The family-run team behind highly-regarded Italian restaurant Il Portico in London's Kensington have launched a nearby sister site that focuses on the food of Italy's Emilia-Romagna region.
Brighton-based premium fried chicken brand The Bok Shop is to launch two new restaurants within four weeks of each other, beginning in Hastings at the end of the month.
Roberta Hall-McCarron is to relocate her bijou Edinburgh bistro The Little Chartroom to a larger premises and use the original site to launch a new concept later this year.
Former Dinings Harcourt and Roka chef Collin Hudston is to lead a new restaurant launching within Japanese/Nordic retail and dining space Pantechnicon in London's Belgravia later this month.
Big Mamma's flair for grandiose ostentation remains undimmed with its third London restaurant, which combines glitz, glamour and decadence with a dash of Roman Catholicism.
Chris Leach and David Carter are planning to launch a second iteration of their nose-to-tail, British-Italian restaurant Manteca in London's Shoreditch.
Greek street food player The Athenian is set to launch three new delivery kitchens across London, as it begins to rebuild its estate following the departure of co-founder Neo Christodoulou.
Top Cuvée founders Brodie Meah and Max Venning are further expanding their portfolio with the launch of an underground wine bar in London's Bethnal Green later this summer.
This month's upcoming openings include chef Fernando Trocca's London debut, Sally Abé’s Art Deco-inspired fine dining restaurant The Pem, and the launch of Sessions Arts Club with chef Florence Knight.
Chefs Ryan and Liam Simpson-Trotman, who own Oxfordshire fine-dining restaurant Orwells in Henley-on-Thames, have saved a disused Shiplake pub from demolition and now plan to relaunch it early next year.
