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For some reason, this November is a bumper month for new openings. If you’re a pizza-head then there are new branches of Ria’s and Napoli On The Road set for Foubert’s Place and Wardour Street in Soho, while old school Knightsbridge Italian Sale e Pepe is opening a second seafood-forward site, Sale e Pepe Mare, at The Langham hotel by Oxford Circus.
Ivan Orkin from Netflix’s Chef’s Table also opens Ivan Ramen, his first London restaurant, this month in Farringdon, while Maset, a classy coastal French restaurant, launches in Marylebone. Want something even more glam? Then Belmond’s festive lunch kicks off this month, offering a five-course meal served on a vintage train that pootles around the most scenic parts of Kent.
Here’s the best of the rest.
The best new London restaurant openings in November 2025
1. The serious steakhouse
Hawksmoor St Pancras, King’s Cross
The extremely attractive, Grade I-listed dining room at the St Pancras London Hotel will be re-launching as the eighth London outpost of Hawksmoor. It will seat 95, and have a private dining room and chef’s table, while the adjoining bar will change its name from the Gothic Bar to the Martini Bar. So be it.
Opens: Late November.
Address: St Pancras, Euston Road, King’s Cross, NW1 2AR.
2. The grab-and-go pizza parlour
Vincenzo’s Slice Shop, Shoreditch
Vincenzo’s is finally making the leap from Bushey to the big city, opening up his New York/Neapolitan joint in east London. Founded in Hertfordshire in 2022, Tom Vincent’s pies have become legendary, and now people who can’t be arsed to take a 20-minute train from Euston can see for themselves. Slices are a fiver, and you can pick between margherita, pepperoni, spanakopita, vodka sauce, burrata and more. You can also grab takeaway pies.
Opens: Late November.
Address: 122 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch, E2 6DG.
3. Pop-up to permanent Thai
Khao Bird, Soho
After a supremely successful pop-up at The Globe Tavern in Borough Market, Khao Bird is flying the nest and taking over a site previously occupied by Chilango, and before that, Soho’s last adult cinema. Expect live-fire northern Thai-style cookery, with prawn khanom jeen rice noodles and khao soi with beef brisket, as well as beef larb with Campari, and a number of Burmese-inspired dishes.
Opens: November 12.
Address: 24 Brewer Street, Soho, W1F 0SS.
4. Marvellous meats
Whole Beast, Brixton
After plying their wares everywhere from Exale Brewery in Walthamstow to The Montpelier pub in Peckham, Whole Beast are finally opening up their own restaurant. The meaty magicians launch their live-fire restaurant, with an award-winning aged cheeseburger, as well as whipped smoked cod’s roe and hash browns, green chorizo tacos, and apple and cheddar pie. There’ll be smoked roasts on Sundays.
Opens: November 6.
Address: 336 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, SW9 8QH.
5. The chilled-out vegan supper club
Gather/Celebrate/Congregate, Camberwell
Safiya Robinson of Sisterwoman Vegan is hosting this plant-based communal supper club with a menu of seriously delicious soul food. ‘Expect deep conversation, beautiful dishes, and a soul-feeding space to land,’ she says. Sign us up. Tickets are £45 and it takes place at South London Louie, the coffee shop at South London Gallery.
Date: November 27 at 7pm.
Address: South London Louie, 67 Peckham Road, SE5 8UH.
6. More great Thai food? Go on then!
Plaza Khao Gaeng, Borough
One of London’s best restaurants is opening up a second site at the buzzy Borough Yards development by London Bridge. Plaza Khao Gaeng’s searing southern Thai cuisine has already wowed London’s most discerning tastebuds, and you can expect more of the same here, from braised pork belly to sour orange curry with sea bass, and hat yai fried chicken.
Opens: Mid November.
Address: 18 Stoney Street, Borough Yards, SE1 9AD.
7. Sustainable and seasonal smashers
Field Notes, Hackney
Ivan Tisdall-Downes, founder of the now-shuttered Michelin green-star rated Native Restaurant, has returned to London to launch Field Notes. The small, 22-cover spot will be similarly sustainable, with a menu full of produce from an indoor hydroponic garden. Expect the likes of pumpkin gnocchi with fresh ricotta and chermoula, chicken liver parfait eclairs with damson and chamomile madeleines with bee pollen for pud.
Opens: October 31.
Address: Studio 3 Monohaus, 143 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3FW.
8. A tasty Tuscan trattoria
Trogolo, Westbourne Grove
Hearty Italian cuisine is Trogolo’s game, the new restaurant from Petersham Nurseries co-founder Lara Boglione. A two-story spot, complete with courtyard, we’re already picturing ourselves gorging on crostini with melted pecorino and artichokes, handmade tagliolini with white truffle and porcini, as well as cockerel ragù.
Opens: November 11.
Address: 296 Westbourne Grove, W11 2PS.
9. A very fancy fine-dining spot
Bonheur, Mayfair
Taking over the legendary site of Le Gavroche, this seasonal British restaurant from Australian chef Matt Abé (previously of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay) will offer high-end tasting menus (from £195) as well as a ruddy-faced and rich la carte dishes such as Cornish turbot with celeriac, lobster and hollandaise, or Aynhoe Park fallow deer with beetroot, pine, and blackberry. A posh one, understandably.
Opens: November 4.
Address: 43 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, W1K 7QR.
10. The Michelin star maestro’s new one
Corenucopia, Chelsea
Core by Clare Smyth - one of London’s few three Michelin star restaurants - is getting a sibling. Corenucopia will be a ‘luxury bistro’ and that’s kind of all we know about it right now (apart from the fact that it’s bound to be good, considering Clare’s kitchen clout).
Opens: Late November.
Address: 18-22 Holbein Place, Chelsea, SW1W 8NL.
11. The super soup spot
Wonton Charlie’s, London Fields
Walk-ins only, this wonton noodle soup bar comes from the same team as south London Taiwanese restaurants Mr Bao and Daddy Bao. Their first foray into Cantonese cuisine, it’s based on similar spots in Hong Kong and will offer big bowls of beautiful broth, ideal for a winter warm-up.
Opens: November 7.
Address: 392-393 Mentmore Terrace, London Fields, E8 3PH.
12. Another tasty Thai
Khao-Sō-i, Fitzrovia
This is the first international spot from Chiang Mai noodle joint Khao-Sō-i. The northern Thai favourite is known for its signature khao soi soup, made with fresh egg noodles, coconut milk and 32 different spices.
Opens: November 11.
Address: 9-10 Market Place, Fitzrovia, W1W 8AQ.
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