
But the Chelsea Barracks location is perhaps the most important part of the deal, with the redeveloped historic site featuring stunning landscaped gardens, and the Grade II-listed Garrison Chapel right by the restaurant. Opening May 2, The Campaner’s house speciality will be a monkfish and lobster casserole, alongside a host of charcoal-grilled meats and decadent dishes, such as Catalan ‘socarrat’ rice with prawns. The paella paradise The Campaner, Chelseaīringing some big, bold Spanish flavour to west London is the debut international venture from the folk behind Barcelona paella and tapas spot Terraza Martinez and pizza joint Frankie Gallo Cha Cha Cha. Food will include some signature Marksman dishes, such as seasonal sharing pies and brown butter and honey tart, but seafood will be Lasdun’s main focus, especially around the space’s elegant marble oyster counter.

You’ll find Lasdun inside one of London’s most imposing buildings, the 1970s brutalist triumph that is the National Theatre, and this new brasserie will be named after the architect who designed it, Denys Lasdun. The sleek, chic brutalist babe Lasdun, South Bankįans of The Marksman, please gird your stomachs, as the linen chore coat-loving team behind the beloved Hackney Road gastro pub are opening up shop just south of the river on May 11. Don’t miss the outside patio, perfect for summer al fresco lounging.ĥ6 James St, W1U 1HF Lasdun 4. Following branches in Soho, Borough, Shoreditch and King’s Cross, the Marylebone branch of Bao’s focus is all about scoring fabulous food in a hurry, with the likes of boiled cull yaw dumplings and quick cold dishes – think soy braised Lu Wei vegetables – on offer for all-day dining. As well as the aforementioned Carlotta, the bun squad behind Bao are opening up their very own version of a Taiwanese dumpling house on these central London side streets in mid-May. Marylebone (aka the Soho they don’t want you to know about) is having a right time of it this month. The dumping joint from the Bao gang Bao Mary, Marylebone Start saving room for pudding now.ħ7-78 Marylebone High St, W1U 5JX Bao Mary 3. This time it’s a ten-tiered choco fudge cake. The new menu features a very Big Mamma take on some Neapolitan and Sicilian classics, with rosé veal tartare, tempura shrimp cocktail, penne alla vodka with Cornish crab, and, in traditional Big Mamma style, a dessert more lavish than Liberace himself. Their latest is a leather, velvet and marble swathed site on Marylebone High Street, which opens on May 12 to join the fancy gang of Jacuzzi, Gloria, Ave Mario and Circolo Popolare.

You surely know the Big Mamma group’s thing by now massive Italian portions, lavish locations and more cheese pulls than a pasta-fluencer’s camera roll. Big Mamma’s fifth – and most elegant? – trattoria Carlotta, Marylebone

Also check out the adjacent Gothic Bar, for absinthe cocktails and louche late night entertainment.Įuston Rd, NW1 2AR Carlotta 2. Pulling the strings now is the absolutely loaded restaurateur and developer Harry Handelsman (previous hits include Chiltern Firehouse), who’s enticed chef Patrick Powell from Stratford’s Allegra to whip up a menu of high end brassiere classics which will boast beaucoups of French flair. Situated inside The St Pancras Renaissance Hotel – which was built 150 years ago as The Midland Grand – this is the majestic Victorian hotel’s original restaurant and until 2021 housed Marcus Wareing’s The Gilbert Scott. The deeply decadent and highly ravishing restaurant The Midland Grand Dining Room, King’s Cross

Here are the very best pop-ups, residencies and brand new rezzies launching in May 2023. We’ve done the maths, and – we think this is right – you’ll be spending more time in May dossing about than you ever have done before, thanks to the embarrassment of bank holidays we are being treated with.Īnd what better way to celebrate than by sitting down at the table of one of the many new and delightful restaurants that are opening their doors this month?
