Bethnal Green

It's the second restaurant from people behind the Original Arepa & Co, this time in Bethnal Green. Expect lots of Venezuelan style sandwiches and lots more. 

Ever wanted to be more in the know about London's coolest bars? A new company aims to do just that.

Bar Bingo is a cocktail based bar crawl where no bar is more than five minutes walk from the next. As founder Helen Glaberson explained to Hot Dinners "As industry insiders we take it for granted where the best bars are, but actually a great deal of Londoners don't know about some of the city's best bars.

The tour books the bars and atable for you, so you

Italian-meets-Hungarian pop-up Pasta 'n' Goulash will return once more to its spiritual home in CambridgeHeath, when it revives The Budapest Bar & Kitchen for a three-month residency.

Underneath

With Calvados and more on the menu, Coupette is a very French cocktail bar in Bethnal Green. We head east for an early look. 

Ex-Beaufort Bar head bartender heads east

So Sager + Wilde Paradise Row are launching an Old Fashioned (the drink AND the style) cocktail bar up on their Mezzanine level, and if that wasn't enough to get you down there pronto, just feast your eyes on the cocktail list they've knocked up.

• Classic Old Fashioned
• Olive Oil Old Fashioned
• Toasted Coconut Old Fashioned
• Burnt Maple Old Fashioned
• Tonka Bean & Rooibos Old Fashioned

Alongside

A year on from opening Mission in Bethnal Green, from the wonder wine due Sager + Wilde, is hitting its strike with a whole new team both in the kitchen and front of house. Taking over from James de Jong in the kitchen is Australian chef Sebastien Myers. Myer worked under Nuno Mendes at Viajante before heading up the kitchen at Chiltern Firehouse. He's most recently done a stage at Faviken before joining Mission.

And Seb has gathered an interesting team with him.