We all love new beginnings so we are excited to introduce to you the latest openings this August.
Address: 65 Brushfield St, Spitalfields, London E1 6AA
Opening Date: 1 August 2025
Opening Offer: giveaways for 5 days - 100 free hot dogs on 4 August, 100 free pizza slices on 5 August, 100 free portions of wings on 6 August, 100 free lageritas on 7 August, 100 free watery cocktails on 8 August
Kerb are opening a two-floor space focusing on "American sports bar energy fused with pub comfort". On the ground floor they will have three food residencies: Only Jerkin’ (fried chicken), Oh My Dog (hot dogs) and Cutie Pies (Detroit-style pizza). Above there will be a terrace bar and five private rooms to book, with features such as karaoke and Nintendo Switch.
Address: 149A Upper St, Islington, London N1 1RA
Opening Date: 1 August 2025
Italian/American pizzeria on the former Skal space, by Phil Chaykin (of Ugly Dumpling) and Gerry del Guercio and Paul Delany (of the Bite Twice Instagram food blog) serving East Coast/New York-inspired pizzas.
Address: Islington Arts Club, 235 Upper Street. Islington, London N1 1RU
Opening Date: 1 August 2025
Opening above Islington Arts Club, is a weekend-only culinary residency with an intimate 27‑cover dining room. Serving a seasonal Italo‑French tasting menu by chef duo Louis Korovilas and Taylor Sessegnon‑Shakespeare, using a nose‑to‑tail philosophy.
Address: 85 Buckingham Palace Rd, Victoria St, London SW1W 0QJ
Opening Date: 1 August 2025
Opening Offers: Gails drinks tastings on 6 August, Momo Kombucha samples on 7 August and a run club with Vuori on 9 August
The opening within Victoria's Nova building, joins The Salad Project's dark kitchen in Acton, which opened in July, famous for their customisable salads and protein bowls by co-founder Florian de Chezelles.
Address: Chandler's Cross, Watford WD3 4TG
Dates: 1-2 and 8-9 August 2025
Offer: Guests who spend the night will receive a Hawksmoor cookbook and a box of their salted caramel Tributes.
A food experience by Hawksmoor steakhouse in the woods of The Grove hotel in Hertfordshire. The feast will be cooked over fire, starting outdoor cocktails, canapés and shared starters. Tickets are £195pp or £1012 for the overnight stay as well.
Ta’mini Lebanese Bakery - Kensington
Address: 15 Kensington Church St, Kensington, London W8 4LF
Opening Date: 2 August 2025
Opening Offer: 50 free date breads & ices coffees on opening day
Lebanese Bakery opens third site with sister branches in Fulham and Bloomsbury, by husband-and-wife duo Ali from North Lebanon and Nermin from Beirut.
Address: 50 James Street, Marylebone, London W1U 1HB
Opening Date: 4 August 2025
Opening Offer: 1000 free pizzas in August via their newsletter
Berberè are opening their fourth site in London on the former Homeslice pizzeria space. They are the World’s 6th best artisan pizzeria chain on the 50 Top Pizza list, focusing on 24-hour-proofed sourdough.
The After School Cookie Club - Mayfair
Address: 1-2 Weighhouse St, Mayfair W1K 5HJ
Opening Date: 4 August 2025
Opening Offer: 100 free cookies on opening day
London's first plant-based cookie bakery is expanding, crafting freshly baked, gooey, hand-topped cookies and cookie dough & ice cream.
Address: 14-15 St Christopher's Pl, Marylebone, London W1U 1LT
Opening Date: 6 August 2025
Junk opens second burger bar on the former Marugame Udon space in St Christopher's Place.
Address: London Hilton on Park Lane 22 Park Lane, London, W1K 1BE
Opening Date: 6 August 2025
Opening Offer: 100 free strawberries & cream croissants on opening day at 12pm
Bringing it back to their Mayfair roots but this time, with a new concept The EL&N Deli & Bakery on Hilton Park Lane.
7UP Pink Refresh Window Pop-Up
Address: Kachette, 347 Old Street, Shoreditch, London EC1V 9LP
Opening Date: 7-8 August 2025
A pop-up by 7UP where visitors press a “Ring for Pink” doorbell to receive complimentary pink lemonade, as well as a chance to win exclusive, 7UP Pink gifts.
Address: 419 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 0AN
Opening Date: 8 August 2025
Crowned 'Pizza of the Year' at the National Pizza Awards in 2022 and 2024, Bad Boy Pizza Society are finally opening a permanent site after residencies in Tulse Hill, Seven Dials Market and Vinegar Yard. They will sell Italian-American inspired pizza by slice to take away during the day and then becomes a sit-down pizzeria in the evening.
Address: 12 Unity Lane, High Street Quarter, Unit 13, TW3 1EL
Opening Date: 8 August 2025
Opening Offer: 20 Free platters on opening day from 3pm
The boldest, most flavourful grilled chicken, burgers, wraps, and platters – all infused with an African twist.
Address: 163 High Street, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 1JZ
Opening Date: 8 August 2025
Opening Offer: 100 free Chicken burgers and 50 merch on opening day from 11am 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.
