London Restaurants Opening in June 2026: Chez Rose, Kinz, Canopy and More

LONDON, May 28, 2026 — June 2026 brings one of the capital's busiest months of new restaurant openings in recent memory, with a French bistro from two of London's most talked-about chefs, a New York restaurant going permanent at Claridge's, a four-venue rooftop complex at Olympia, an Italian debut from a celebrated British chef, and a Lebanese restaurant taking over a listed 1930s bank in Notting Hill all arriving within the same four weeks.

The openings span Mayfair, Covent Garden, Wandsworth, Notting Hill, St John's Wood, London Bridge, and West Kensington, covering a geographic spread that reflects the continued decentralisation of London's restaurant activity away from its traditional fine-dining postcode concentrations.

Below is a complete guide to the confirmed and anticipated openings hitting the capital this June.

Chez Rose: Spencer Metzger and Jason Atherton Return with a Mayfair French Bistro

The month's most anticipated opening arrives on 9 June, when Spencer Metzger and Jason Atherton reunite at 5 Pollen Street in Mayfair, the site of the former Little Social, to open Chez Rose, a French bistro that sits firmly at the opposite end of the register from Metzger's two-MICHELIN-starred restaurant. The duo previously collaborated on Row on 5, and Chez Rose represents their second joint venture in the same street.

The menu at Chez Rose includes snacks such as Comté gougère with lardo di Colonnata and steak tartare with pomme gaufrette, alongside poulet en cocotte with vin jaune and Jersey royals. Sunday roasts and the classic French dessert îles flottantes complete a menu that reads as a careful, ingredient-led take on the French bistro canon rather than a reconstruction of it.

Dante Mayfair: Claridge's Makes Its New York Partnership Permanent

New York restaurant Dante arrives as a permanent fixture at Claridge's in early-to-mid June after nearly a year in residency, during which the partnership drove a notable improvement in the hotel's main restaurant performance. The transition to a permanent format reflects the commercial success of the arrangement, which has brought Dante's New York-inflected food and drinks programme, including its shrimp cocktail, chicken alla diavola, and signature fluffy orange juice cocktail, into one of London's most historically significant hotel dining rooms on Brook Street.

Dante will also take on breakfast service at Claridge's, making it responsible for the hotel's full daytime food and drink operation and establishing what a New York-style breakfast looks like when placed in a Mayfair setting.

Canopy at Olympia: Four New Venues Open on the Roof on 15 June

The ongoing transformation of Olympia takes its next step on 15 June with the opening of Canopy, a rooftop food and drink complex from the team behind the alfresco hospitality operation Pergola. The development at 2b Emberton Walk introduces four distinct venues simultaneously: Wolves of Tokyo, a Japanese restaurant; Bar Arriba, a Mexican bar; Lillie's, a British wine bar; and Arbour, a food hall concept.

All four operate with varying degrees of alfresco dining access and the elevated position of the Olympia roof offers views across West Kensington. The Canopy opening represents the largest single addition to Olympia's food and beverage offering since the venue's redevelopment began and places the complex in direct competition with other destination food and drink sites across London's west.

Kinz: A Lebanese All-Day Restaurant Opens in a 1930s Notting Hill Bank

Kinz opens on 1 June at 50 Notting Hill Gate, having been delayed from its planned May opening. The building is a former bank constructed in the 1930s by a prominent architect, and its conversion into a two-floor all-day Lebanese restaurant preserves the building's structural character while repurposing its spaces. A Lebanese deli operates at the front of the ground floor, while the restaurant occupies the back and upper level.

The kitchen opens with a full Lebanese breakfast before transitioning to a lunch and dinner menu that includes fattet aubergine, baked aubergine layered with pine nuts, tomato, yoghurt, and crisp pita. The former bank vault is being converted into a wine room with snug dining spaces and tasting tables, using the building's original security infrastructure as an architectural feature of the dining experience.

Rosina: Adam Byatt Opens an Italian Restaurant in Wandsworth on 29 June

Chef Adam Byatt, whose Trinity restaurant in Clapham has been one of south London's most consistently respected addresses for years, brings his latest project to 35 Bellevue Road in Wandsworth on 29 June. Rosina is an Italian restaurant that Byatt describes as a tribute to the world's most widely loved cuisine, with a menu that ranges from fried Taleggio wrapped in chard leaves with tomato fondue to conchiglie with veal and bone marrow ragù.

The menu also features cacio e pepe and a rabbit Milanese with tomato fondue, rocket, and lemon. A dessert trolley, a format rarely seen at new London openings in 2026, will anchor the end of the dining experience.

More June Openings: Birchwood, Zylia, No. Forty Nine, Lady of the Grapes, Carmy's

Chef Will Devlin, who operates several well-regarded restaurants in Kent including The Small Holding, brings Birchwood to London on 22 June, opening within The Conduit Club in Covent Garden at 6 Langley Street. The restaurant is accessible to non-members of the private club and begins with an all-day cafe and wine bar format using produce from Devlin's own farm. Mushroom croquettes with black garlic are among the early menu highlights.

Zylia opens on 3 June at 6 Bedford Street in Covent Garden's Arcade development, bringing together Greek and Cypriot cuisine under chefs Nick Molyviatis, formerly head chef at Kiln and co-owner of Singburi, and Barry Karacostas. The menu spans traditional pork and chicken souvlaki alongside dishes such as melitzanosalata, a roasted aubergine preparation with herbs, roasted peppers, and two types of vinegar.

No. Forty Nine opens on 2 June at 49–51 St John's Wood High Street, from the team behind the fire-led restaurant group Cinder. The new address marks a departure from the Cinder concept, beginning each morning as a bakery offering pastries including pastrami pain suisse, before transitioning to a bistro and wine bar format under head chef Ella Williams, whose menu includes cornbread madeleines with scotch bonnet honey butter and crab choux buns.

Lady of the Grapes, the female-focused wine bar that has held a strong following since its original opening seven years ago, expands with a significantly larger second location at the Menier Chocolate Factory near Borough Market on 2 June. The new address at 4 O'Meara Street, London SE1, includes a French bistro-style restaurant upstairs and a 45-seat wine bar called Forbidden Fruit on the ground level.

Carmy's, a pizza slice shop from the team behind the successful Islington pizzeria Carmela's, a collaboration between Phil Chaykin of Ugly Dumplings and the Bite Twice social media duo, is set to open in late June at 1 Monmouth Street in Covent Garden, offering a tight three-pizza menu designed for fast service.

Further openings anticipated in June include Sola, the MICHELIN-starred restaurant relocating from Soho to Notting Hill to operate as a chef's table format; Vagabond's most central London pour-your-own wine bar in Soho; The Mary Wollstonecraft pub in Stoke Newington; Toad Bakery's second site in Deptford; and the possible long-delayed London debut of Langosteria from Milan at the OWO in Whitehall.

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