There’s a definite back-to-school feel in London dining this September if the bumper crop of neatly turned-out restaurant launches is anything to go by. In addition to the 10 places we’ve highlighted below, some of the capital’s best-known dining rooms are having a new-school-year makeover: Le Comptoir Robuchon in Mayfair is relaunching as L’Atelier Robuchon (a big deal in noughties Covent Garden), Angela Hartnett’s Murano is celebrating its 15th anniversary by re-opening with a total refurb, while the Floral Street Lima is rebranding as Lima Cantina, offering a more casual spin on Peruvian cuisine. That’s on top of a Notting Hill outpost of Chelsea Green’s ingredients-led Wild Tavern, and a new Soho site for blingy Mayfair pizza slinger Bocconcino.
Prefer drinking to eating? London is having a bit of a wine-bar moment. Look out in September for Ken’s, a Clerkenwell sibling to Dan’s in Dalston, Peckham’s Forza Wine arriving at the National Theatre, Finch alighting in Brixton and Little Cellars, a Camberwell outpost of Peckham Cellars.
