Here Are The Hot New Restaurant Openings To Book This April

Poolhouse

Opening at 100 Liverpool Street in April, Poolhouse is part activity bar, part high-gloss social playground. Spread across 21,000 square feet over two floors, the venue reimagines the pool hall with a heavy dose of vintage Vegas shimmer: immersive play suites, chandeliers, murals, DJs and live music, all wrapped around twenty AI-enabled tables that adjust difficulty in real time depending on who’s playing. Three Sheets is behind the cocktail list, which includes a Disco Pisco Sour and Guinness Espresso Martini, while the food runs to lobster rolls, rock shrimp, crispy tacos and New York-style pizza. Less a restaurant than a full night out, but one that’s likely to make a lot of noise when it opens.

When: 7 April
Where: 100 Liverpool Street
Website: www.pool.house

Idalia at Pillar Hall

Now open in Olympia’s Grade II* listed Pillar Hall, Idalia is the first restaurant to launch as part of the venue’s major regeneration. Led by Des Gunewardena, it pairs elegant, garden-inspired interiors with modern British dishes like lobster linguine, wood-roasted turbot and sharing steaks, alongside a fashion-inspired cocktail menu and live jazz from Thursday to Saturday.

Where: Olympia Way, London W14 0NE
Website: www.olympia.co.uk

Auguste

On 1 April, Auguste opens in London Fields with a concept that feels quite specific: a convivial neighbourhood restaurant built around arrosticini, the traditional flame-grilled skewers of Abruzzo. From chef Mike Bagnall and GM Dylan Walters, Auguste takes over the former Papi site and brings central Italian pastoral cooking into a lively, East London context. Expect skewers of lamb, cull yaw, wagyu, liver and wild boar, plus dishes like carciofi alla Romana, stracciatella with ibérico tomato, and capoletti in lamb brodo, all backed by imperfect low-intervention wines and classic cocktails priced to encourage a second round. It’ll be home to 31 seats upstairs, a downstairs bar and a charcoal grill anchoring the restaurant.

When: 1 April
Where: 373 Mentmore Terrace, London, England
Website: www.sevenrooms.com

Willett’s

Chelsea has no shortage of polished hotel dining rooms, but Willett’s at The Cadogan is aiming for something more local in spirit. Opening on 2 April, the new British bistro takes its name from the family who built the 1887 townhouse and promises to become part of the area’s daily rhythm — from breakfast through to weekday suppers and long Sunday lunches. Executive Chef Michael Turner, formerly of The Savoy Grill and The River Restaurant, is leading a menu grounded in British produce and classic cooking, with dishes ranging from Sutton Hoo chicken and morel pie to prawn cocktail with Bloody Mary jelly. The signature here is the sourdough crumpet, served in sweet and savoury forms across the day — topped with things like Gentleman’s Relish, duck liver parfait and Dorset crab.

When: 2 april
Where: 75 Sloane St, London, SW1X 9SG 
website: www.belmond.com

Acme Taco

From Andrew Clarke and the team behind Acme Fire Cult comes Acme Taco, a new permanent street food concept landing at 40ft Brewery in Blackhorse Road this April. Inspired by a recent trip to Mexico City, the menu brings a bold, flame-led take on regional Mexican cooking, with dishes like suadero tacos with confit ox cheek and bone marrow, quesabirria with Wagyu, and crispy shrimp tacos layered with avocado and clamato.

Designed to pair with the brewery’s beers and cocktails, it’s a lively, music-filled addition to the Blackhorse Beer Mile — and one that promises serious flavour, cooked over fire.

When: 3 april
Where: 40ft Brewery Blackhorse Road
Website: www.instagram.com

Mondo To Go

South east London’s sandwich obsession continues with MONDO TO GO, the new Deptford opening from cult duo Mondo Sando. Opening on 10 April, the site takes everything people already love about the brand — oversized sandwiches, punchy flavours, house pickles, latkes, general sarnie chaos — and condenses it into a more streamlined takeaway format with a 50-seat outdoor space. Familiar signatures like the Mondo Frango, Mondo Combo and Everything Cutlet will all be on offer, with a few Deptford-only exclusives thrown in for good measure. The drinks line-up is pure Mondo too: slushies, rotating house sodas, cherry lemonades, and grapefruit green tea serves, plus pints for those taking their lunch with a buzz.

