The hotel restaurant scene in London is currently undergoing a significant amount of change, with departures, reinventions and fresh additions announced seemingly daily. Restaurants at the new Chancery Rosewood hotel in Mayfair, including Serra, Tobi Masa and Jacqueline, are part of that picture but October also sees new offerings at The Beaumont and The Dorchester hit their stride. While menus at luxury hotel restaurants are often best described as classic rather than courageous, guests demand quality and wine lovers can rest assured that there are almost invariably impressive cellars from which to choose a special bottle.
London also welcomes the British outpost of a New York celebrity-favourite this month, as well as a new Basque restaurant, a theme that’s also been adopted at a new spot on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. New York gets a new Italian restaurant, while there’s a new live-fire cooking venue in Los Angeles that also hosts a listening bar.
Read on to discover the most exciting new restaurants to visit this October.
The best new restaurants to visit in October 2025
Rosi
London, UK
Chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen rose to fame at Michelin-starred restaurant Northcote in The Ribble Valley and will be recognisable to anyone familiar with the BBC’s Great British Menu. Recently appointed culinary director at The Beaumont in Mayfair, she ushers in Rosi, the hotel’s new ‘modern British’ restaurant, which inhabits the space previously home to The Colony Grill. Menus at hotel restaurants rarely flirt extensively with fashion or adventure but enough freedom has been licensed here to set Rosi apart from many others: dinky, herb-infused hash browns to top with sour cream, chives and caviar are available from a list of snacks, proving once again that the caviar trend shows no sign of waning, while a starter of ‘old-fashioned’ pork pie is accompanied by pickled vegetables, salad cream and pork crackling crisps. Among classics given Goodwin-Allen twists like Chicken Diane (pictured), John Dory fish fingers and seafood cocktail is a salt-aged duck for two to share, as well as a steamed lamb suet pudding. The appropriately rich Mayfair Millionaire Tart is the showstopper of the desserts. WM
Open now, thebeaumont.com
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Carbone
London, UK
New York’s legendary Carbone, a venue honouring the city’s Italian restaurants of the 1950s, has now arrived in London. Moving into the former US embassy building that also houses the new Chancery Rosewood hotel, the British outpost is serving all the Carbone classics, including spicy rigatoni vodka, veal parmesan and meatballs. The restaurant consists of several dining rooms and cocktail lounges spread across two floors, all in opulent, members-club-esque décor. Given the exclusivity and glamour associated with the restaurant, a cocktail before dinner feels almost obligatory, with six Martinis to choose from as well as a dozen other classics. Expect all the big names on the wine list; there’s Dom Perignon, Billecart Salmon and Palmer Champagne by the glass, as well as reds from Tenuta Guado Al Tasso, Antinori and Gaja. WM
Open now, carbonelondon.com
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Alzado
Sydney, Australia
Sydney might be 10,000 miles from San Sebastian but Alzado, the new restaurant at Hotel Ravesis on Bondi Beach, feels more like the north coast of Spain than the distance suggests, given the style of food and sea views on offer. As summer appears on the horizon in the southern hemisphere, the opening of this new first floor venue is perfectly timed to capitalise on sun and warmth, offering a fresh, seafood-focused menu inspired by the cuisine of coastal Spain. As waves crash on the beach a few metres away, diners can order oysters, croquetas, pan con tomate with anchovies, whitebait, calamari, king prawns, preserved tuna and more. The drinks list includes Oyster Shell Martinis, vermouth, sherry and a range of Spanish wines. WM
Open now, alzado.com.au
Alta
London, UK
Keen to capitalise on London’s love affair with Basque cuisine is former El Bulli chef Rob Roy Cameron, who has opened Alta in Soho with open-fire cooking as the focus. Set across two floors, Cameron’s dishes draw inspiration from his decade-long stint in northern Spain. On the food front, you can look forward to razor clams with white saffron escabeche; red gooseberry seabass crudo, and chicharrón with mojo rojo. From the grill, there’s whole seabream, turbot head and 35-day-aged beef sirloin. The wine list is made up of low-intervention European bottles from small producers, while cocktails include a Pine Martini and the Little Pepper, featuring smoked red pepper, Tequila and vermouth. LS
Open now, alta-restaurant.com
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Darling
Los Angeles, US
New for West Hollywood is this restaurant and lounge that focuses on live-fire cooking and music on vinyl. At the heart of the concept is a menu of 12 dishes that change every month, with many of them imbued with the smoke and char of the restaurant’s custom wood grill. At the time of writing, dishes include almond grilled artichokes, pork belly, seabass and a bone-in strip steak. Ingredients are largely Californian with the occasional Japanese influence and chefs Sean Brock, a James Beard Award winner, and Ben Norton aim to ‘respect the rhythm of the seasons’. Head bartender Jason Lee creates eight cocktails each month to complement the changing food menu and there’s plenty of space in the bar to drop in for a drink or two if you just fancy hearing what records are spinning. WM
Open now, darling.la
The Grill at The Dorchester
London, UK
Life must go on after the departure of Tom Booton from The Grill at The Dorchester and the start of the new era has been marked with a complete relaunch of the restaurant. As well as a refurbished dining room, there’s a completely new menu overseen by culinary director Martyn Nail that signals a return to the traditional dishes and service of a grill restaurant. A trolley used to convey Beef Wellingtons tableside for carving is never out of sight for long and other spectacular dishes like grilled native lobster and cheese soufflé with black truffle catch the eye. Monkfish carpaccio and a Welsh rarebit crumpet with pickled walnut and chives are dishes amongst the occasional concessions to modernity but in general, The Grill is focused on comforting classics. The wine team has tweaked the by-the-glass offering to suit the new menu but, as one might expect of The Dorchester, diners can order from an extensive list of the world’s finest bottles if they wish; the ‘Wine Vault’ beneath the restaurant gives an indication of the treasures available. WM
Open now, dorchestercollection.com
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‘Ino
New York, US
The smaller sibling to Chelsea’s already established Bottino, ‘Ino is a new restaurant in the Flatiron district serving a short Italian menu devised by British chef Jamie Kenyon. Starters include fritto misto, market greens, pork meatballs and fried mozzarella, while octopus rigatoni, braised rabbit coniglio and confit goose ragu with pappardelle are amongst the pasta dishes. A selection of four main dishes includes porchetta and a braised short rib with mascarpone, polenta and pickled mushroom. The wine list is, as expected, a predominantly Italian affair, while the concise cocktail menu can be enjoyed at ‘Ino’s eight-seat bar, as well as at tables before dinner. WM
Open now, inonyc.com
