London is arguably (definitely) the best restaurant city in the world right now, but keeping up with the best new restaurants in London is a full time job
Which is why we’re here of course. Make sure you’re always in the know with our guide to the best new restaurants opening in London and you’ll be leading your mates and dates around the coolest new places around town in no time. Our guide is constantly updated with our curated selection of only the best new restaurant openings you need to know about, so you can always be sure that this little lot will be well worth checking out.
Updated: 17th February 2025
1. BLOODsports
BLOODsports is the new American-inspired ‘watching bar’ with a 2am licence from the MEATliquor team. There are 30+ screens inside the bar so you can watch sports day and night, or catch a horror movie in between games if that’s more your thing. There’s also karaoke, pool, pinball, arcade machines and a Psycho-themed photo booth to keep you entertained. During the day Hideout Coffee will be serving up coffee and doughnuts, with MEATliquor burgers, Monkey Fingers, Chicago dogs and a deep-fried bacon-wrapped hot dog hitting the menu from lunchtime. As well as beers, boilermakers and boozy slushies, the bar is doing a ‘Bloods & Drips’ menu, which includes tomato-based drinks, like Bloody Marys and Micheladas to soothe hangovers, and drips like negronis and martinis to retox with.
Opened February 2025
27 – 29 Endell Street, London WC2H 9BA
bloodsports.co
2. ZIMA Notting Hill
A second outpost of Eastern European and Russian restaurant ZIMA, founded by the late Russian chef Alexei Zimin (who was a vocal critic of the invasion of Ukraine), has come to Notting Hill. The menu features signature dishes from the Soho flagship site, like Royal Siberian Black caviar and Salmon Roe Res caviar with blinis; Russian salad with chicken and salmon roe; pirozhki with beef, chicken or cabbage; and black pelmeni with salmon & cod handmade “dumplings”, salmon roe and roasted tomatoes, as well as new seasonal specials. Acclaimed Eastern European chefs are hosting seasonal chef’s table events at the restaurant, showcasing their interpretations of traditional dishes. ZIMA’s homemade infused vodkas are on display throughout the space, alongside a rotating exhibition of Eastern European artworks.
Opened February 2025
9 Blenheim Crescent, London, W11 2EE
zima.restaurant
3. La Môme
Restaurateurs Ugo and Antoine Lecorché have brought the French Riviera to London with La Môme, now open at The Berkeley. Like its sister restaurant in Cannes, La Môme London is serving a Mediterranean menu, with plenty of tableside preparations. As well as room for 170 inside and 30 more on the terrace, there’s also a ten-seater bar serving cocktails and snacks.
Opened February 2025
Wilton Place, London SW1X 7RL
the-berkeley.co.uk
4. 22 Bishopsgate
22 Bishopsgate in the City boasts London’s highest restaurant as Gordon Ramsay has set up shop inside the skyscraper. And that title isn’t enough for him as he’s actually opened five different culinary experiences inside the building. The headline act is an outpost of his Asian-inspired concept Lucky Cat, which currently has sites in Mayfair, Manchester and Miami, open on Level 60, making it the highest restaurant in the capital. There’s also a Lucky Cat Roof Terrace, with a 3am late licence, doing cocktails and entertainment. And if you want something even more special, this level is also home to 14-seater chef’s table High, from the three-star Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea. Bread Street Kitchen & Bar has taken up residence one floor down on Level 59, adding a new afternoon tea experience to its offerings, and The Gordon Ramsay Academy, where you can learn how to make everything from pasta to beef wellingtons, also has a spot inside 22 Bishopsgate.
Opened February 2025
22 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4BQ
gordonramsayrestaurants.com
5. Himi
In just two years, Roji has won countless other plaudits from critics and punters alike, and become one of the most revered Japanese restaurants in town. Now that husband-and-wife Tamas Naszai and Tomoko Hasegawa have nailed omakase dining, they’re bringing us their version of an izakaya with Himi, now opening in Carnaby. Meaning ‘taste of Japan’, Himi is the pair’s take on the neo-izakayas of Tokyo, establishments that reimagine and refine the food found in Japanese taverns without sacrificing the casual and convivial atmosphere. Himi features both counter and table seating, with an outside terrace for al fresco dining in the summer. Though it has a more relaxed vibe than Roji, you can expect the same level of quality (Tamas and Tomoko will be closing Roji temporarily to give the new site their full attention) just with a more playful slant. Expect dishes cooked over charcoal as well as sushi and sashimi, with a few of Roji’s signature dishes also making the move over.
