Seafood

• Test Driving Galley - a sexy new spot on Islington's Upper Street

  Seafood with a huge dash of sex appeal, Galley brings va va voom to N1

• Galley hits Islington's Upper Street with ex Randall & Aubin head chef

  

  The revitalisation of Islington's dining scene continues apace with news of another interesting restaurant opening on Upper Street. Galley restaurant and bar takes over the space occupied by United Ramen and is a venture by brother and sister team Oriona Robb and Marcel Grzyb.

  Marcel's been Head Chef at Soho’s Randall & Aubin for a decade and, as you might expect given his background, he's put together a menu with a strong focus on seafood.

  His sister

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• CLAW launch winter weekend brunch residency at Fish Market

  

  We've been hearing nice things about popular street food CLAW, so hearing that it's coming indoors for the winter with a residency in the City is good news. They'll be starting a one month weekend brunch residency at Fish Market (just opposite Liverpool St Station) serving up all that lovely seafood they've built their reputation on. Dishes you can expect include Crab Burger with handpicked Devonshire crab, samphire and claw sauce and a Lobster BLT made with

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• Claw residency comes to Dalston's Three Compasses for the winter

  

  This rather fine looking shellfish dish is the crab burger from Claw. And if just gazing at that photo makes you fancy it half as much as we do right now, you'll be wanting to know that the streetfood folk behind it have just taken residency at The Three Compasses in Dalston.

  From this week until the end of January they'll be serving up a mainly crab-based menu with all their crab coming from Start Bay in Devon.

  There'll be five burgers on offer

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• Test Driving Sexy Fish - Richard Caring brings va va voom to Berkeley Square

  This was an instant London hit from the moment it held its star-studded party, but the food at Sexy Fish is worthy of its own space in the spotlight

• House of Crab pops-up on Mayfair's Grosvenor Street

  

  Just opened, very much on the QT in Mayfair is House of Crab, a short-term pop-up by James Chase of Chase distillery and Dominic Jacobs - the folk behind The Running Horse pub in Mayfair. This new seafood spot, where Chalet (aka Princess Diana's favourite restaurant) used to be, will be here until the end of January, after which the building it's in faces demolition.

  As the name suggests, the menu focuses on crab, Salcombe crab to be specific which is where

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• Kensington Place adds a pop-up fish & chip shop Notting Gill Chippy

  Updated 5/9/15 with extended opening details

  Kensington Place has recently had a bit of a refurb and now they're adding something new - a pop up chippy. The food, as befits its location, is certainly more upmarket than most fish and chip shops.

  For instance, on the menu will be:

  • Lobster Thermi-Bun, a savoury doughnut filled with lobster thermidor sauce (pictured). 
  • Bitter & Twisted Scampi - made with whisky-cask-matured Harviestoun
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• Broadgate Circle gets an all-day seafood restaurant with Crab Tavern

  

  The spate of openings at Broadgate Circle continues with the next restaurant being Crab Tavern. This is being billed as an all-day seafood restaurant and bar with a distinct NYC focus for the menu. It's also the first London restaurant from Russian entrepreneur Igor Krayushkin, whose has been involved with two luxury restaurants and a nightclub in Russia and is also responsible for La Residence restaurant in Dubai.

  Given the name, there's no prizes for

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• Hawksmoor Guildhall gets a bit fishy

  

  Ever since opening Air Street, which successfully brought fish to Hawksmoor menus in collaboration with Mitch Tonks, the rest of the Hawksmoors have been showing some fishy influences. The latest is Guildhall in the City which has, apparently at the request of some Guildhall regulars, just added some new fish dishes to that menu.

  So if you head down to Hawksmoor Guildhall, expect these dishes, completely new to the

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• Bouillabaisse seafood restaurant coming to Mayfair from Kurt Zdesar

  

  Bouillabaisse is the next restaurant from Kurt Zdesar, who most recently opened Chotto Matte in Soho - and is best known for opening the first Nobu in London. This time the focus is firmly on seafood and with a particular effort at sustainability. To that end, he's done a bit of travelling visiting day-boat fisherman in Greece, Spain and the UK and is aiming to bring some of their practices to the

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