Red Engine’s competitive socialising brand Electric Shuffle says it will open a 9,400 square feet site at Lewis Cubitt Park within the Coal Drops Yard development in King’s Cross in the Spring. It will be a third London site for Electric Shuffle, which also has venues in Leeds and Manchester, plus three in the US.
Red Engine’s Flight Club has confirmed plans to open a venue at Grey’s Quarter in the Eldon Square development in Newcastle.
Indian group Dishoom has submitted plans to open a new restaurant in Glasgow. Local media report that it wants to convert two parts of the old Stock
Exchange building on Nelson Mandela Place that have previously been used by the Absurd Bird restaurant and a retailer. It would be a second Scotland site for Dishoom after Edinburgh.
Pizza Pilgrims has just opened its latest new restaurant on Sloane Stanley’s King’s Road in Chelsea. It is a 2,000 square feet unit.
Indian street food style brand Mowgli launched at the Westfield Stratford centre this week—its second restaurant in London.
Seafood restaurant group Rockfish is launching in Lyme Regis in Dorset in early 2025. It is taking on the unit that is currently run as the Oyster & Fish House, but which will close shortly. Rockfish currently has eight restaurants, with more openings lined up in Salcombe and Sidmouth.
US brand Wendy’s has confirmed four more new openings: in Newcastle, Colchester, Stretton services off the A1 and Fulham Road in London.
Din Tai Fung, a Taiwanese restaurant brand with restaurants in Covent Garden, Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, and around 170 sites internationally, is opening a fourth UK location at Crossrail Place in Canary Wharf early next year.
Imbiba has signed a deal with Canary Wharf Group to open a 65,000 square feet hotel, restaurant, bar and live music venue on Bank Street in Canary Wharf.
Blind Tiger Inns, a pub operator based in north west England, will shortly open the Stanley Arms in Preston. It will become the group’s 22nd pub.
Mugshot, a Bristol restaurant where diners cook their own steaks, will open a second site on Wharton Street in Cardiff shortly.
The Epic Bars and Clubs group has acquired a unit on Clarence Street in Cheltenham that was previously operated by Revolution.
Coco & Rum, a Thai restaurant in Saltburn, opened a second site in Middlesbrough this week.
Long Chim, an Australia-based Thai concept with restaurants in Sydney and Perth, has just opened in London.
The Manchester-based Madre group is opening a new bar and pool hall concept called Salon Madre on Chorlton Street in early December. It will be next door to the Madre restaurant there.
Wingstop opened this week at The Chimes centre in Uxbridge. It now has more than 50 sites in the UK. It has also just confirmed a launch at the Brewery
Quarter in Cheltenham.
Retailer Aldi is repeating its Bottomless Pigs in Blankets pop-up restaurant concept next weekend, on Bethnal Green Road in Shoreditch.
Avobar, the avocado-based restaurant concept that ran in Covent Garden for five years until 2023, is to return shortly with a café concept on Chiltern Street in Marylebone.
Pret A Manger has just opened a 1,800 square feet unit at Gloucester Quays. Subway has also just launched a site there.
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