The hottest new restaurants to visit in December 2022

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From disco dancing with a side of Japanese tapas in Sydney to opulent, Boston-style seafood towers served up in London, these are the best new restaurants to visit this month

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The festive season tends to usher in a renewed zest for dining out. For those looking for a new place to bring in the Christmas season, there’s plenty of restaurant openings to get excited about. For Londoners, the city’s first modern Palestinian restaurant promises to titillate with a strict no-hummus policy, while celebrating the best of the Gaza Strip’s cuisine. A new residency at Mount Nelson, a Belmond Hotel in Cape Town, is showcasing the best of pan-African cuisine, using native ingredients across a selection of small plates and creative cocktails. Across the pond, you’ll find the latest Italian-American opening in New York’s Soho, bringing old-school Little Italy glamour to the area. If you prefer your dinner with a little disco, head to Sydney’s Kissuu for modern Japanese-inspired sharing plates, fun cocktails and a mirror-ball-bedecked DJ booth. Keep reading below for more hot new restaurant openings this month from across the globe.

NEW RESTAURANTS TO VISIT AROUND THE WORLD IN DECEMBER 2022

GOLDFINCH

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

A new casual Cantonese restaurant from ex-Geranium chef Will King-Smith has landed in Copenhagen this month and promises to recreate the flavours the chef misses most from his time in the region. Sharing food is the name of the game, and guests are encouraged to come in groups to make the most of the menu. Whole lobster on egg noodles, traditional whole roast duck, classic shrimp toast and spicy clams all feature, plus house-made lap cheong sausage. Cocktails will be available alongside the home-style Chinese menu, and will feature nods to classic drinks, as witnessed in a Hong Kong-style milk tea and a Lychee Martini.

Open now, https://goldfinch.dk/

KISSUU

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

December is the perfect time for a little glitz, and new Sydney spot Kissuu brings it in spades. The music-driven eating, dancing and drinking venue will serve experimental Janapese-inspired fare from ex-Nobu chef Adam Burke with dishes like lamb ribs with moro miso and pomegranate and kingfish sashimi taco, topped with a yuzu-togarashi dressing and finger limes. Cocktails are described as ‘quirky’ and guests can sip on the Twisted Geisha (gin, sake, lychee and lemon) or Next to the Koi Pond (coconut-washed Tequila, yuzu, lime and basil) next to the disco-ball-shaped DJ booth.

Open now, https://kissuu.com.au/

SALTIE GIRL

LONDON, UK

Boston seafood culture is coming to London’s Mayfair courtesy of Saltie Girl, which in its home state serves up New England’s largest tinned seafood collection (65 varieties, to be exact). The first UK outpost of the US restaurant will include a raw bar, seafood towers, fresh oysters, New England-style lobster rolls and fried lobster and waffles. To sip alongslide, there’ll be the much-photographed olive- and caviar-topped Martini, and a wide-ranging wine list including Saltie Girl’s own label Provence rosé. From a reserve section of the wine list you can order a bottle of 2012 Pol Roger Winston Churchill for a cool £1,056.

Open now, https://www.saltiegirl.com/location/saltie-girl-london/