With new ventures from Gordon Ramsay, Richard Caring, and Jeremy King, as well as the
the arrival of international brands such as Carbone and Shanghai Me, 2025 is shaping to be another banner year for restaurant openings.
Here are a few of our choices for you to try out:
22 Bishopsgate
Probably the biggest launch of 2025 in terms of investment and square footage,
Gordon Ramsay Group's upcoming project at 22 Bishopsgate will have five different restaurant brands, including Lucky Cat and Bread Street Kitchen. Most intriguingly, it will also be
home to a 14-seat chef's table, an offshoot of Ramsay's three-Michelin-starred eponymous Chelsea flagship.
Bishopsgate
London
Le Caprice
Five years after the closure of its original location on Arlington Street,
iconic London restaurant Le Caprice is set to relaunch next summer in a new
home at The Chancery Rosewood in Mayfair. The new Le Caprice will be located
on the southeast corner of the £1bn luxury hotel and leisure redevelopment
of the former US Embassy, and it is set to hold around 200 covers. Further details
are thin on the ground, but owner Richard Caring has promised the new
restaurant will 'keep the essence' of the original Le Caprice.
The Chancery Rosewood
London
Francesco Mazzei at The Corinthia
Calabrian chef Francesco Mazzei returns to London next summer with a
restaurant at The Corinthia Hotel in the space that was previously home to its
The Northall brasserie. Details are scant, but Mazzei is promising a return to his
L'Anima days with a high-end Italian restaurant using British produce.
The Corinthia Hotel
Whitehall Place
London
Simpson’s in The Strand
The historic London restaurant is being brought back to life under the
stewardship of Jeremy King, who will return it to its former grandeur. The silver
carving trolleys will feature for carving and desserts, with King planning to keep
the main dining room in its original guise but add a more accessible and
affordable diffusion restaurant upstairs.
The Strand
West End
London
The Cut & Craft Manchester
Steakhouse group The Cut & Craft has chosen the former Royal Bank of
Scotland building in Manchester for its impressive new restaurant. Described as
the final extravagant palazzo-style building in the city' the 150-cover
restaurant and will feature a central marble-topped bar, marble-topped
tables, plush green velvet seating, and a marbled floor.
Royal Bank of Scotland Building
Manchester
Bar Valette
This new venture from The Clove Club's Isaac Mchale will occupy the former Two
Lights site on London's Kingsland Road and will be an informal wine bar and
restaurant with French and Spanish influences. It will be headed up by Erin
Jackson, who will move over from nearby The Clove Club, has helped
create a menu of shared dishes.
Kingsland Road
Hackney
London
Carbone
Italian-American food was a major trend this year, but there's more to come in
2025, as one of New York's hottest restaurants crosses The Pond. Launched
in Greenwich Village a decade or so ago, Carbone is an upscale take on a classic
'red sauce' joint that's famed for its spicy rigatoni vodka and veal parm. The UK
iteration will be early this year.
The Chancery Rosewood
Mayfair
London
Din Tai Fung
Xiao long bao specialist Din Tai Fung will open a restaurant within Canary Wharf's
Crossrail Place early next year, taking its total number of London sites up to four.
On the former site of the modern Indian restaurant concept Chai Ki, the site will
have space for 112 covers plus a private dining room that seats 16.
Crossrail Place
Canary Wharf
London
Shanghai Me
Dubai-based group Fundamental Hospitality is to open a London outpost
for its high-end pan-Asian restaurant brand Shanghai Me on the former Galvin
at Windows site next year. The rooftop restaurant, housed on the 28 floor of the
London Hilton Hotel on Park Lane will boast 1930s Shanghai-inspired interiors
by designer Richard Saunders. The menu will be inspired by the culinary traditions
of East Asia and will feature an extensive library of dim sum, wagyu kushiyaki;
and miso cod.
Hilton Ho
tel
Park Lane
London
Alba
Billed as 'a little slice of the Italian coast, just a stone's throw from Harrods', Alba is
set to open in London's Knightsbridge next year. Located on Brompton Road,
the restaurant will have an open kitchen and a seafood display. It will serve a
seasonally-changing menu that includes Amalfi staples such as risotto con
gamberi and lemon and Sicilian gamberi rossi di Mazara.
Brompton Road
Knightsbridge
London
Guinness at Old Brewer's Yard
Now a dominant force in the on-trade, Guinness's popularity has gone from
strength to strength in recent years, as demonstrated by the recent shortages
of the black stuff in pubs. In 2025, the popularity of the Irish stout is set to
reach new heights with the opening of the new Guinness at Old Brewer's Yard, a
vast 50,000sq ft space spanning Mercer Walk, Langley Street, Neal Street and
Shelton Street in London's Covent Garden. It will house a microbrewery, a
restaurant, an events space with an open-fire kitchen and a 360-degree
glass rooftop space.
Shelton Street
Covent Garden
London
Also, opening in 2025...
There's plenty more to come in 2025 in terms of restaurant openings. Details may be thin on the ground, but forthcoming projects are expected to include a second site for Claude and Lucy Bosi's Josephine Bouchon in Marylebone and Bone Daddies' founder Ross Shonhan's new Mayfair venture. London's Oxford Street will welcome a cafe and cookery school from Jamie Oliver and a rooftop restaurant on the former House of Fraser site. Stevie Parle's delayed new West End restaurant is also still going ahead and looks set to open sometime in 2025.
