Bakery

• Chelsea's Comptoir Poilane signs up London chefs for a month-long tartine fest

  

  Kicking off today is a Franco-British collaboration which is the very best of both countrys. Sourdough bakery Poilâne have teamed up with some of London's best chefs to sell seasonal tartines (open sarnies to you and me) - and the results sound worth schlepping to Chelsea to try.

  • Jeremy Lee of Quo Vadis has topped his tartine with British roast beef, horseradish cream and fresh watercress.
  • Robin Gill of The Dairy has heaped his with spicy
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• Test Driving Jolene - three is the magic number for this Newington Green restaurant

  They already have two very successful restaurants, but Jolene, the new bakery-restaurant from the team behind Primeur and Westerns Laundry, shows the team are getting even better at what

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• Eat ALL the pies at Dominique Ansel Bakery's London Pie Night

  

  Who ate all the pies? You if you manage to get tickets to Dominique Ansel Bakery London's Pie Night. The hook - unlimited slices of pie.

  As New Yorkers would tell you, this is one of those events you'll need to put an alert in your calendar for. Ansel has been running it there for the past four years and apparently in NYC tickets sell out in two minutes.

  For £42 you can eat as many slices of the ten different pies on offer as you can manage in

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• The Westerns Laundry team are opening Jolene - a new bakery and restaurant on Newington Green

  Let's hope it's third time lucky for the team behind Westerns Laundry and Primeur as they take on the old Dandy site on Newington Green turning it into a rare grain bakery and restaurant.

• St John Bakery are opening a permanent shop in Neal's Yard

  Everyone's favourite custard doughnut purveyor is setting up a permanent shop in Covent Garden, taking over the old Native site in Neal's Yard.

• Pophams Bakery

  Next-level bakery in Islignton

• Custard will be the Gunpowder team's bakery and wine bar at One Tower Bridge

  One Tower Bridge development continues to get interesting new openings. The latest is Custard which will be a bakery by day serving up Bombay sandwiches and soft serve custard, and a wine bar in the evening.

• Harry and Megan choose Hackney's Violet Cakes as their wedding cake baker

  

  Well today is a red letter day for East London bakery Violet Cakes as Kensington Palace announced this morning that she'll be the baker responsible for the royal wedding cake.

  In a formal announcement this morning, Kensington Palace confirmed that Claire Ptak had been chosen by Prince Harry and Megan Markle to make their wedding cake.

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• Sourdough cake and slow fermented bakes at Bloomsbury’s Fortitude Bakehouse

  Breakfasts, lunches, sourdough cakes and other bakes to go - and a sliver of space to sit in - at Bloomsbury’s new craft baker, and plenty for gluten-free and vegans.

• Galvin Bistrot de Luxe on Baker Street is to close

  

  We're really sorry to hear this morning of the imminent closure of Galvin Brothers Bistrot de Luxe on Baker Street. The announcement came today as Chris and Jeff Galvin said; "It’s time to move on...in the world’s great cities things do not stand still. Tastes change and also, as creative chefs, we are restless and now want to do new things not just endlessly repeat the same style of cooking.”

  The 12-year-old restaurant really was a game-changer when it

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• Harrods Food Hall redesign begins with opening of new Roastery and Bake Hall

  Big changes are happening to Harrods Food Halls with the first section reopening this winter

• Maitre Choux are bringing their beautiful eclairs to Soho's Dean Street

  Popular high end patisseris Maitre Choux is expanding and its first new site is on Soho's Dean Street where there'll be more seats to sit in and enjoy their Insta-friendly eclairs

• Arnaud Stevens brings laid-back PLATE to Shoreditch's M by Montcalm

  Inside Shoreditch's giant M by Montcalm hotel (the one with the optical illusion windows - you know what we mean), there's a new restaurant by the name of PLATE from very well-connected chef Arnaud Stevens. Inside, they'll forgo tablecloths and sommeliers in the name of casual dining, and include a downstairs bakery that'll serve a bread flight with matching butters.

• Paul Hollywood from GBBO is opening Knead bakery at Euston station

  Paul Hollywood’s back, not just on our screens, but in our train stations with his very first bakery by the name of Knead, where you’ll be able to buy his very own sausage rolls and bacon butties.

• Butterscotch Bakery is Bea Vo's new Shepherd's Bush bakery

  

  What: Butterscotch Bakery

  In a nutshell: American-style bakery and tea room

  Summing it all up: Restaurateur Bea Vo is back in the bakery game with this new American-influenced bakery and tea room opening in Shepherd's Bush