Opened January 2025
4 Newburgh Street, W1F 7RF
@himi_ldn
6. Shakara
After leading Akoko in Fitzrovia to a Michelin star, chef Ayo Adeyemi has now helped launch another new modern West African restaurant, this time in Marylebone. He’s Consultant Executive Chef at Shakara, where he’s developed the opening menu and where Victor Okunowo (ex-Talking Drum and MasterChef: The Professionals semi-finalist) is heading up the kitchen. Taking inspo from the ingredients of Nigeria, Ghana and The Gambia and using them to create “authentic African dishes through a modern lens”, the Shakara menu includes dishes like grilled prawns with Ogbono relish and grilled lime; native blue lobster with peppersoup bisque and tagliatelle; dry-aged Hereford beef with yaji, piperade and peppercorn uda jus; salt-baked suya celeriac with BBQ cabbage, Roscoff foam and tomato chutney; and plantain bread with vanilla ice cream and corn custard.
Opened January 2025
66 Baker Street, London, W1D 7DJ
shakaraldn.com
7. Bar Valette
He’s already got a stellar restaurant in the two Michelin-starred The Clove Club and now Isaac McHale has added another Shoreditch spot to his name with Bar Valette. Taking inspo from Southern French and Spanish cookery, Bar Valette is more casual but with a crack team of The Clove Club alums, including Head Chef Erin Jackson Yates and Restaurant Manager and Sommelier Wilem Powell, involved in the opening, it’s all about quality too. The menu is designed for sharing, featuring dishes like devilled crab tartlets; grouse sausage rolls with greengage ketchup; buttermilk fried chicken in pine; raw shaved ceps salad; rabbit leg stuffed with rabbit farce and mushrooms; and smoked grilled Wiltshire trout with cherry stone vinaigrette.
Opened January 2024
28 – 30 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8AA
barvalette.com
8. KURO Bagels
The team behind KURO Coffee and KURO Bakery has turned its third Notting Hill spot KURO Eatery into KURO Bagels. The menu features both made-to-order and ready-filled plain, everything and cinnamon-raison bagels with a range of cream cheeses, including chive, wasabi, roasted garlic, cinnamon and brown sugar. There are also bagel combos like the Peanut Butter + Jelly, the Smoked Salmon (with cream cheese, red onion, capers and dill), the Italian (with mortadella, salami, provolone and vinaigrette), and the KURO Special (with wasabi cream cheese, ikura, red onion and dill) available.
Opened January 2025
5 Hillgate Street, London W8 7SP
kuro-london.com
9. Alfonsina
Named after a beach in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and run by chef Ricardo (who is Argentinian with Italian and Lebanese roots), Alfonsina is bringing a taste of Latin America to Farringdon. The fusion menu takes inspo from Ricardo’s heritage, his time spent at Peruvian restaurant La Mar by Gaston Acurio in San Francisco, and his experiences of living in Brazil and Mexico. As well as a range of cebiches, tiraditos, yakicuchos skewers and taquitos, the menu includes dishes like fried chicken with jalapeno and spicy salsa verde achalacada; sweetcorn and leek tamal with spicy criolla sauce; grilled seabass with seasonal vegetables, aji amarillo risotto, and charapita sauce; ribeye with Andean potatoes, roasted peppers, and chimichurri sauce; and tres leches cake, alongside a short, entirely South American wine list.
Opened January 2025
50-52 Long Ln, London EC1A 9EJ
alfonsina.uk
10. Tamila King’s Cross
After winning a legion of fans with Indian pubs The Tamil Prince and The Tamil Crown, both in Islington, Prince Durairaj and Glen Leeson expanded south of the river last year with Tamila, their reinterpretation of a classic curry house. Beginning as a street food concept at Hackney Bridge in Hackney Wick, the first bricks-and-mortar Tamila opened on Northcote Road in Clapham last autumn. Now the duo have headed back to north London to open a second Tamila in King’s Cross, complete with a basement bar and a takeaway hatch. Like its Clapham sibling, the Tamila King’s Cross menu features the group’s signature roti and dishes from across Tamil Nadu and the Indian subcontinent, including onion bhaji, okra fries, fried sweetcorn, Thanjavur chicken curry, Chettinad lamb curry, garlic coriander naan, half tandoori chicken, and tandoori paneer with pineapple chutney.