Address: Riverside East, Stratford, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, 5 Thornton St
Opening Date: 9 August 2025
A flavour-packed fiesta like no other! The London Taco Experience brings together 8 of the city's hottest taco traders* for a full day of bold bites, banging beats, and summer vibes.
Address: 213 Blenheim Grove, Peckham, London SE15 4QL
Opening Date: 9 August 2025
Thai restaurant on the former Bar Story space. Owned by two friends Rob Willcox and Josh Lyons, with gastropub experience at The Palmerston (where they met), Som Saa, The Begging Bowl, Plaza Khao Gaeng & Farang.
Address: 70 Hoxton Street, Hoxton, London N1 6LP
Opening Date: 20 August 2025
A pub operating as a live music venue as well is under new management. New owners are Jamie Allan (co-owner of Four Legs, ex The Plimsoll and Tollington's) in partnership with his friend Patrick Nolan. The menu will be European, inspired by Portugal's tascas. The pub was named yafter the Scottish play so they will restore the Victorian mural of the banquet scene from the play.
Address: The Waldorf Hilton, Aldwych, London WC2B 4DD
Pop-Up Dates: 13 August-30 November 2025
British chef Luke Dale Roberts is bringing his Cape Town–based restaurant (which was in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants Discovery List in 2019) to the UK as a three-month residency at The Waldorf Hilton’s Homage restaurant and its Wild Monkey Bar. Sous Chef Rachel Maroun will lead the kitchen.
Biléyi by MsJoyceK
Address: Boxhall City, 1-27, The Arcade, Liverpool St, London EC2M 7PN
Opening Date: 15 August 2025
Chef Joyce Kudia (C4/Netflix - Five Star Chef : Britain’s Next Great Chef) is now opening a permanent spot after the success of her summer pop-up at Boxhall City food hall with her Congolese-inspired dishes.
Alley Cats Pizza - Notting Hill
Address: 84 Westbourne Grove, Notting Hill, London W2 5RT
Opening Date: 15 August 2025
Popular pizza spot, known for their 14-inch New York-style pizzas, opens second site on the space of the former Italian restaurant Verderame.
Address: One New Change, St Paul's, London EC4M 9AF
Opening Date: 21 August 2025
The grown-up funfair in Canary Wharf by Co-Founder and CEO, Richard Hilton, is expanding by opening a second Fairgame in the City, inside One New Change. It will have over 25,000 square feet and there will be games such as UK's largest indoor hook-a-duck game, Money Bags and OAPrix (a tossing game) and a mobility scooter-themed rollerball experience. The food vendors will include Burger & Beyond, Le Bab and Alby's Pizza, and they will also have Prosecco-infused candy floss. There is also a separate private space available to book, The Funhouse, for 130 people.
Address: 13 Copper St, Hackney Wick, London E20 3AW
Opening Date: 23 August 2025
Opening Offer: 50 free cups on 23-24 August
Your local pan-Asian café, reimagined.
Address: 14 Endell Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 9BB
Opening Date: 24 August 2025
Opening Offer: free banana pudding opening day
A new Café bringing the taste of New York in the heart of London, serving the creamiest, dreamiest banana pudding in town
Address: 34 The Market, Covent Garden Piazza, London WC2E 8RF
Opening Date: 26 August 2025
Richard Bigg, the man behind the Spanish restaurant Camino, is opening a pintxo bar in the piazza serving a Basque-only menu of drinks and hot and cold pintxos, led by the group's executive chef Nacho del Campo.
Address: London SE1 8UD
Opening Date: 26 August 2025
Opening Offer: 100 free salads on opening day
Fresh customisable salad bar opens new branch right by Waterloo station.
Address: 1 Montacute Yards, 185-186 Shoreditch High Street, E1 6HU
Opening Date: 28 August 2025
Nieves Barragán, owner of Michelin-starred Sabor, is opening a second restaurant in partnership with JKS restaurants (of Gymkhana). Legato ("legacy") is inspired by "Spain's diverse regional food".
Address: Tobacco Dock, Tobacco Quay, Wapping Lane, London, E1W 2SF
Opening Date: 28 - 31 August 2025
UK’s most iconic live-fire-cooking festival running since 2013. Some of the World's best live-fire chefs, such as Andrew Clarke from Acme Fire Cult, Alicia Bryant from Whole Beast, Richard Turner from Bodean's, Adriana Cavita, Betty Fox and others from Salt Yard, Rovi, Camille, Santo Remedy, Black Bear Burger, Watermans Arms, Fazenda, Darby’s Next Door, and Camille will be cooking over wood or charcoal and uniquely serving one carefully curated dish each.
Bodega City pop-up at Truffle Burger
Address: The Queens Walk, Under the Hungerford Bridge, Southbank, London SE1 8XX
Pop-Up Date: 29 August - 21 September 2025
Opening Offer: 250 free sandwiches on opening day
New York street food truck famous for their chopped cheeseburger sandwiches comes to London as Jeremy and his team are take over Truffle Burger & Friends pop-up series on the Southbank for four weeks.
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