BEST RESTAURANTS AND BARS OPENING IN LONDON IN JUNE 2025

We welcome the Summer with an exciting array of fresh new openings in our sunny London.

Bon appetit!

 

Harry's - Kings Cross

Address: Harry's Kings Cross, 3 King's Blvd, London N1C 4BU

Opening Date: 3 June 2025

50's/60's Italian themed bar and restaurant Harry's dolce Vita by Richard Caring's Caprice Holdings opens fourth branch on the former Vinoteca site, inspired by Harry's bar in Venice.

 

Kerb - White City

Address: White City Place, W12 7FQ

Opening Date: 4 June 2025

Open every Wednesday at lunchtime the street food market by Kerb will host seven rotating traders, starting with:

  • Oshpaz - Uzbek plov rice bowls;
  • Bask Street Boys – Basque galettes;
  • Duck Shed - duck rolls or burgers;
  • Harissa and Lemon - Moroccan street food;
  • Meltdown - burgers;
  • Bian Dang - Taiwanese fried chicken and rice bowls;
  • Andhra Ruchulu - South Indian street food.

 

Popeye's - Shepherd's Bush

Address: West 12 Shopping Centre, London, W12 8PP

Opening Date: 4 June 2025

Opening Offer: 100 free Chicken sandwiches on opening day from 12pm and FREE Chicken sandwiches for a year for the first 3 people in the queue

American fast food fried chicken chain Popeye's, "home of the famous Louisiana Chicken Sandwich", is expanding again and now they're spread all over London in the form of either restaurants or delivery kitchens. This will be their 29th London site.

 

TWININGS Sparkling Tea Pop Up

Address: King's Cross Station

Pop-Up Date: 4 - 5 June 2025

Pop-Up Offer: Free cans of tea

Twinings launches new sparkling tea with a public activation at Coal Drops Yard offering a can for free.

 

Bastardo

Address: 201 Richmond Rd, London E8 3NJ

Opening Date: 5 June 2025

New wine bar at Lardo serving "mighty fine snacks", and over 70 low-intervention wines.

 

Brim Burgers - Hammersmith

Address: 130 King Street

Opening Date: 5 June 2025

Pakistani burger franchise chain opens sixth location in London.

 

SASA

Address: 370 St John St, London EC1V 4NN

Opening Date: 6 June 2025

Islington's family run sushi restaurant SASA by Mark Tan-Pham is taking over The Gate.

 

Electric Shuffle - King's Cross

Address: 1 Lewis Cubitt Park, King's Cross, London, N1C 4EJ

Opening Date: 6 June 2025

Neighbourhood cocktail and high-tech shuffleboard bar is opening in the social hub of King's Cross.

 

Rudy's Pizza Napoletana - Clapham Common

Address: 15 The Pavement, Clapham Common, London SW4 0HY

Opening Date: 7 June 2025

Opening Offer: 3000 free pizzas by booking here

Neapolitan pizzeria chain is opening their first store outside centra London, on the old The Diary site.

 

Emilia's Summer Pasta Festival 2025

Address: Emilia's Crafted Pasta (Canary Wharf), 12 George Street London E14 9QG

Opening Date: 8 June 2024, 12pm - 7pm

London’s one and only Pasta Festival, hosted by Emilia’s Crafted Pasta, is back to Canary Wharf. The modern restaurant and outdoor areas, riverside terrace and surrounding parks and greenery will all be transformed into a summer street-food style festival filled with live music, various pasta-themed masterclasses, kid’s activities and much more. The entry is free and gives visitors 1-% off pasta dishes. Enjoy fresh pasta and drinks from our outdoor stations in the dedicated ‘pasta picnic’ areas, complete with deckchairs, riverside benches, blankets, and dance spots. Surrounded by Canary Wharf’s greenery, the al fresco vibe is topped off with Italian gelato and pasta tastings. There will be a variety of Masterclasses for adults and children, that are bookable online.

 

Artisan Brew Cafe - Chancery Lane

Address: 65 Grays inn Road, WC1X 8TL

Opening Date: 8 June 2024

Opening Offer: 100 free drinks & tote bags on opening day from 12pm

 

Lina Stores

Address: 1 Crossrail Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AR

Opening Date: 9 June 2025

Lina Stores chain is opening their tenth site, making this their third City space, on the old Breakfast Club space. Their menu is a mix of Italian food centred around fresh pasta.