When: 10 April
Where: Arch 5, Deptford Market Yards, London SE8 4BX
Website: www.instagram.com

Honey & Co. Great Portland

Fourteen years after opening their first restaurant, Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich are doing something new. Taking over the old Honey & Smoke space, the new concept is designed for flexible, all-day eating: a place for a quick snack, a glass before the theatre, or a full evening working through a curious wine list sourced with Keeling Andrew. The menu has that classic Honey & Co. warmth and generosity, but tuned for grazing: mizithra filo cigars, tuna crudo with tahini, lamb arayes, whole fish, crispy cauliflower rice, and desserts designed to pair with dessert wines and fortifieds.

When: 13 April
Where: 216 Great Portland St, London W1W 5QW
Website: www.honeyandco.co.uk

The Latimer

Opening on 21 April on Latimer Road, The Latimer is a family collaboration from Jon Spiteri, Melanie Arnold and the next generation of the family — Lorcan, Fin and Molly — all with serious restaurant pedigree across places like St. John, Sessions Arts Club, Rochelle Canteen, Caravel and Koya. The kitchen will offer a menu that balances pub comfort with more refined touches: black pudding confit potato, brown crab tagliolini, oxtail with mash and horseradish, plus a bar menu for drop-ins and Sunday sharing platters instead of the standard roast (big win). With wines on tap, upholstered vintage furniture and a year-round terrace, this smells like the kind of pub people may become territorial about.

When: 21 April
Where: 274 Latimer Road London W10 6QW
Website: www.thelatimer.co.uk

KINZ

Opening on 27 April in Notting Hill Gate, KINZ brings Lebanese cooking to a grand old former bank building, with breakfast, lunch and dinner. Founded by Rasha Khouri Bruzzo of Akub alongside brothers Jad and Karim Lahoud, the restaurant is rooted in Lebanese home cooking and generosity, but shaped for modern all-day London dining. Breakfast includes rolls, egg dishes and a Full Lebanese breakfast for the table; later in the day, the menu shifts into mezze, breads and larger plates such as lamb kafta, warak enab with koussa and lamb, and fattet aubergine. There’s also a deli at the entrance selling preserves, pastries and frozen dishes to take home, plus a wine room in the original vault and a private dining room upstairs.

When: 27 April
Where: 50 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3JD
Website: www.kinzrestaurant.com

The Horesemen & Fitzgerald’s

One of April’s more unique openings is The Horsemen & Fitzgerald’s, a dual-concept American-Irish pub and dining room opening in the City. The Horsemen, opening first on 7 April, is the front-room freehouse: pints of Guinness, Irish whiskies, American bourbons and horse racing on screen. Fitzgerald’s, opening on 13 April, is the quieter, more polished dining room at the back, where the menu explores the overlap between Kentucky and Dublin through dishes like Kentucky Fried Chicken, Lamb Shank Pie, Irish beef steaks, Turbot Cassoulet, and Kentucky Derby Pie for dessert. It’s a playful idea, but one with enough confidence to make it work.

When: 7/13 April
Where: 1 Broadgate, London EC2M 2QS
Website: www.thehorsemenlondon.com

Garden Bar Grill and Smokehouse by Cue Point

After a decade of pop-ups, residencies and festival appearances, Cue Point is finally opening a permanent home. Garden Bar Grill and Smokehouse by Cue Point London launches on 22 April in west London, bringing Mursal Saiq and Joshua Moroney’s British-Afghan BBQ concept into a neighbourhood pub setting. The food sounds excellent (coming from a Texan): oak-smoked wagyu brisket steak with Texas naan and saffron butter, smoked lamb shank with Kabuli pilau, charcoal-grilled sea bass and live-fire aubergine curry, plus blackboard specials and a Texan-Afghan Sunday roast. The pub’s expansive 200-cover garden will house the smoker, and the broader ethos — inclusive, community-led, and generous.

