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Mold-aged sushi restaurant Sushi Toka opens in Osaka
Chef Taniguchi and researcher Papi-Cheru pair mould ageing with tuna at an eight-seat Kitashinchi counter, serving fish cut at different stages of ageing side by side.

Gobind Chona opens second Oorja in Marylebone
Chef Jadhav Tukaram leads the kitchen at the 90-seat Northern Indian restaurant, opening November 1 with lamb shank nihari and a £21 lunch tiffin.

Aldi wine bar opens in Antwerp with glasses from €1
Al Divino, a pop-up in the Zuid district, prices every glass at the shop price of the bottle divided by six. It closes on 1 November; the bottles stay on the shelves.

Tom Booton to open Ralphie's, his first solo restaurant
The Dorchester Grill chef leaves the hotel for Pimlico Road, naming the Belgravia restaurant after his Maltipoo and cooking the dishes he grew up on.

Sébastien Chabal opens a meat restaurant in Montpellier
Hume Chabal opened at the Marché du Lez on 21 October with French-farmed meat, unlimited fries and an aperitif hour in which a six on the die clears the drinks bill.

Yukon steakhouse: Beecher's founder serves Wagyu fast in Redmond
Kurt Beecher Dammeier's Sugar Mountain group has opened a counter-service steak restaurant by the light rail: two Wagyu cuts, pre-sliced, with potatoes, salad and sauce.

Frank Bonanno opens Rōmyō, Denver's itameshi diner
The Bonanno Concepts chef turns a year of pop-up dinners into a permanent restaurant on Larimer Square, where ramen shares the menu with wagyu katsu.

Berryman's: Three Sheets duo opens a martini bar in Dalston
Max and Noel Venning go back to Kingsland Road with a 20-capacity, standing-only bar for martinis, wine and Cornish oysters, two doors from the original Three Sheets.

Simpson's Tavern reopens as Cloth Cornhill in London
Four years after a rent dispute closed London's oldest chophouse, new owners reopen it under a different name — same panelling, same coat hooks.

Blue Bottle opens in Bangkok under a sculpted paper lantern
Blue Bottle Coffee's first two Bangkok cafés opened in August; the EmQuartier flagship now draws design attention for a teak-and-lantern interior by Tokyo studio I IN.

Waku Ghin opens a four-seat counter and a S$250 early menu
Tetsuya Wakuda's Singapore restaurant adds Hanare, a six-course counter for four guests, and Five at Five, a two-hour Chef's Table menu with lobster and Ohmi Wagyu.

Momofuku confirms Saadiyat Grove opening in Abu Dhabi
David Chang's group has locked in its first United Arab Emirates address on Saadiyat Island, next to the Louvre Abu Dhabi. The opening date is still moving between quarters.
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