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The stories.

A look at London’s latest openings, the people and teams bringing them to life, and the different ways each space can be enjoyed.

A restaurant dining room under a circular rooflight, with patterned tub chairs, red velvet seating and curved glazing opening onto a planted terrace

Mayfair

Pearl: The Beaumont’s New Garden Address

With Mediterranean cooking overseen by Lisa Goodwin-Allen and a terrace opening onto Brown Hart Gardens, The Beaumont’s latest restaurant puts its setting at the heart of the experience.

12 September 2026

A watercolour of a dining salon with pale green panelled walls, a gilded painted ceiling, red curtains, and round tables set among orange velvet armchairs

Mayfair

16 Charles Street: Loulou Groupe’s Mayfair Townhouse

27 September 2026

A dark-painted hallway with mahogany doors, a double-sided fireplace framed in black stone with a dining table visible through the flames, an engraving above it, a potted palm, white orchids and a stair rail wrapped in cane

South Kensington

Blakes: The Long Wait on Roland Gardens

27 September 2026

Mayfair

Caprice Takes a Table at The Chancery Rosewood

27 September 2026

Marylebone

Chiltern Firehouse After the Fire

27 September 2026

A pale wooden omakase counter under a ceiling of layered, sculpted paper, with a chef working at a dark counter by floor-to-ceiling windows and tower blocks beyond

White City

Endo at the Rotunda Stays Closed, With Chelsea Next

27 September 2026

A whole lacquered roast duck on a white marble board beside a cleaver, with a steamer of pancakes and dishes of sliced cucumber and spring onion behind it

Marylebone

Royal China Club Leaves Baker Street for 2027

27 September 2026

Mayfair

Salone: The Lita Team’s Italian Room on Vigo Street

27 September 2026

Render of a pale timber dining room with a long communal table and rattan-backed chairs, banquettes along the walls, timber panels hung from the ceiling and a glass dry-ageing cabinet of fish and meat at the back

Marylebone

SUMI Takes a Second Address on Devonshire Street

27 September 2026

Render of a galleried hall under a panelled plaster ceiling with a central rosette and curved ribbon sculptures, round banquet tables filling the floor, a stage with speakers under a floral arch at the far end, and tables along the balustraded mezzanine on both sides

Kensington

Upstairs at Pillar Hall: A Galleried Room at Olympia

27 September 2026

A street-level view across Piccadilly to a white Palladian mansion set back behind a forecourt and railings, between a pale stone building with a steep slate roof and a red-brick and stone building with arched shopfronts, with red double-decker buses and cars on the road and trees in the foreground

Mayfair

Cambridge House: The Old In and Out Becomes a Hotel

22 September 2026

A floodlit pale stone corner building at dusk, with arched ground-floor windows under glass canopies, an iron balcony along the first floor, the words The WestDill Hotel above the arches, planters and café tables on the pavement, and a black taxi on a wet road

Mayfair

The WestDill: A Curtis Green Bank Becomes a Piccadilly Hotel

18 September 2026

The upper storeys of a pale stone Victorian building against a white sky, with a steep slate mansard roof, carved dormers, balconied windows and tall chimney stacks

Belgravia

The Pembroke: A Belgravia House Returns to Club Life

Once Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s home and later a women’s club, 6–7 Grosvenor Place opens as a members’ club across seven floors, looking over the gardens of Buckingham Palace.

16 September 2026

A corner building of red brick with white stone dressings, rows of arched windows, chimneys and dormers on the roof, a white ground floor with striped awnings and white parasols behind black railings, trees at the left and light trails on the road in front

South Kensington

Delano London: A Rose Bar Below Hyde Park Gate

Ennismore is bringing the Miami Beach hotel brand to the former Baglioni in South Kensington, with 67 rooms, a ground-floor restaurant still to be named and Miami’s Rose Bar in the basement.

14 September 2026