Boxhall has announced the line-up of food and drink operators for its new City venue, which opens on 10 April. There are 14 kitchen spaces at the site at the Arcade off Liverpool Street, including a sister concept for Gaucho called Gaucho Go, a fourth site for Burger & Beyond, a seventh one for Eggslut, bakery Sourdough Sophia and a second location for Indian restaurant Farzi. There is also a fourth location for vegan brand Club Mexicana, a third location for Old Chang Kee, Asian fusion concepts Nativo and Inamo Sukoshi, and Little Bao Boy.
London’s farm-to-fork brand Farmer J’s opened this week on Thayer Street in Marylebone Village. It now has 15 sites in the capital.
Sandwich Sandwich has just launched a fifth location, on Mark Lane near Fenchurch Street in the City of London. It is a 3,500 square feet site. Sandwich Sandwich has one other site in London and three in Bristol. 
Loungers is opening in the Brislington area of Bristol, local media report. It is taking over a unit occupied by the Bocabar Paintworks bar, and will reopen it in June as the Miro Lounge. Bocabar has another Bristol venue at Finzels Reach.
Philadelphia-style restaurant, sports bar and competitive socialising brand Passyunk Avenue has just opened on Kensington Church Street in west London. It is a fourth location, after Battersea, Fitzrovia and Waterloo.
Vietnamese restaurant brand Pho is to open at the Bluewater centre in Kent in the Summer. It currently has 46 sites in the UK.
Slim Chickens is joining the line-up of brands at the Atrium in Camberley in Surrey. It will open on 10 April.
Brewer and pub operator Thwaites is to launch in Malham in Yorkshire after acquiring the Buck Inn there.
Boga Steakhouse is about to open in Rickmansworth, local media report—a third site after Watford and Edgware.
A China-based noodle restaurant called Song He Lou is launching into the UK with a site on Wardour Street in London’s Chinatown. It opens on 4 April.
Ellen Chew’s Shan Shui restaurant group is about to open its third location: Shan Shui Social on Buckingham Palace Road. The other two sites are at Heathrow airport and Bicester Village. Chew has several other restaurants around London.
A new Mexican bar and restaurant called Ocasa is opening on the Avenue in Manchester’s Spinningfields shortly. The 150-cover venue has been developed by the Orka Koncepts group.
Holy Carrot, a plant-based restaurant in Notting Hill, will open a second location in Old Spitalfields Market later this year.
Cantonese restaurant group Three Uncles will open in Brent Cross soon—its sixth London location after Brixton, Camden, Ealing, Liverpool Street and St Paul’s.
Sushi Revolution and The Village Tree are both to open at the Three Deal Porters development in London’s Canada Water later this year. They will be third locations for both operators.
Japanese concept Little Lotus is about to open a 2,500 square feet unit at the Merrion Centre in Leeds—its sixth location after Bradford, Chelmsford, Halifax, Huddersfield and Wakefield.
The Camel’s Back hospitality group in south west England has just opened an Italian restaurant called Tallo at the SeaSpace development in Newquay. The group has five other sites in the area.
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