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June in food: the must-know restaurants and bars launching in London this month
Warm days arrive and everyone decides, all at once, that they deserve a seat in a leafy terrace. And rightfully so – this is the time to relish every bit of scorching sun we can get. May was a notably strong month for openings but June is giving us plenty of reasons to make our…
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Wahaca brings the heat this summer with a new seasonal menu
Wahaca has launched its summer menu, and it reads like a postcard from somewhere sunnier than a Soho street. The beloved Mexican restaurant chain – which has been feeding the UK since 2007 and holds the title of the country’s most sustainable restaurant group – has unveiled a run of new dishes and drinks that…
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The hip brunch place Morena, in Eccleston Yards, is now open for dinner with a new spring menu
Nothing pairs better with a sunny weekend than a long, leisurely brunch – especially somewhere that feels worlds away from London’s hectic streets. For many, Morena is the go-to place to get your avocado toast + Aperol fix. Opened in 2020 in the charming Eccleston Yards, the restaurant is influenced by Latin American cuisine but…
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Fulham has a new Italian gelateria of dreams – welcome La Gelateria Della Luna
Ice cream shops are ubiquitous in London, but say the magic word (Italian) and we’re merrily gearing up to queue for one hour for a £5+ scoop. There is no ice cream quite like proper Italian gelato. Made in small batches, churned slower and served at a slightly warmer temperature than regular ice cream, proper…
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May in food: The best London restaurants launching this month
Throughout the first few months of this year, we’ve ridden some grand, sweeping waves of restaurant and bar openings. Among the mass, Weezie’s claimed its spot next to sibling Amie Wine, Fenix brought full Greek island chic to Mayfair, and Poolhouse launched the UK’s biggest pool site to date. But spring has turned up the…
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Poolhouse is London’s most glamorous new venue – and yes, you’re there to play pool
The team behind Topgolf and Puttshack have a clear formula: take something familiar, strip it back, rebuild it properly, and make the room beautiful while you’re at it. Poolhouse – their latest venue, now open at 100 Liverpool Street – applies the same logic to pool. Twenty tables across 21,000 square feet, AI-assisted gameplay, a…
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This just in: Wahaca is giving away free chocolate ice cream tacos next week
A Tony’s Chocolonely ice cream taco is exactly the kind of fever-dream creation Willy Wonka would have scrawled on a napkin at 3am. We’d absolutely pay serious money for it, and we’re fairly confident we’re not alone on this one. But for one day only, Wahaca is kindly treating Londoners to 100 of these marvellous…
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Weezie’s is the new thin-crust pizza spot to land in Eccleston Yards, from the team behind Amie Wine Studio
There are certain parts of London that just have it figured out. Eccleston Yards – that quiet, cobbled pocket of Belgravia – is one of them. It’s the kind of enchanting summer place where you pop in for a glass of wine and somehow end up staying for three hours. A lot of that is…
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Award-winning Scarfes Bar has a new Heroes & Villains cocktail menu, and it’s dangerously good
There are bars that serve cocktails, and then there are bars that serve pure art in cocktail form. Scarfes Bar has been doing the latter since it opened in 2014, and its accomplishments over the years have earned it all the bragging rights. Its trophy cabinet includes No. 31 in the World’s 50 Best Bars,…
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April in food: London’s top new restaurants and bars to try this spring
April is the month Londoners collectively lose the plot. The clocks go forward, there are two consecutive days above 14 degrees, and suddenly everyone’s convinced it’s rooftop season, booking outdoor spaces and showing up in a t-shirt and a light jacket. It’s a delusion, but a productive one – and this April, the openings are…
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