The stories.

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

A dining room with white-clothed tables and bentwood chairs along a tufted green leather banquette, under chalkboards listing wines and the day's specials, with arched mirrors and framed pictures on a pale wall at the far end

Chez Rose is Spencer Metzger’s bistro for his grandmother

The chef behind the two-Michelin-star Row on 5 now has a French bistro on Pollen Street too, with oysters, pâté en croûte and a roast chicken for two.

12 October 2026

Leréi opens a members’ residence for women in Knightsbridge

11 October 2026

A dining room with pale green walls and art deco sunburst skylights of amber stained glass, dark green leather booths around marble tables, mint velvet shell-backed chairs, a tall arrangement of foxgloves and roses at the centre, and large black-and-white photographs of the Amalfi coast on the walls

Dante Mayfair makes Claridge’s its permanent home

10 October 2026

A curved bar faced in small cream and taupe mosaic tiles, with pale timber stools on green patterned seats, an arched back bar of lit bottle shelves over a glass screen etched with letters, and a slatted timber ceiling

Nammos brings Mykonos to Berkeley Street

A narrow private dining room with a long dark table set with glassware and small lamps, tan leather armchairs on either side, a wall of black wine racks to the left, rows of terracotta cones across the ceiling and a sheer curtain over the window at the far end.

Trèsind brings its Dubai cooking to Hanover Street

A dining room with white-clothed tables, red leather banquettes and a tartan carpet under an ornate plaster ceiling, lit by a large Murano glass chandelier with pleated shades, with a marble fireplace, a mirrored wall of framed drawings and an illustrated mural of London figures, Big Ben and a black cab

Langosteria brings Milan seafood to the War Office

A low-lit dining room with round tables and velvet tub chairs on the left, and a curved fluted bar with leather stools under tiered timber slat canopies on the right, all lit in amber.

MA/NA brings a gluten-free Japanese kitchen to Mayfair

A long pale oak table set with glasses and folded napkins in front of curved red upholstered chairs, facing a wall of glass-fronted cabinets that hold wine bottles, dry-ageing meat, fish and stacked timber boxes under warm lighting

Theo Clench takes over the fire at IGNI in Mayfair

A wood-panelled dining room with tall arched windows hung with pleated lampshades, white-clothed round tables, a curved blue velvet banquette, tan and patterned blue chairs, and a large arrangement of flowers by an arched doorway.

Sale e Pepe Mare brings seafood to The Langham

A row of laid tables against a burgundy-panelled wall at Fayre, with a painted panel of a gold fountain on green above a coral banquette and leather chairs stitched with carousel horses.

The Shepherd Mayfair opens in Shepherd Market

Two round tables laid with white cloths, wine glasses and plates beside curtained windows, with curved timber armchairs and a tall leafy plant casting shadows on a cream brick wall

Maza brings 1980s Athens to Bruton Place

A low-lit dining room with a beamed timber ceiling, fringed raffia pendant lamps, cream bouclé chairs at dark round tables, cushioned banquettes and tall arched antiqued mirrors along one wall

Fenix brings its live-fire Greek grill to Piccadilly

A softly lit lounge with curved cream bouclé seating on a pale stone floor, a sculpted copper tree rising to a ceiling of curved light coves, a reception counter with an orchid at left, and a glowing pink Himalayan salt wall with a reclining chair behind a drawn curtain at right

Triplebond brings a longevity floor to The BoTree

A hyperbaric oxygen chamber and a rooftop pool for members make Triplebond, the club The BoTree has opened on Marylebone Lane, a place to recover and to meet.

30 September 2026

A private dining room with buttoned brown leather walls, a long oak table laid with round leather place mats and rolled napkins for eight, green velvet tub chairs, a crystal chandelier, a black marble-topped sideboard and two oil paintings of flowers and vegetables in gilt frames.

Clare Smyth opens Corenucopia on Holbein Place

The chef behind Core has a British bistro off Sloane Square, run by a team promoted from Notting Hill, with Dover sole fish and chips and a menu given over to potatoes.

29 September 2026

The dining room at Bonheur: burgundy velvet banquettes curve round pale round tables under a timber-panelled alcove hung with clusters of dried flowers and fungi in rust, cream and ochre, with upholstered tub chairs and laid tables in the foreground.

Matt Abé brings Bonheur to the Le Gavroche basement

28 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

Loulou Groupe brings Les Amis to 16 Charles Street

27 September 2026

The Portland stone facade of The Chancery Rosewood on Grosvenor Square, a grid of deep-set windows under the gilded eagle on the roofline

Caprice is coming to The Chancery Rosewood

25 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

Cambridge House turns the old In and Out into a hotel

22 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

SUMI opens a second room on Devonshire Street

21 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

Upstairs at Pillar Hall will open over Idalia at Olympia

20 September 2026

A chef in white jacket stands behind a curved timber counter laid with plates, napkins and chopsticks, with patterned turquoise stools in front and the stone facade and green awnings of Harrods through the window behind him

ALBA opens an omakase counter opposite Harrods

19 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

A second Curtis Green bank on Piccadilly becomes a hotel

18 September 2026

A round table laid with white linen and a single lit candle in a corner of grey-blue panelled walls, a curved dark red banquette and mustard and rust velvet chairs around it, under two paintings of pale embracing figures marked with red crosses, one reflected in a wall mirror, with pleated lampshade sconces either side.

Café 22 opens its own door on North Audley Street

17 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

The Pembroke brings a members’ club to Grosvenor Place

16 September 2026