openings
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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.
Pizza Pilgrims lands in Germany, targets 50 restaurants
The Neapolitan chain opens in Schwabing on 2 November, backed by German group L'Osteria, which bought a majority stake last year and wants dozens more sites.
Ojeje opens in Singapore, its first restaurant outside Korea
The Seoul tonkatsu and udon chain, built on six outlets at home, has taken a basement unit at Raffles City for its first overseas test.
Chuck Valla opens Varith, a Thai restaurant near Union Square
The chef behind Hell's Kitchen's Valla Table is opening a second, much bigger dining room on East 13th Street, with pad kee mao and Thai-inspired cocktails across three floors.
Croft Alley opens its first New York location in SoHo
The Los Angeles all-day café is taking over the former Lola Taverna space on Sixth Avenue this fall, bringing its breakfast-to-lunch menu east.
Nathan Chapman is named head chef at Quality Chop House
Seven years after joining the Farringdon Road kitchen, Chapman takes the title that makes his work there official, as Shaun Searley exits after 13 years.
Common Table Group buys 57 former Whitbread restaurants
Thomas Anderson's new venture is taking over 57 Beefeater, Brewers Fayre and Cookhouse sites plus a Premier Inn hotel, promising 700 new jobs and a mid-November reopening.
Chubby Group raises $50m to absorb GEN Korean BBQ
A Prysm Capital-led Series A at a $500m valuation is bankrolling the Los Angeles operator's takeover of 47 GEN Korean BBQ restaurants.
The Ivy reopens in Glasgow with an Ivy Asia debut
The Ivy Glasgow Brasserie moves into a former bank on St Vincent Place, sharing the building with the first Ivy Asia restaurant in Scotland.
Lenny's apizza finds a permanent home in Covent Garden
Max Lewis's New Haven-style pizza pop-up leaves the pub behind for a permanent site on Henrietta Street, opening 27 October in partnership with MJMK.
Corsaire brings Mediterranean cooking to Dallas
Jeff Bekavac and Austin Rodgers take their first run at Mediterranean cooking in the Greenville Avenue space Pizzeria Testa left behind.
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