Karla Knowles opens PAM in Farringdon on 3 November after seven and a half years at Kiln, with a second Thai restaurant in Notting Hill to follow.

Korean food exports to Europe rose 24.5% in eight months, faster than to the US or China. Britain sits inside that figure, and no UK line is published.

Endo Kazutoshi has reopened in a Chelsea townhouse with a ten-seat omakase counter, a year after a fire closed Endo at the Rotunda. It is booked out.

A. Wong reopens on 10 October with a rebuilt kitchen diners can watch, as Andrew Wong prepares to open a Chinese pub in Shoreditch with Dishoom's co-founder.

Chuseok falls on Friday, and families across Korea will gather round a table of harvest food. At the centre of it is songpyeon, a half-moon rice cake steamed on pine needles.

Bamboo Mat opens an 82-cover Nikkei flagship at Wood Wharf this month, four years after leaving Leyton for Stratford. Opening date is still unknown.

Nakimushi, a Japanese restaurant spread across three floors of a listed Victorian townhouse in Notting Hill, opens on Monday, four months after the last of the two residencies it is built from closed.

Shake Shack surprised everyone by creating a limited edition burgers with the Michelin chef. What a collaboration!

There still are leftover sweets from Halloween, but for a more healthy spin on it, it is time to talk about gluten-free, sugar-free and wheat-free... Everything - free snacks...