 

Signorelli - Wood Wharf

Address: 5 West Lane, Canary Wharf, London E22 3AA

Opening Date: 9 June 2025

A family-run, community-led Italian artisan bakery founded in East London in 2015, now opening their fifth location.

 

Joe & The Juice

Address: 12 Great Portland Street, London

Opening Date: 9 June 2025

Opening Offer: 100 free coffees on opening day from 7am

Popular cafe chain, famous for their fresh sandwiches, signature healthy juices and salads is expanding.

 

Damsel Collective

Address: 70-72 Kingsland Rd, Shoreditch, London E2 8DP

Opening Date: 10 June 2025

Opening Offer: 25 free coffees on opening day at 10am

London's women-only creative hub & bar, a first-of-its-kind space by women for women.

 

Gina

Address: 92 Station Road, Chingford, E4 7BA

Opening Date: 11 June 2025

Pastry chef, author and Junior Bake Off presenter Ravneet Gill (ex St John and Black Axe Mangal, and wrote three cookbooks) and husband chef Mattie Taiano (ex The Camberwell Arms, Som Saa and Franks) are launching their first restaurant in "the worst year for restaurants ever."

 

La Mia Mamma - Battersea

Address: 59 Northcote Rd, Battersea, London SW11 1NP

Opening Date: 11 June 2025

Opening Offer: 40% off food, 11 - 19 June 2025

The team behind Fish & Bubbles, who also have 2 branches in Chelsea and Notting Hill are opening a third in Battersea,  on the former Made in Italy space. The food is apparently prepared by "real Italian mothers" assisted by chefs.

 

Popeyes Tooting

Address: 47-49 Mitcham Road, Tooting

Opening Date: 11 June 2025

Opening Offer: 100 free Chicken sandwiches on opening day from 12pm and FREE Chicken sandwiches for a year for the first 3 people in the queue

Famous Louisiana style chicken sandwich is coming to Tooting for their 30th location in London.

 

The Black Cow

Address: 30 Curtain Road, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3NL

Opening Date: 12 June 2025

The American style Middle Eastern steakhouse by Shiri Kraus and Amir Batito (owners of Epicurus) is moving from Camden to Shoreditch in the new development 'The Stage'.

 

Tigermilk

Address: 127 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EW

Opening Date: 12 June 2025

Opening Offer: 'Pay what you like' offer 12-13 June

French restaurant group are bringing their Latin American food to London.

 

Dumbo

Address: 119 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch, London E2 7DG

Opening Date: 12 June 2025

The OG of the smashburger in Paris and coming to London.

 

William The Fourth

Address: 816 High Rd, Leyton, E10 6AE

Reopening Date: 12 June 2025

Brewery in a revamped grand Victorian boozer reopens with Short Road Pizza as caterers. They will also have DJs, big games streaming, quiz nights, and karaoke.

 

Bun & Sum

Address: Unit S19, Pop Brixton, 49 Brixton Station Rd, London SW9 8PQ

Opening Date: 12 June 2025

Opening Offer: 100 free burgers & chips on opening day

 

Thai Square - Bayswater

Address: 65 Bayswater Road, London W2 3PH

Opening Date: 12 June 2025

Opening Offer: 100 free thai curries on 12 & 13 June and 25% on food bill from 12 - 25 June
Head Chef ‘Kied’ Paralak Burasit is leading the new Thai Square in Bayswater with her bold and distinctive flavours influenced by her roots in Isan, the northeastern Thailand.
The interior features stunning Thai-inspired architecture, contemporary wallpaper, antique stone walls and laterite bricks reminiscent of the Phanom Rung Historical Park in Buriram.

 

HBR

Address: 14 Eccleston Street, Victoria, London SW1W 9LT

Opening Date: 13 June 2025

Opening Offer: 500 free burgers on opening day from 11am

Smashburger restaurant from Kuwait is opening their first overseas.

 

Lai Rai

Address: 181 Rye Lane, Peckham SE15 4TP

Opening Date: 14 June 2025

Vietnamese cafe serving bánh mì during the day just to be transformed into a canteen in the evening, on the old Issa Vibe site. Owned by a group of second-generation Vietnamese siblings who run the Bánh Bánh family of restaurants. The menu is curated by Blair Nguyen (co-founder of Vinaxoa).

