London is arguably (definitely) the best restaurant city in the world right now, but keeping up with the best new restaurants in London is a full time job. Which is why we’re here of course. Make sure you’re always in the know with our guide to the best new restaurants opening in London and you’ll be leading your mates and dates around the coolest new places around town in no time. Our guide is constantly updated with our curated selection of only the best new restaurant openings you need to know about, so you can always be sure that this little lot will be well worth checking out.
Updated: 27th September 2022
1. Scott’s Richmond
Richard Caring has added a new chapter to the history of Scott’s, the go-to seafood spot for many an A-lister, by opening a second branch down by the river in Richmond. The two-floor site features a large terrace; a dining room and an oyster bar serving shellfish, wine and champagne on the ground floor; and a bar hosting weekly DJ sets upstairs. The menu is broadly similar to the original – if it ain’t broke right? – so you can expect plenty of fruits de mer platters, lobster and whole fish dishes, alongside newbies like apple smoked salmon with pickled cucumber & brioche, baked spiced crab with garlic & herb toast, and shrimp burger with kimchi ketchup & crisps. And with polished parquet floors, chandeliers, silver platters and waistcoated staff, the new Scott’s is just as smart an affair as the original too.
Opened September 2022
4 Whittaker Avenue, Richmond, Surrey TW9 1EH
scotts-richmond.com
2. KOYN
Samyukta Nair has taken on Japanese food with her latest opening KOYN. It’s inspired by the duality of Mount Fuji and the balance of modernity with tradition, so the space is divided into two distinct areas; Midori, a green room on the ground floor representing the life on the peak with Magma, representing an active volcano, below. Midori features a marble sushi bar with an illuminated mirror skyscape, serving up dishes like native lobster tempura sushi roll with chargrilled red pepper & yuzu lemon and applewood-smoked A5 wagu roll with asparagus & black truffle. Downstairs, Magma has a robata grill as its heart, where you can get hojicha-smoked lamb with spicy kuromame miso, hispi cabbage grilled with homemade koji dressing, wagyu ishiyaki with yakiniku sauce served on a sizzling hot stone.
Opened September 2022
38 Grosvenor Street, London, W1K 4AG
koynrestaurants.com
3. Dollars
Rondo La Cave, the natty wine bar and incubator space below Rondo in Holborn, has got a new resident. Dollars, in collab with Singapore’s Park Bench Deli founder Andrei Soen, is now in for three months serving up American-style deli sandwiches, like Beef Bollito with braised beef belly, salsa verde & red chilli sauce in a white bap; Fried Chicken Sandwich with crispy fried thigh, dill pickles & comeback sauce in a potato bun; Pastrami Sandwich, with hot pastrami, Swiss cheese, coleslaw & Russian dressing on caraway bloomer; Burrata Caprese with fresh burrata, tomato, arugula, pesto & balsamic glaze on focaccia; Cubano with sweet ham, roast pork, dijonnaise, Swiss cheese & dill pickles in a sub roll; and Philly Cheesesteak with thinly sliced roast beef rump, sauteed onions, roasted bell peppers & cheese sauce in a Philly baguette.
Opened September 2022
199-206 High Holborn, London WC1V 7BD
rondolacave.com
4. The Holland
The Princess Victoria pub in Kensington has had a complete refurb and transformed into The Holland, with a pub on the ground floor, a dining room upstairs, and Max de Nahlik (ex-Duke of Cambridge and co-founder of pop-up Oxalis) taking care of the food across both areas. The new look includes sage green walls, exposed brick and emerald tiles lining the repurposed floorboard bar in the pub and more reclaimed furniture up in the dining room. Max’s menu includes dishes like spiced brown crab on toast; tomatoes with peach, chilli, pangrattato & smoked tofu; pork collar steak with greengage chutney, kohlrabi & beetroot; hake with piperade & fennel salad; and almond tart with double cream.
Opened September 2022
25 Earls Court Road, London W8 6EB
thehollandkensington.co.uk
5. Milk Beach Soho
It’s a fave in Queen’s Park and now Aussie restaurant Milk Beach boasts a second site in Soho at the Ilona Rose House building, a bright and airy space complete with an outdoor courtyard. A handful of faves from the original location have made the move over to Soho, including Chinese five-spice BBQ pork rib dumplings with chilli pho ga consommé, and koji marinated chicken ‘schnitty’ with fermented chilli mayonnaise, but there are plenty of newbies on the menu to get stuck into. We’re talking dishes like prawn toast with gochujang sweet & sour sauce; Belted Galloway bone-in-ribeye with tare, oyster & tarragon butter; grilled oyster mushrooms with fermented mushroom glaze & macadamia hummus; and Milk Beach ‘Golden Gaytime’ with toffee & buttermilk parfait, dark chocolate, and malt & honeycomb crumb. Drinks-wise, Milk Beach is maintaining its rep for low-intervention wines, with a selection from importers Modal, Liberty and Alliance, among others.
Opened September 2022
Ilona Rose House, Manette Street, London W1D 4AL
milkbeach.com
6. The Tent (at the end of the universe)
John Javier, who made a name for himself with his take on Chinese food at MASTER in Sydney and Happy Paradise in Hong Kong, opened Middle Eastern restaurant The Tent (at the end of the universe) at members’ club 17 Little Portland Street earlier this year. Now the public is able to try his food as he’s opened the restaurant to non-members. The dining room takes inspo from a tent – hence the name – with dim light, canvas ceiling awnings, star-lit installations, and space for 34 covers. Music is a big thing here too, with a seated DJ spinning on a Martion Audiosysteme during each dinner service and live music, ranging from Brazilian jazz to experimental, on Wednesdays. In terms of the food, you can expect dishes like suckling lamb shish; dairy cow rib with ras el hanout; carabineros prawns with baharat spices; grilled onions with sumac & pomegranate molasses; hummus with chilli oil & burnt lime; tzatziki with wakame oil; beetroot & labneh borani; and taramasalata with onion ash. That’s accompanied by an eclectic drinks list that includes everything from European wines and Japanese whiskies to coconut bourbon cocktails and herbal infusions.
