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- Written by Gavin Hanly
This new all-day cafe in Seven Dials aims to be an "east meets west fusion café".
Read more: Apple Butter Café brings a Middle-Eastern inspired cafe to Seven Dials
- Written by Gavin Hanly
In what is certainly the month for vegan and vegetarian-based offerings, popular plant-based burger bar Halo Burger (currently in Pop Brixton) are about to open their second restaurant, in Shoreditch.
As before, they've teamed up with Beyond Meat, and they'll be the first in the country to be launching with Beyond Meat's 4.0 patty, which they say should taste more like meat than ever. Plus…
Read more: Halo Burger is opening a new plant-based burger bar in Shoreditch
- Written by Catherine Hanly
The duo behind neighbourhood favourite Fink's Salt & Sweet are expanding - but they're not going far. Their second place will be a coffee shop on nearby Gillespie Road.…
Read more: Fink's Gillespie sees the Fink's Salt and Sweet team opening a Highbury coffee shop
- Written by Gavin Hanly
If you're a big BAO fan, then January is about to get very exciting. They're about to unleash fifteen brand new baos throughout the month of January. Yes - fifteen.…
- Written by Gavin Hanly
Ok, then - We may have to consider rewriting our 2020 restaurant preview.
A brand new restaurant group has just been announced, led by Neil Rankin (Temper, Simplicity Burger) and Handley Amos (former regional director at Nandos and also behind Creams Cafe). They're teaming up with the SALT agency and they have quite the slate of restaurants lined up for 2020. Here's what's coming.
Already ou…
- Written by Gavin Hanly
After running as a supperclub for a few years, The Water House Project is becoming a new restaurant in Hackney. They'll be serving up tasting menus from an ex Galvin La Chapelle chef. …
Read more: The Water House project graduates from supperclub to restaurant
- Written by Catherine Hanly
We're not too sure how long this Friends themed wine bar/cafe is going to be around, once Warner Bros gets wind of their existence (although maybe they do have permission, who knows?). So if you fancy combining watching your favourite TV show along with enjoying brunch, then you'd best get down here sharpish.
The Hornsey cafe, which promises to play episodes of the show on a loop, certainly does…
Read more: A Friends themed cafe has opened in Hornsey and it's playing the show on a loop
- Written by Catherine Hanly
Around this time last year, after an HR investigation found him guilty of sexual misconduct, high profile chef Dan Doherty left his position at The Royal Oak in Marylebone. Following an expose in the Sunday Times, the story was (and remains) the highest-profile example of the Me Too movement hitting the UK restaurant industry. From the fallout, Doherty also lost both a TV show and his role at a h…
Read more: Dan Doherty is returning with a new London restaurant Tila in Deptford
- Written by Gavin Hanly
Back at work and in real need of a proper sandwich for lunch? Well, Sons + Daughters are bringing a little taste of their sibling restaurant Pidgin to King's Cross this month.
For January, Pidgin chefs Michael Robins and Hamish Pearce present their take on a Tuna Melt. It's sustainably sourced pole-caught tuna, horseradish aioli, smoked applewood cheddar, spiced onion relish, mango chutney, icebe…
Read more: Pidgin comes to Sons + Daughters King's Cross with their latest special
- Written by Catherine Hanly
Riverside restaurant Le Pont de la Tour certainly understands how to deal with January. They've reworked part of their alpine terrace to incorporate a cheese room where they're offering a three-course fondue feast all this month.
So if your idea of the best way to conquer January blues is by ingesting cheese, cheese and more cheese, then you've come to the right place. The room - which may be tec…
Read more: The cheese room at Le Pont de la Tour this January is serving up fondue feasts
- Written by Gavin Hanly
They've already had successful residencies across town and now Filipino restaurant Sarap is about to open in Brixton Village with its first standalone restaurant. Its residencies have been heaped with praise, with a rave from Jimi Famurewa in the Standard, who called it "big-hearted food that mostly speaks for itself, naturally nudging you towards an intensely pleasurable, unprissy way…
Read more: Sarap is opening its first standalone Filipino residency in Brixton
- Written by Catherine Hanly
Popular Kentish Town brasserie Patron is expanding - they've picked Blackstock Road for their second site, serving up all manner of classic French wine and dishes.…
Read more: Patron Cave à Manger are bringing their Parisian brasserie to Blackstock Road
- Written by Catherine Hanly
Caravan coffee are starting 2020 strong with a big new tie-in with The Savoy. Not only will they be supplying their coffee throughout the five star hotel, but they've also taken over the hotel's Melba coffee store on The Strand.
The new coffee shop, which opened today, can be found on the corner of Savoy Court and The Strand and will be open from very early in the morning for anyone dashing to wo…
Read more: Caravan open a cafe at The Savoy hotel on the Strand
- Written by Gavin Hanly
With restaurants in Islington and Hammersmith already, Zia Lucia have won many fans for their pizzas - available in four types of dough from vegetable charcoal to the more traditional. This sees them heading to the City with their third pizza restaurant. …
Read more: Zia Lucia are bringing their pizzas to Aldgate East
- Written by Catherine Hanly
If you're full of good intentions over the food you're going to put in your body in 2020, then new King's Cross residency Palm Greens is looking for your business. Having roamed around the markets of East London since summer and with a residency at Netil House, this plant-based breakfast and lunch spot is now landing in King's Cross.
They'll be taking over a space on King's Cross Square for three…
Read more: Palm Greens plant-based residency pops up in King's Cross Square
