The November 2026 restaurant radar highlights a wide array of notable upcoming restaurant, café, and pub openings, primarily in London alongside select UK regions:
* **Osteria Panzano (Knightsbridge):** Restaurateur Arjun Waney’s first Italian venture, drawing on Tuscan food and hospitality from the region where he owns a home and produces wine and olive oil.
* **99 Sushi Bar & Restaurant (Mayfair):** The UK flagship and debut for the international Japanese fine dining group, featuring an exclusive sushi counter and cabaret bar.
* **Heard (Covent Garden):** Chef Jordan Bailey’s regenerative-beef burger concept, expanding with a two-storey flagship featuring a downstairs dessert and cocktail speakeasy.
* **Sit With Us (Notting Hill):** A specialty coffee house, in-house bakery, and laboratory-driven drinks concept from the founders of SINO.
* **Jersey Mike’s (Oxford Circus):** The debut UK site for the American sub chain, offering made-to-order sandwiches with an ambitious long-term target of up to 400 locations across the UK and Ireland.
* **Han & Han (Belgravia):** Former Hakkasan chef Jeff Tan’s first flagship restaurant, focusing on seasonal modern Chinese tasting menus across two levels, including a lower-ground tea room.
* **Berryman’s (Dalston):** A coastal-inspired martini, wine, and oyster bar created by the Three Sheets founders, emphasizing simple drinks and Mediterranean bar snacks.
* **The Poet (Smithfield):** A multi-level British pub and dining room in the London Museum development from the team behind Sune and chef Charlie Tayler.
* **Aba-Ra (Soho):** A second London location for Lia Walsh’s Georgian restaurant, complete with an open kitchen counter, lounge, and a dedicated wine cellar.
* **Al Molo (Canary Wharf):** A family-run Italian restaurant and low-intervention wine bar by Giuseppe Pollifrone, emphasizing regional provenance.
* **Zula Burger (Spitalfields):** An Istanbul-born fast-service burger brand launching its second London site featuring a Wagyu burger and an updated visual identity.
* **Elezar (Mayfair):** An Eastern European chophouse from Misha Zelman, Erik Miotto, and David Bury, featuring preservation-focused techniques, zakuski, pierogi, and a £28 main course price point.
* **The Castle Inn (Hickstead):** A West Sussex country pub, restaurant, farm shop, and boutique hotel reopened under new ownership with chef Chris Bailey leading the kitchen.
* **Cervecería Los Primos (Borough Yards):** Harts Group’s walk-in-only tapas bar replacing Parrillan, inspired by Spanish neighbourhood cervecerías with highly accessible pricing.
* **Braai Bird (Peckham):** A wood-fired rotisserie chicken concept by the Kudu team, operating out of their former Kudu Grill site with South African sauces and sides.
* **Edmondo (Bank):** A 200-cover Italian restaurant from the Big Mamma group that omits pizza in favor of handmade pasta, focaccia, and grilled steaks.
* **Inverlonan (Scotland):** A permanent 24-cover restaurant and nine-bedroom hotel on the West Coast of Scotland led by chef Tim Kensett, featuring an eight-course open-fire tasting menu sourced almost entirely from the estate and local waters.
* **Theo’s Peckham (Peckham):** The South London pizza group’s third location, serving wood-fired Neapolitan pizzas and antipasti.
* **Acme Taco (Dalston):** Chef Andrew Clarke’s regional Mexican taco concept expanding to 40FT Brewery, led by chef Ernesto Puga.
* **Imad’s Syrian Kitchen (Shoreditch):** Chef Imad Alarnab’s third London venue, bringing his celebrated Syrian cooking to Blossom Street.
* **Bar Douro (Soho):** Max Graham’s Portuguese restaurant group opening a third site on Greek Street, focusing on lesser-known regional dishes and imported Maronesa beef.