When: 22 April
Where: 41 Bramley Rd, London W10 6SZ
Website: www.cue-popint.co.uk

MA/NA

Mayfair is getting yet another luxury Japanese opening, but MA/NA sounds determined to distinguish itself. Opening on 27 April, the new restaurant-and-bar concept from Thesleff Group promises a journey from polished Japanese dining into a late-night cocktail experience, all shaped around precision, rhythm and atmosphere. Executive Chef Leo Tanyag is drawing on Japanese culinary tradition and modern sharing-plate energy with dishes like Ebi Wasabi, Toro Tartare, Wagyu Ishiyaki and Bulgogi Robata, while the bar programme from Pietro Collina brings in rare spirits, 1970s Tokyo mood and cocktails like the Noble Martini and Bamboo Piña Colada. Design-wise, expect dragon banquettes, dark wood, amber light and enough sculptural detail to make the room as much of a draw as the menu.

When: 27 April
Where: 30 UPPER GROSVENOR ST, LONDON W1K 7PH
Website: www.manarestaurants.com

Tavern

The team behind Nest and St Barts are opening a new British bistro on Old Street at the end of April. Taking over the former Nest site, Tavern is designed to channel the warmth of a great local pub but with refined, fire-led bistro cooking from Executive Chef Brendan Appleby and Head Chef Kirsty Easterbrook. The menu reads brilliantly: devilled pig skin with smoked cod’s roe, hogget scrumpets with mint, British bluefin tuna tostada, Brixham turbot, Tamworth pork, and a crispy veal sweetbread burger that already sounds destined to become a signature. The room, meanwhile, will be all black slate, white tablecloths and candlelight.

When: 28 April
Where: 374-378 Old St, London EC1V 9LT
Website: www.tavernlondon.co.uk

Weezie’s

Opening next door to amie Wine Studio in Eccleston Yards, Weezie’s is the new all-day pizza spot from amie founders Abbie Roden and Will Sandbach. The idea is simple, and very appealing: thin-crust pizzas, good wine, cold pints and small plates in a lively, walk-in-friendly space designed for stretching a night out a little longer. Head Chef Sumant Sinai brings strong pizza credentials from Circus Pizza in Panzer’s and Share a Slice, while the menu leans into regeneratively farmed flour, British ingredients and signature sauces — including a buttermilk ranch that nods to Abbie’s Kentuckian grandmother, Louise, aka Weezie. Expect Guinness, Harbour Brewery beers, amie wines by the glass and a short cocktail list that runs from Negronis to bourbon-spiked old fashioneds.

When: April
Where: 14-15 Eccleston Yards, London SW1W 9AZ
Website: www.weezieslondon.com

Ornella

Following the success of LUPA, founders Ed Templeton, Naz Hassan and Theo James are opening Ornella in London Fields this April, shifting the focus from Rome to Milan. The new restaurant will explore the butter-rich, Alpine-influenced cuisine of northern Italy through a more refined ristorante lens, with chef Naz Hassan drawing on the city where he was raised. The menu sounds built around the classics done exceptionally well: mondeghili meatballs, vitello tonnato, penne alla vodka, risotto alla Milanese, and a proper cotoletta di vitello, followed by desserts like mille foglie alle fragole and zuppa inglese. With 48 covers and a handful of window seats reserved for walk-ins, Ornella is set to be one of the biggest openings of the month.

When: April
Where: 51 Wilton Way, London E8 1BG
Website: www.instagram.com

Hell’s Kitchen at The Cumberland

After years of existing as a kind of televised fever dream and a global restaurant brand, Hell’s Kitchen is finally landing in London. The first UK outpost opens at The Cumberland Hotel in spring, bringing Gordon Ramsay’s most theatrical concept to Marble Arch. Spread across 7,500 square feet with room for more than 200 covers, the space centres around an open kitchen with red-and-blue bandana-clad chefs, flames, DJs and all the spectacle you’d hope for. On the menu: pan-seared scallops, lobster risotto, wagyu meatballs and the restaurant’s defining Beef Wellington, alongside London-only additions and large-format sharing cuts like a 1.2kg Wagyu tomahawk and 500g chateaubriand.

