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Hattie Lloyd 07/03/24


London Restaurants & Bars Opening Soon

There’s no time like the present…

…to get really excited about the year ahead.

Because while 2023 was filled with some spectacular new restaurants, 2024 is already shaping up to be just as exciting. We’re talking the solo debut from one of the best fine dining chefs in London; some open-fire cooking on East London’s loveliest rooftop; the return of one of London’s best-loved bars; a new nose-to-tail place from a couple of zero-waste pioneers; and the revival of an iconic dining institution, led by one of the greatest restaurateurs of our time.

So here we’ve collated all the top London restaurants slated to open in the next few months. Read on, and make some resolutions…


Prelude | Covent Garden

prelude bar opening soon

First, the good news: Oriole, the excellent cocktail bar & live music venue that spent three years in the World’s 50 Best List, is coming back later this year.

And now, the better news: it’s getting a three month popup called Prelude to road-test some new ideas (like a food menu, for one) and pave the way for the official relaunch in a gorgeous space at The Yards in Covent Garden. It’s like a teaser trailer, but for booze…
Opening: 13th March
Soft launch? Nudge Members are getting their own Prelude prelude, with two preview nights on 7th & 8th March with 50% off food and drink. Find out more here.

Three Sheets Soho | Soho

three sheets soho

Three Sheets are multiplying. The Dalston bar (which previously sat on the World’s 50 Best Bars list for five years in a row) is finally getting a sibling, and it’s set to open in Soho this March. The Venning brothers are coming up with a new cocktail menu for the site on Manette Street, alongside a short list of wines and Champagnes by the glass and – get this – an all-day food menu, too…
Opening: 15th March, book here

Moyagi | Marylebone

moyagi karaoke bar opening soon

There are very few times when you can scream in euphoria at half a dozen of your friends & coworkers simultaneously, but karaoke is one of them – and London is about to get a ridiculously fun new private room destination, born in Sweden, to do it in.
Opening: 15th March
Soft launch? Nudge Members are getting 50% off all booth bookings for up to 4 people from 15th-29th March. Find out more HERE.

TT Restaurant | Shoreditch

TT Rrestaurant

When you’re already one of the best cocktail bars in London, how do you top that? With a rooftop restaurant, apparently.

Because that’s exactly what the folks at TT are doing, crowning their superlative drinking den with an all-new restaurant. It’s going to be the domain of highly talented Sam Lone, the ex head chef at Oren, who’ll be flexing his culinary muscle with some live-fire cooking.
Opening: 22nd March
Soft launch?Nudge Members are getting a pair of exclusive previews on 19th & 20th March, with 50% off food. Find out more HERE.

The Cocochine | Mayfair

cocochine opening 2024

Larry Jayasekara is one of those chefs who seems to have been flirting with greatness for his entire career, and just needed his own restaurant to finally seal the deal. Well, now he’s about to get his own restaurant. And with just eight tables and a chef’s table in the dining room, the kitchen might just be the biggest part of the whole place…
Opening: Late March

Carmel Fitzrovia | Fitzrovia

Carmel Fitzrovia

Another branch of Carmel fits anywhere – but Fitzrovia is a particularly good shout.

If you haven’t found yourself up in Queen’s Park while hungry & in need of a good date spot recently, then you understandably may not have been to the original. But rest assured, it’s excellent. It comes to us from the team behind the also-excellent Berber & Q, made up of chef Josh Katz and his brother Paul, along with wine-shaman Mattia Bianchi…
Opening: Early April
Soft launch? Nudge Members are getting in for an exclusive preview night on 6th April, with 50% off the food bill. Find out more here.

OMA | Borough Market

OMA new restaurant opening soon

Somehow, Borough Market continues to squeeze new openings into its tardis-like environs, and the latest to join them will be OMA. Smokestak and Manteca co-founder David Carter has enlisted an ex-Kiln and an ex-Sabor chef to rustle up a Greek-styled menu spanning raw dishes, open-flame grilling and Cretan clay pot cooking…
Opening: April 2024

Wildflowers | Pimlico

It’s not often you find wildflowers springing up in Pimlico, and this is one to get excited about. It’s the solo debut for Aaron Potter, former head chef at Elystan Street (and described by his old boss Phil ‘Michelin Star collector’ Howard as a “truly great craftsman”). He’ll be settling in to a revamped timber yard tucked between Sloane Square and Victoria, serving up a menu of Mediterranean food across two floors and a terrace…
Opening: May

The Park | Bayswater

A brief introduction (though it’s hardly needed) to Jeremy King: one half of the legendary hospitality duo Corbin & King, who in their time have run such beloved London spots as The Wolseley, Brasserie Zédel and The Delaunay. In 2022 the pair were bought out of their own company by majority stakeholders in a dramatic turn of events, but King’s bouncing back: he’ll be kicking off 2024 with not one but three major openings. And the first will likely be The Park, a relaxed, modern mash-up of American and European restaurant styles, overlooking Kensington Gardens.
Opening: May

Julie’s | Notting Hill

julie's restaurant reopening soon

They say the third time’s a charm… though of course it helps when the first and second times were a charm, too. Julie’s has been a bastion of Notting Hill’s restaurant scene for more than half a century, and it’s just been saved from closure for a third time. New owner Tara MacBain is both a local and a Cordon Bleu-trained chef, so it’s safe to say the place is in safe hands. As for whether it’ll tempt back the same A-list clientele? Revamped interiors, seafood towers, and a table-side martini trolley will probably do the trick…
Opening: Spring 2024

Roe | Canary Wharf

Fallow is one of the best zero-waste restaurants in the city – and the team behind it have wasted zero time in teeing up their next project. Roe will be settling into a three-storey spot overlooking the canal in Canary Wharf, and like its older sibling it’ll follow a nose-to-tail and root-to-stem philosophy. They’re even 3D printing everything in the interior…
Opening: Spring 2024

El Pastor | Battersea

el pastor battersea opening 2024

Battersea Power Station‘s continuing to amp up its restaurant scene – because El Pastor’s joining the fold next Spring. It’ll be the fourth in the family of tequila-soaked taquerias from the Hart brothers, and you’ll find it perched overlooking the iconic building with a spacious, year-round riverside terrace. As always, they’ll be making all their tortillas in-house using heirloom Mexican corn, before serving them up with signature fillings like soft-shelled crab and caramelised pineapple pork ‘al pastor’…
Opening: 26th April 2024

July | Fitzrovia

Coming this spring: July.

