W1 Dining News: Three Big Central London Openings This June
The capital's late-June launches lean towards drinking and grazing, from a rooftop Japanese restaurant at the rebuilt Olympia to the biggest self-pour wine bar Soho has seen. Here are the openings worth a table this fortnight.
Published 20 June 2026.
Wolves of Tokyo, Olympia
Opening on 15 June at the redeveloped Olympia, Wolves of Tokyo is a Japanese restaurant and rooftop cocktail bar from a kitchen with Roka pedigree. It sits within the new Canopy rooftop complex, pairing a darker marble-lined dining room downstairs with alfresco drinking and a retractable roof above. Source: Hot Dinners.
Vagabond, Soho
The pour-your-own wine bar Vagabond opens its most central London site yet on 24 June on Ganton Street, just off Carnaby Street. It is the group's twelfth London bar and its largest, spreading roughly 120 wines across two floors of self-service taps. Source: Time Out London.
Buvette, Seven Dials
The New York all-day favourite Buvette returns to London in Seven Dials, Covent Garden. Expect French comfort cooking from morning to night: waffles and croques for breakfast and brunch, then coq au vin and cassoulet come dinner. Source: Hot Dinners.