London’s Coolest New Restaurant is Hidden Behind a Leather Shop

Keeping track of London’s ever-growing, ever-shrinking, and ever-evolving restaurant scene is no easy task. Turn your back for one moment, and there’s a new spot everyone is talking about and a new reservation that’s already impossible to get. 

What, though, if that hot-ticket restaurant is intentionally hiding from you — say behind the facade of a leather goods shop. Automat opened in the tail end of 2025 to relatively little fanfare and hides behind Tanner Krolle – a heritage British leather brand, dating to 1856 (although this flagship store at 1...