Opened January 2025
8 Caledonian Road, London N1 9DU
@tamila_curry
11. The Prince Arthur, Belgravia
Belgravia has got a swanky new pub in the shape of The Prince Arthur. The ground floor gastropub is a place to come for a Hawkstone, a Guinness (with the same system they use in Ireland apparently) or one of the Spanish beers behind the bar. If you’re a wine lover, you can choose from one of best stocked wine collections in the city too, and there’s a fishmonger’s counter laden with everything from sea urchin to tuna to their own in-house caviar. At the Restaurant Above, Basque chef Adam Iglesias (ex-Brat, Barrafina and Sessions Arts Club) is cooking up everything from Iberico and Galician beef to carabineros and whole turbot with pil pil sauce over the open fire grill.
Opened January 2025
11 Pimlico Rd, London SW1W 8NA
princearthurbelgravia.co.uk
12. Leigh’s
Like a lot of London neighbourhoods, De Beauvoir is no stranger to a nice cafe, but it’s always good to see a new addition. And it sounds like N1 locals have got a new go-to as Leigh’s – which is being billed as a seasonal cafe – is now open on Ardleigh Road. The concept is a first for co-founders Melanie and McKenzie, who met in restaurant marketing but both trained at Le Cordon Bleu in London and Paris, who are excited about returning to a back-of-house role. Leigh’s is open from 7am with a breakfast menu of porridge and topped toast, then there are toasties, cakes and bakes available throughout the day.. As well as food, there’s drinks including hot chocolate and speciality brews from Formative Coffee.
Opened January 2025
One and a half, Ardleigh Road, London N1 4HS
@leighslondon
13. Super Club Roma
The Fulham Shore, the group behind Franco Manca and The Real Greek, is diving into the world of Roman pizza with Super Club Roma, now open in Westfield Stratford City. There are a number of crispy Roman pizzas on offer, including the Super Marg (with San Marzano tomato, basil, Jersey buffalo mozzarella and pecorino), the Truffle (a ricotta base with mozzarella, mushrooms, confit garlic, truffle oil, black pepper and chives) and the Super Nova (with San Marzano tomato, mozzarella, salami Napoli, habanero hot sauce, burratini, chilli crisp and pecorino). The fritti selection – we’re talking the likes of ndjua bombs, pesto lasagne, and smoked mozzarella, potato and aioli crocchetta – also sounds banging, and if you manage to have room after that, you’ve got rum baba, chocolate pizza and bomboloni soft serve on the dessert menu. With the Radical Design Movement, Roxy Roller Rink NYC and Italo Disco inspiring the vibe and lots of bright colours and bold graphics inside, you’ll have no trouble finding Super Club Roma either.
Opened January 2025
2 Chestnut Plaza, Montfichet Road, London, E20 1GL
superclubroma.com
14. Rake at The Compton Arms
The Compton Arms’ kitchen has welcomed a new resident for the new year. Rake, run by Jay Claus, Syrus Pickhaver and Peter Ward (who have worked at the likes of Quo Vadis, Brat and Acme Fire Cult), has made the move to Islington from The Gun in Hackney. Rake is all about classic British cookery with a focus on whole animal butchery and sustainable Cornish fish. The menu changes seasonally but you can expect dishes like oysters Kilpatrick with lardo, spiced tomato, horseradish and Worcestershire sauce; braised squid, ale and potato pie; steamed crab claw with larverbread and bacon bearnaise; salsify and Scotch broth; beef ribeye with onion rings; and treacle tart with clotted cream.
Opened January 2025
4 Compton Avenue, London N1 2XD
@rakelondon
15. The Great Indian
After starting The Great Indian out of his kitchen and then growing it into a Hackney takeaway, founder Aman Dhir has now has now turned it into a gastropub in Archway. With space for people to pop in for a pint and a snack, The Great Indian also has a dining area where you can try regional Indian dishes and twists on pub classics. The menu includes the likes of jackfruit croquettes, lamb ghee roast on malabar bread taco, cafreal tiger prawns, slow-cooked short rib with curried mash, lamb shank pie with saffron-cardamom sauce, and tandoori fried chicken pav. As well as a range of beers on tap, there are also spiced cocktails like The Great Indian (made with kaffir lime-infused vodka, sollasa, lime and curry leaves) and the tamarind and chilli-infused Imli Margarita.
