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- Test Driving The Frog - Adam Handling comes to Shoreditch
Adam Handling has made the move from St James to Shoreditch. We head to The Frog to see how he's getting on. - Flat Iron returns to Shoreditch and they're bringing a huge spit roast too
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Since originally popping up as a Shoreditch residency, Flat Iron have gone on to become very big indeed. Best known for their affordable steaks, they've been a big hit all over town. And now they're about to return to Shoreditch, but
... - Basque specialist Sagardi comes to London with restaurant in Shoreditch
It's that time of the year when you either have to have some sort of great foodie trip planned or avoid Instagram for the next few months. Happily there's something to make any homebody happy as a major player on the Basque region's restaurant scene is heading this way.
Grupo Sagardi was founded 18 years ago in Barcelona by Iñaki Viñaspre. The goal was to champion Basque gastronomy. In the intervening years he founded more restaurants in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia,
... - Gizzi Erskine is hosting a duvet fort pop-up restaurant in Shoreditch
Fancy being wined and dined for free by Gizzi Erskine? You'd be fools not to. Well that's what's on offer with a popup hitting Shoreditch next week. #DuvetDining is a one day restaurant popping up at The Loft on Kingsland Road. To win one of 24 seats at the lunch, you'll have to enter a competition on TK Maxx's Facebook page between 6pm tonight and midnight on Sunday.
If you're wondering what the duvet alludes to, it's because you'll be dining inside duvet forts made
... - Below The Smoke bar opens under Rok in Shoreditch
It's been quite a while in the planning but the downstairs bar at Rok in Shoreditch is now officially ready to go. The a new 24 seat bar space will open this month and here's what you need to know:
They have an ace mixologist on the job - the seasonal cocktail menu is designed by Matt Whiley.
The food may have a touch of Ikea about it but it also sounds like perfect bar snacks - such as duck pate with fermented
... - Whisky bar Black Rock comes to Shoreditch from the people behind Worship Street
Updated 10/3/16 with a look at the menu
It's all about the whisky at the moment - with incoming news that the same people behind the Worship Street Whistling Shop are opening Black Rock, a whisky bar in Shoreditch.
In that bar, we're to expect a stripped-back space with "a hip-hop, electro-funk soundtrack". But the centrepiece - in a big reference to the aging process -
... - Absurd Bird chicken is coming to Spitalfields and Soho
Seems like there's life in the market for more chicken ventures in London. We hear that a new company, Absurd Bird, is opening two new restaurants in London this year.
The company is kicking off its chicken-focused takeover by launching in Spitalfields and Soho in March. It's essentially chicken combined with American deep south cooking. And they've teamed up with Fosse Meadows Farm and bought every single one of their
... - Septime's Bertrand Grébaut pops up at Lyle's in Shoreditch
One of the chefs doing great things in Paris at the moment is Bertrand Grébaut whose places Septime and Clamato have turned the city's restaurant scene on its head over the past few years - Septime's currently no 57 in the World's 50 Best Restaurants List. The good news for anyone who hasn't the time (or funds) to travel all the way across to France to try his food is that Grébaut is heading to London for a two day residency at Lyle's in Shoreditch. He'll be putting together
... - Strut & Cluck turkey restaurant is coming to Shoreditch
The founders of upcoming Shoreditch restaurant Strut & Cluck couldn't have picked a better time to talk about their new place. In the run up to both Thanksgiving and Christmas, anywhere focusing on turkey is going to be of interest.
Inspired by owners Amir and Limor Chen's Eastern Mediterranean home cooking, you'll find dishes like:
- Josper-Grilled Turkey Drumstick with roasted vegetables &
- Selin Kiazim's first restaurant Oklava comes to Shoreditch
Updated 26/10 with soft launch details.
Since leaving Kopapa, Selin Kiazim has become a bigger and bigger name with a series of very successful supperclubs while searching for a place of her own. Now she's found it and is getting ready to settle down in Shoreditch with Oklava.
Her new
... - Test Driving Joyeux Bordel, The Experimental Cocktail Club's French bar in Shoreditch
On a recent brisk Tuesday evening we had the pleasure of test driving Joyeux Bordel cocktail bar. Joyeux Bordel translates in French to ‘happy mess’ and not ‘happy brothel’ as you may perhaps prefer to believe. We left feeling very happy, and thankfully not in a messy state.
Joyeux Bordel is the sixth bar from the legendary Experimental Cocktail Club. A dark door on Curtain Street, a few minutes walk
... - Anthony Demetre comes to Old Street with Urban Coterie
Now soft launched in the City, Urban Coterie is the latest offering from Anthony Demetre, previously best known for Arbutus in Soho. He's joined up with Head Chef Martin Zahumensky for a seasonal British menu at the top of the M by Montcalm at Old Street (the building with the perspective that makes you feel you've gone slightly mad - you'll know if you've seen it).
It's a
... - Mangal Ocakbasi comes to Shoreditch with Mangal 1.1 at the Comedy Cafe Theatre
The original Mangal Ocakbasi is a 25 year old charcoal grill hit in Dalston, often lauded by chefs and an early example of how Londoners are only too happy to queue for some great comfort food.
And now they're making a move into Shoreditch, taking over the spot
... - Nordic smokehouse Rök heads to Shoreditch
Updated 24/7 with soft launch details.
We're seeing an interesting trend in smokehouse-based restaurants of late - that's seen various cuisines crossed with traditional smokehouse fare. The most recent and obvious example has been the middle eastern smokehouse of Berber & Q and now there's Rök, which comes with a Nordic twist.
Rök, which literally means "smoke" in Swedish, will be brining, pickling and smoking various
... - Junya Yamasaki's last London dinner will be at Lyle's
Well this is going to be a red hot ticket. Now that Koya has closed and chef Junya Yamasaki is preparing to move back to Japan, tickets for his last ever dinner in London are bound to be very popular.
Junya is teaming up with Lyle's in Shoreditch for a re-run of last year's eel dinner. it's part of the annual ‘Doyo No Ushi' celebration. "We have a long tradition to eat eel on that
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