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- Pan de Vie matcha cafe opens in Covent Garden
It's not just a pretty colour: matcha is so on trend it's cropping up everywhere, from verdant green lattes to pastel hued macarons. Now for the truly obsessed, a new cafe in the heart of Covent Garden has turned it into their hero ingredient.
Pan de Vie aims to combine the best of European baking and patisserie techniques with flavours from the Far East - in a cafe and shop arranged over two floors. There will be plenty of green tea themed treats on offer,
... - Test Driving Shuang Shuang - cook-it-yourself hot pots in Chinatown
Hot pots and a huge conveyor belt of things to cook in them come to Chinatown with Shuang Shuang. We pop along to try it out.
- Galley hits Islington's Upper Street with ex Randall & Aubin head chef
The revitalisation of Islington's dining scene continues apace with news of another interesting restaurant opening on Upper Street. Galley restaurant and bar takes over the space occupied by United Ramen and is a venture by brother and sister team Oriona Robb and Marcel Grzyb.
Marcel's been Head Chef at Soho’s Randall & Aubin for a decade and, as you might expect given his background, he's put together a menu with a strong focus on seafood.
His sister
... - Grain Store Cafe and Bar heads to Gatwick
21/1/16 - updated with menu details and opening date
An airport is never the best place to find some decent food, but things are getting better. Recently we had Heston opening at Heathrow and now Bruno Loubet is coming to Gatwick with a new Grain Store.
As with the original, the menu leads
... - Absurd Bird chicken is coming to Spitalfields and Soho
Seems like there's life in the market for more chicken ventures in London. We hear that a new company, Absurd Bird, is opening two new restaurants in London this year.
The company is kicking off its chicken-focused takeover by launching in Spitalfields and Soho in March. It's essentially chicken combined with American deep south cooking. And they've teamed up with Fosse Meadows Farm and bought every single one of their
... - Jason Atherton to open Sosharu, Japanese restaurant in Clerkenwell
Updated 20/1/16 with full info
There's no sign of London's most prolific restaurateur slowing down as Jason Atherton gets ready for his next opening. That's Sosharu on Clerkenwell Road, taking over the large corner space on the ground floor of the Turnmill Building (about a minute walk from Farringdon station).
This time the focus will be on Japanese food with British ingredients. In charge here will
... - Honest Burgers launch in Covent Garden, team up with Rib Man
Burger purveyors Honest Burgers are continuing their gradual takeover of London with their latest opening - this time in Covent Garden.
They'll have the usual array of burgers and rosemary fries, and there'll be some special launch days action too. From 25-27 January 2016, the first 100 burgers each day will be free from 11.30.
And that's not all, as they've a
... - 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
... - Patty & Bun take over the Stockpot site on Soho's Old Compton Street
Updated 14/1 with more news
Lots more info about the new opening has been revealed...
- New dishes for the menu include:
- Roast Chicken skin with maple syrup and Patty&Bun’s home made hotsauce
- Fried Chicken with Urfa chilli butter and lemon
- The bar menu is by Berber & Q’s head bartender, Danny Varley and
- New dishes for the menu include:
- The Good Life Eatery is planning a third spot on Motcomb Street
Popular health food company The Good Life Eatery is expanding, opening its third place over in Knightsbridge on Motcomb Street next year. They'll be following their usual, successful menu of energy-boosting breakfasts and lunches, snacks, shakes, juices and desserts. And whether your diet is dairy/gluten-free, vegan, Paleo or you're just after something healthy they're promising to have a dish for you.
The new cafe will seat 35. Expect to find courgetti and
... - Chucs is opening a restaurant, cafe and menswear store on Westbourne Grove
When Chucs swimwear opened a cafe of the same name over on Dover Street, AA Gill popped in and reviewed it, describing it as "not just a little Italianish caff in Mayfair; it’s an enormous amount of fantasy and wishful thinking made real in miniature". Now the Mayfair spot is opening a second place in Westbourne Grove in February.
The restaurant will take over the ground floor of the building in Notting Hill with the company's menswear collection upstairs. There'll also
... - Shaun Rankin to open Ormer restaurant at Flemings Mayfair
17/12/15 - Updated with a sneak peek at the restaurant design
Michelin-starred chef Shaun Rankin has unveiled plans to open a restaurant at the Flemings Mayfair hotel. The new restaurant is part of a £14 million refurbishment at the hotel which has been privately owned by the same family for over 40 years. Maybe they've been looking across town at the similarly privately-owned
... - The Stoke Newington Tea House is a very different type of pub now open on Church Street
Just in time to do brisk trade as the temperatures dip, The Stoke Newington Tea House has just opened on Stoke Newington Church Street, taking over the Daniel Dafoe. And anyone who knew the old pub will be pretty surprised when they return - particularly as there's no longer a a bar. That's been replaced with more of a beer wall. What will be on offer is six hand pulls with regularly rotating craft ales, as well as lagers, bitters and stouts.
There will, as the
... - Honest Burgers hits Peckham with a burger giveaway
Food hotspot Peckham is getting a new burger spot this weekend with Honest Burgers opening its doors on Saturday. The branch will serve all the usual menu, plus will be one of four Honest Burgers serving brunch at the weekends, featuring dishes like ‘Honest Brunch’, their version of the full English, as well as guacamole, Brindisa chorizo and fried egg on sourdough toast.
As per tradition, on opening day they'll be giving away free burgers - 250 burgers
... - Corbin and King's Bellanger restaurant is opening on Islington Green
Updated 7/12/15 with menu, photos and opening date
Hot Dinners got a sneak preview of Bellanger this week and even with days of fitting out to go, the place looks fantastic. They've opened up the front of the dining room, adding a semi-private dining alcove, put booths all down one side. There'll be 10 seats for counter dining and a large dining room towards the back which has been
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