When: April
Where: Great Cumberland Place, Marble Arch, London, W1H 7DL
Website: www.hells-kitchen.thecumberland.com

Brutes of Mayfair

Martinis are having another moment, and Brutes of Mayfair is arriving with impeccable timing. Opening in April on Bruton Place, the bar comes from James Stevenson and Guy Mazuch, both hospitality heavyweights with deep drinks-world credentials, and is built around the idea of a proper neighbourhood bar. The martini is the star, with a customisable martini card letting guests pick their base spirit, style and garnish — from blue cheese olives to pickled onion Monster Munch. Elsewhere, cocktails lean fresh, raw and seasonal, with drinks built from scratch and supported by a concise wine list and a small menu of martini-friendly plates, including a French dip au jus and caviar-topped crisps. It sounds clever without sounding joyless, which is harder to pull off than it looks.

When: April
Where: 34a bruton place, mayfair, london, w1j 6nr
Website: www.brutesofmayfair.com

sova

Notting Hill is getting a new vinyl and wine bar in early April, and sova sounds like one of the month’s most compelling openings. Taking over the former ZIMA Notting Hill site just off Portobello Road, the 40-seat space comes from the team behind ZIMA and focuses on wines from Eastern and Central Europe, particularly low-intervention and skin-contact bottles from places like Georgia, Armenia and Ukraine. Food has subtle Slavic leanings, with dishes from Moldovan chef Denis Calmis including beef tartare on Borodinsky bread, whisky and honey-roasted baby chicken, miso-glazed duck confit and desserts like dark chocolate mousse with sea buckthorn. Add in guest DJs, a street-side terrace and interiors built around muted tones, linen, wood and vinyl, and this feels less like a gimmick wine bar and more like a distinctive addition to west London.

When: April
Where: 9 Blenheim Crescent, London, W11 2EE
Website: www.sova.london

Mitsu

Opening on Willow Street in Shoreditch. The pitch is a full Japanese dining and nightlife destination inspired by East Tokyo izakayas and Shoreditch nightlife, with LED archways, dramatic drapery, robata smoke, DJs and semi-private dining spaces all adding to the sense of immersion. Executive Chef Aaj Fernando is heading up a menu that moves from spicy edamame and karaage through to nigiri, tempura, kushiyaki skewers, kamameshi rice dishes and a robata-heavy grill section with sirloin, hanger steak and whole sea bass. On the drinks side, Soul Shakers has created a programme that includes a collaborative sake brewed with Kanpai and Japanese whisky on draft in Suntory highballs.

When: April
Where: 10 – 50 Willow St. EC2A 4BH, London
Website: www.mitsurestaurant.com

Kumori

Counter-only hand roll restaurants continue to gather pace in London, and Kumori is throwing its hat into the ring with a flagship on Denman Street in Soho this April. The 30-seater specialises in premium, made-to-order hand rolls designed to be eaten immediately — warm rice, cool fish, ultra-crisp nori — with Head Chef John Randy De Guzman bringing experience from Tobi Masa, Nobu and Katsuya. Signature hand rolls include Spicy Tuna with Jalapeño Miso, Unagi Foie Gras, Toro with torched bone marrow and Baked Crab, alongside sashimi, crispy rice dishes and Japanese-inspired cocktails.

When: April
Where: 26 Denman Street, Soho, W1D7HX, London
Website: www.kumorirestaurant.com

MIKO Mei Fair

From Samyukta Nair — the restaurateur behind Jamavar, Bombay Bustle, MiMi Mei Fair and Nipotina — comes MIKO Mei Fair, a new Thai restaurant opening on the ground floor of MiMi Mei Fair’s Georgian townhouse in April. The 50-cover restaurant is led by Chef Soonthorn Apaipat, Head Chef of KOYN Thai, and brings together MiMi’s lavish style with fire-led Thai cooking. The menu looks set to major in bold, balanced flavour: Lobster Choo Chee, Lamb Massaman Curry and Apple Wood Fire Peking Duck Penang Curry are among the headline dishes, while the drinks list promises tropical, spice-led cocktails to match.

When: April
Where: 54 Curzon Street – W1J 8 PG
Website: www.mikameifair.com