You nailed Dry January, smashed Veganuary and are even still going to the gym four times a week. It’s safe to say you’ve earned yourself a good night out – and the capital is more than happy to oblige. From decadent restaurants and exciting supper clubs to glamorous new hotels, here’s our guide to the best things to book, see, eat and do in London in February 2026.

The hotel: The Newman

Spearheaded by Paul Brackley – formerly of The Beaumont and Shangri La at the Shard – The Newman is a boutique hotel designed by London-based Lind + Almond, and will be pulling out all the stops when it makes its debut this month. Inside, 81 bedrooms including a Penthouse Suite with private terrace, and a Nordic-inspired spa featuring a sauna, cold plunge, London’s first hotel halotherapy salt room and an ice lounge complete the offering – alongside a new must-visit restaurant and bar. 

Also housed at The Newman, Brasserie Angelica will be a contemporary all-day dining restaurant helmed by executive chef Christian Turner, whose Northern European influences can be seen throughout a menu including gravlax with fermented cucumber salad, Sutton Hoo chicken pie with cep cream sauce, confit duck leg with haricot beans and parsley salad. Elsewhere, Gambit Bar will be a destination in its own right, serving creative yet understated cocktails like Excitement and Fate (rum, pineapple, cherry, shiso and sesame) and a reimagined picante, True Gift, made with tequila, lime, birds eye chillies, blood orange and smoked salt. 

The Newman opens on 1 February 2026 at 50 Newman Street, W1T 3EB, visit thenewman.com

The four-hands dinners: Ixchel x Holy Carrot, Kitchen Table x Aulis, and Jean-Philippe Blondet x Harry Maguire

Ixchel

Channelling Veganuary into February, Ixchel’s head chef Ximena Gayosso Gonzalez has launched a new dining series called Tacos with Friends, inviting like-minded chefs to contribute a limited-edition dish to Ixchel's menu. First up is Notting Hill-based, plant-based restaurant Holy Carrot, which has devised a grilled oyster mushroom taco: smoky king oyster mushrooms paired with a roasted koji mole, using Ixchel’s toasted focaccia trim to reduce waste and house-made pickles showcasing Holy Carrot’s ferments. Available for a limited time only in February, run, don’t walk.  

On 3 February, two Michelin-starred Kitchen Table and one-star Aulis will come together for a one-night-only, cocktail-led collaboration that steps away from their usual tasting-menu formats. Titled Unpredictable Coupling, the event – priced at £95 per person – marks a special edition of Kitchen Table’s Stages of Nature cocktail series, with this chapter focused on winter foraging and British-made wines and spirits. 

Bringing together Kitchen Table’s bar manager Amine Azil and Aulis’ Charles Carron Brown, the evening will spotlight the drinks programmes behind the two chefs’ tables. Each will present two original cocktails created exclusively for the night, including Pea & Pippin – Arbikie Nadar Gin, infused with pea shoots, topped with an apple and lacto fermented honey soda – and the Winter Vesper: gin, vodka and sake with pear and pear-skin tincture. Hosted in Kitchen Table’s cocktail lounge, each serve will be paired with a snack created by James Knappett, including oysters, duck terrine and, to finish, St Jude cheese.

Chef patron Jean-Philippe Blondet of the three Michelin-starred Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester will welcome Harry Maguire, the newly crowned winner of MasterChef 2025, for one-night-only on 25 February. This collaboration marks the first time Maguire steps into the restaurant’s kitchen since his appearance on MasterChef where he cooked alongside Blondet. The evening, priced at £300 per person, will see the two chefs create a collaborative tasting menu with Maguire, a fishmonger by trade, reimagining the dishes that propelled him to victory on the TV series. 

The Ixchel x Holy Carrot taco is available every Tuesday until 10 February 2026 at 33H King's Road, SW3 4LX, visit ixchellondon.com; Kitchen Table x Aulis will take place on 3 February 2026 at 70 Charlotte Street, W1T 4QG, visit sevenrooms.com; Jean-Philippe Blondet x Harry Maguire will take place on 25 February 2026 at 53 Park Lane, W1K 1QA, visit sevenrooms.com

The restaurants: Bambi 2.0, Little Sourdough Kitchen and The Good Front Room

Good news for anyone that’s ever struggled to get a reservation at Bambi: the London Fields restaurant has just entered a new chapter that’s bigger and better than ever before. Combining great food with a record bar, Bambi has knocked through into an empty venue behind its existing location, resulting in a completely transformed space that will be double its current size and open on 3 February. 

