A guide to London’s hottest new restaurants

Featuring no-fuss British cuisine, Michelin-starred executive chef, Jason Atherton, provides all-day dining surrounded by sumptuous English country house-meets-Venice palazzo interiors.  Serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea and even late supper, this hot new addition to London’s elite also has a super bar complete with billiards table, oil paintings and a stunning corniced ceiling.

Located atop the City’s newest skyscraper, Heron Tower, and boasting ‘Britain’s highest restaurant’ accolade, executive chef Daniel Doherty has produced a charming menu inspired by British and European cuisine.  Options include roasted octopus and pearl barley & wild mushroom ragout.

Head chef Ollie Dabbous, formerly of Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, brings an innovative light and modern menu concentrating on seasonal ingredients.  The current set dinner menu offers grilled mackerel with iodized sour cream, samphire and lovage along with a burrata filled with tamarillo and fennel pollen.

The restaurateur and owner of Michelin-starred Pied a Terre in Fitzrovia and L’Autre Pied in Marylebone, David Moore, has launched London’s hottest new pop-up, Pieds Nu.  Using the culinary concept of less is more, the menu relies on simple, fresh ingredients and dishes that burst with flavour.

Chef Bjorn van der Horst, formerly of Eastside Inn in Farringdon, has taken the helm at London’s newest luxury hotel, Rosewood in Holborn.  The lounge bar’s interiors are distinctly English country house meets Euro brasserie and even has a grand piano ready for that impromptu sing-along.  Culinary hotspots include two magnificent private dining rooms, the brasserie-style Holborn dining room, and the Mirror Room restaurant, where guests can enjoy decent hotel cuisine together with some exciting alternatives.

Gastronomic royalty Angela Hartnett together with Neil Borthwick and Canteen founders Dominic Lake and Patrick Clayton-Malone have collaborated their culinary talents and launched this refreshing all-day tavern, serving modern European cuisine.  The imposing warehouse interiors offer a beautifully Victoriana-meets-modern ambiance of reclaimed parquet flooring, intimate banquet seating and exposed brickwork.

With London’s all-day dining trend firmly in place, this new establishment offers innovative delights such as ricotta pancakes with shaved fennel and smoked salmon, along with mushroom broth, poached egg and girolles.  The lunch menu offers pork cheeks with spiced apple, pickled carrot, and pressed lamb accompanied by Jerusalem artichoke, radish and Madeira.

Schlep over the Thames to Gordon Ramsey’s hotly anticipated new venture, London House, located on the idyllic Battersea Square.  The kitchen will be headed up by Anna Haugh-Kelly and Paul Halliwell, who will integrate locally sourced ingredients with an emphasis on British and artisan ingredients.  It promises a no-fuss, Modern European cuisine together with an uber-slick cocktail bar.

Promising a fun, lively atmosphere, with enchanting chandeliers, antique mirrors and leather seating, HDR will source ingredients locally and focus on traditional British dishes.  Don’t forget to pop out onto the Terrace for an al fresco cigar.