @bailiescoffee filter 7am - 3pm on opening day
They're already big with their cafe in Balham by two sisters. Milk’s little sister is a brand new bakery, just down the road from the OG. Milk Run is a place to grab a really good coffee, delicious pastry, and stock up on your essentials.
Address: London Stadium, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London E20 2ST
Opening Date: 26-28 July 2024
The world’s largest chicken wing festival, where 500,000 wings will be served and 45 different street food traders, restaurants and BBQ teams will be exhibiting. Tickets include all live music, DJs, bands, entertainment, rides, games, axe throwing, eating competitions and Wing Fest trucker hats. Every year the event showcases the best chicken wings the UK has to offer.
Address: Westfield London, Ariel Way, London W12 7GF
Opening Date: 29 July 2024
Opening Offer: Soft launch 29 – 31 July 2024
The latest outpost for the popular ramen restaurant.
Eggbreak pop-up at the Hoxton Shoreditch
Address: 81 Great Eastern St, London EC2A 3HU
Opening Date: From 29 July 2024, for six months
Until now, the egg-centric Eggbreak has only been in Notting Hill - but now it's getting ready to pop up in Shoreditch.
It'll be in the Hoxton Shoreditch for the whole of the summer. The hotel and restaurant are owned by the same group, so it's an obvious crossover. This version of Eggbreak will also be taking reservations, unlike the original.
Address: 12 Blossom Street, Norton Folgate, London E1 E1 6PL
Opening Date: 30 July 2024
Opening Offer: Soft launch with 50% off food 30-July - 4 August 2024
Founders Eroshan and Aushi Meewella are successful in Soho so they will have a second opening in the Norton Folgate development, with a completely new menu (inspired by dishes from their childhood). It will have two private dining rooms and a separate bar space (using Sri Lankan spirits and ingredients).
Address: 21 Halliford St, Hackney, London, N1 3HB
Opening Date: 31 July 2024
Day Trip opens 13 July and The Dreamery in early August
A wine bar and restaurant from restaurateurs Alex Young and George de Vos and a new home for former Papi chef Jack Coggins and Wine Director Nathalie Nelles (ex Noble Fine Liquor Group - Bright & P Franco), taking over the old Michael's Den pub.
The space will also include a coffee shop called Day Trip, with a garden designed by the Chelsea Flower gold-medal-winning garden Ji-hae Hwang, while a gelato shop called The Dreamery will open next door in August.
Address: 21 Halliford St, Hackney, Hammersmith, London, N1 3HB
Opening Date: 31 July 2024
Opening Offer: The first 100 people to sign up to become a Hammersmith Founding Farmer will get their first Fieldtray on them.
Healthy boxes made with fresh ingredients.
Address: 300 King's Road, London SW3 5UH
Opening Date: July 2024
From restaurant duo George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya Demichev (owners of recently opened Lita, Goodman, Wild and Belvedere) and chef Chris Denney (from 108 Garage and Fiend).
Address: 272 Brompton Road, London, SW3 2AW
Opening Date: July 2024
The Fraquelli brothers will be opening a third Brasseria, adding to the sites in Marylebone and Notting Hill. The latest, in Brompton, will take over the former La Brasserie, which operated there for 30 years, and will ‘combine Italian flavour and style with New York service and a Parisian grand brasserie atmosphere.’
Address: Heddon Street, Mayfair W1
Opening Date: July 2024
Santiago Lastra is opening Mexican restaurant with the MJMK group who were also behind Michelin-starred Kol and Casa do Frango (which is also on Heddon Street.
Address: 1st Floor, 70 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 1ER
Opening Date: July 2024
A new Italian restaurant inspired by the Amalfi Coast, right opposite Harrods, which will be filled with real citrus trees (the design of the restaurant is done by Yodezeen -architecture and design studio).
Address: KERB Seven Dials Market, London WC2H 9AU
Opening Date: July 2024
These little pots of steamed fruit covered with crumble have become extremely popular, with stalls in Camden and Borough and a Spitalfields shop, so central London was bound to be next.
Address: Islington Square, 116 Upper St, London N1 1AB
Opening Date: July 2024
YolanDa Brown OBE DL, Jazz musician, and her music manager and entrepreneur Adetokunbo ‘T’ Oyelola are opening a restaurant in Islington Square following a Kickstarter campaign.
Address: 5 Savile Row, Mayfair, London W1S 3PB
Opening Date: July 2024
Jason Atherton opens 'flagship restaurant' in Mayfair, making this his sixth venue in London.
Address: WALTHAMFOREST, 193 Wood St, London E17 3NU
Opening Date: July 2024
An Indian street food and chai spot.
Address: 43 White Post Ln, Hackney Wick, London E9 5EN
Opening Date: July 2024
A new neighbourhood taqueria for Mexican tacos and mezcal. Watch your tacos being made in front of you and choose from flavours like pork chops or crab tacos.
Address: 176 Victoria Park Rd, Hackney, London E9 7HD
Opening Date: July 2024
Inspired from British caffes, this is a shiny, all-white space, with a menu of fry-ups, sandwiches, and iced buns, along with specials at the weekend.
Address: 110 Buckingham Palace road, Victoria, London SW1W 9SA
Opening Date: 30 July 2024
This Beiruti bakery is serving exciting twists on classic Lebanese dishes like mana’eesh topped with musakhan chicken and tahini lamb shawarma-filled ka’ak.
Address: 85 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JS
Opening Date: July 2024
An all-day dining, bakehouse and coffee roastery by restaurateurs Dima Zakhodiakin and Alina Kosichkina (who also have 32 restaurants in Kyiv). It is inspired by their bakery chain Khlebniy, has its own coffee roastery and takes over the old Pain Quotidien site.
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