Pop-up

• Som Saa return to Climpson's Arch for one weekend and they're bringing Smoking Goat

  

  There's no doubt that Som Saa's restaurant has been a huge success, but if you've been missing the original residency at Climpson's Arch, then you'll want to keep next weekend free. 

  They're heading back to the Arch for one weekend only - and on the Sunday they're joined by Smoking Goat for a double-header. On their unashamedly nostalgic menu, they'll have dishes from the original

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• Tuck into posh fish and chips at Kensington Place's Beach Hut

  If you do like to be beside the seaside but can’t cope with jumping on a train, get halfway there with Kensington Place’s newest posh fishy pop up, Beach Hut with Nyetimber, who’ll be offering 2 and 3-course menus, and bottomless Prosecco on the weekends.

• London's summer pop-up bars

  Summer has arrived and while we’re cautiously optimistic that it’s here to stay, London’s restaurants and bars are shaping up to launch a series of summer bars

• Art of Dining's Lucky and Joy comes to east London

  After a run at the Institute of Light, there's a new spot for Art of Dining's Chinese pop-up. They'll be setting up shop in the arches on Cambridge Heath Road. 

• St James Bar Avenue is having a Hamptons takeover for the summer

  Fancy lobster rolls and watermelon martinis? Then you need to head on over to this bar in St James

• Ben and Jerry's is popping up in Soho for the Summer

  

  Ben and Jerry's are setting up shop in Soho for the summer with their Summer in Soho ice cream shop and they're celebrating the only way they know how - by giving away free ice cream. Because, let's face it, who DOESN'T like free ice cream. 

  So if you want to grab a scoop (they think they'll be giving away more than 2000) then head down there on Thursday. And you can even try one of their new flavours like Sweetest

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• The London Magnum pleasure store is back in Covent Garden - double-dip ice-cream goodness

  

  Double. Dipped. Magnum ice-creams. If that's music to your ears, is then you'll be wanting to make a beeline for Covent Garden during the next heatwave, where the hugely popular Magnum Pleasure Store pop-up is set to open for the summer.

  If you can get over the 50 Shades-esque name, then head to Earlham Street in Seven Dials, where you'll be able to choose from 20 toppings and

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• Dinner Time Story comes to Shoreditch with its Petit Chef

  

  It's already been hugely popular in Dubai and United Arab Emirates, and now the projector-based restaurant Dinner Time Story is coming to London. So what is it? Put simply, you'll have a little show on your dinner plate as a tiny chef starts creating your meal in front of you. It IS rather hard to explain, but this video does it rather well:

• Sub Cult pops-up with bagel-brioche subs in Finsbury Avenue Square

  

  Sub Cult is bringing their deli-style sub rolls to Finsbury Avenue Square’s pop-up shipping containers for 18 months.

  You may have seen Sub Cult around the likes of Maltby Street, Leather Lane, and Brockley Market, serving up their bagel-brioche sub rolls out of their big monochrome van. Now City workers will be able to get a taste at breakfast and lunch, including subs like:

  • ‘Skandi Sub’ – oak smoked salmon, peppered cream
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• Jacob's is doing a free cracker-themed pop-up in Covent Garden

   

  Cracker manufacturer Jacob's is the latest brand to hop on the pop-up bandwagon.

  Just when you think you've seen every unassuming

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• Fiz brings pop up bubbles to Brewer Street’s Lights of Soho

  

  Lights of Soho, Brewer Street’s neon art gallery, is set to get a new sparkling wine bar for the summer by the name of Fiz, inspired by the cava bars of Barcelona.

  Rather than requiring people to commit to a single pricey bottle, as is often the case in champagne bars, Fiz will encourage visitors to sample multiple different types of bubbly. There’ll be around 10 varieties to choose from, with bottles from England, Austria and Portugal,

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• Chit Chaat Chai comes to Proud East’s Pop-Up India, with Indian street food

  

  The next pop-up to hit Hackney art and gallery space Proud East is Chit Chaat Chai, an Indian street food restaurant from Wandsworth, who’ll be settling in for the duration of the gallery's summer-long Pop-Up India event.

  Chit Chaat Chai’s speciality is chaat, the small sharing plates of Indian food from which they take their name, which they’ll be serving up to visitors throughout the Pop-Up India event with a

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• Foley's brings middle-eastern tacos to John Lewis’s rooftop

  

  Fitzrovia world food restaurant Foley’s is set to be John Lewis’s next residency, neatly knitting together the two biggest trends of the summer so far: tacos and department store rooftops.

  Operating out of their rooftop installation, The Gardening Society, they’ll be cooking up a special menu focusing mainly on tacos with an international twist, made with ingredients like Korean BBQ, Goan crab and even sweet panna cotta, playing

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• Get a taste of Butterscotch ahead of its White City opening in Old Street Station

  

  The next stall to pop up in Old Street Station’s busy concourse will be Butterscotch, a new bakery serving American layer cakes, cookies and more, run by Bea Vo, formerly of Bea’s of Bloomsbury.

  It’ll be the bakery’s first debut in London ahead of its official opening in White City where it’ll find a more permanent home

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• Jumeirah Carlton Tower opens ninth floor sundowner bar for the summer

  Fancy a drink with a view over Knightsbridge? The Jumeirah Carlton Tower has just opened a ninth floor bar