Brighton street food outfit Baby Bao made its London debut this month, launching its first solo bricks-and-mortar site on the site formerly occupied by Chop Shop in Haymarket.
Wine bar and restaurant group Vinoteca has closed its premises on Beak Street in Soho due to licensing restrictions, and is looking to relocate to a new site.
Five Points Brewing Co's sister company Mason & Company has closed. The bar and restaurant had been the first bricks-and-mortar site for Italian-American restaurant and co-founder Capish.
The rate of decline for the number of licensed premises in Britain has almost doubled since the last edition of the Market Growth Monitor, from CGA and AlixPartners.
Antipodean-inspired wine bar and brunch and small plates restaurant Milk Beach opened quietly in Queens Park last month, with a former Duck and Waffle head chef at the helm.
Notting Hill fish and chip restaurant The Chipping Forecast is set to open its second site, having taken over the Balls & Company site on Greek Street.
Chef James Cochran - who left the restaurant which continues to bear his name in the City early this year - has opened an ambitious fine dining restaurant on Islington's Upper Street.
High-end Mediterranean-Japanese fusion restaurant Zela will make its UK debut at the ME Hotel on the Strand, backed by a team of restaurateurs and sports stars.
Chefs and former directors of a restaurant supply company will relaunch a landmark Sutton restaurant having taken over the lease from its owners of 30 years.
The founder of cocktail consultancy company Talented Mr Fox, Matt Whiley, will relocate his award-winning cocktail bar to a larger, double-concept Hackney site next month.
Pizza restaurant Homeslice will take a four storey property in St. Christopher’s Place later this year, joining the burgeoning line up of restaurants expanding to the central London location.
Harneet Baweja, Devina Seth and Nirmal Save's eagerly awaited follow up to Gunpowder sees them repeat the formula of high impact small plates that make less obvious yet delicious Indian dishes more accessible.
