Carbone
Famous red sauce restaurant Carbone will make its UK debut this month when it opens a restaurant within the impressive former US Embassy building in Mayfair. Details are being kept under wraps for the time being, but diners can expect an impressive subterranean Italian restaurant that will befit its enviable location with a menu that encompasses an array of the restaurant’s signature dishes, including the Caesar alla ZZ; octopus pizzaiolo; and spicy rigatoni vodka,
30 Grosvenor Square, London W1K // carbonelondon.com
The Chancery Rosewood
Also housed within the £1bn redevelopment of the former US Embassy in London’s Mayfair, luxury hotel The Chancery Rosewood is launching seven F&B concepts this month. Most notable is Tobi Masa, the latest London opening from chef Masayoshi ‘Masa’ Takayama (pictured above), one of the most influential figures in modern Japanese cuisine. It will be joined by southern Mediterranean restaurant Serra; tearoom and ‘dessert salon’ Jacqueline; rooftop destination the Eagle Bar; and café and delicatessen concept GSQ.
30 Grosvenor Square, London W1K // rosewoodhotels.com/en/the-chancery-rosewood/dining
Poon’s at Somerset House
Amy Poon will open her first permanent restaurant under her family’s venerable Poon’s brand within the New Wing of Somerset House later this month. Poon’s at Somerset House will seat 60 and offer a menu that will ‘reflect dishes cooked and served in Chinese homes daily, yet are often unfamiliar in the West’.
Somerset House, New Wing Lancaster Place, London WC2R 1LA // poonslondon.com/restaurant
Labombe by Trivet
Opening on 16 September and located at COMO Metropolitan London on Old Park Lane, Labombe by Trivet is a new restaurant from Trivet founders Jonny Lake and Isa Bal. The concept takes its inspiration from the pair’s Monday night ‘Labombe’ wine bar nights during which their now two-Michelin-starred London Bridge restaurant lets its hair down a little and serves a simpler and more focused menu and plus the cork on some its quirkier bottles.
19 Old Park Lane, London W1K 1LB // labombe.co.uk
Marea by Rafael Cagali
The two-Michelin-starred chef behind London’s Da Terra will open a restaurant in Hove early this month. At the Church Road site that was once home to chef Greg Clarke’s short-lived Mexican restaurant El Bolillo, Marea by Rafael Cagali is to be positioned between the chef’s flagship restaurant and the more casual Elis, which is also located in Bethnal Green Town Hall. Cagali and his protégée Ewan Waller — who will lead the kitchen day-to-day as head chef — are understood to be aiming to create Brighton and Hove’s most refined dining experience.
60 Church Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FP // www.mareahove.com
Lilibet’s
Bone Daddies Group founder Ross Shonhan is making a dramatic return to London with a statement – and stately – seafood restaurant. Taking its name from the childhood nickname of Queen Elizabeth II in reference to the fact that the building it occupies was her birthplace, Lilibet’s has been designed to feel like you’re stepping into the private house of the time. Its menu follows an imaginary Grand Tour the princess might have taken through the Mediterranean with an oyster bar and bespoke wood-fired grill key elements of the offer.
17 Bruton Street, London W1J 6QB // lilibetsrestaurant.com
Michael Caines at The Stafford
Michael Caines makes his London restaurant debut this month with an eponymous venue within The Stafford London hotel in St James’s. Michael Caines at The Stafford will reflect the Lympstone Manor chef’s ‘distinctive terroir cuisine’ while ‘paying homage to London’s vibrant and ever-evolving culinary scene’. Expect an abundance of produce from within the British Isles, with signature dishes such as beef wellington and Brixham dover sole.
16-18 St James’s Place, London SW1A 1NJ // thestaffordlondon.com/michael-caines
The Elizabeth
Anthony Demetre is overseeing the menu at the Belgravia pub once known as The Ganymede. Under the Wild Honey chef’s guidance and in collaboration with the venue’s existing head chef David Halewood, the pub will serve a menu of British bistro classics that will include whipped cod’s roe; duck, pork and guinea fowl terrine; roast young chicken lacquered with lemon and honey; Cornish sea bream with warm tomato and basil vinaigrette antiboise; and cherries with Jersey milk ice cream. The refurbished pub will open on 16 September and have 52 covers across three interlinked spaces plus a 12-cover terrace.
139 Ebury St, London SW1W 9QU // theelizabethsw1.co.uk
Society Birmingham
Opening on 5 September, food hall Society will bring a mix of independent street food, craft beer and cocktails to Birmingham’s business district. The lineup will include Japanese sando and melt brand Shokupan; Asian street food vendor Manzoku; Slap & Pickle, which will serve ts signature 40-day dry-aged smash burgers and loaded fries; Birmingham-based Amore Pizza; and The Coffee Bar Collective.
