With the arrival of the warmer months comes a wave of new restaurant openings, with terrace dining, lighter flavours and cold, crisp drinks very much in demand. Here is our pick of the best new restaurant openings and more across the UK this summer.
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Restaurant radar: 8 new openings for a delicious summer
01 Jun 2026
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Gwen
There’s a definite trend for micro-restaurants currently – 12 covers and under with minimal staffing – with reduced overheads tempting chefs and restaurant teams to downsize. Gwen, in Machynlleth, Wales, is one such restaurant, serving just eight guests at a time. From the team behind nearby two-Michelin-star destination restaurant Ynyshir, it’s actually been open since 2023, but this summer sees the arrival of chef Peter Sanchez-Iglesias (pictured), once of acclaimed Bristol restaurants like Casamia and Paco Tapas, and Decimo at The Standard, London. Expect around 20, fire-led courses in a none more intimate space.
Photo credit: Luke Boyden
Jack O’ Newbury
This newly renovated pub with rooms in Berkshire, opening early summer, comes with serious gastro-pedigree: founders chef Dom Chapman (right) and restaurateur Nigel Sutcliffe (left) first met whilst working for The Fat Duck Group. ‘The Jack’, as they’re keen for it to be known, will offer a British-leaning à la carte with European touches. Dishes being touted so far include focaccia and anchoïade, devils on horseback (always pleasing), omelette Arnold Bennett, venison faggots (which seem to be having something of a revival) and even more pleasingly, a sherry trifle. Guests can sleep it off in one of 11 individually-styled bedrooms.
Mor
Chef Tom Sellers, of London’s two-Michelin-starred Restaurant Story, is making a return to Cornwall and to the Carbis Bay Estate in St Ives, where he ran a successful pop-up in 2019. Mor, opening 20 July, will lean heavily on local ingredients like dayboat fish and local organic vegetables, with a raw bar and charcoal grill the foundation for much of the à la carte menu, and the white sands of Carbis Bay below helping to frame the experience. Sellers brings with him a stellar team, including longtime collaborator chef Tom Anglesea and chef Corrin Harrison, formerly of Ynyshir and Gwen.
No. Forty Nine
Chef Jake Finn (left) of the very good live-fire restaurant Cinder – go for the spicy crab doughnut, one of London’s best dishes – will team up with chef Ella Williams (right – formerly of Mountain and Crispin, amongst others) to open an all-day bakery-bistro-wine bar No. Forty Nine in St John’s Wood this June. Dishes on the bistro menu will be New York-Mediterranean influenced – think steak tartare with sour cream and onion crisps, tagliolini with prawns and bisque, and seven-inch pizzas topped with oxtail and guindilla. At night, the venue will transition into a wine bar – expect much clinking of glasses on the street-facing terrace.
Pyr
The team behind Michelin-starred, tasting-menu spot Pine in Northumberland will be bringing a taste of their cuisine to a new development in Newcastle from 6 August. Pyr will be a live-fire concept at Freight Island Newcastle, a 60,000-square-foot rooftop dining and entertainment destination in the city. Chefs Cal Byerley and Ian Waller will look to celebrate the best of the Northeast’s produce with their menu, which will start with snacks and smaller plates before continuing with big hunks of meat cooked over flame and even fire-inspired desserts. Think grilled peas with North Sea quid and lemon verbena, pork chop with Darling Blue cheese and fermented apricot, and brown butter madeleine with fermented elderflower honey.
Linda Hermans Photography
Rosina
Chef Adam Byatt (pictured) of Michelin-starred Trinity in London’s Clapham is making his first professional foray into Italian food this summer with Rosina, set to open down the road in Wandsworth. The restaurant, named for his daughter Rosie, will offer antipasti along the lines of cured meats with melon, and bruschetta with Chianti chicken livers, a broad pasta section and larger dishes like whole salt-baked fish and rabbit Milanese. With a 25-cover terrace (and room for 50 more inside), Rosina looks set to become your new go-to for long lunches and convivial dinners on warm summer nights.
Toad
One of London’s best bakeries will open its second site, in Deptford, in June. Camberwell’s Toad, famous for playful takes on classic confectionery, like its yuzu ‘Jaffa Cake’, and stellar breads and viennoiserie, will use the second, larger site as a bakehouse for both locations. Expect signature bakes like the Everything Bagel Croissant and the Saffron and Vanilla Teacake at the new Deptford High Street location and quite possibly similarly lengthy, totally worth it, queues.
Photo credit: Caitlin Isola
Trèsind
First established in Dubai in 2014, many will know the Trèsind Indian fine-dining brand from its Trèsind Studio offshoot in the Emirate, which holds three Michelin stars and is consistently ranked in the top five of Middle East and North Africa’s 50 Best Restaurants. Chef Himanshu Saini, who has won the hearts and minds of diners with his modernist approach in Dubai, is now overseeing the brand’s first London outpost, which recently opened in – where else – Mayfair, with the day-to-day led by chef Amit Bagyal. It’s dinner and tasting menu only, with snacks brought out on a chaat trolley and dishes such as lamb chop with rosemary vindaloo, sanna, and chimichurri chutney.
Photo credit: Jodi Hinds
