Summer has arrived in the northern hemisphere and with it the lighter, warmer evenings that make eating out an even more tempting proposition. There are plenty of new restaurants to visit in London, including a bar à vin serving Soho’s very own take on Parisian small plates and a seafood bistro in Shoreditch that’s majoring on oysters, Martinis and design. The diverse list for July also includes a modern Greek restaurant in the capital, as well as a gastropub from owners with pedigree.
Outside of London, there’s an innovative spot in New York getting creative with Mexican cuisine, an Amalfi-inspired Italian in Edinburgh, and two restaurants heavily inspired by Europe in Melbourne and Sydney.
Read on to discover the most exciting new restaurants to visit this July.
The best new restaurants to visit in July 2025
Marjorie’s
London, UK
Marjorie’s proves that the bistro isn’t the only culinary French institution inspiring new restaurants in London; co-founder Michael Searle’s love of Parisian wine bars was the foundation of this new restaurant just off Carnaby Street in Soho. The food served is intended to ‘celebrate simplicity’, so small plates tend to showcase one ingredient enhanced by sauces and garnish. Dishes include a chicken liver rocher, which employs cherry and hazelnut to complement a liver parfait, fried courgette with trout roe, lamb tartare, poached chicken with a brown butter sauce, as well as a bavette steak with egg yolk emulsion. You can also drop in for a casual glass of wine with snacks like baguette and butter, olives and charcuterie, plus a great cheese selection from La Fromagerie. The wine list features smaller French producers, many of whom are making low-intervention-style wines, and there’s a rotating selection of bottles available by the glass – Searle emphasises that he is not, however, positioning Marjorie’s as a ‘natural wine‘ bar.
Open now, marjorieslondon.co.uk
Comal
New York, US
The concept behind this new Mexican restaurant in Manhattan’s Chinatown is to transport guests to Mexico City, complete with the global influences that can be felt there, as opposed to serving stereotypical dishes associated with Mexican cuisine. Chef Gaz Herbert has worked at The River Café and Ikoyi in London and Jupiter in New York, and is now getting inventive at his own place; the short menu includes slow-cooked beef tongue skewers, crispy sweetbreads with pineapple salsa, mussels with corn custard, beef crudo with toasted grasshoppers, marinated lobster, and a smoked half chicken with hot sauce. As well as wine and beer, guests can expect an impressive list of rare mezcals once the restaurant has its liquor license.
Open now, comal-nyc.com
Noisy Oyster
London, UK
The team behind Firebird in Soho has opened this ‘modern seafood bistro’ in Shoreditch and it’s going big on oysters and Martinis. Natural oysters are available in multiples of six, while those dressed with smoked tomato water or a horseradish creme fraiche are available to order as singles. There are three ‘mini’ Martinis made with vodka, gin, or Tequila, plus classic versions made with a choice of gins and vodkas. Signature serves aside, there is plenty else to explore, including the menu’s raw section (scallop crudo, tuna tartare, trout aguachile), starters of octopus, monkfish skewers, caviar toast, as well as more substantial plates of whole plaice, skate wing and smoked eel ravioli. In addition to the Martinis and seven signature cocktails, there’s an impressive wine list that understandably deals mainly in sparkling and white, with bottles from across the world to complement the seafood.
Open now, noisyoysterlondon.co.uk
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Harriot
Melbourne, Australia
Opening in the Melbourne CBD, Harriot is a modern European restaurant with James Kelly at the helm, a chef who has previously cooked at Embla in the city, as well as Lyle’s in London. Starters include a pig’s head and parsley terrine, trout with cabbage and lovage, and duck liver parfait with prune and chestnut. Duck with mandarin and turnip, wagyu rump steak with parsley root and radicchio, and spider crab ravioli are amongst the main courses. French and Italian wines are well represented on the by-the-glass list but there are plenty of other bottles to discover on the full, 550-reference list.
Open now, harriotmelbourne.com
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The Hawthorn
London, UK
Peter Creed and Tom Noest already have a reputation for serving great pub food to the well-heeled residents of The Cotswolds thanks to their five pubs in the area – now they’re attempting to replicate the success in the capital. The good news is that they’re using the same suppliers, despite the journey east, and maintaining the same hearty, gastropub style of food that’s reminiscent of St. John (the menu features lamb kidneys on toast, rabbit rillette, hogget chops and the like, and the pub serves St. John’s own-label wines). There are curry nights, steak nights, roast dinners served on a Sunday and the odd evening of live music but the food and wine on offer means this promises to be anything but another high-street pub.
Open now, instagram.com/thehawthornpub
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Myrtos
London, UK
Greek wine and food are enjoying something of a renaissance and Myrtos feels like a culmination of the trend, offering a modern, refined approach to traditional Greek flavours with a wine list that focuses on some of the country’s best producers. Asimakis Chaniotis is the chef and this is his first restaurant as owner, having previously earned a Michelin star at Pied à Terre in Fitzrovia. Inspired particularly by his mother’s cooking and a childhood spent visiting grandparents on Kefalonia, Chaniotis states his approach as blending ‘tradition with creativity’, and this can be seen in the snacks to start, such as Dorset snail pita and fava with smoked eel. Classics are enhanced and elevated with technique and extra touches, like the feta mousse with the Greek salad and the pickled turnips and dill oil with a skewer of lamb belly. Sharing plates include a whole lobster with orzo, mussels, tomato, lemon and basil; a salt-baked sea bass; and lamb chops with smoked olive oil. As well as the extensive range of Greek wines, the restaurant has teamed up with Line in Athens, one of the World’s 50 Best Bars, to offer a list of eight signature cocktails. The Myrtos Negroni is one of them and is made with gin, Italian bitter, white vermouth, toasted fennel seed and goat butter.
Open now, myrtoslondon.com
Patatino
Edinburgh, UK
New at The Hoxton hotel in Edinburgh, Patatino is a take on the Italian trattoria inspired by Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast. Antipasti such as arancini and focaccia are followed by pasta dishes like crab linguine and bucatini cacio e pepe. There’s a selection of sourdough pizzas, plus main courses of beef and seafood that are cooked over coals on a Josper grill – the lobster and langoustines slung over the fire are sourced locally. The Hoxton’s teams in Rome and Florence have shared recipes for tiramisù, as well as the ‘Made in Italia’ cocktail selection. An all-Italian wine list mixes some recognisable names with smaller producers.
Open now, thehoxton.com/edinburgh/patatino
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24 York
Sydney, Australia
24 York is a steakhouse built along the same lines as the famous Le Relais de l’Entrecôte brasserie and comes from the team behind Sydney’s popular Rockpool Bar & Grill. Visitors to the restaurant in Sydney’s CBD will have the option of one dish; a beef fillet steak with dripping fries, a sauce, plus a green salad if desired. A New York cheesecake is the single dessert on the menu. A happy ‘hour’ from 4-6pm will offer a short list of classic cocktails.
Opens 23 July, 24-york.com.au
