{"id":1044929,"date":"2026-06-23T12:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1044929\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T12:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:02:16","slug":"bancone-is-opening-another-new-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1044929\/","title":{"rendered":"Bancone is opening another new spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be the pasta restaurant\u2019s sixth site<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will Londoners ever fall out of love with fresh <a href=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/pasta\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/pasta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">pasta<\/a>? Given that Bancone is gearing up to open its sixth London location, we think not. First opened in <a href=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/covent-garden\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/covent-garden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Covent Garden<\/a> in 2018, Bancone has since expanded to <a href=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/things-to-do-in-soho\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/things-to-do-in-soho\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Soho<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/london-bridge-borough\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/london-bridge-borough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Borough Yards<\/a>, Kensington, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/city-of-london\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/city-of-london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">City<\/a>, and now <a href=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/holborn-bloomsbury\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/holborn-bloomsbury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomsbury<\/a> is next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new Bancone will be a first for the group in that it\u2019s opening inside a <a href=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/london-hotels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">hotel<\/a>. The 140-cover restaurant, complete with an open pasta kitchen and a 60-cover <a href=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/terraces\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/terraces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">terrace<\/a>, will take up residence in the Imperial hotel in Bloomsbury, which is reopening in the summer following a major refurbishment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bancone classics like the silk handkerchiefs with walnut butter and confit egg yolk will be on the menu, alongside dishes like bucatini cacio e pepe, pork &amp; nduja ragu with tagliatelle, and hogget pappardelle with soy, Thai basil and chilli.<\/p>\n<p>Key Information<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Opening date <\/strong>| early August 2026<br \/><strong>Address<\/strong> | 61 \u2013 66 Russell Sq, London WC1B 5BB<br \/><strong>For more information<\/strong> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bancone.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">bancone.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This will be the pasta restaurant\u2019s sixth site Will Londoners ever fall out of love with fresh pasta?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1044930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[35742,748,124992,393,124993,4884,257,106754,16,15],"class_list":["post-1044929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-bloomsbury","tag-britain","tag-eat-drink","tag-england","tag-food-drink-news","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-pasta","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1044930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}