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Schofield's Bar London opens in Covent Garden
The Manchester cocktail bar that topped the UK's Top 50 list in 2024 takes its menu south to the former Chick 'n' Sours site near Seven Dials.

Abbie Hendren opens her own kitchen at Trindle Stores
The former Teal head chef, who represented London on Great British Menu 2026, takes over the kitchen at a two-year-old grocery shop in Kew.

Carrot: a London-style tearoom opens in Paris
Franco-British founder Amelia Duverger brings an all-day English breakfast, scones and a Sunday roast in disguise to rue du Dragon this November.

No-kids zone and 99,000 won: Don Spike defends his barbecue
The composer's Gyeongju restaurant bars children under eight and charges 99,000 won for unlimited short ribs. His answer to the criticism: it was never meant to be fine dining.

Bubala cuts its set menu by 20% as it opens a fourth site
The vegetarian-led group opened in Covent Garden on 19 October and dropped its Bubala Knows Best menu to £39 across all four London sites.

Roast opens second restaurant at Shoreditch hotel
Borough Market's roast specialist opens a 135-cover dining room inside Virgin Hotels London-Shoreditch, its first new site in more than two decades.

Wishbone opens in Melbourne's new Midtown tower
Chris and Sarah Lucas turn the base of a 48-storey Midtown tower into a Hong Kong diner, with chef Dan Chan cooking char siu over two woodfire ovens.

Bar Fortuna opens on Santa Monica's Main Street
Chef Brian Bornemann has opened a casual Italian wine bar one block from his restaurant Crudo e Nudo, in the space Vamos Vamos left behind.

Dave's Hot Chicken opens second Manchester site
The Nashville-style chain has taken a unit inside the Trafford Centre, its 16th UK restaurant, as owner Azzurri Group pushes toward a European rollout.

Nammos opens its first US restaurant in Midtown Manhattan
The Mykonos beach-club brand follows its Mayfair debut with a three-floor address on 51st Street — its first restaurant in the United States.

Little Bird opens in Houston's Heights near old Bernadine's
Chef Graham Laborde returns to his old Heights corner with a 168-seat Creole and Cajun dining room built around a hand-carved oyster bar and two patios.

France's largest bouillon pushes opening to November
The 570-seat restaurant billed as France's largest bouillon was due to open on Paris's Île Seguin on October 1. It now says early November, with no menu or prices yet.
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