Arc Inspirations has announced plans for its first bar in London. It will be operated under Arc’s Box brand and is in a 7,200 square feet, two-floor site off Shaftesbury Avenue, with capacity for 450 people. It will be Arc’s sixth Box bar after Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham and Sheffield. The London bar is due to open in October.
PizzaExpress has just opened a new 160-cover restaurant in the departures area of Edinburgh Airport—its second airport location after London Gatwick.
Pub group McMullen’s has submitted plans to open in an old newspaper building in Guildford, local media report.
The Windsor & Eton Brewery is opening on the riverside in Kingston-upon-Thames after acquiring the Woody’s bar and restaurant there. It is the brewery’s first site outside of Windsor.
Hickory’s Smokehouse is recruiting for an opening in Northampton, local media report. It will be in a pub formerly called The Lakeside that is run by Greene King, who acquired Hickory’s in 2022.
Farmer J has confirmed plans for a site on Coleman Street in the City. Farmer J currently has 15 locations around London.
The Innvest Group has lined up an opening for its Irish-themed pub brand Katie O’Brien’s in York, local media report. It will be an eighth location for the brand, which has also just announced plans for a site in Lincoln.
JD Wetherspoon has received permission to open a second pub in Bath. It is taking on a unit on George Street that will be known as The Old Post Office.
Popeyes opened a drive-through restaurant at the Gallagher Retail Park in Wednesbury this week—its 83rd location in the UK.
Shaftesbury Capital has announced five new arrivals at its Soho estate. They include an opening at Kingly Court for ALTA, a new Spanish restaurant concept from the MAD group. There are two new openings on Foubert’s Place: a second site for smash burger concept Heard and French restaurant and wine bar Marjorie’s.
London-based Filipino bakery Panadera has opened on Hopkins Street, while Breadstall Pizza has launched a two-floor, 2,300 square feet unit on Berwick Street—its first permanent restaurant space.
Competitive socialising bar Draughts has just opened its third location at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford. The other two sites are in Hackney and Waterloo.
Indian street food style brand Indi-Go Rasoi has just launched at Liverpool Street station in London. It is a seventh and largest location so far, and the first in a travel hub.
All-you-can-eat pizza operator Moto Pizza has submitted plans to open a fourth location on St Benedicts Street in Norwich, local media report. The other three Moto Pizza restaurants are in Chelmsford, Colchester and Ipswich.
Thai Square is to launch by Hyde Park in London’s Bayswater in mid-June. It will become the group’s 11th UK site, joining eight in London and one in St Albans and Windsor.
Buck’s Bar, a bar and restaurant concept with three sites in Glasgow and two in Edinburgh, has announced plans to launch a sixth venue in St Andrews.
Mammy Pancake, a Hong Kong based street food style concept, has launched into the UK with a site on London’s Portobello Road. Mammy Pancake has 20 sites around Asia and plans more UK openings.
Slim Chickens has just opened its latest new restaurant at the Merry Hill shopping centre in the West Midlands.
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