Hard Rock Cafe UK has launched its first new concept since the pandemic – The Back Room Cocktail Experience, an immersive food and drink experience in London featuring cocktails, paired bites, and storytelling inside the hidden Back Room behind the original Old Park Lane café.
Black Sheep Coffee has signed a minimum nine-store development agreement to expand into Hertfordshire. 
Auntie Anne’s has opened its fourth Dublin store at the Swords Pavilions shopping centre, reporting record opening day sales.
EL&N will debut its new cookie concept, Crumbs by EL&N, next Friday (28 November) at St Pancras train station in London.
Plan Burrito will make its Welsh debut on Monday (24 November) with a new site at 26 Union Street in Swansea.
Jul’s is coming to London with a new site in St James’s planned for early 2026.
Insomnia Cookies UK is expanding with new late-night bakery sites in Liverpool and Newcastle.
Chopstix has strengthened its presence in Glasgow with a new site at the St Enoch Centre, continuing its rapid growth strategy of opening a new location every two weeks. 
Brother Marcus will open a new site in London’s Victoria.
Bancone is planning its next opening at 7 Princes Street in London.
Mandaloun will launch a new Mediterranean restaurant at Fulham Reach.
Kuro has opened its fourth site inside Harvey Nichols’ reimagined ground floor destination, 125, at its Knightsbridge store.
Chicken George will open a third site in St Albans at the Victoria Street entrance to the Maltings Shopping Centre.
The Switch is opening its second site at Reading’s Green Park business campus.
Maíz has opened in Peckham Rye, south east London, specialising in pozole. 
India Bistro will make its UK debut in Leeds’ Chapel Allerton, with a second London site planned for 2026.
Greene King has partnered with the MOBO Group to launch The House of Mobo, a new pub opening on Gipsy Road in south London on Thursday, 27 November.
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