The menu features lemongrass meatballs with tamarind sauce, grilled masala mackerel, roasted free-range chicken with za'atar and a selection of daily salads and bakes. Set in a calming pastel pink space, the interiors have been styled by designer Alex Meitlis. Ottolenghi Chelsea is an all-day deli offering the best in light, flavoursome Middle Eastern cooking. Furthermore, the omakase menu means no headaches choosing what to eat.Īs the Ottolenghi empire gently expands, west London can now boast another branch. Roketsu offers traditional Japanese fare centred around Dashi, a dried fish stock, which is elevated to lofty heights with a fine dining twist.
This new London restaurant is both small and exclusive – with reservations released two months in advance to the day. The restaurant also features a late-night downstairs bar – a go-to destination for cocktail lovers.įrom Chef Daisuke Hayashi, who trained for two decades at renowned Tokyo restaurant Kikunoi Honten, comes Japanese fine dining spot Roketsu. Expect steamed mussels, salt-baked beetroot, carpaccio of seabass and whole smoked aubergine elevated with ingredients like lemon-oil dashi and black caviar.Īt the helm is John Skotidas, a Greek South American chef known for Notting Hill hotspots Suzi Tros and Mazi. However, as a gift from the Gods, their newest restaurant Zephyr offers high-end Greek cuisine on Portobello Road. The Pachamama group are better known for fine Peruvian fare. A performative set-up sees an open kitchen that combines cooking, music, fire and, if you’re lucky, conversations with Tomer.
The venue has been around for a few years but in this latest revision, everything has changed but the name. Run by Tomer Amedi, former head chef at Layo Paskin’s The Palomar, Pascor is a Levantine restaurant in Kensington offering challah bread, Egyptian duck breast salad and a charcoaled wagyu skirt that comes with a pomegranate and herb chimichurri. So here, in no particular order, is a gourmand’s guide to London's best new restaurants. But the array of options on offer can be dizzying. Whether you’d sooner tuck into a sumptuous steak or twirl into a bowl of tagliatelle, there’s a new London restaurant for you. This year was no exception as new openings from existing eateries paired with fresh contenders, including Japanese, Italian and several Middle Eastern newcomers. As a wise man once said, today’s soft launch is tomorrow’s hotspot.
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