After months of grey skies and rain, Londoners have finally gotten a glimpse of a hopeful future, with a few rogue 17C days, spontaneous blue skies, and blossoms on the trees. Fear not, friends, for spring is coming.

If you’ve stayed inside all winter, there’s no better excuse to get out this season than some new openings. Our list has some of 2026’s most anticipated restaurants, bars, and hotels all across the city. Is there a better time to try something new than the season of rebirth?

Bars

Sabine Rooftop

Holborn

Following the success of their St. Paul’s location, Sabine is opening in Holborn. Opening just in time for rooftop season, Sabine is taking over the terrace at the NYX hotel, replacing the old Glasshouse bar with a much brighter space. With tropical decor and light-up signs that say things like Mamasita needs a Margarita, which is the kind of things that unwillingly fall out of the mouth of a Londoner when the sun comes out for the first time in months. Like their St. Paul’s location, this one will focus on cocktails and small plates like mac n’ cheese croquettes and tacos. They’ll also offer private events, ideal for local corporates who are looking to plan a summer party or social event in 2026. (Psst… confirm a booking before 1 April and get 25% off!)

Opening Soon

Sova

Notting Hill

The wine-and-vinyl bar epidemic has left East London and ventured west – and we’re not complaining. The owners of Zima are pivoting, turning their caviar and dumpling restaurant into Sova, a wine bar focusing on Eastern and Central Europe. The menu will feature wines like a Ukranian-style fizz, Serbian Pinot Grigio, Hungarian Riesling, and plenty of Georgian specialties. Bites will lean Eastern also, with beef tartare on Borodinsky bread with horseradish mayo and a promising selection of Slavic cheese. As for tunes, the vinyl collection was sourced and partially curated by Rough Trade, and guest DJs will play throughout the week. The 40-seat space will definitely be intimate, but what else do you expect from a wine bar? Any bigger, and you won’t hear the music.

Opening April 2026

Restaurants

Logma

Hackney

IThis Hackney-based Iranian writer is thrilled to be getting a taste of home nearby. Logma, which translates to bite or mouthful, is, like many things from that region, a product of love. Owners Farsin Rabiee and Ziad Halub went on a first date to Rabiee’s favorite Middle Eastern supermarket, and the rest was history. Logma’s soft opening was a viral hit, with their kofta and aubergine sandwich blending an array of flavours that most East Londoners have never tried before. For this writer, alongside a conversation in Farsi with Farsin as he made sandwiches at incredible speed, it was a taste of home. While they specialise in pitas and coffee now, soon they will open up for plated lunch and dinners, which will feature comforting dishes like lamb and okra stew and saffron chicken with barberry rice. Expect it around Persian New Year.

Now Open (Soft)

Mitsu

Shoreditch

Pulling from the East Ends of both London and Tokyo, Mitsu is a neighbourhood izakaya aiming to bring more than just good bites. The food is bound to please, using robata, a Japanese charcoal grilling technique that results in a menu full of smoky, flame-kissed meats paired with comforting rice dishes. Beyond dining, Mitsu will offer expertly mixed cocktails (and sake, of course) along with DJ sets spinning vinyl as an homage to Japan’s listening bars. And for those 9-5ers who love a wild Thursday night, they have a private karaoke room.

Opening 9 April

Arcade

Covent Garden

As workers return to more days in the office, food halls have quietly taken over central London as a go-to option for variety, speed, and social dining, particularly for busy 9-5ers. Arcade has been a primary driver of this, with two locations in Tottenham Court Road and Battersea, and is known for their splashy interiors and elevated but casual communal dining setups. The Covent Garden location will take over a Grade II listed Victorian building that once housed a TGI Fridays (and was, for a minute, planned to become a giant Wetherspoons). It will bring together four restaurant brands, a new central bar concept, and more Arcade experiences that include private event packages for corporate groups. The 12,500 sq. ft. space is expected to have room for 385 covers, and include brands like Solis & Hero, Manna, and Gracey’s Pizza.

Opening Soon

MA/NA

Mayfair

The Thesleff Group — the team behind Los Mochis and the Juno and Luna omakase restaurants — makes its most ambitious move yet with MA/NA, a 156-cover Japanese restaurant and late-night lounge on Upper Grosvenor Street. Executive Chef Leonard Tanyag brings his characteristic precision to a menu built for the neighbourhood: king crab salad with caviar and truffle ponzu, seared Wagyu on a hot stone, shrimp tempura with black truffle. The interior, designed by OV & Co, leans into soft amber lighting and dark timber — a deliberate nod to Tokyo at night, with a dragon-shaped banquette as its centrepiece. A private dining room accommodates up to 20 guests, and the cocktail bar keeps things moving well after dinner. This one will fill up fast.