Opened January 2025
139 Marlborough Road, London N19 4NU
thegreatindian.uk
16. Dove
After five years of running Orasay, which has a strong focus on fish and seafood, Jackson Boxer has closed the Notting Hill restaurant as he was struggling to make the economics of the operation work. So while it’s farewell to Orasay, it’s also hello to Dove, the new concept now open in its place. The menu will be made up of things that Jackson wants to cook and eat right now, such as deep fried taleggio & truffle lasagna; iced red shrimp with smoked chilli relish; fried pizzette with burrata and ham; lemon & ricotta dumplings with lobster cream and lime leaf; steamed hake with grilled cabbage, capers and lemon; fior di latte soft serve with extra virgin olive oil and caviar supplement.
Opened January 2025
31 Kensington Park Road, London, W11 2EU
@jackson_boxer
17. The Dark Horse
Le Bab founders Stephen Tozer and Ed Brunet have taken over The Farrier in Camden Market and turn it into music-focused pub The Dark Horse. As well as playing host to live music and industry events, the boozer serves pub classics like fish & chips, prawn cocktail, bangers & mash, pies, and hot dogs with fry-ups for breakfast and roasts on Sundays.
Opened January 2025
Camden Stables Market, 87/88 North Yard, London, NW1 8AH
thedarkhorsecamden.com
18. Canto 73
Founded by chef João Ferreira Pinto and Molly Humphreys in 2021 as the pair looked for a creative outlet during the pandemic, Canto 73, a single sitting supper club, is all about creating a slower dining experience. Making use of João’s Michelin experience, the supper club features seasonal, sustainable and high-end cooking, presented in a relaxed and casual atmosphere, giving diners an opportunity to learn more about their food. After hosting supper clubs in Highbury and then at different locations around town over the last three years, the pair have now found Canto 73 a permanent home in Newington Green. The supper clubs are held on Friday and Saturday nights and feature seven courses (at £60 a head), with an optional wine pairing (at £25 a head) designed with Graft Wine. The menu changes every six weeks but previous dishes have included the likes of Jerusalem artichoke with parmesan and confit garlic; pork chop with apple ketchup and mushroom purée; goat cheese and black muscat grape; and chocolate and sesame tart.
Opened December 2024
43 Newington Green, London, N16 9PX
canto73.com
19. Don’t Tell Dad
Founded by Daniel Land (who also co-founded Coco di Mama) and named in tribute to his late sister Lesley, Don’t Tell Dad in Queen’s Park is a bakery by day and a restaurant by night. Head Baker Keren Sternberg (ex-Layla) is leading the bakery part of the operation, turning out sandwiches, biscuits, breads and pastries like hazelnut brown butter croissants; honey-poached quince, creme fraiche and pistachio danishes; and artichoke, sage, and Lancashire cheese pain suisse, which you can enjoy with a 15Grams coffee. The restaurant is led by Head Chef Luke Frankie (ex-Noble Rot, Forza Wine and Spring), who’s weaving French and British influences across the menu through dishes like crab tart with crab oil mayo and watercress; roast pumpkin with brown butter, hazelnut and crispy sage; and spiced mallard with celeriac and Swiss chard.
Opened December 2024
10-14 Lonsdale Road, London NW6 6RD
donttelldad.co.uk
20. Jupiter Burger
The Dom’s Subs crew have nailed sandwiches and expanded into the world of hot dogs (at its new London Fields bar Rasputins), so of course the logical next step is burgers. Jupiter Burger, open on the old Lucky Chip site in Netil Market, is mainly takeaway operation, with a couple of stools for perching at the counter, and is inspired by California-style burger joints – think In-N-Out vibes. The burgers – a smashed beef patty or a house-made veggie patty with shaved onion – are topped with mustard, ketchup, pickles, onion, tomato and lettuce and stuffed into a Martins potato roll – and you can get fries, seasonal Jupiter sodas and Five Points JUPA beers on the side.
Opened December 2024
Netil Market, 13-23 Westgate Street, London E8 3RL
@jupiter___burger
21. Krokodilos
George Bukhov-Weinstein and Ilya Demichev (who’ve just opened Fantômas) and business partner Elmira Amdiya are keeping the Greek wave going in London with Krokodilos, their latest restaurant now open in Kensington. Ex-Jean Georges at The Connaught chef Angelos Togias is heading up the kitchen, cooking dishes like fermented potato flatbread with smoked tomato and goat snow; prawns saganaki; rabbit stifado; guinea fowl and orzo giouvetsi; and portokalopita. Sommelier Jessica Bourne has curated a cracking wine list too featuring plenty of interesting Greek bottles.