 

Mareida

Address: 160 Great Portland St, London W1W 5QA

Opening Date: 14 June 2025

Prenay Agarwal opens Chilean restaurant with Head Chef Trinidad Vial Della Maggiora running the kitchen along with Chef Carolina Bazán (Latin America’s Best Female Chef in 2019 by the World’s 50 Best) and hosting rotating series of guest chefs from the Southern Andes. They initially had a residency at Carousel last year to give us a taste of what is to come.

 

Bababoom - Camden Town

Address: 2nd Floor, Food Court, HAWLEY WHARF, Unit M207, Water Ln., London NW1 8QH

Opening Date: 14 June 2025

Opening Offer: 100 £1 kebabs on opening day from 12pm

 

CakeCo - Harrow

Address: 233 Station Road, Harrow HA1 2TB

Opening Date: 14 June 2025

Opening Offer: 500 free cake slices on opening day, from 11am

Previously Paul's Bakery, CakeCo are opening a new site in Harrow.

 

Chez Lui Bistrot

Address: 184A Kensington Park Rd, Notting Hill, London W11 2ES

Opening Date: 16 June 2025

Bagatelle Group are launching a new group called La Bistrot Collection, and their first restaurant will be Chez Lui inspired by the Le Marais district in Paris, opening on the former Haya site and designed by Sam Baron. the menu is French with Mediterranean influences.

 

The Chalk Freehouse

Address: 25-27 Tryon Street, Chelsea, London SW3 3LG

Opening Date: 16 June 2025

Tom Kerridge's Chelsea pub, The Butcher's Tap and Grill is reopening as "wet pub" The Chalk Freehouse, with chef Tom De Keyser (of The Hand and Flowers) running the kitchen.

 

Base Face Pizza - Richmond

Address: 112 Kew Road, Richmond, London TW9 2PQ

Opening Date: 17 June 2025

Opening Offer: 50% off all pizzas, 17-22 June 2025

Former professional jazz musician Tim Thornton opens flagship pizzeria in Richmond, with sister sites in Putney and Barnes.

 

Taste of London 2025

Address: Ulster Terrace, Regents Park, London NW1 4LL

Opening Date: 18 - 22 June 2025

London's most popular food festival is back in Regent’s Park with 36 Restaurants, 50 Chefs, 150 Artisan Producers and an epic line-up of over 120 delicious dishes, chef demos and unmissable things to do – from BBQ stoking to cocktail shaking, and dancing ’til dark in front of live DJs across five days and eight long sessions.

Mitch Tonks residency at Brown’s Hotel

Address: The Donovan Bar, Brown’s Hotel, 33 Albemarle St, Mayfair, London W1S 4BP

Start Date: 18 June – 14 September 2025

Father and son duo Mitch and Ben Tonks who run The Seahorse in Dartmouth are coming to The Donovan Bar at Brown's Hotel for a three-month residency. The seafood menu (sourced from Brixham Fish Market) will be paired with cocktails by Salvatore Calabrese and Federico Pavan.

Singburi 2.0

Address: Unit 7 Montacute Yards, Shoreditch High Street, London E1 6HU

Opening Date: 19 June 2025

One of London's best Thai restaurants restaurant (No.71 on UK's Best Restaurants list) closed late last year and is reopening in Shoreditch. Head chef Sirichai is the second generation of the Kularbwong family and is taking over the restaurant from his parents. He has partnered with chef Nick Molyviatis (founding head chef at Kiln and Oma) and Alexander Gkikas (co-founder of Catalyst Cafe and Roastery).

Harley's

Address: Oriel Hall, Oriel Place, Hampstead London, NW3 1QN

Opening Date: 19 June 2025

New butcher shop, who are also behind steak restaurant Ibai and meat distributor Txuleta, in partnership with butcher Oliver Harley (ex Provenance Chelsea). Their burger was featured in the National Burger Awards Champion of Champion burger by Whole Beast.

 

Barbarella

Address: YY Building, 30 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HX

Opening Date: 20 June 2025

Big Mamma's group (who also have Ave Mario, Circolo Popolare, Jacuzzi, Carlotta and Gloria) Italian hideaway dripping in ‘70s glam, on the former All Bar One space. The upstairs area will be a 70s-style lounge and open kitchen. Chef Marco Rastelli has prepared an all-Italian menu.