One Colmore Square, Birmingham B4 6AA // societybirmingham.com
Nela
Amsterdam-based live fire restaurant Nela will open at The Whiteley in west London on 10 September. Accessed via its own street entrance, the restaurant will feature an open kitchen, a ’360°’ centrepiece bar, a private dining room and an outdoor terrace. The menu will feature some of the flame-cooked signatures for which the Amsterdam location is known, including artichoke with wild spinach and hollandaise sauce; sea bream with parsley rub.
The Whiteley, 163 Queensway, London W2 4BD // nelarestaurant.com
Kudu
Following the closure of their restaurants in Peckham, husband-and-wife duo Patrick Williams and Amy Corbin are bringing their South African-inspired restaurant brand Kudu to central London, taking over the former Aubaine site on the corner of Moxon Street and Cramer Street in Marylebone. Opening on 16 September, the new restaurant will bring together each of the Kudu Collective’s distinctive spaces – restaurants Kudu and Kudu Grill, and private dining and events space Curious Kudu – together under one roof and feature a refreshed menu format that will feature brand-new dishes alongside long-standing favourites.
7 Moxon Street, London W1U 4EP // kuducollective.com
Solaya
Top Newcastle chef Kenny Atkinson will make his london debut this month with a French Mediterranean restaurant and bar at the art’otel London Hoxton. Located in a new space on the 25th floor of the East London hotel Solaya will ‘celebrate the vibrant flavours of Southern France and Mediterranean cuisine with a modern touch’. Atkinson is one of The North of England’s most successful chefs with his Newcastle restaurants House of Tides and Solstice by Kenny Atkinson both holding Michelin stars. Atkinson will oversee the menu and concept creation at Solaya with the day-to-day running of the kitchen led by head chef Nicola Losquadro whose CV includes Sucre, The Oystermen and Monica Galetti’s now closed Mere.
25th Floor, art’otel London Hoxton, 1-3 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3DT // www.solayalondon.com
Richoux
The century-old patisserie and restaurant brand is returning to the capital later this month after a two-year hiatus with a new location within the Treehouse Hotel London on Langham Place. The new 110-cover restaurant will, like its forebears, be ‘rooted in Parisian café culture’ and serve an all-day menu of ‘signature plates’ alongside handcrafted patisserie and viennoiserie.
14-15 Langham Pl, London W1B 2QS // richoux.co.uk
ADOH!
The team behind London-based Sri Lankan restaurant brand Kolamba are to launch a new street food concept this month on Covent Garden’s Maiden Lane that’s inspired by the island country’s colourful roadside eateries. Central to the ADOH! menu will be kothu, a dish of chopped roti, vegetables, and eggs tossed together on a grill and finished with curry sauce, with four different options served: crab, chicken, mutton and jackfruit.
36 Maiden Lane, London WC2E 7LJ // adoh.co.uk
Aram
Joining Amy Poon at Somerset House is Syrian chef and restaurateur Imad Alarnab, who is to launch a new daytime concept across four rooms of the neoclassical building. Aram is billed as a new Syrian café and deli from Alarnab, who is known for his eponymous Imad’s Syrian Kitchen restaurant in Soho, and will serve a menu of bakes, salads, lunch and breakfasts that draw on flavours from across the fourteen provinces of Syria.
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA // arambyimad.co.uk
Lagana
Pachamama Group is extending its reach across the capital, with another Greek restaurant. Named after the Greek flatbread, Lagana will occupy the Great Eastern Street site that previously housed the group’s Pachamama East restaurant and will be the group’s third Greek concept, joining Zephyr in Notting Hill and Bottarga in Chelsea. Dishes will include puffed-up flatbreads and dips; courgette tempura with spiced red pepper sauce; savoury loukoumades stuffed with Graviera cheese; corn on the cob brushed with yellow chilli butter and dusted with cumin salt; and beef tartare with shallots, capers and kokkinisto ketchup, served with shattering potato crisps.
73 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3HU // lagana.london
ALTA
Fresh from opening Japanese-inspired MOI in Soho, MAD Restaurants founder Artem Login is now turning his attention to Spanish cuisine. ALTA will open in nearby Kingly Court and will be led in the kitchen by former Gazelle chef Rob Roy Cameron, who will oversee an ‘informal’ menu of sharing plates and dishes from the grill. Dishes will focus on the cooking of the Basque country incorporating British ingredients and will include Cornish mussels and grilled bread, baked beetroot salad, almonds and balsamic dressing; and razor clams in white escabeche.
