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• Darling's Eatery and Studio serves up fresh pasta on Hackney's Fish Island

  

  Looks like Hackney Wick's Fish Island is doing pretty well for itself at the moment with restaurants. We've already reported on the upcoming Inis opening there and Test Driven new pizzeria

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• Test Driving Unlock - unique Neapolitan pizzas in Hackney Wick

  

  Unlock sits by the canal in Hackney Wick, mixing up art and gourmet pizzas. We took a stroll down by the canal to have a closer look.   

• Inis will serve up British and Irish food on Hackney Wick's Fish Island

  

  There's been some debate recently on what makes a neighbourhood restaurant. However, we figure that if you've spent the past decade living somewhere, that's surely got to count for something. And locals Lynsey Coughlan and Lindsay Lewis have lived in Hackney for ten years before deciding to open their first restaurant.

  Inis, which will be part of Fish Island's The Trampery campus, is going to serve up a mix of British

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• Bun & Sum brings smash burgers to Hackney

  

  They're already a big deal in Mile End and now LA-style halal smash burger specialists Bun & Sum are opening in Hackney too. With Bun & Sim's Farbez Uddin recently crowned best chef at the National Burger Awards, this is a pretty good time for their second opening. 

  The menu should be pretty similar to their first opening, so you can expect burgers like their Big S Mac (yes, that's their

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• Fat Whyte Slims is Whyte Rushen's weekend burger bar

  

  27/12/24 - updated with menu details and start date

  Whyte Rushen launched a hugely popular restaurant (and without much in the way of fanfare either) in the shape of Whyte's in Hackney at the tail end of last year. And things continue to change with the restaurant, with it pivoting to a

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• Unlock mixes Napoli-style pizzas and art in Hackney Wick

  

  Hackney's getting a new pizzeria and it's from two Napoli-born siblings, so we should be getting something pretty authentic with this opening. 

  Unlock comes from Arianna and Giovanni Izzo. Arianna is the chef, who previously worked as a pastry chef at Tarallificio Leopoldo in Naples, and she's joined by her brother Giovanni. 

  Pizzas are the main event here, made from traditional 30-hour fermented dough,

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• Big Night restaurant is taking over the old Nest place on Morning Lane

  

  When Hackney restaurant Nest announced its move from Hackney to Shoreditch, their old space on Morning Lane suddenly became available and a new restaurant duo have taken it over. Jack O'Connor and Joshua Ralphs both met while working at Larry's in Peckham where Jack was head chef. Their combined CV is a tour of London's hippest restaurants like Flor, Lasdun and Jolene, so news that they're opening their own

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• Whyte Rushen goes permanent with Whyte's restaurant in Hackney

  

  Updated 4/12/23 with opening date

  Whyte Rushen, once chef at top places like Brat, Scully and Kerridge's, has been running sell-out pop-ups up all over town, teaming up with places as varied as Quo Vadis and Jollibee but now he's settling down in Hackney.  

  It's early days on what to expect from the place and his cooking so far has been extremely varied. A taste of what's been at

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• Dalla will serve up homestyle Italian dishes in Hackney

  

  25/10/23 - updated with the opening date

  Last week we brought you news on what was going to be taking over the old Bright site in London Fields. Now we've got the scoop on what's going in the group's other defunct restaurant site, Peg, on Morning Lane. Dalla sees three

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• Provisions Hackney is opening its wine bar

  

  When Provisions opened in Hackney last year, the plan was for it to be like the original on Holloway Road - a shop during the day and a wine bar at night. The pandemic and staff shortages threw something of a spanner in the works and it instead opened as just a shop, but with the odd special event in the evening. 

  That's now changing, however, as they're finally gearing up to open as a wine

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• TĀTĀ Eatery is back, popping up for a one-month residency at The Sea, The Sea in Hackney

  

  it's been a while since we've seen something from TATA Eatery, with the team more recently helping to launch Mr Ji in Camden. But now they're back for a one-month appearance, popping up at The Sea, The Sea in Hackney in a team-up with Resy. Run by Zijun Meng and Ana Gonçalves the menu for this run is "inspired by Meng’s personal journey through mindfulness

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• Mexican Seoul's Korean tacos come to Victoria Park

  

  A new taco bar is coming to Victoria Park as Mexican Seoul makes the leap from street food trader to permanent restaurant. 

  Coming from chef Ashley Chipchase, the restaurant is a fusion of Mexican and Korean food. They've already been a big hit on Brick Lane, and they also won quite a few awards at a recent Wingfest event. 

  As for the menu at Victoria Park, alongside those

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• Shankey's serves up Indian food with Irish booze in Hackney

  

  We'll be honest we missed the opening of Shankey's last year on Dalston Lane and when it moved to Well Street in Hackney last November. But when a reader brought it to our attention recently we had to admit, it does sound interesting.

  Self-billed as 'Spuds n Spice - Indian food & Irish booze in an old bookies." Clearly they're doing something right as chef and TV personality Andi Oliver bigged them up ...

• Sager + Wilde are opening Equal Parts, a new Amaro and aperitivo bar on Hackney Road

  

  Updated 11/3/23 with bar opening details

  Keeping their business strictly local, the team behind one of London's best wine bars have quietly opened a new place. Sager + Wilde have been a huge influence on London's wine scene since they first opened their Hackney wine bar almost a decade ago (followed up by a restaurant on Paradise Row and Fare on Old Street). Now, they've taken on a new

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