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- Andrew Wong announces a residency at The Donovan Bar in Mayfair
If you've been struggling to get a table at A Wong, even more so since it won the second Michelin star, now there's another way to try chef Andrew Wong's food. He's just teamed up with The Donovan Bar in Mayfair for a three-month residency (and two more big-name chefs are lined up behind him).
Brought in by Brown's Hotel Chef Director Adam Byatt (also responsible for Trinity in
... - Award-winning Korean fried chicken Oh Gee is popping up at the Hoxton Shoreditch
Updated 29/9/24 with extension to dates
With all the time we've wasted watching absolute bilge on Netflix we don't understand how we missed out on the eminently watchable K-Chicken War. As the name suggests that was a cooking competition focusing on Korean fried chicken. It was won by South Korean chef Byung Tae Ahn, who was crowned Grand Champion. Now the chef is gearing up for a busy autumn having
... - Bar crawl: rainwater martinis and glorious London views at The Emory rooftop bar
One of the world's best bars is popping up for a month at The Emory in Knightsbridge. We went to check out Tato Giovannoni's cocktails and bar food at their rooftop bar.
- Pario pops up in the old Pharmacy 2 restaurant space at Damien Hirst's Vauxhall gallery
A Hot Dinners exclusive
It's been almost three years since the Mark Hix restaurant, Pharmacy 2, closed its doors at Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall. But now we bring you news of new life in the old restaurant space. It's about to reopen as Pario, a concept popup run by chefs Charlie Bryant and George Browne.
"George and I have decided to bring a huge British produce
... - Patisserie Lidl is popping up in Soho for London Fashion Week (with its Croissant handbags)
Dubbed the viral bag of the season, the Nik Bentel x Lidl Croissant bag took just two minutes to sell out when it launched a few weeks ago. The American designer, whose previous kooky food bags retailed for hundreds of dollars, made the headlines with his leather bakery bag (made to look like the store's pastry paper bags) and a crescent-shaped leather purse inspired by the supermarket's pastry
... - Scaldy are London's first Irish spice bag specialists
If you're a homesick Irish expat, London's food offerings have of late been very much in your favour. If you've been hankering for a chicken fillet roll, for example, you can now head to Homeboy in Islington or the hugely popular Emerald Eats stall in Broadway Market. But now we bring you news of a very specific Irish food snack specialist that's making waves across the city.
Scaldy pitch themselves as
... - London’s first ever ride-through bakery is coming, thanks to Lime
Hang onto your handlebars, there’s a cycle-through bakery coming to Shoreditch this weekend only. And it’s free!
Whether you’re a bicycle owner or nay, this pastry-focused pop-up is coming to you courtesy of Lime Bikes (yes, they want to call it a ‘Lime-thru Bakery’), so in addition to free pastries and coffee, you’ll get a complimentary 15-minute ride on a Lime
... - Monmouth Street Wines is the new wine bar pop up from The Oystermen duo
We'll confess we had no idea that Matt Lovell and Rob Hampton - the duo better known as The Oystermen - had opened a wine bar called Bedford Street Wines in Covent Garden a few years back. But you live and learn and now the pair are at it again. They're just about to launch a pop-up wine bar and bottle shop, Monmouth Street Wines, in Covent Garden's Seven Dials.
They've taken over the corner site at the
... - New York's 7th Street Burger is popping up in London
Back in the spring you may recall that Hot Dinners paid a much overdue visit to New York. And one of the things we particularly enjoyed while we were there was a late-night visit to the very popular 7th Street Burger. The smash burger joint was, while we were there, certainly among the best-reviewed
... - Calum Franklin is coming back to London for a special menu at Cut at 45 Park Lane
Since leaving the Holborn Dining Room, pie master Calum Franklin's main efforts have been at his new restaurant in Paris, Public House. Now he's bringing a taste of his Parisian adventures to London with a special menu at Cut at 45 Park Lane. Yes, there will be pies.
The Calum Franklin x CUT at 45 Park Lane pop-up is a team-up between Calum and
... - Hennessy and the NBA have opened a basketball themed bar at Selfridges
Hands-up if you didn't know that Hennessy cognac and basketball were a thing. Well if you head to Selfridges on Oxford Street this month you'll find not only a mini basketball court where you can play a shootout challenge, but also a special bar.
The Hennessy Corner Shop at the department store features a Player's Lounge with all manner of special pours and cocktails on offer. Hennessy V.S on the rocks, a Hennessy
... - Viral Leeds bakery Get Baked is popping up at Fortnum's
Leeds bakery Get Baked makes a cake so viral that mere minutes after sales go live on their website every slice is gone in a flash. Now, Get Baked by Rich Myers is coming to London.
Best known for its Bruce cake - a towering 24-layered chocolate cake - the London pop-up will showcase the creation of Bruce's successor, the Bertha which is exactly the same except for one detail, the ganache will be a mix of milk and
... - Copenhagen's Gasoline Grill burger joint is popping up in London
One of the most talked-about burger restaurants in Copenhagen is coming to London - Gasoline Grill is popping up in King's Cross.
It's hugely popular in Copenhagen, partly because they have an outpost at the airport which is a must-visit if you're passing through there and call yourself a real burger connoisseur. It was given its name because it originally opened in a working
... - A Christmas-themed bar is popping up in London for summer
Does December 25th seem impossibly far away at the moment? Well, you'll get a chance to get your festive fix in August as a new, hidden Christmassy bar is popping up in London.
It's being set up by DesignMyNight, who are taking over Merchant House in the City with a speakeasy-style bar that's "hidden behind a secret toilet door". Head inside and they're promising to turn the tiny 12-seater space into one that's decked out with tinsel, baubles
... - Urchin, Dorian's follow-up restaurant, is popping up in Greece for the summer
There's no question that Dorian is one of London's hottest restaurants - getting a table at a decent time in the dining room is a near-impossible task if you don't plan your dinners months ahead. Now the owner behind that, Chris D'Sylva, is getting ready to open a second restaurant in nearby Holland Park.
Urchin is going to be a Japanese bistro. As D'Sylva explained in an interview with trade title Caterer it
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