Opening April 2026

Sale e Pepe

Marylebone

Sale e Pepe has been a Knightsbridge institution since 1974, and it has arrived at The Langham with a seafood-led Italian offering built for all-day dining. The 5,000 sq ft space seats 130, anchored by a 16-foot floor-to-ceiling bar and a walk-in wine room, with the intimacy of a private dining room for up to 22. The menu draws from the Italian Riviera: lobster linguine with Datterino tomatoes, salt-baked whole sea bass, and a shellfish tower that earns its tableside moment. Classic Sale e Pepe theatrics return in the form of a dessert trolley bearing their signature tiramisu. For corporate private dining inside one of London's grandest hotels, this is a strong contender.

Now Open

Teal by Sally Abé

Hackney

The tiny Wilton Way restaurant space that once housed Pidgin – the 2015 Michelin-star restaurant that closed last year – is making room for a new resident. Teal is a humble spot, considering the chef’s credentials – Sally Abé has worked at The Savoy Grill, The Ledbury, and The Harwood Arms (each with at least one Michelin star), and is more than ready for her solo spot. Teal self-describes as a “little British Bistro”, with a changing menu featuring some British deep cuts using local produce. The sample menu includes tributes to the Victorian “penny lick” and “locket’s savoury”, along with baked bone marrow with snails, Dorset crab Royale, and haunch of deer with pickled walnut and cavolo nero. The tiny space only holds around 24 diners, so reservations are bound to go quickly.

Opening 26 March

Oudh 1722

Borough

Chef Aktar Islam put Birmingham on the Michelin map after his Indian restaurant Opheem became the first in the UK to earn two stars. Now, he’s coming to the capital with Oudh 1722, which will specialise in Awadi cuisine from the royal Nawabi courts of Lucknow in northern India. The menu is expected to have silken kebabs, layered biryanis, and aromatic curries, with a focus on slow cooking methods like dum pukht. Oudh 1722 is set to open in Borough across three floors of a listed Victorian building.

Opening Soon

Kinz

Notting Hill

Set in a converted 1930s bank, Kinz is an all-day Lebanese restaurant focusing on classic and contemporary dishes. The building was originally a Lloyd’s bank, built in the 1930s by architect Sir Edward Maufe, and the classic architecture contrasted with a Mediterranean palette is a representation of what inspired the founding trio – the strong Lebanese community in London they grew up with. Adequately, the restaurant will be more of a community space, with a deli at the front for quick bites, a two-floor restaurant, a basement bar with a wine room in the ex-vault, and a private dining space. Dishes include a Full Lebanese breakfast and elevated mezze for lunch and dinner, alongside hearty classic dishes like lamb kafta, warak enab with koussa and lamb cutlet, and fattet aubergine. There’s nothing quite like it in the area, so it’s definitely one to watch.

Opening 15 April

Hotels and Venues

Six Senses Hotel

Notting Hill

One of London’s most anticipated hotel openings in recent years, Six Senses is an IHG hotel capitalising on the phenomenon of wellness travel. While previous hotels have been in traditional R&R places like The Maldives, Bali, and Thailand, their London hotel marks the brand’s first launch in a major global city. It’s the perfect time, also – London’s had pilates spots and matcha cafés opening every other week. Set in the former Whiteley’s department store in Notting Hill (London’s wellness heart), Six Senses will feature 109 rooms and 14 branded residencies designed for guests to settle and slow down among the chaos. The spa, a 2,300 sqm wellness facility, will feature London’s first magnesium pool, cryotherapy, a longevity clinic, and more high-tech wellness features you didn’t know existed. There’ll also be modern British dining at Whiteley’s Kitchen, and a private members club called Six Senses Place.

*Opening 1 April *

V&A East

Stratford

After more than a decade of planning and construction, the V&A is finally unveiling their newest branch in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, as a part of the East Bank cultural complex. The museum and its sister site – the now-open V&A East Storehouse – will feature a six-month rotating program of creative commissions. The café will be run in partnership with Jikoni, a “no borders kitchen” inspired by immigrant cuisine in Britain. The museum’s first temporary exhibition will be The Music is Black: A British Story, which celebrates 125 years of Black music-making in Britain, alongside complementary programming with BBC Music. Gus Casely-Hayford, the director of V&A East, says the museum is “embedded in East London with a global outlook that reflects the multiculturalism of this incredible place that has been the beating heart of creativity for centuries.”

Opening 18 April

Poolhouse

Liverpool Street

We’ve all been there – sloppy games of pool in sticky pubs, collecting £1 coins you find in the bottom of your bags, waiting two hours for those guys to leave so you can finally play. Well, if you’re good enough to graduate from the basement of a bar (or the common area of your start-up office), Poolhouse is your next step. Ideal for corporate groups, the Liverpool St. location will blend the “grit and authenticity of traditional pool halls” with the “iridescent shimmer of Vegas”. Every table will host up to 14 players at once, using AI-powered tech to elevate the game, and prices start at £15 per person for one hour. The bar will feature cocktails made in collaboration with Dalston’s Three Sheets, poured alongside what they claim is the best Guinness in town. (We’ll see about that.) The full venue can accommodate up to 650 guests for private events, along with private suites for smaller gatherings.

Opening 30 March