Which, as we all assumed when we read that, is the name of an Alsatian-style restaurant & wine bar coming to Charlotte Street this April-ish. And, once again for clarity, when we say ‘Alsatian-style’, we’re referring to the wine-rich region on the Franco-German border, and (fortunately? Unfortunately?) not the dog…
Opening: Spring 2024

Lina Stores | South Kensington

London’s museum quarter is about to get a new work of art. Lina Stores is adding to its growing family of restaurants and delis across the city with an opening on Exhibition Road, serving up its famed hand-made pasta to 90 carb-hungry punters in a characteristically stylish space with a wrap-around terrace.
Opening: Spring 2024

Kioku by Endo | Westminster

kioku by endo at the owo restaurant opening soon

One to file under ‘almost a complete mystery’, all we know about this place is that it’ll be a rooftop restaurant crowning the new Raffles Hotel at The OWO. So why should you get excited about it? Well, aside from the rooftop aspect (which will give the place first-class views of Big Ben and other iconic landmarks), it’ll be headed up by one Endo Kazutoshi – a third-generation sushi master whose first London spot, Endo at the Rotunda, is a Michelin Starred omakase restaurant serving 20 courses to just ten guests at a time.
Opening: Spring 2024

Kricket | Canary Wharf

Kricket White City

Currently open in Soho, Brixton and White City, Kricket’s hopping over to East London for the first time. Their Canary Wharf restaurant will be open for lunch and dinner, serving their critically-acclaimed Anglo-Indian small plates seven days a week. But the real kicker? It’ll also act as an outpost for their ultra-suave cocktail bar SOMA, with a late-night license…
Opening: Early 2024

Langosteria | Westminster

Milan’s modestly glamorous seafood spot Langosteria is the next restaurant to join the line-up at The OWO, where it’ll be rubbing shoulders with fellow Milanese export Paper Moon. After shoring up in Paris and St. Moritz, this is their first UK restaurant – and while the menu’s still under wraps, we can attest that the food at the original is exceptionally good…
Opening: Early 2024

Akira Back | Mayfair

Akira Black

Akira Back was born in South Korea, became a baseball player in Japan, then a pro-snowboarder in the US, and finally decided to put athletics away and settle for a Michelin Starred career running a portfolio of 24 acclaimed restaurants across the globe. And now, finally, he’s making his way to London, to open up the flagship restaurant in the all-new Mandarin oriental in Mayfair…
Opening: July

Simpson’s in the Strand | Strand

simpsons in the strand reopening

The word ‘institution’ gets flung around a lot these days – mainly by us – but Simpson’s genuinely is one. It’s been lavishing diners on the Strand since 1828, and throughout its time has been famous for cross-city chess matches and silver trolleys for table-side meat carving. The place had a pretty tough few years before finally shuttering for good during the pandemic – or so we thought. Because Simpson’s is set to reopen in 2024, and who better to revive it than Jeremy King…
Re-opening: By mid-2024

Hotel Dalhousie | Notting Hill

Hotel Dalhousie

To be clear, the Hotel Dalhousie isn’t a hotel, and it isn’t located in the picturesque Northern Indian town of Dalhousie. It’s a restaurant in Notting Hill. Or at least, it will be when it opens this summer, with Tandoor Chop House chef Kundan Rawat turning out some delicious sounding dishes like spiced mutton chop kebabs and rose water lamb patties…
Opening: Summer 2024

Fonda | Mayfair

santiago lastra opening new restaurant

If you liked KOL, there’s a chance you’ll be fonda this too. Uberchef Santiago Lastra has announced his second London restaurant, following on from his Michelin-starred, World’s 50 Best ranking, generally-fawned-over debut. Details are pretty scant at this stage, but he’s aiming to “elicit the flavours of Mexico in a modern way”, with a helping hand from the comal (a flat griddle used to make corn masa)…
Opening: 2024

Dué | Somewhere In London

Jesus Duran

Jesús Durón – executive chef of what might be the best restaurant in Mexico City, Pujol – is set to open a restaurant in London this year. Ironically, Dué has no due date yet. And we don’t really know what he’s going to be cooking, or where it’ll be. But given that he’ll be teaming up with the co-founder of Hong Kong’s Michelin-starred Yardbird, it’s probably one worth keeping an eye out for…
Opening: 2024

Burnt Ends | Knightsbridge

burnt ends london restaurant

BBQ fans, this is your cue to get excited. Dave Pynt’s eatery has had a long and varied history: the Aussie chef launched the place as a pop-up at Climpson’s Arch back in 2012, before taking the concept over to Singapore, where it’s since earned a Michelin Star and a #24 spot on Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants list (and #65 in the world). Basically, it’s big deal BBQ – and he’s going to be opening a London outpost once more when he moves to Harrods, of all places, next year.
Opening: 2025

 


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