All-day restaurant and café group Bill’s has announced two new openings before the end of the year—in Milton Keynes and Street in Somerset. The group currently has 45 sites and says it has multiple new openings in the pipeline over the next two years.
Loungers opened its latest new venue this week—the Solento Lounge on the high street in Lymington in Hampshire. 
US-based Mexican brand Chipotle opens on Gloucester Road in London next week—its 20th location in the UK.
Seoul Bird, the Korean concept developed by Judy Joo, has opened a new kiosk format at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, called Seoul Birdie. The main Seoul Bird brand has sites in Canary Wharf and Shepherd’s Bush, plus three in the US.
Competitive socialising concept Flight Club has just opened at Chavasse Park at Liverpool ONE. The 10,000 square feet site over two floors is Flight Club’s 14th location in the UK.
All-day café, restaurant and bar group Caravan has just opened on Goods Yard in the St John’s area of Manchester—its first venue outside London, where it has eight site.
JD Wetherspoon will open its new pub at London’s Waterloo station next Tuesday. The launch of the Lion & the Unicorn in The Sidings area of the station follows a £2.8m refurb.
The Ivy Collection has set 17 September for the opening of its new brasserie on Donegall Square North in Belfast.
Pasta Evangelists will open at Terminal 2 in Manchester Airport in late September—its third site and first outside London.
The SUPR group has launched two international brands at the Victoria Centre in Nottingham: an eighth UK site for Thai Express and a first for Japanese concept Japami.
Juniper, a brasserie group with sites in Bramhall, Hale and Wilmslow, is opening a fourth in Stockton Heath later this year, in a unit that was previously
occupied by Tomahawk.
Popeye’s is about to open at Newport Retail Park, local media report—its 18th launch of 2024 so far. Later in September if will open at the Lesley Forestside Shopping Centre in Belfast—its first restaurant in Northern Ireland.
US brand Wingstop has just opened its latest new site at Crawley Leisure Park in Sussex.
Lane7 is planning to open in Cambridge, local media report. It will be part of a revamp of the city’s Lion Yard shopping centre.
Scotland’s Bow Hospitality has opened a Pacific fusion restaurant called Cabo in Edinburgh—a 12th location for the group.
JW Lees is opening in Llandudno after acquiring The Craigside Hotel from Whitbread.
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