 

Noisy Oyster

Address: Norton Folgate, Shoreditch, East London E1 6DB

Opening Date: 20 June 2025

A seafood bistro and martinis in the Norton Folgate development by Madina Kazhimova and Anna Dolgushina (owners of Firebird).

 

Canal

Address: Mason & Fifth Hotel, 11 Woodfield Rd, Westbourne Park, London W9 2BA

Opening Date: 30 June 2025

Ham Restaurants (owners of Crispin, Bar Crispin and Bistro Freddie) are opening an all-day restaurant on the Grand Union Canal in the Mason & Fifth hotel. Chef Adrian Hernandez Farina (ex Humo, Chiltern Firehouse, French Laundry and Coal Rooms in London and ASKA in New York) will run the kitchen and Sean Cooper (ex The Fat Duck, The Quality Chop House and Muse by Tom Aikens) will be GM.

 

Dante at Claridge's

Address: Claridge's Restaurant, Brook St, London W1K 4HR

Start Date: 30 June 2025

Caffe Dante is run by husband-and-wife duo Linden Pride and Nathalie Hudson who opened it in New York in 1915 then re-launched as Dante in 2015. They are now coming to London taking over the bar at Claridge's in July, for one month.

 

atis - Battersea

Address: Unit A, 57 Nine Elms Ln, Nine Elms, London SW11 7DE

Opening Date: 30 June 2025

Opening Offer: 50% off in-store between 11am - 3pm during opening week (30 June - 4 July)

The brand's eleventh site in London in their rapid expansion to open 20 sites. Founded by husband and wife team Eleanor Warder and Phil Honer on Old Street in 2019, it offers healthy customisable salad bowls and protein plates.

 

Puffy Cookies

Address: 47 Old Compton St, Soho, London W1D 6HL

Opening Date: June 2025

Junk Group is a French-based venture by Wissem Ben Ammar and Majed Mansour. They have four store in France and are now launching a cookie concept on the former Orée Boulangerie site, right next door to sister brand Junk Burger.

 

Noreen

Address: 28-32 St Christopher's Place, London W1U 1NU

Opening Date: June 2025

Middle-Eastern restaurant with a menu curated by chef Mehdi Hani (ex Harrods) using his tanoour oven and Minqala grill. Ryan Chetiyawardana's Mr Lyan Studio has designed the cocktails list.

 

Island

Address: Mare Street Market, Kings Cross, Lewis Cubitt Square, London N1C 4DY

Opening Date: June 2025

Chef Brad Carter (of Carters of Moseley in Birmingham) is coming to London opening a restaurant in The Chandelier room at Mare Street Market with chef Tom Brown (owner of The Capital), serving a surf & turf menu of seafood and nose-to-tail of rare-breed meats.

 

Homer Lobster at 'Truffle Burger & Friends' Pop-Up

Address: Truffle Burger South Bank, Under Hungerford Bridge, 30 The Queen's Walk, London SE1 8XX

Opening Date: June 2025

Truffle Burger have a pop-up on the Southbank for a Summer residency from April to October and are hosting friends from around the world. This month they are bringing Homer Lobster from France.

 

Lupa

Address: 73 Highbury Park, Highbury, London N5 1UA

Opening Date: Late June 2025

Actor Theo James and Ed Templeton (co-founder of Carousel) are opening a Roman-style neighbourhood restaurant with chef Naz Hassan (ex Pidgin, BiBi and Clipstone) on the former Highbury Arts Club site.

 

Shanghai Me

Address: 28th Floor, Park Lane Hilton, 22 Park Ln, Mayfair, London W1K 1BE

Opening Date: June/July 2025

A stylish bar and rooftop restaurant, with a wine library, a lounge bar, a chef’s table and an open kitchen, serving Pan-Asian cuisine and 1930s Shanghai dishes with a modern twist at the London Hilton on Park Lane. Sister restaurants are also in Dubai and Doha.

 

Le Caprice

Address: 1 Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London W1K 4BN

Opening Date: June/July 2025

Richard Caring is re-opening Jeremy King's Le Caprice on the Grade II-listed former US Embassy space, inside the new Chancery Rosewood hotel.

 

Carbone at Chancery Rosewood hotel

Address: Chancery Rosewood Hotel, 1 Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London W1K 4BN

Opening Date: June/July 2025

Popular New York restaurant chain opens in the Chancery Rosewood hotel, on the former American embassy site in Mayfair.

 

 

 

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