Living & Loving The London Scene!

Want to have your finger on the pulse on what's new on the London restaurant scene? Like to be one step ahead of your friends and colleagues and be in the know about the latest hotspots and must-try places to eat?

Well now's your chance as we've teamed up with leading Event Management and Corporate Hospitality company, 19 Events to recommend our top 10 must-visit restaurants, all of which are creating a buzz in the capital!

1. Basement State

Located: 8 Broadwick Street, London, W1F 8HN
Opened: September 4th
Perfect for: Dessert and cocktails or even first dates!

How hasn’t anyone thought of this before? A venue that pairs partying with sweet treats and cocktails. Seaweed and salted caramels are part of a simplistic, ornate cocktail list that compliments the desserts on offer, the conceptions of a Provincial pastry chef in London. This is the one for that big first date: it’s all the fun of dessert time, taken seriously.

2. Bobo Social

Located: 95 Charlotte Street, London, W1T 4PZ
Opened: 14th August
Perfect for: Tasty burgers without the fuss!

Bobo Social introduces another ‘easy-eat’ with their new Burger and Small Plates concept. Their burgers are handcrafted from rare-breed, Sussex beef – Dexter, Longhorn and Red Lincoln, and, seared at 300 degrees in a Kopa Charcoal Oven. Tasty!

3. Call Me Mr Lucky

Located: 11-12 Southwark Street, London SE1 1RQ
Opened: 31st August
Perfect for: All day dining and evening cocktails!

Everyone’s favourite eggs joint slash hidden cocktail bar group are taking their winning formula to the Bridge, London Bridge that is, with the opening of Call Me Mr Lucky. Along the same lines as Shoreditch’s Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town and Battersea’s King of Ladies Man, the new venue will consist of an all day breakfast club cafe, and a secret, hidden cocktail bar accessed via a secret entrance in the cafe.

4. Dirty Burger Shoreditch

Located: 13 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Opened: August 19th
Perfect for: Casual and quick bite to eat any night of the week!

It’s a simple concept, the menu details just a few burger combos, the star of the menu is the Dirty Burger; a mustard mayo, pickle, burger/bap cheese salad combo that would take only those with the stomach to finish this beauty.

5. Pimpshuei

Located: Mount Pleasant, London, WC1X
Opened: July 21st 
Perfect for: After work drinks

Truly a cocktail bar like no other, this crowd-sourced venture is set to become a quirky hotspot in the coming months. If you are bored of the same old pretentious cocktail bars, then PimpShuei is definitely a welcome addition to your after work sessions. With a mixture of fine food, delightful cocktails and catchy tunes, you can’t go wrong!

6. Bob Bob Ricard Club Room

Located: 1 Upper St James Street, Soho, London W1F 9DF
Opened: 30th July
Perfect for: Saturday nights!

Bob Bob Ricard’s intimate 74-seater Club Room extends to its Lower Ground Floor space, which boasts a club-like mahogany central floor to air the space out a bit. And true to Bob Bob Ricard form, a “Press for Champagne” button sits in every booth in case of any unsuspecting champers-related droughts. The upstairs restaurant’s optimum wine and champagne policy will continue downstairs, as will the Russian British crossover foods.

7. LIMA Floral

Located: 14 Garrick Street, London, WC2E 9BJ
Opened: 23rd July
Perfect for: Celebrations with family and friends

Fitzrovia’s LIMA has gone from strength to strength. Once a new face on the scene, LIMA quickly morphed into one of London’s best left-field eateries. It’s the work of Virgilio Martinez, a Peruvian chef who – back at home in Peru – runs a restaurant widely thought of as one of the best in the world. It’s his lab-like technique that keeps bums in seats. Some of this food simply hasn’t been seen in London before.

8. Hixter Bankside

Located: 16 Guildford Street, Southwark, London SE1 OHS
Opened: 30th July
Perfect for: All round eatery and late night hotspot

First Mark Hix brought us Tramshed in Shoreditch then Hixter came to the City. Both restaurants - where the choice is chicken or steak, to share - have proved so popular that a second Hixter has been brought to the Metal Box Factory, Bankside, round the corner from Tate Modern. The large 7,000 square foot Hixter Bankside also includes a Mark's Bar, similar to the original and award-winning Mark's Bar in Soho. Two private dining rooms for 8 to 50 guests are the perfect way to feast with friends from a range of private dining menus.

9. Tanya's Cafe

Located: 35, Ixworth Place, Chelsea, London, SW3 3QX
Opened: 22nd July
Perfect for: Healthy all day dining during work and after!

Tanya Alekseeva or Raw Tanya as she is known, is one of the leading detox and raw food experts and now she is opening a raw food café in My Hotel Chelsea. And it’s healthy, super healthy,  open for breakfast, lunch and serving small plates in the evening, drinks include Matcha latte and medicinal mushrooms; whilst for lunch forget your usual lasagna they’ll be serving up a walnut meat, pesto, marinara, cheese and courgetti (like spaghetti but healthy!). There’s even a chocolate section on the pudding menu which you don’t have to feel guilty about! 

10. Tom’s Kitchen Restaurant and Bar

Located: 1 Commodity Quay, London E1W 1AZ
Opened: 18th August
Perfect for: Long Sunday lunches

Tom Aiken’s added restaurant number 5 to his collection this summer with the opening of Tom’s Kitchen Restaurant and Bar in St Katharine’s Dock. You’ll find some of the classic Tom’s Kitchen dishes on the menu such as spicy crab cakes and seven hour confit lamb, as well as new dishes including haddock with sweet corn fritters. Next door will be a deli selling the best things in life, for us it's the flourless chocolate fudge cake – see you in the queue.

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