Unit G9, Kingly Court, Kingly Street, London W1B 5PW // alta-restaurant.com
Punk Royale
Scandinavian restaurant Punk Royale is taking over the site of Amethyst in Mayfair to bring its ‘fun, wild and unforgettable’ food to the capital. Located in an 18th-century building on Sackville Street, Punk Royale will serve a Menu Royal that comprises a minimum of 18 courses, paired with a selection of alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks. Exact dishes are yet to be revealed, but expect caviar to make an appearance.
6 Sackville Street, London W1S 3DD // punkroyale.com/en/london
Luso
Taking over the site that was home to Nuno Mendes’ Lisboeta, Luso is a new restaurant from MJMK that will ‘deliver the flavours of the Atlantic Iberian coastline with a focus on exceptional, well-sourced ingredients’. Former The Sea, The Sea chef Leo Carreira will help open a Portuguese restaurant, which is described as being ‘shaped by sea, land, and centuries-old wood fire cooking techniques’. Carreira’s menu that includes the likes of Dorset clams a bulhão pato; prego (steak slider sandwich), brown butter, garlic; spider crab tartare, served in shell; and lobster rice, citrus and mi cuit salad.
30 Charlotte Street, London W1T 2NG // luso.restaurant
Kuroyoko
Translating as ‘black alley’ or ‘dark side’, Scott Hallsworth’s new restaurant will capture ‘the moody, restless and atmospheric spirit of Tokyo’s after-hours dining scene’. Taking over from the chef’s Casual Leopard concept, Kuroyoko will serve kushiyaki skewers alongside a menu of Japanese beer and cocktails and is described by Hallsworth as having a Tokyo backstreet feel to it.
5 Ramsden Road, Balham, London SW12 8QX // kuroyoko.com
Heard Soho
Jordan Bailey is expanding his Heard burger brand to London’s Soho following the success of its first site in Borough. Opening on Foubert’s Place in Carnaby the menu will feature an ‘elevated’ menu of double patty smash burgers made with British beef from a cooperative of regenerative farms that’s been aged for a minimum of 35 days alongside a list of wines chosen by sommelier Majken Bech-Bailey especially to pair with the food.
39 Foubert’s Place, London W1F 7QQ // heardburger.co.uk
Nell’s Pizza – Media City
Manchester’s New York-style pizza brand Nell’s is to launch its fifth restaurant later this month in MediaCity’s quayside Orange Building. The new opening will be Nell’s biggest site to date and will see an evolution of the concept that combines the restaurant space with elements of competitive socialising including private karaoke booths and shuffleboard tables.
Media City, 3 Orange, Salford M50 2EQ // nellspizza.co.uk/media-city
CÉ LA VI
Modern Asian rooftop restaurant and bar CÉ LA VI officially launches on 12 September. Occupying the top two floors of Paddington Square West - the 17th and 18th floors - CÉ LA VI is said to be London’s highest rooftop restaurant and will serve a menu rooted in modern Asian cuisine. Dishes will include miso seabass with Szechuan green chilli sauce; crispy red snapper; and wagyu beef tataki with truffle ponzu, with many made for sharing.
1 Paddington Square, 17th & 18th Floor, London W2 1DL // ldn.celavi.com
Cô Thành
America-born chef Brian Woo brings his Vietnamese restaurant to London this month. Located on Covent Garden’s Henrietta Street in the site that was formerly Frenchie, Cô Thàn will serve southern Vietnamese dishes and will take the same approach as the debut Cô Thành in Hong Kong. Dishes from the Hong Kong restaurant will feature along with London-only specials, with highlights to include Bún Thái - a Vietnamese take on the sweet, salty, sour and spicy flavours of Thai cooking; Bún Mắm - a vermicelli noodle soup made from fermented fish and shrimp paste broth; and Bún bò Huế - a beef a pork bone broth with roasted shallots, ginger, lemongrass and pineapple.
16 Henrietta St, London WC2E 8QH // cothanhrestaurant.com
Kung Fu Burger Manchester
Following viral success in London, Kung Fu Burger is branching out to Manchester with a new location on Portland Street that’s set to open early this month. Created by the team behind Kung Fu Noodle, which has sites in London, Manchester and Birmingham, Kung Fu Burger is inspired by the street food phenomenon across the ESEA region and centres on Chinese-style burgers served with a variety of fillings including shredded pork belly and crispy duck.
84 Portland Street, Manchester M1 4GX