As part of the redesign, the kitchen is being expanded and refurbished under the direction of Bambi’s new head chef Jamie Thorneycroft, who has added a new charcoal grill to the kitchen, as well as a dry ager, allowing him to create seafood-oriented dishes like crab salad, nahm jim and green papaya, chalkstream trout tostada, miso and sesame, and peri peri Atlantic prawns, black garlic aioli and lime. That’s not all that’s changing: Bambi 2.0 will also have a DJ playing every night of the week, instead of just weekends. 

Little Sourdough Kitchen on Fulham’s Munster Road is a much-loved local artisan bakery that has quietly served its community for the past eight years – and is now entering its next chapter, following an acquisition by chef Phil Howard and restaurateur Julian Dyer. The bakery remains rooted in the same values that have made it such a fixture of the neighbourhood – small-batch baking, exceptional bread and viennoiserie, and a humble, community-first approach – but expect an array of classics and new additions. Don’t miss the Danish classic brunsvieger and signature heritage loaf, using spelt, einkorn and rye, showcasing the highest quality ingredients sourced from English suppliers such as Bruern Farm and Shrub. See you in the queue. 

Taking its name from the Caribbean tradition of saving the front room for special guests and occasions, chef Dominic Taylor, winner of 2023's Five Star Kitchen: Britain's Next Great Chef, will open his first standalone restaurant, The Good Front Room, in the capital this month. Located in Dalston, a hub for London's Caribbean community, and serving a menu heavily influenced by the dishes Taylor's Jamaican mother and Saint Lucian father taught him as child, expect dishes that expertly blend bold flavours with elevated techniques. Across a seasonal evening menu, weekend brunch and Sunday dinner, all served tasting menu-style, highlights include jerk chicken with plantain jam, curry goat with roasted chocho, short rib brown stew, and sweet potato sticky toffee pudding with salted toffee sauce.

Bambi 2.0 opens on 3 February 2026 at 1 Westgate Street, E8 3RL, visit bambi-bar.com; Little Sourdough Kitchen is now open at 237 Munster Road, SW6 6BT; The Good Front Room opens on 4 February 2026 at 1, Thomas Tower, Dalston Square, E8 3GU, visit thegoodfrontroom.co.uk

The theatre: Mrs Armitage On Wheels at the Southbank Centre

Those looking to entertain little ones during February half term should head to the Southbank Centre for the very first stage production of Quentin Blake’s Mrs Armitage on Wheels. As part of the Imagine Festival, running from 18-21 February, the story follows Mrs Armitage; an eccentric inventor whose wild and wonderful creations are always remarkably useful. When she and her faithful dog, Breakspear, set off on a quiet bike ride to visit cousin her Angela, she can’t stop thinking of ways to improve her bike. But after adding horns, snack trays, umbrellas, a dog bed and even a sail, will she ever get there? Suitable for children aged three and over, consider this an easy way to keep children entertained. 

Mrs Armitage on Wheels runs from 18-21 February 2026 at Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX, visit southbankcentre.co.uk

The culture: Art After Dark

Art of London’s free art and culture programme, Art After Dark, returns from 3-10 February with a week-long celebration of London nightlife through art and music, including a special after-hours DJ set at the National Gallery. Inspired by the city’s club culture, the programme brings together large-scale public artworks, late-night gallery openings and exclusive music experiences across the West End. 

Channelling the energy and spectacle of a live music festival, London-based artist Lakwena Maciver will headline the programme with her landmark public artwork, Rise and Shine: a seven-metre-tall tower of stacked disco lightboxes in Piccadilly Circus. Elsewhere, the West End will host late-night gallery openings, bookable art tours via Art of London Gallery Hop!, special offers and live performances at local bars and nightclubs including the Hard Rock Café, the London Reign Showclub, Box Piccadilly, and Haymarket Hotel, along with an exclusive Q&A with Lakwena, in partnership with Apple. 

Art After Dark will run from 3-10 February 2026 across London, visit artoflondon.co.uk

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