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Brixton
- Test Driving Smoke + Salt in Pop Brixton - small plates with plenty of heart
Smoke + Salt have moved into Pop Brixton as their latest home. We popped int for a Test Drive to see what's new. - Brixton Market’s Salon is reopening with a wine bar, bar snacks, and standalone wine shop
If you’ve been missing Brixton Market’s pop-up-turned-restaurant Salon ever since it closed its doors this summer, then here’s some good news. After a rather quick two weeks spent redecorating, the restaurant is now planning its reopening complete with a fancy a new interior *and* a new wine shop next door.
Aside from the new shop, the interior and upstairs dining room will be polished up
... - Brixton’s Canova Hall: hotdesks by day, cocktails by night, and pizza around the clock
Brixton’s Canova Hall will be open from very early in the morning until 1am, all week long, but what goes on inside will change as the hours pass, from coffee and wifi in the early hours, to Italian food, and finally gin cocktails and DJs at night. - Smoke + Salt
Smoke and Salt finds a semi-permanent home in Pop Brixton - Smoke + Salt heads south to Pop Brixton
7/6/17 - Updated with soft launch details
Smoke & Salt will be bringing their fine-yet-casual dining to South Londoners when it takes up residence in Pop Brixton this summer.
It was with a heavy heart that we announced the closure of Kricket’s Pop Brixton site. But as the saying goes, when one door closes
... - Kricket announce the closure of their POP Brixton site
So this is sad news. The super popular Kricket is closing its original spot in POP Brixton. Seems they're decided to focus their efforts on finding a second permanent site - either in Brixton or beyond.
“We couldn't have asked for a better place to open our first restaurant," said co-owners Rik Campbell & Will Bowlby, "and whilst we will be focusing our attention on our restaurant in Soho for the time being, we hope to return to Brixton one day
... - Calcutta Street’s first sister restaurant opens in Brixton
Shrimoyee Chakraborty is opening a new Calcutta Street in Brixton, with a big focus on atmosphere and small sharing plates. There’ll be some new menu additions, plus bespoke cocktails made with traditional Shorbot, and a late license until 1am every night to top it all off. - Eat lunch with Lockie from TOWIE at HMP Brixton's Clink Kitchen
Hot gossip for TOWIE fans: it looks like everyone’s favourite Essex lad Lockie had landed himself in prison - but not as you know it. Down in HMP Brixton, the ITV star is taking a quick breather from the tabloid headlines to reimmerse himself once more into the world of food, at The Clink Kitchen, the prison’s social enterprise restaurant.
Gossip mag fodder aside, Lockie, who’s also behind the Lockie’s
... - The People's Fridge tackles food wasted in Brixton
We were very excited by news of a community fridge that launched in Brixton last week.
Literally a big secure fridge in the centre of Pop Brixton - also home to Kricket’s first restaurant and new Cantonese restaurant Duck Duck Goose - it’s a food-sharing initiative (the first of its kind in London, although there are others in Spain, Germany and Wiltshire), which encourages people and businesses to donate spare food, or
... - Boom Burger brings Boom Shack cocktails and sandwiches to Brixton
Boom Burger have been meaning to open in Brixton for some time - and now they're finally settling down with the Boom Shack. It's the latest venture from the founder of the original burger joint on Portobello Road, Joshua De Lisser.
The main part of Boom Shack is the cocktail bar, with the focus is more firmly on the Caribbean-influenced drinks menu. At breakfast,
... - Fox Bar is bringing espresso martinis on tap to Brixton
Inspired by the knees-up watering holes of Chicago and New Orleans, FOX BAR is a new underground drinking den hitting Brixton. It follows the original Fox Bar, also by Soho House, which launched in Chicago.
Dark spirits are the name of the game here, so there’ll be plenty of bourbon, whiskeys and rums on the drinks menu. Their signature cocktail, the
... - Fancy Funkin Chicken set to open on Coldharbour Lane
23/9/16 - updated with soft launch details.
A late night chicken shop and bar is coming to Brixton this September. Opening on Coldharbour Lane, Fancy Funkin Chicken (yes, it really is called that) will serve a range of southern American fried chicken dishes along with a dedicated cocktail menu and will host a range of DJs every weekend.
It's got some pretty impressive backers too. The new venture is a collaborative effort from
... - Salon Brixton launches an extended experience at dinner
Chef Nicholas Balfe has been turning out some stunning food at his Salon restaurant in Brixton since opening in 2012 - and we're excited to hear about the new 'extended experience' he's come up with for the dinner service.
The six course set menu, with some very inventive snacks thrown in too, will change frequently: on the night we went it was full of truly
... - Dip & Flip to open on Brixton's Atlantic Road
Growing south London chain Dip & Flip is going to be opening a fourth restaurant this summer. The company, which currently has branches in Battersea, Tooting and Wimbledon, will be opening on Atlantic Road in Brixton. They'll be taking over the site once held by Kaff.
And while their menu will, in the main, be the same as the other restaurants, we're told there will be a few new additions in Brixton with an emphasis on their roast meat sandwiches dipped
... - Barrio Bars and Rum Kitchen set to open in Brixton
The early part of 2016 is hotting up in Brixton with two large new restaurant openings on the horizon.
Barrio Brixton
The first up is Barrio Brixton which opens in February and will be the fourth restaurant in the chain. The venue on Acre Lane will have room for 200 as well as an outside area (maybe not so useful right now). They'll be serving up all manner of tequilas and mezcals, to piscos and cachacas and will be open 7 days a week and until
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