Opened December 2025
28A Kensington Church Street, London W8 4EP
krokodilos.co.uk
Photo: @carlabarberphotography
22. The Dreamery
Completing the Goodbye Horses trio, made up of the restaurant and wine bar, and coffee shop Day Trip, is ice cream parlour The Dreamery. The space, dominated by a large stainless steel bar, is serving up a seasonally changing menu of ice creams created by Jack Coggins, Head Chef at Goodbye Horses, with flavours like Christmas pudding, gingerbread, mint chocolate chip, croissant, and custard. And if you want a drink to go with your scoops, there’s a selection of light glou-glou wines from small and indie producers on offer too.
Opened December 2024
20a Halliford St, London, N1 3HD
goodbyehorses.london
23. The Brave
James Cochran only closed his restaurant 12:51 a few months ago but he’s already back in the game, and back in Islington too. The Brave, now open on Essex Road, is billed as a “fresh take on the British pub“. Cochran is showcasing his Scottish-Caribbean heritage and his love of produce from the British isles with his menu, which includes the likes of jerk spiced scotch egg with scotch bonnet jam; Guinness and cheese toastie with bread and butter pickles; buttermilk fried chicken with hot honey glaze; beef fat hash brown with aged beef tartar, confit egg yolk and crispy seaweed; roast spiced Orkney scallop with tikka masala sauce, roe and coconut; coal roasted Harrietsham leeks with confit onion and truffle hollandaise; roast haunch of Aynhoe venison, venison sausage and slow braised venison pie with neep & tattie hash browns, xo sauce, grilled hispi cabbage, roast onions and chicory salad; and chocolate mousse with bay leaf ice cream and Armagnac prunes.
Opened December 2024
340-342 Essex Road, London N1 3PB
@thebravelondon
24. Cafe Mondo
Cult sandwich slingers Mondo Sando have given their ever-changing menu of crowd-pleasers a permanent home by opening their very own shop in Camberwell – right next door to TOAD Bakery. What started as a lockdown side hustle – inspired by the food in Miyazaki films, Redwall novels and the Beano, as well as from delis, diners and drinking dens across the world – has grown into a fave of sandwich-loving Londoners, and Mondo’s held a series of popular residencies since launching (most recently at the Grove House Tavern, which will continue alongside the new venture). Now the team are moving up to the next level with Cafe Mondo, a fully-licenced sandwich shop on Peckham Road. As well as beer and sandwiches, the new site is doing wine, cocktails, slushies, pickles (all at affordable prices) and a sunny front porch to eat/drink on.
Opened November 2024
42 Peckham Road, London SE5 8PX
@cafe_mondo_se5
25. Santo Remedio Casona & Cantina
The duo behind Santo Remedio, Edson Diaz-Fuentes and Natalie Feary, has just launched a third site on Marylebone’s Thayer Street, bringing their menu of regional Mexican specialities to a new London neighbourhood. The W1 restaurant, which is being called Santo Remedio Casona & Cantina, is set across two storeys, with space for 85 covers and a bar serving tequila and mezcal cocktails. The menu here is designed to showcase many of Edson’s favourite dishes from across Mexico, including ceviches and chiles rellenos. There’s also be a focus on guisados (slow-cooked and stewy dishes) and antojitos (small, hand-pressed corn dishes like sopes and empanadas). And the team is sourcing Mexican ingredients rarely found in the UK, such as the purple heirloom corn MasaFina.
Opened November 2024
13-14 Thayer Street, London W1U 3JR
santoremedio.co.uk
26. Turo Turo
British-born Filipino chef Rex De Guzman has been sharing his love of Filipino barbecue through Turo Turo (named after the Tagalog for ‘point point’, which is how people order from fast food stalls in the Philippines) all over town for the last ten years. He’s already running a residency, Turo Turo Express, at The Queen’s Head pub in Holborn, but now he’s opened his very own Turo Turo restaurant in Tooting. The menu showcases the best Filipino street food, with dishes like oxtail kare kare croquettes with peanut sauce; pancit palabok – rice noodles with shrimp sauce, hard-boiled eggs, chicharon and citrus; cauliflower gata; grilled chicken inasal by the half or quarter; adobo spare ribs; sizzling pork sisig – chopped pork face and ears with chilli and citrus; mango float, with creme patisserie, whipped cream, and Biscoff; and royale bibingka – a glutinous coconut rice cake cooked in banana leaves and topped with grilled cheese. If you’re in a big group, you can also get stuck into the Boodle Fight, a sharing feast of beef longganisa, ginger bagoong wings, garlic butter prawns and more, served on a banana leaf without cutlery or crockery – it’s one to get properly hands-on with.
