August's best new London restaurant openings
From the new American Asian restaurant opening near Covent Garden to the arrival of the country's only female thrice-Michelin-starred chef
Core by Clare Smyth, Notting Hill
Ever since Clare Smyth achieved a perfect score in the Good Food Guide and became the first female chef in the UK to earn three Michelin stars, we've been waiting for her go solo. Now, after 11 years honing her skills as head chef at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, she's going it alone.
Core will serve 10 and 12 course tasting menus in a relaxed fine dining environment.
Read more ...Hoppers, Marylebone
When you've opened the 'best restaurant in Britain', what's next? Siblings Karam, Sunaina and Jyotin Sethi are the restaurateurs used to round-the-block-queues. After the resounding success of Gymkhana, the owners rode the wave with a Bao, Xu and then Hoppers.
Hoppers version 2 will be more of the same delicious Sri Lankan cuisine at affordable prices – only this time with reservations for lunch and dinner.
Read more ...The Frog, Covent Garden
What's London's mostly oddly named restaurant? Surely it's The Frog, Spitalfields – the remarkably successful fine dining bolthole which opened in summer 2016. Despite the weird name, under the leadership of hot young chef Adam Handling, the restaurant pulled in extremely good reviews. Now he's opening a follow-up.
The Frog, WC2 in Covent Garden will be a similarly fine dining affair as Shoreditch, but re-imagined for Covent Garden, taking influence from the area's steep heritage for both its dishes and its interior.
Read more ...P. F. Chang's Asian Table, Covent Garden
American chain, P. F. Chang's Asian Table, is arriving right next to Culture Whisper towers with an exciting new menu that promises to 'change the whole dumpling game in London'
We expect great, fresh, hot and spicy things that will entice us in every lunch time
Jacob the Angel, Covent Garden
The brother and sister duo behind the beloved London restaurants The Palomar and The Barbary are opening a new Covent Garden café.
Cakes, pastries and generously filled, freshly made sandwiches are the order of the day. Outstanding suppliers and the owner's impressive track record leaving us salivating in anticipation.
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