NEW-NEW OPENINGS

Restaurants pop up in London like pimples on a teen, so a few exciting new ventures evaded our print deadline. Here are six extra-new openings worth checking out:

MONTY’S DELI

227–229 Hoxton Street, N1;

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Mark Ogus’s late grandfather, Monty, would be chuffed with what his grandson has achieved in his honour, turning a Maltby Street stall into an East End hotspot serving the best pastrami and salt beef sandwiches gelt can buy.

RED ROOSTER SHOREDITCH

45 Curtain Road, EC2; thecurtain.com

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Chef Marcus Samuelsson’s Red Rooster in New York’s Harlem is a Swedish soul food sensation, and now he’s brought it, and his famous fried chicken, to new hotel complex The Curtain in east London.

WESTERNS LAUNDRY

34 Drayton Park, N5; primeurn5.co.uk

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The team behind the excellent Primeur in Highbury have opened a new seafood-focused venture in the shadow of the Emirates Stadium, offering Arsenal fans a refreshing alternative to Tubby’s chip van.

MACHIYA

5 Panton Street, SW1; machi-ya.co.uk

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Queues at Kanada-Ya ramen joints are deserved, and another quickly formed outside this sister venture off Leicester Square. Light on noodles but heavy on omurice (rice wrapped in an omelette).

XU

30 Rupert Street, W1; baolondon.com

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You’ve bunned out at Bao, now try upmarket Taiwanese cuisine at co-founders Erchen Chang, Shing Tat Chung and Wai Ting Chung’s newer — and even hotter — dining establishment.

HENRIETTA

14–15 Henrietta Street, WC2;

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Ollie Dabbous shuts his eponymous Michelin-starred restaurant this month and opens his next one, at the boutique Henrietta Hotel in Covent Garden. Our belts are loosened and breath bated.