Hot Dinners rounds up some of the best food and restaurant pop-ups and events around town at the moment.
London is getting a new fried chicken pop-up thanks to The Standard, which is bringing New York's Pecking House to the hotel for a two-month stint.
The New York spot was set up by ex-Eleven Madison Park sous chef Eric Huang, a project that originally kicked off during the Covid lockdown. It started as a pop-up in Queens and now they have a Chinatown outpost, serving up chicken that
...If you’d like to experience a little bit of exciting Cape Town dining without leaving the comfort of home, there’s a pop-up coming to London that you’d better put on your radar.
The Pot Luck Club is coming to the UK for the first time, giving Londoners the chance to experience British-born chef Luke Dale Roberts’ Cape Town–based restaurant. You’ll find it taking up
...Truffle Burger have been on something of a roll with their collabs and takeovers of late. They recently had Charles Pan Fried Chicken in a South Bank pop-up and next up is a taqueria takeover of their Soho restaurant.
The taqueria in question is Nixta Taqueria, which hails from Austin, Texas run by a chef with Michelin and James Beard awards under his belt. It takes the
...If you love the idea of a festival, but baulk at the general lack of comfort and sanitation, then we might have a halfway house solution for you. For four nights this summer, everyone's (except the far right) favourite steakhouse Hawksmoor, is popping up in a Hertfordshire woodland with a special feast.
They're holding a cooking over fire experience in the woods at The Grove, a swanky five-star hotel in
...These days, are you really a proper high street brand if you haven't launched a food and drink pop-up or two? This year, Bosch have already had us eating off the floor and there was a pop-up dedicated to
...Unless you’re a professional food taster, you may not have had the pleasure of cleansing your palate with a shot of olive oil, but that’s all about to change with the news that an olive-oil pop-up bar is coming to Notting Hill.
Much more than a health food, extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) conjures up majestic drizzles of the golden stuff on sun-drenched Mediterranean escapes. And for a short time, you can both educate
...We love a well-themed pop up and this summer, London has two good ones to choose from.
To start with, there's the Wes Anderson-themed takeover of the bar at Bob Bob Ricard in Soho. The downstairs bar of the restaurant has been transformed into Marseille Bob's, after a key character in the Anderson's new movie, The Phoenician Scheme. You'll find props dotted throughout the space alluding to key moments
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Crosta Mollica already have quite the reputation for their excellent ready-made pizza bases. If you haven't already cottoned on to them as a great home pizza option, now you can have a chance to try the pizzas out first, with the help of some expert pizza makers.
The authentic Italian pizza brand is
...One of the biggest draws of Claude Bosi's two-Michelin-starred Brooklands is the fantastic terrace, one of the best rooftop dining spaces in London. However, the stunning terrace perhaps isn't the ideal space for a fine-dining Michelin-level experience, and now it's getting something of a summer overhaul.
Taking over this space for the whole of Summer is a new pop-up
...Caffe Dante has had quite a history in New York, having originally been established back in 1915. However, its current iteration launched as Dante back in 2015, and the restaurant and bar have since won heaps of accolades in the decade since.
But if you haven't managed to make it over to New York to check it out, Dante is coming to London instead. It'll be taking over the bar
...Slightly mad brand pop-ups are the thing these days. We've recently had KitKat launching a new Blockbuster store and Bosch making you eat off the floor. Next up, a temple to chocolate
...Every so often, a big brand will come up with a London pop up idea that makes us double-check that we haven't somehow time-travelled to April 1st again. This latest from Bosch showcases exactly what we mean as they're launching a restaurant where you'll be eating off the floor. No, really.
Run by Gok Wan (starts checking the calendar one more time), the
...If you're not paying attention the next time you wander in and out of Selfridges you might be forgiven for wondering if you've somehow managed to transport yourself to NYC instead. That's because the Oxford Street department store has designed a fortnight's Big Apple experience with Coach and It's Bagels.
The idea is to celebrate the two brands' New York roots and as part of that, the entrance to the store will
...Truffle Burger scored a coup last year when they brought over NYC's 7th Street Burger for a pop-up and now they're at it again.
This time the burger company are launching a summer series of special pop-ups in their South Bank location and are kicking things off with another London-first-timer from NYC. This time it's the turn of legendary Harlem institution Charles Pan
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