Gastroblog
One of London's best-fried chicken restaurants is heading south - launching a new restaurant in Clapham. They had started a delivery-only kitchen in Battersea during the lockdown, but now they're opening the real deal on Clapham High Street.
If you're unfamiliar with them, they started in markets before opening their first restaurant in Shoreditch. For them, it's all about their special-recipe bu…
Read more: Butchies buttermilk fried chicken lands on Clapham High Street
Getting into the delivery business with something that looks pretty special is Victor Garvey's Californian restaurant in Soho, SOLA. That restaurant is mainly all about its tasting menus, so the delivery service is trying to get as close to that as possible - and it's doing that with BENTŌ by SOLA.
There will be two boxes - the five-course version (£69) or the 10-course tasting menu (£109) - all…
Read more: Victor Garvey's SOLA is delivering tasting menus via bento box
Three years after closing his much-loved restaurant The Dock Kitchen, Stevie Parle is back with a summertime popup at Ladbroke Dock. We went to check it out.…
Read more: Test Driving Joy at Stevie Parle's Kensal Rise popup Flora
Gizzi Erskine and Professor Green unite post lockdown for this deep pan pizza takeover of Passo in Old Street. We head down for the cheesy, carby goodness. …
Read more: Test Driving Giz & Green - Gizzi Erskine and Professor Green's deep-pan pizza pop-up
They're one of restaurant critic Giles Coren's favourite places to eat at in London - "Sometimes, only a doner will do, and this place is perfect" - and now E Mono look set to open their third location.
The popular kebab restaurant, which first opened in Kentish Town back in 2011, then expanded to Finsbury Park in 2015. You'll find it on the corner of Holloway Road and Hornsey Road.
We don't know…
Popular Covent Garden restaurant Tandoor Chop House is expanding, opening in Notting Hill this week. The restaurant, which is owned by Ennismore, the folk who brought us The Hoxton, has taken over the old Eggbreak site on Uxbridge Street.
Starting with a dinner-only service, they'll be turning out their dishes "inspired by the communal eateries of Northern India and the classic British chop house…
Read more: Tandoor Chop House head to Notting Hill, opening on Uxbridge Street
They kicked things off at Boxpark Wembley, now long finger-doughnut sellers Longboys are opening in King's Cross. They're the latest place to open in Coal Drops Yard.
Longboys has two impressive pastry chefs at the helm. Graham Hornigold was Group Pastry Chef for the Hakkasan group and Heather Kaniuk was former Executive Pastry Chef at the Mandarin Oriental and the Shangri-La…
Read more: Longboys are bringing their doughnuts to King's Cross
As London restaurants reopen for customers dining-in, we're tracking who's reopening and when.…
Read more: Tracking when London restaurants are reopening for dine-in customers
Sibling duo Victoria and Grace Sheppard are behind new cafe/events space Queens of Mayfair. They'll be combining their experience in hospitality and interior design respectively for their artisan coffee shop. Victoria was recently running the marketing for UMU & The Greenhouse while Grace project manages interior design projects for high net worth clients at luxury property company Chartwell.…
Read more: Queens of Mayfair will be an artisan coffee shop and events space
Artisan cookie purveyors Creme London in Soho have become something of an Instagram sensation since they launched, just under a year ago. They make huge gooey cookies, created by Michelin-trained executive chef Jeremy Coste, that you may well have seen people tearing apart in your feed. But if you didn't manage to make it down before lockdown and aren't heading into Soho yet - they're now deliver…
Read more: Creme London's incredibly gooey cookies are being delivered nationwide
A Hot Dinners exclusive
It's certainly starting to look as though 2020 is the summer of the deep pan pizza in London. First, we had Gizzi and Professor Green's popular pop-up at Old Street and now, down in Brixton, a new Detroit-style pizzeria has opened its doors.
Party Store Pizza at Market House on Coldharbour Lane is all about the "Detroit style" pizza. That means it's baked in bespoke deep r…
Read more: Party Store Pizza in Brixton is ALL about the deep pan Detroit-style pizzas
With London restaurants back up and running. we've pulled together the best of your dining-of Instagram shots. This week - Blacklock, Snackbar, Tavolino, Kiln, a Nuno Mendes brunch & more...…
Read more: Where you've been dining out in London's reopened restaurants
Many of the big communal dining spaces like Market Halls and Arcade Food Theatre are on ice at the moment - but that hasn't stopped TA TA Eatery. While Arcade is closed they've taken themselves down the road to a pop-up in Soho.
There you'll be able to grab yourself what is often billed as one of the best sandwiches in London - the mighty Iberian Katsu Sando. If you're katsu sando'd out, they'll…
Read more: Tou are popping up with Iberian katsu sandos in Soho & there are sando kits too
Now this is a story to warm the cockles of your heart. Last night Twitter user Mehnaz took to social media to try and drum up some support for her dad's restaurant in Aldgate.…
Read more: East London's oldest Indian restaurant goes viral in Twitter plea
The people behind the Breaking Bad bar, ABQ, are getting ready to unveil their next restaurant. Called Jolie, it's in Chelsea Funhouse, on the same site as their pre-lockdown restaurant Journey and this time it's all about France.
Described as "a hybrid between a restaurant and a cocktail lounge" they're taking classic French dishes and creating sharing plates with some extra Europe-w…
Read more: Jolie is bringing French sharing plates and bottomless fondue to Chelsea
