London appears to have picked the second week of September to open everything at once.
Two cult Japanese pop-ups become a three-storey restaurant in Notting Hill, one of the men responsible for Norman’s returns to Hackney having sworn off fry-ups, La Petite Maison invents the £9 neighbourhood coffee and Soho gains somewhere to eat wagyu shepherd’s pie, which feels less like news than the fulfilment of a prophecy.