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London’s new openings and storied addresses, explored through the people, ideas and details that make them worth knowing.

A dining room under a glazed roof with white trellis, white-painted brick walls hung with flowering climbers, brass lanterns, tan banquettes with green and cream striped backs, marble tables, striped chairs and a chequerboard floor leading back to a bar.

Shoreditch

Roast takes its pork belly to Shoreditch

A conservatory dining room in the Virgin hotel on Curtain Road gives the Borough Market restaurant a second home, with its beef Wellington, a 42-day aged roast beef and a halal Sunday roast.

1 November 2026

The green and maroon cast-iron railings of Smithfield Market in low morning sun, with a woman in a dark coat and headscarf walking along the pavement and an older couple further down the street.

The City

B. Penhale brings Victorian dining to West Smithfield

30 October 2026

A long hotel lounge at evening, lit by table lamps, with gilded mirrors and framed paintings between dark marble columns, palms in planters, tufted banquettes and floral-upholstered gilt chairs, and a member of staff carrying a tray between the tables

Mayfair

Andrew Blas builds a chocolate village at The Dorchester

29 October 2026

A hotel bar set between two white spiral-fluted columns, with a long copper-topped counter and dark lattice-backed stools, a black cabinet of lit bottle shelves behind it, a brass chandelier of white globe lamps above, and sculpted white plaster walls on either side

The City

The Macallan brings a little Speyside to Ten Trinity Square

29 October 2026

A long street of white stucco terraces in London under a clear blue sky, with columned porches, black railings and cars parked along the kerb, a tree on the left and a hanging flower basket on a lamp post on the right.

Belgravia

Jeff Tan brings Han & Han to St Barnabas Street

29 October 2026

A. Wong’s dining room: a bar counter in jade-green glass with black woven-leather stools on the left, magenta and purple velvet chairs at round tables to the right, a stone guardian lion on the counter end, and orchids by the windows.

Westminster

A. Wong reopens on Wilton Road after a summer away

28 October 2026

A grand hallway with a black and white chequered marble floor, veined marble and white stone columns with carved capitals, an ornate plaster ceiling hung with brass lanterns, a red-carpeted marble staircase with a balustrade rising on the left, and an arched wooden doorway leading on at the far end

Westminster

Christofle hangs its silver on the trees at Raffles London

28 October 2026

Red ski gondola cabins standing close together on a rooftop at night, one with its door open onto a table lamp and a laid table inside, gingham curtains in the windows, small Christmas trees strung with lights between them, and a lit Ferris wheel on the skyline behind

Knightsbridge

The Berkeley puts red ski gondolas on its rooftop

28 October 2026

A large dining room with tall windows hung with emerald curtains, round and square tables laid with white cloths and glasses, brown velvet chairs and green leather banquettes, mirrored columns, exposed ducts on the ceiling and a framed poster on the wall

The City

Big Mamma brings 1930s Milan to Lombard Street

27 October 2026

An open-fronted timber chalet in a rooftop garden, hung with a garland and fairy lights, with a wooden table, cushions and a lantern inside and an ice skate on the back wall, set among frosted Christmas trees, white chairs draped with sheepskins around a round table, a red-throw sofa, a patio heater and autumn foliage

The City

Lodge d’Argent’s chalets return for a last winter at Bank

27 October 2026

Covent Garden

The Lady will be a pub again on Bedford Street

26 October 2026

A dining room with white marble tables laid with glasses, rust-red velvet banquettes and tub chairs, globe pendant lights, a riveted copper wall curving like a ship’s hull, a tall blue and white textile artwork and a black steel staircase at the right.

South Bank

Gordon Ramsay takes the river room at Sea Containers

25 October 2026

A grand hotel lobby with a black-and-white chequerboard marble floor, white marble columns with gilded capitals, a coffered ceiling hung with brass lanterns, mahogany-panelled walls with oil portraits, and an arched passage leading deeper into the hotel

Covent Garden

Liberty dresses the tree at The Savoy for Christmas

An archive Liberty print on the Front Hall tree and hot air balloons rising through the hotel bring Around the World in 80 Days to The Savoy this Christmas.

24 October 2026

A Belgravia pavement running past a row of cream stucco porticoes, each fluted column painted with a black house number, 44 in the foreground, behind black iron railings.

Knightsbridge

Arjun Waney opens Osteria Panzano on William Street

Steaks over open coals and a Tuscan cheese and salumi shop bring the Chianti village of Panzano to Belgravia, in the first Italian restaurant from the founder of Zuma.

23 October 2026