Opened August 2022
17 Little Portland St, London W1W 8BP
@thetentattheendoftheuniverse
7. Feels Like June
The West Coast has come to East London as Cali-inspired spot Feels Like June has opened in Canary Wharf. Taking up a spot in the Wood Wharf area of the neighbourhood, Feels Like June is bringing the sunshine all day long, starting with coffees and home-made nut milks, pistachio & almond danishes, pastrami & mustard buns, granola & coconut yoghurt bowls, acai bowls, banana buttermilk pancakes, avo on toast and breakfast burritos. From lunchtime it’s onto the all-day menu, which includes cacio e pepe tater tots with pecorino aioli, crudites with green goddess dressing, caeser schnitzel with anchovies & tossed salad, a double smash burger with fries, and shrimp tacos with salted crisps. There’s also a large terrace and cocktails like rhubarb cosmopolitans and PB&Bs (plus more on tap) on the drinks list for you to kick back and relax with.
Opened August 2022
15 Water Street, London, E14 9SB
@feels_like_june
8. Peggy Jean
They’ve already got the Darcie & May Green barges moored up on the canal in Paddington and now Aussie restaurant group Daisy Green has taken to the water once again with their latest opening Peggy Jean in Richmond. During the day Peggy Jean dishes up bottomless brunches, including the likes of the very fancy bacon roll, award-winning banana bread sandwich, and Golden Gaytime Buttermilk Pancakes. In the evenings, there’s BBQ meats from HG Walter, sustainably sourced seafood cooked over open fire, and Neapolitan-style pizzas (like Vegemite & cheese, hot sausage & jalapeno hot sauce, and ham, BBQ tomatoes, egg & pink pickled onion) coming from two bespoke Gozney ovens nicknames Peggy and Jean, alongside New World wines and local craft beers. AHOY!
Opened July 2022
Richmond Riverside, London, TW9 1TH
daisygreenfood.com
9. Roji
Husband-and-wife chef team Tamas Naszai and Tomoko Hasegawa, who’ve worked at Tokimeite and Sake No Hana between them, have opened ten-seat Japanese restaurant Roji in partnership with the group behind Chisou and Sushi Atelier. Roji, which can translate to ‘journey’, ‘path’ or ‘hidden alley’, is tucked away on South Molton Street in Mayfair and serves up a seasonal menu of sushi, pickled and preserved dishes, and charcoal-grilled dishes, with a focus on British produce like Cornish seafood and veggies from Nama Yasai farm in East Sussex. The pair are also showcasing crockery made by small family producers in both the UK and Japan.
Opened July 2022
56b South Molton Street, London W1K 5SH
ro-ji.co.uk
10. Taca Tacos
After dishing up tacos at Brockley Market for the past three years and popping up across London (including a debut pop-up at The Greenhouse Cafe in Deptford in 2019) Taca Tacos has returned to SE8 with a permanent spot in Deptford Market Yard. Founded in 2019 by Thorne Addyman, who wanted to replicate the soft shell tacos he ate on trips to California, Taca Tacos specialises in beef birria – six-hour braised brisket cooked in a rich spiced bone broth, which the tortillas get dipped in before being griddled with the chopped beef and Monterey Jack cheese, topped with pink onions and salsa, and served with more broth for dunking. There’s also Baja fish and pimientos tacos on the menu alongside a pulled shroom quesataco, nachos, quesadillas, and Cali-style burritos, plus brunch tacos and burritos (with eggs and hash browns) available at the weekends.
Opened July 2022
Arch 12, Deptford Market Yard, London, SE8 4BX
tacatacos.co.uk
11. Miznon
Founded by Eyal Shani in Tel Aviv in 2011, pita restaurant Miznon has gone worldwide with locations in Melbourne, Singapore, New York City, Paris and Vienna. Now London has been added to the list, with a Miznon now open in Soho. Pitas filled with fresh seasonal ingredients are the name of the game at Miznon, with signatures including the Ratatouille (with tomato perfumed eggplant, tahini, spicy & hardboiled egg) and the Falafel Burger (with tomato, pickles, sour cream & green chilli peppers). The likes of the original whole cauliflower, lamb kebab and minute steak plate with tahini & salsa are also on the menu and each location also offers a slightly different selection as part of the Miznon vision “to take the flavor of each city and translate it into pita”.
Opened July 2022
8-12 Broadwick St, London W1F 8HN
@miznonlondon
12. Tatale
It’s been a long time coming but British-Ghanaian restaurateur Akwasi Brenya-Mensa has finally opened his debut restaurant Tatale. Inspired by the chop bars that are popular in West Africa and named after the plantain pancake tatale, Tatale is open inside The Africa Centre, which has recently relocated to Southwark, and is a place where Akwasi can tell stories through food, art, and culture. And you can expect the likes of Omo Tuo Nkatekwan Sesame (mashed rice with groundnut soup); Chichinga Buttermilk Fried Chicken Wings with Dill Emulsion; Ackee Croquettes with Curry Emulsion; Berbere King Oyster Mushroom with Jollof Couscous, Plantain, Red Stew and Palm Wine Pickled Shallot; and Red Snapper Moqueca on the menu.
Opened July 2022
66 Great Suffolk Street, London, SE1 0BL
tataleandco.com
