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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Hayward Opens in Carlton

  209, North Kutch Street, Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon, 97111, United StatesHayward·…

  

  Starts 07/31/2025ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as July 2025, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]

  Chef-owner Kari Shaughnessy opens a polished, seasonal restaurant in Carlton, a town of about 2,100 in Oregon's wine country.

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  Cadbury Opens Its Claremont Chocolate Factory on the Derwent

  100 Cadbury Road, Claremont TAS 7011, AustraliaCadbury

  

  Starts 10/21/1921CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE104.9 years agoThe Glenorchy City Council's centenary history and Wikipedia's^[2] article on the factory both give October 21, 1921 as its official opening date.

  Cadbury's first factory outside Britain officially opened at Claremont on Hobart's Derwent River on October 21, 1921, drawn by Tasmania's cheap hydroelectricity and reliable dairy supply. The site still turns local milk and sugar into millions of Easter eggs and bunnies each year.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Heretik Opens in Denver

  1441, 26th Street, Curtis Park, Five Points, Denver, Colorado, 80205, United StatesHeretik

  

  Starts 05/08/2026CONFIRMED78% CONFIDENCE138 days agoThe Denver Gazette^[3] of Monday 11 May 2026 says Theo Adley "opened his second restaurant Heretík ... at 1441 26th St. on Friday", which is 8 May. Westword^[4] had announced on 1 May that it would open on Wednesday (6 May); the report written after the event is taken over the announcement.

  Chef Theo Adley opens a Basque-leaning bistro in Denver's Five Points, sister to Marigold in Lyons, Colorado, with a rotisserie and a counter by a roll-up door.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Big Cat Opens in Raleigh

  1000, Brookside Drive, Seaboard Station, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, 27604, United StatesBig Cat

  

  Starts 03/31/2026ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE176 days agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as March 2026, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]

  Five of Raleigh's chefs, restaurateurs and bar owners open a neighbourhood restaurant and bodega on Brookside Drive, with Cheetie Kumar as executive chef.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Merci Opens in Charleston

  Merci, 28, Pitt Street, Harleston Green, Radcliffeborough, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, 29401, United StatesMerci

  

  Starts 03/31/2025ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE1.5 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as March 2025, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]

  Michael and Courtney Zentner open a 24-seat bistro in a former corner grocery in Charleston, applying French technique to Lowcountry ingredients.

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  Perennial Opens in Montgomery

  1914, Mulberry Street, Oak Park, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, 36106, United StatesPerennial

  

  Starts 08/31/2024ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE2.1 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as August 2024, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]

  A plant-forward modern Southern restaurant in a century-old house in Montgomery's Cloverdale neighbourhood, run by nutrition professor Deanne Allegro with a staff of under ten.

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  Manor Bakeries Opens Its Carlton Plant as Europe's Largest Bakery

  Manor Bakeries, Fish Dam Lane, Carlton, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S71 3HQ, United KingdomMr Kipling

  

  Starts 01/01/1975ESTIMATED53% CONFIDENCE51.7 years agoThe Barnsley Chronicle^[3] and Yorkshire Post^[2] date the start of cake manufacturing at the Lyons Bakery (later Manor Bakeries/Mr Kipling) Carlton plant to 1975, without a more precise day recorded.

  Lyons Bakery's purpose-built plant in Carlton, South Yorkshire opens as the largest bakery in Europe, and starts baking what becomes the Mr Kipling cake range under later owner Manor Bakeries.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Theatercaféen Opens Opposite the National Theatre

  Theatercaféen, Klingenberggata, Vika, Sentrum, Oslo 0161, NorwayTheatercaféen

  

  Starts 12/31/1900ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE125.7 years agoThe article states "Theatercaféen opened in 1900" without a month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day.^[1]

  Theatercaféen opened in 1900 across the street from Oslo's National Theatre and became the room where Norwegian actors, writers and politicians ate after curtain - a Viennese-style café with a gallery, caricatures of its regulars on the walls and live music from a balcony.

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  Junior Opens in Nashville

  907, Dickerson Pike, Cumberland Heights, Nashville, Davidson County, Middle Tennessee, Tennessee, 37207, United StatesJunior

  

  Starts 08/15/2025CONFIRMED76% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoEdible Nashville (19 August 2025) says Junior "officially opened on Friday, August 15, at 907 Dickerson Pike", and 15 August 2025 was a Friday.^[1]

  Philip Krajeck, of Rolf & Daughters and Folk, opens a calm New American bistro in a former Piggly Wiggly on Dickerson Pike.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Bistrot Ha Opens on the Lower East Side

  137, Eldridge Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan Community Board 3, Manhattan, New York County, New York, 10002, United StatesBistrot Ha

  

  Starts 02/28/2026ESTIMATED90% CONFIDENCE207 days agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as February 2026, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]

  Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha, of Ha's Snack Bar, open a French bistro seasoned by Ha's Vietnamese heritage on Eldridge Street.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Bewley's Opens as a Dublin Tea Dealer

  Bewley's Café, 78-79, Grafton Street, Royal Exchange B Ward 1986, Dublin, County Dublin, Leinster, D02 F798, IrelandBewley's

  

  Starts 12/31/1840ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE185.7 years agoThe article's infobox gives the year only - founded 1840 in Dublin - so the pin takes that year's last day.^[1]

  The Bewley family began dealing tea in Dublin in 1840, having broken the East India Company's grip on the trade by shipping direct from China, and the cafés followed. The Grafton Street room, with its Harry Clarke windows and open fires, became the city's front parlour.

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  Heinz Opens Its Kitt Green Factory in Wigan

  Kitt Green, Orrell, Wigan WN5 0LU, UKHeinz

  

  Starts 05/21/1959CONFIRMED78% CONFIDENCE67.3 years agoWikipedia's^[3] H. J. Heinz, Wigan article dates the Kitt Green factory's opening to 21 May 1959.

  H.J. Heinz opens its Kitt Green factory near Wigan, which grows into the company's largest food processing plant in the world and Europe's biggest.

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