Residency

  • Pastaio announce a long term residency at Giant Robot in Canary Whart

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    Good news for the pasta loving workers and residents of Canary Wharf - Stevie Parle's Pastaio is coming your way. The perenially popular pasta spot, which opened in Soho this time last year and has been packing them in ever since, has signed up for a long-term residency at Giant Robot.

    They'll be taking over the spot previously held by Pocho in the street food trading space at Crossrail Place.

    As you'd expect the menu will feature

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  • TA TA Eatery are back with a new residency at Kilburn's Sir Colin Campbell

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    Happy news this Friday. Everyone's favourite popup folk TĀ TĀ Eatery are back and they're bringing this Iberian Katsu Sandwich to the party.

    They start a new three month residency at the Sir Colin Campbell in Kilburn next week. They'll be serving up two menus. Downstairs will be more casual with walk ins welcome and that's where you might find this beast of a katsu sarnie and other bar friendly food like ox cheek quesadillas.

    In the upstairs

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  • Carousel's Autumn line-up is revealed - with chefs from Kiev, Galway, Paris and more taking part

    Carousel's Autumn line-up is revealed - with chefs from Kiev, Galway, Paris and more taking part

    Carousel has just revealed a new Autumn line-up and, as ever, it's pretty impressive. If you're not familiar with Carousel, it's an events space plus a restaurant with a difference in Marylebone. They have an ever-changing list of chefs who take over their kitchens - and often attract some impressive talent from both the UK and abroad. It's also often a good chance to spot chefs who might be

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  • The Chinese Laundry is back with a six month residency at The Mountgrove Bothy

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    When it first opened on Islington's Upper Street, Chinese Laundry quickly developed a fan base. Giles Coren loved it, saying in the Times; " they have done exactly what hipsters do, and they have done it brilliantly. So welcome to Chinese Laundry – Britain’s first Chinese Hipster Restaurant". And Olive magazine dubbed it "Quirky, fun and super-friendly".

    But when fire damaged the building and then squatters moved in, it was all

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  • Rita's returns - taking over the kitchen at Redchurch Brewery in Cambridge Heath

    Rita's returns - taking over the kitchen at Redchurch Brewery in Cambridge Heath

    If you've been missing Rita's since they moved on from their Hackney location (now filled by Carte Blanche), then we have very good news for you. Not too far from their original spot, they're taking on the new kitchen and dining area at Redchurch Brewery in Cambridge Heath. 

    In charge of things are Rita's founders Gabriel Pryce and Missy Flynn with Price in the open ground-floor

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  • Malt + Pepper bring their beer-soaked menu to King & Co for three-month residency

    Malt + Pepper bring their beer-soaked menu to King & Co for three-month residency

    By now, Clapham craft boozer The King & Co must surely have one of the London’s most frequently changing kitchen rosters, having just announced yet another residency. This time it’s Malt + Pepper, who’ll be taking the reins for a slightly longer pop-up spanning three months, themed all around everyone’s favourite summer tipple, beer.

    Malt + Pepper want to focus on beer as an

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  • Mao Chow vegan Chinese brings its devilled eggs and sashimi to Behind The Wall

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    East London's popular vegan Chinese restaurant Mao Chow broke the hearts of plant eaters across town when its last pop-up at Pamela finished. But now owner Julian Denis whose self-proclaimed "inauthentic Chinese Food" broke Instagram with shots of incredibly realistic looking vegan 'eggs' in various Chinese dishes has moved it to a more permanent footing.

    They open at Behind the Wall in Hackney on Thursday for an

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  • Chicken and Gochu take over the Friday night residency at Walthamstow's Ye Olde Rose and Crown

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    We don't know about you, but the idea of a Friday night pub menu devoted to Korean and Japanese style 'anju', or bar bites sounds EXACTLY what we'd want to stave off a Saturday morning hangover.

    And if you live in Walthamstow, that's just what you've got as Chicken and Gochu become the latest folk to take over the Friday night slot at Ye Olde Rose and Crown. This is the first time the Highams Park-based husband and wife team have popped up anywhere. Korean

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  • Sin Gusano's eight month residency at Haggerston's Curio Cabal promises tacos and mezcal tastings

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    Having popped up successfully in Dalston last year, mezcal lovers Sin Gusano are expanding capacity and duration-wise with their next opening - an eight month residency in Hagggerston. They'll be taking over Curio Cabal as a ‘social club’ putting on events, offering private mezcal tasting experiences,and running their popular bar and taqueria.

    And their timing is spot on, their first week of opening coincides with the Cinco de Mayo festivities so you can expect a

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  • Zoe's Ghana Kitchen moves east to London Fields' Institute of Light with a new menu

    Zoe's Ghana Kitchen moves east to London Fields' Institute of Light with a new menu

    You've likely heard of Zoe's Ghana Kitchen by now, be it as a pop-up, a supper club, the cookbook or residences at Pop Brixton or The Sun & 13 Cantons. Now, Zoe Adjonyoh is returning to East London to start her brand new residency at London Fields' arthouse cinema Institute of Light, with a new

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  • Oh My Dog! bring their new vegan hot dog range to Peckham’s Old Nun’s Head

    Oh My Dog! bring their new vegan hot dog range to Peckham’s Old Nun’s Head

    2018 is continuing its streak of being the year of vegan junk food with the arrival of KERB stalwart Oh My Dog's brand new vegan hot dog range.

    It’ll form part of hot dog vendor’s newly extended menu, rolled out as part of its latest residency in Peckham's Old Nun’s Head. Oh My Dog will be dishing out their dogs every Thursday and Friday in the Peckham boozer, with an extended menu that

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  • P Franco's next resident chef will be George Tomlin

    P Franco's next resident chef will be George Tomlin

    If you're not familiar with P Franco, let us enlighten you. Put simply, it's a wine shop and bar in Clapton. But it's one which manages to get some of the brightest up and coming stars in London to be in charge of the food.

    Note that we don't say who's "in the kitchen" because P Franco doesn't have one. Instead, there are induction hobs at the end of the large sharing table that dominates the centre of the room.

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  • Scottish, French and Mexican chefs line up for Carousel’s next chef residency programme

    Scottish, French and Mexican chefs line up for Carousel’s next chef residency programme

    Marylebone’s Carousel has just announced its next run of guest chef residencies coming in over the next two months, and there's plenty of interesting faces, from Edinburgh's up-and-coming Scott Smith to ingredient-focused Anton Orjollet, and the return of the award-winning Santiago Lastra.

    First up on 6-10 February is Glasgow’s Rosie Healey, who cut

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  • Magnus Reid from Legs is behind the menu at The Perception at W London

    Magnus Reid from Legs is behind the menu at The W's Perception

    It's all change at the W London just off Leicester Square, as they've just opened a new bar and lounge called The Perception.

    And while the bar and their cocktails do look impressive, it's their new "dining series" which is the most interesting. They'll be hosting long residencies there, where they recruit top chefs to come and take over the menu. And first up is Magnus Reid, the man behind

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  • Head to Spike + Earl for a preview of the future Peckham Levels' street food vendors

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    If you live down Peckham way, then you may already know that the area's iconic multi-storey carpark (the one that Frank's lives on top of) is almost ready to unveil itself as the street food-laden Peckham Levels. To get us nice and warmed up though, Levels is now running a six-week weekend residency at the carpark's neighbour, Spike + Earl.

    The idea is that each weekend, the Peckham coffee and cocktail bar will showcase various local vendors, giving us a chance to

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