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Tom Sellers opens The Penn at Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire
The 48-cover dining room is the first of five food and drink concepts on the estate to open to the public. The hotel and spa still have no reopening date.
Ente returns to Wiesbaden after a season in a monastery
The one-star kitchen of chef Michael Kammermeier leaves Kloster Eberbach for a stopgap Wiesbaden address, ahead of the Nassauer Hof's eventual reopening.
Kebapci Iskender opens its first restaurant outside Turkey
The Bursa institution that has served the original Iskender kebab since 1867 has crossed into Knightsbridge, with one dish, 50 covers and a bust of its founder at the door.
Liam Nichols opens The Northwic, his first solo restaurant
The Michelin-starred chef behind Store swaps a Georgian townhouse in Lower Goat Lane for an 18-seat counter, two tasting menus and a kitchen he finally controls alone.
The Beefy Boys picks Cardiff for its first Welsh site
The Hereford burger group will open on Wharton Street in March 2027, its first site outside England, built on competition-winning Hereford beef cheeseburgers.
18th Floor restaurant opens above Stratford's Gantry hotel
East Coast Concepts and D3 Collective open a steak-and-seafood dining room eighteen storeys above east London, with a wine list that runs from Argentina to Champagne.
Oded Oren opens a second London deli, this time in Hampstead
The Dalston chef is taking his Broadway Market deli north, with babka, mezze and a courtyard bottle shop opening on Heath Street on 1 November.
Pablo's takes its breakfast bao south to London
The North East brand known for hash-brown bao buns signs a franchise deal to open inside Bloodsports, the Covent Garden sports bar, with a London debut set for January 2027.
Covent Garden gets five new restaurants this autumn
Shaftesbury Capital is leasing out roughly 10,000 sq ft of new dining space, with Noodle & Beer, Bubala and a burger flagship among the arrivals.
Casa Macellaio opens in South Kensington on 4 Nov
Roberto Costa is closing the all-meat format that built Macellaio RC and reopening its first site as an Italian osteria, with carpaccio and tagliatelle replacing the butcher's menu.
Uchi Boston: Hai Hospitality's 11th sushi room lands in 2027
Hai Hospitality's eleventh sushi restaurant takes a 210-seat space in Fort Point, a Boston neighbourhood built on the city's old waterfront trade.
The Beaumont opens Pearl above Mayfair's public garden
Chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen brings an all-day Mediterranean menu to a circular pavilion built over a Grade II-listed electricity substation in Brown Hart Gardens.
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