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Hot Restaurant Openings - April 2026
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Spring is sprung and restaurant openings are in bloom. Check out our hottest restaurant openings (and news) for April 2006.
KINZ
Modern Lebanese restaurant KINZ is opening in Notting Hill Gate this month. Set in the former Lloyds Bank building, the main dining room occupies a generous, triple-height ground floor, with a canopied bar as well as mezzanine seating. There’ll be a deli at the entrance filled with house-made and own-brand ingredients including KINZ preserves, spice blends and olive oil, as well as private dining within the original bank vault. Large sharing plates will include the likes of Warak Enab (stuffed vine leaves) with and Lamb Cutlet and Fattet Aubergine (baked aubergine with pine nuts, tomato, yoghurt and crisp pita).
Opens 15 April 2026
50 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3JD
Hell’s Kitchen at The Cumberland Hotel
A real incarnation of the TV Show Hell's Kitchen opens at The Cumberland this month. Taking over a striking 7,500 square feet of the hotel, some 200 diners can be fed all at once. Ramsay À la carte favourites such as Beef Wellington and Lobster Risotto and sticky toffee pudding will feature as well as a five-course tasting menu. High-energy spectacle is apparently planned to take place around four open kitchen set ups. We’re not sure if that includes shouting and swearing from Ramsay himself but chefs working in full view of the room, wearing signature red and blue bandanas and cooking over flames have been promised.
Opens 2 April
Hell’s Kitchen London, Great Cumberland Place, Marble Arch, London, W1H 7DL
MA/NA
Might need the credit card or this one. Luxury Japanese restaurant MA/NA opens in Mayfair at the end of this month. It’s the latest concept from Thesleff Group, the team behind Los Mochis, JUNO and LUNA Omakase. You can expect fancy Japanese dining, cocktails and a new late-night hangout for the rich and glamourous when resident DJS arrive in the cocktail bar to add to the late-night offering. Dining-wise think sharing plates of Bulgogi Robata (grilled bone-in ribeye with ginger, garlic and sesame soy), and Wagyu Ishiyaki (M5 Wagyu seared on a Himalayan salt stone with garlic-soy, ponzu and mixed Asian leaves). We asked for an invite to the launch and the response was non-committal but if we do attend you’ll find us in the corner drinking Goya Sours - Haku Vodka, Yuntaku Japanese Amaro, Pineapple, Peach, Passion Fruit.
Opens 27 April
30 Upper Grosvenor Street, London W1K 7PH
The Latimer
Here comes a new pub from two generations of the hospitality-focused Spiteri family. Restaurateur Jon Spiteri (an original partner in institutions including both The French House Dining Room, St. John with Fergus Henderson, and Sessions Arts Club) and Melanie Arnold (Co-founder of Rochelle Canteen) have joined forces with their sons Lorcan and Fin, and daughter Molly to create a pub rooted in warmth, quality and neighbourhood spirit. Welcome the Latimer to Latimer Road. We’re most excited by the sound masala monkfish with tartare sauce, and tempura oyster mushrooms with pickles on the bar menu.
Opens 21 April
The Latimer, 274 Latimer Rd, London W10 6QW
Website: https://thelatimer.co.uk/
MIKO Mei Fair
MIKO Mei Fair Thai restaurant will open on the ground floor of MiMi Mei Fair's Georgian townhouse at the end of the month. Head Chef Soonthorn Apaipat sees a focus on fire-led, ingredient-driven cooking alongside Thai classics. Apple Wood Fire Peking Duck Penang Curry or 12-hour slow cooked lamb shank Massamam curry anyone?
Opens 23 April
Miko Mei Fair, 54 Curzon Street - W1J 8 PG
New Menu at The Orange Tree
Fancy lunch in the country without actually driving out to the countryside? Head to Totteridge & Whetstone tube in North London. A ten-minute drive from the tube and you hit farmland. The area is home to a number of farms, not what you expect from North London.
The Orange Tree in Totteridge Village, sits next to a duck pond, and yet more fields. It has launched a new menu that's already drawing crowds. Two courses for £20 and three courses for £25 is more than a lunchtime deal, running between 12 noon and 6pm. The menu is small - three starters and three main courses. Starters like cracked black pepper squid, with homemade tartare sauce, and Portobello and Porcini mushroom parfait. Main courses include chicken Milanese, chargrilled steak frite, and heritage tomato tartin.
The Orange Tree's side dish game is strong. Why have chips when pave potatoes are available? Once tried never forgotten. Each piece of crispy, glistening potato encases multiple thin and soft layers. Think dauphinoise with heightened finesse.
The Orange Tree, 7 Totteridge Village, London, N20 8NX
World Malbec Day at Gaucho
Gaucho has teamed up with wine expert, Hannah Crosbie, to highlight some top notch Malbec wines for World Malbec Day. The menu collaboration will highlight four exceptional wines from Terrazas de los Andes winery located in Perdriel, Luján de Cuyo, in the Mendoza province of Argentina demonstrating how they pair with Gaucho hero dishes.
The menu will run for one month from 17th April 2026
Sticks and Sushi
Sticks’n’Sushi heads north, opening in Manchester's Spinningfields this month. Fusing Japanese dining with contemporary Scandinavian design, the restaurant's signature combination of creative sushi and grilled sticks are now familiar to many. This will be their 17 site opening with a further restaurant planned to open in Leeds later this year.
Opens April - date TBC
SticksʹnʹSushi
Spinningfields Square, 14-15 The Avenue, Hardman Street, Manchester M3 3HF
