New restaurants in London
Cordelia's
A live-fire steakhouse on the old L'Atelier Robuchon site in Mayfair, Cordelia's finally opened on 14 October after missing its planned late-August date.
Bunso
Omar Shah of Belly has opened a Filipino pizzeria in Kentish Town, with longanisa sausage and kaldereta pizzas by night and a daytime bakery due to open on 20 October.
Conviviale
Cat Barry's new wine bar by Canonbury station pairs the bottles with Québécois-inspired snacks, with poutine on house-cut chips and homemade gravy.
Da Pino
Former Casa Fofo head chef Giuseppe Pepe and Federico Giannuzzi opened their own restaurant on 7 October, cooking a seasonal, Puglian-rooted menu on the old Bianca's site.
Milk Burger
Former OMA chef Jorge Paredes is behind the bone marrow and truffle burger at Milk Burger, a walk-in burger and Champagne bar on Westbourne Grove.
Tilly's
Tilly James, formerly of The Hawk's Nest and The Bush Tavern, has opened Tilly's, a neighbourhood wine bar with a Portugal-leaning list and small plates.
Cloth Cornhill
The Cloth team has revived Simpson's Tavern, the City chophouse founded in 1757, and the Times and the Standard reviewed it within three weeks of opening.
ENDO
Endo Kazutoshi is back with a ten-seat omakase counter in a Chelsea townhouse, and the restaurant says it is booked solid through November and December.
Brook & Green
Tim Price, formerly of The Silver Birch, has opened an all-day restaurant on Chiswick High Road, with a downstairs wine room built around its own collection due in mid-November.
Cassette
Levan's owners have opened a Parisian-style bistro on Maiden Lane, and in its first month Giles Coren, Tim Hayward and The Nudge have all reviewed it.
Nettle
Will Devlin of The Small Holding is cooking over fire on a Covent Garden rooftop, and The Nudge gave Nettle 8.5 three weeks after it opened.
Noodle Theorist
The couple behind Chinatown's Mi Canteen now serve wide, hand-pulled biang biang noodles in the old Prawn on the Lawn site near Highbury Corner.
Marrion's
Elliott Kaye's walk-in bar on Morning Lane crosses a French bistro with an American diner, from devilled crab rarebit to moules frites, and the Standard has been.
Romy Gill at The Pem
Romy Gill has taken over The Pem at the Conrad St James with a regional Indian menu, and Time Out gave the relaunched restaurant four stars.
Island at the George & Dragon
Tom Brown and Brad Carter's surf-and-turf restaurant Island has moved into the restored George & Dragon on St John Street, upstairs from a proper pub.
The Horses
The team behind The Pelican and The Hero has turned Clerkenwell's old Coach and Horses into a four-floor seafood pub, and The Infatuation has it on its Hit List.
Nakimushi
The Dorian team's three-storey Japanese townhouse pairs a ground-floor ramen bar with a 25-seat dining room upstairs, and the Sunday Times and Time Out have been in.
The Albatross
The group behind Goodman and Beast has opened a 200-cover seafood pub in a 1930s bank on Old Jewry, with live king crab and lobster in tanks.
Kid
Sertaç Dirik and David Carter's Anatolian charcoal grill has drawn the Guardian, the FT, the Sunday Times, the Mail and an 8.5 from The Infatuation.