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Fable opens at Crazy Bear Beaconsfield after a quick reset
Pete Gray, formerly of Heston Blumenthal's Hinds Head, leads the kitchen eight months after the hotel's last restaurant closed in three.
Felix Adebahr opens Goethe & Gabel at Munich's Goetheplatz
The Munich chef leaves Mural and the Michelin Green Star kitchen Green Beetle behind for an all-day Mediterranean room on Goetheplatz, open since 17 October 2026.
Le Poisson Volant opens as a restaurant that turns into a club
Le Cornichon's founders take over a former music venue in the 11th arrondissement, with a kitchen that keeps cooking after the tables clear for the dance floor.
Rocket Room opens its first standalone bar at Highcross Leicester
The axe-throwing and shuffleboard brand leaves its food-hall base behind for a 4,000 sq ft Midlands site, with a full kitchen menu for the first time.
Samyukta Nair opens Makaan, a Gujarati restaurant in Mumbai
The London restaurateur behind Jamavar and Bombay Bustle makes her India debut in Juhu, serving Gujarati home cooking with business partner Karan Shah of Swati Snacks.
One Bryant Park opens, with Kappo Sono moving in too
A new Japanese fine-dining room has taken over the old Charlie Palmer Steak space in Midtown, built around an eight-course kaiseki menu and two smaller restaurants hidden inside it.
Norbert Tarayre opens La Table de Norbert in Versailles
The Top Chef alumnus's first restaurant in his own name takes over a bistro on rue de Satory and cooks every product two ways: Brut or Sublime.
Christophe Hardiquest closes Menssa, his starred Brussels table
The chef who held two Michelin stars at Bon-Bon serves his last Menssa dinner on 14 November and turns to private dinners, cooking classes and consulting.
James Martin's Manchester restaurant closes after 14 years
The chef's namesake dining room inside the Manchester235 casino has shut as his partnership with operator Metropolitan Gaming ends, with no replacement concept named yet.
Big Mamma brings Circolo Popolare to Berlin's Kranzler Eck
The French group is turning the long-shuttered Café Kranzler on Kurfürstendamm into its third Berlin trattoria, with more than 250 seats under a 1950s glass rotunda.
Hesburger opens its first Italian restaurant in Matera
The Finnish chain's debut in Italy lands in Matera on 23 October, funded by an honorary consul who left the city for Finland thirty years ago.
Sign of the Beefcarver closes its last restaurant in Royal Oak
The Michigan carvery chain shuts its original Woodward Avenue dining room on 25 October, blaming record roast beef prices and losses that never recovered after the pandemic.
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