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Stay ahead with curated reporting on new restaurant, pub, bar, café, and catering openings across the UK. This highlights the latest venue launches, from independents to multi-site operators, and offers behind-the-scenes insights into concept development, site selection, kitchen design, menu strategy, and operational planning. Whether you’re tracking competitors, scouting for inspiration, or evaluating expansion trends, this coverage helps hospitality professionals understand where investment is going and how new openings are shaping the foodservice landscape. Essential reading for chefs, operators, landlords, and F&B executives watching the market evolve.
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Sep- 2022 -23 SeptemberRestaurants
Heavenly Desserts to open new Marylebone site
Heavenly Desserts has announced it is set to open its new restaurant in Baker Street, Marylebone, on 1 October. The new site is set in a two-storey restaurant and will feature its new tapas-style menu, comprised of multiple signature dishes. The menu has been inspired by Asia, including its Mochi…
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22 SeptemberRestaurants
Las Iguanas to open Canterbury site
Las Iguanas has announced the opening of its new Canterbury location, taking up residence on the corner of High Street and Longmarket from 26 September, its first Kent location. The new 200-cover restaurant and cocktail bar will feature Las Iguanas’ signature tropical green plant walls, flashes of neon, lustrous Mexican…
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22 SeptemberPeople
Stoke by Radisson Red Liverpool appoints head chef
Radisson Red Liverpool, which is set to launch later this year, has announced the appointment of Paul Whitfield as the new head chef at the venue’s restaurant, Stoke. It is reported that Whitfield brings 30 years of fine dining culinary experience to his new role at Radisson Red Liverpool and…
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20 SeptemberFeatures
The chef behind Canary Wharf’s own French Riviera superyacht
Can you tell us about your background and what inspired you to become a chef? I remember when I was about 19 during my second year of uni I got my first cheffing job to help pay my way through university, but as soon as I walked into the kitchen,…
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16 SeptemberRestaurants
Dishoom reveals Canary Wharf opening date
Dishoom has announced it will open its first site Canary Wharf in November this year, marking the company’s first London opening in five years. Located on a corner of Wood Wharf at 13 Water Street, the 8,000 square foot site will occupy a double-height building overlooking the water, and will…
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15 SeptemberRestaurants
Drunch to expand London footprint in Autumn
Drunch has announced it will expand its London portfolio with the opening of a new 40-cover restaurant and speakeasy in Fitzrovia this autumn, marking the brand’s third opening in the capital. The new venue is located on Great Titchfield Street, and the kitchen will be headed up by Valerio Vivetti…
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15 SeptemberRestaurants
Heavenly Desserts opens new site in Bath
Heavenly Desserts has announced it will open the doors to its new store in Bath on 17 September. The announcement follows a period of growth for the company and brings the brand to nearly 50 restaurants across the UK which was founded in 2008 by Mohammad Imran and Yousif Aslam,…
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14 SeptemberRestaurants
Hub Box to open its first Dorset site
Hub Box, the Cornish bar and restaurant group, has announced it will be opening its first Dorset establishment in early October in Dorchester. This will be the twelfth opening for the burger and beer restaurant group, located in Brewery Square, its new 120-seat Dorchester restaurant will serve gourmet burgers, hand-cut…
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12 SeptemberNews
Inception Group to open new bar in Battersea Power Station
The Inception Group has announced it will open a new 1950s bar concept inside Battersea Power Station’s control room B from 14 October. The experience will take inspiration from its iconic architecture and history, as staff will don utilitarian boiler suits in a nod to the Power Station’s employees back…
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12 SeptemberRestaurants
Barrio Familia Group set to open new site in Watford
Nightcap, the owner of The Cocktail Club, the Adventure Bar Group and the Barrio Familia Group of bars, has announced the new opening for Barrio in Watford later this year. The ground and first floor character building is located at Bosley’s, The Parade, Watford and comprises a total area measuring…
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