Opened November 2024
102 Tooting High Street, London SW17 0RR
turoturo.co.uk
27. Bun House Disco
Z He and Alex Peffly have brought their signature steamed buns, with a big dollop of disco, to Shoreditch. Now open on the corner of Brick Lane, Bun House Disco will transport you back to 1980s Hong Kong, where disco was big, nightclubs were booming and synthpop was the soundtrack. As well as a sparkling disco ball, the restaurant features retro striped booths, a maroon-tiled bar and an open kitchen where you can see buns and wontons being steamed. During the day, the menu centres around prawn and veggie wontons, served with dressings like black vinegar, hot & sour, dan dan, and ginger scallion, with wide noodles and soup available as additions if you want something slurpy. Come evening, the wonton menu is shorter, supplemented by snacks, Cantonese sharing plates and steamed buns, including a new black sesame lava bun.
Opened November 2024
118 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 7EE
@8unhouse
28. Long Chim
When it comes to Thai food, names don’t come much bigger than David Thompson. He founded legendary Thai restaurant Nahm, which had a London outpost at The Halkin hotel from 2001-2012 (during which time it was the first Thai restaurant in Europe to win a Michelin star) and still operates in the COMO Metropolitan in Bangkok (although Thompson is no longer involved), and he has also been the inspiration for a generation of chefs cooking Thai food. Now after more than a decade away from London, Thompson has come back to the capital and he’s brought Long Chim with him. Long Chim, which has sites in Sydney, Perth and Riyadh, offers a more casual but still authentic take on Thai food, with dishes inspired by the stalls and markets of Bangkok, like sour orange prawn curry, grilled pork neck skewers, red snapper fish cakes, and grilled beef salad with roasted rice. Word of Long Chim’s arrival in London first started to spread in 2022 and now after two years of waiting, it’s taken up residence on the ground floor of Horvada and will be there into early 2025.
Opened November 2024
Ground Floor, 36-40 Rupert Street, London, W1D 6DW
longchim.london
29. AngloThai
Over the past couple of years AngloThai, the British-Thai kitchen concept run by husband and wife team John and Desiree Chantarasak, has been popping up across town (including residencies at Newcomer Wines and Outcrop) and releasing very popular meal kits (including a banquet box with Irish beef and sai ua hot dog kits), and now they’ve gone perm with their very own restaurant in Marylebone. John’s menu reflects both his British and Thai heritage and makes use of seasonal ingredients from across the British isles, including black faced Hebridean Sheep from Ryall Farm in Dorset (owned by Desiree’s family), line caught fish, Carlingford oysters, British caviar and foraged foods, as well as British-grown Asian produce like young ginger root, makrut citrus, chillies and holy basil. Dishes include red flesh plum with candied beetroot & Suffolk rapeseed; Brixham crab with Exmoor caviar & coconut ash cracker; Lion’s Mane mushroom & sunflower seed satay; Ryall Farm hogget massaman & black fig; monkfish jungle curry & holy basil; and carrot & sea buckthorn parfait. Desiree is overseeing the wine list, which’ll feature low intervention and biodynamic bottles from European producers.
Opened November 2024
22-24 Seymour Place, London W1H 7NL
anglothai.co.uk
30. Vatavaran
Geode has shut up shop in Knightsbridge and Rohit Ghai and Abhi Sangwan (who operate Kutir and Manthan) have been drafted in to take over the space. The pair have opened Vatavaran (meaning ‘atmosphere’ in Sanskrit), which is inspired by the landscapes of the Himalayas and has the likes of goat shami kebab, coconut seabass, pork vindaloo, lamb shank biryani and mangalore fish on the menu. Each of the restaurant’s four levels symbolises a different element, with cocktail bar Shikhar (meaning ‘mountain peak’) at the top, where the menu features herbs and spices found in the Indian mountains.
Opened November 2024
14-15 Beauchamp Place, London, SW3 1NQ
vatavaran.uk
