The stories.

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

Café tables laid with coral plates under a glass roof, with black wire chairs, patterned cushions, a long banquette upholstered in a painted print, and framed posters on a cream wall cut with peach leaf shapes

Knightsbridge

Le Café LPM opens for a year at The Lanesborough

La Petite Maison’s first café brings a croque monsieur with veal ham and Comté, and a wine list from the south of France, to a Regency house on Hyde Park Corner.

15 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 brings Miami’s Rose Bar to Hyde Park Gate

14 September 2026

The curved stone front of Admiralty Arch at dusk, lit from within, with three archways at its centre, white naval ensigns and a Union flag above the Latin inscription, and a lamp-lit doorway marked Ballroom at the right

St James's

Admiralty Arch becomes a Waldorf Astoria on The Mall

13 September 2026

A restored Victorian market building with green awnings and a LONDON sign above the street, seen from across a junction with people passing

The City

London Museum opens in Smithfield’s General Market

12 September 2026

A dining room with red patterned silk walls hung with decorative plates, striped glass wall lights and red glass chandeliers under a silvered ceiling, red and black velvet chairs around a round table with a painted ceramic top, and patterned banquettes along the back wall below a gilt mirror.

Soho

Beefbar takes over Dear Jackie at Broadwick Soho

11 September 2026

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 opens a Mediterranean terrace at The Beaumont

10 September 2026

Fitzrovia

USHIO brings lean Fukuoka wagyu to Charlotte Street

9 September 2026

A made bed with white pillows and a green wool throw, a newspaper and a pair of glasses on the throw, a fabric wall light above a wooden bedside table holding tulips in a smoked-glass vase, a glass of water and a book

Holborn

The Webster brings a literary hotel to Lincoln’s Inn Fields

8 September 2026

The Celeste dining room seen through open leaded-glass doors: a wall of burr-wood panelling with inlaid figures and brass-and-glass wall lights, a brass dish pendant overhead, and laid tables with cream upholstered chairs before a pale banquette.

Notting Hill

Celeste opens Estelle’s Notting Hill house to the public

7 September 2026

A four-storey brown-brick corner building with sash windows, dormers in the roof and a sage-green painted shopfront on the ground floor, on a cobbled street between a glass office tower and a dark-brick block

Shoreditch

Andrew Wong turns a 1792 Norton Folgate pub into Kong

6 September 2026

A dining room panelled in dark wood and marble, with three small tables set before a curved velvet banquette, and an open kitchen behind where two cooks work between rotisserie ovens beneath a sign reading The Dining Room at RH London

Mayfair

RH London puts a restaurant in an old banking hall

5 September 2026

Looking down into The Whiteley's inner courtyard from an upper floor: dark brick and pale stone wings with iron balconies on either side, planted trees in the courtyard below, and the building's ribbed glass dome on the roofline to the left.

Bayswater

Six Senses opens its London hotel in The Whiteley

4 September 2026

A bar with an oxblood lacquered counter and patterned stools beside round dining tables, under a pleated-shade chandelier, with a trellised courtyard visible through a curtained window

Marylebone

Mour opens a Mediterranean dining room on Seymour Street

A trellised courtyard under its own roof and a martini bar open until late give The Leonard Hotel’s family a Marylebone restaurant that runs from breakfast to the last drink.

2 September 2026

A dining room with round tables under white cloths and candles, upholstered chairs, crystal chandeliers on a dark ceiling, terracotta walls and a lit bar at the far end

Mayfair

Latine cooks French with a Latin accent in a Mayfair mews

A crudo bar of tiraditos and ceviches and a list that runs from Mendoza to Meursault give a cobbled courtyard off Bond Street a French restaurant with Latin American flavour.

30 August 2026