Pop-up

• Test Driving London's first naked restaurant - The Bunyadi

  We try out Bunyadi - a restaurant where everything is natural. Including the naked diners...

• There's a Brazilian pub Rio Boteco popping up in London Fields

  

  Updated 3/6/16 with soft launch details

  In perfect time for the Olympics in Rio this summer is a Brazilian popup hitting London Fields. Rio Boteco is described as a Brazilian corner shop pub and it's part of a new cinema/record store/coffee shop and bookshop space next door to Climpson's Arch called the Institute of Light.

  Devised by Brazilian event organisers MargoCamilo, what you're looking at for Rio Boteco is a menu of tapas and

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• Helene Darroze is popping up in San Sebastian for the summer

  

  While we know there's nothing more irritating than reading about a party you weren't invited to, indulge us if you will while we regale you with details of a bash last night in Mayfair. The do was at Balenciaga where London's foodies brushed up against fashion folk to celebrate the launch of Hélène Darroze's imminent popup in Spain.

  The Michelin-starred chef is expanding her empire over the summer with a popup at the Hotel Maria Cristina, a Luxury Collection Hotel in

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• Gizzi Erskine is hosting a duvet fort pop-up restaurant in Shoreditch

  

  Fancy being wined and dined for free by Gizzi Erskine? You'd be fools not to. Well that's what's on offer with a popup hitting Shoreditch next week. #DuvetDining is a one day restaurant popping up at The Loft on Kingsland Road. To win one of 24 seats at the lunch, you'll have to enter a competition on TK Maxx's Facebook page between 6pm tonight and midnight on Sunday.

  If you're wondering what the duvet alludes to, it's because you'll be dining inside duvet forts made

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• Le Bao heads to the Lido for their next pop-up

  

  Nest up at Herne' Hill's Lido Cafe are streetfood stars Le Bao - and they've got some great sounding steamed buns to offer at the poolside cafe (with weather than you might actually consider a dip too): 

  • The Original (spicy pork confit, pickled cucumbers, powdered peanuts)
  • Mary Had A Little Bao (Moroccan merguez patty, harissa mayo, cress, pomegranate seeds)
  • Say Cheese (grilled goat cheese, crispy
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• John Lewis on Oxford Street brings in The Dairy, BOB's lobster and Shotgun for summer rooftop season

  

  The rooftop dining scene on Oxford Street is already ramping up for summer with the opening of Notch on 5 May. But now we're hearing of another roof scene that looks set to dominate the street's summer scene.

  John Lewis, of all places, has teamed up with event organisers Night Tales to put on a series of rooftop residencies by some of the hottest

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• Top chef alfresco action at Serpentine Sackler gallery's Park Table

  

  So this sounds like a must-have ticket come the summer. Take an iconic London building (in this case the Serpentine Sackler gallery), set up a huge outside table and invite some of London's best chefs to turn up and cook an amazing alfresco feast.

  That's the plan for a series of dinners at the late Zaha Hadid-designed Magazine restaurant. The Park Table will be one long curving table seating 50 diners. The organisers were inspired by the American Oustanding in the

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• There's a naked restaurant experience coming to London...

  

  This is not a drill (or an April Fool) or at least we don't think it is. The folk behind the Breaking Bad cocktail bar are intending to launch a naked dining experience in London. There is SO much wrong with this, we barely know how to write it, but just in case this in any way sounds like something you might be interested, here's what you need to

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• Fowl Mouths Japanese comfort food come to the Lido Cafe for April

  

  If you are already missing Fowl Mouths after their King & Co pop-up, they're back. Next up for the Japanese pop-up is the Lido Cafe in Dulwich. On the menu will be:

  • Teriyaki Chilli Wings
  • Ponzu Steak marinated in citrus-seasoned soy sauce
  • Grilled English Asparagus
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• Junkyard Golf brings crazy Golf to the Truman Brewery

  

  We're already keenly awaiting the return of Swingers, but now there's news of ANOTHER crazy golf venue coming to the City. 

  Junkyard Golf (already a big hit in Manchester) will be taking over the Truman Brewery in May. As the name suggests, it's a crazy golf course made up of all sorts of recycled bits and bobs.

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• White Lyan are having a "wine bar pop-up" at Lantana Cafe in Shoreditch

  

  You may have been reading about White Lyan's revolutionary new 'wine' offering - the revolution being that they don't actually grapes to make it. Instead the team have been creating drinks based on taking the "flavour profile" of wine and deconstructing it, and then rebuilding it.

  Now they're planning a five day pop up "wine bar". Lyan Cellars will run run for five days next week at Lantana Cafe in Shoreditch. And they've brought in Doug McMaster of Brighton

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• London gets its first avocado pop-up

  

  Updated 4/4/16 with new dates

  It was only a matter of time, we suppose, before London experienced its first pop-up devoted to the avocado. Avo-Brunch Pop-up is the brainchild of Meredith O’Shaughnessy. She's putting on a 5 course avocado inspired brunch menu, featuring avocado cocktails and a DJ for post brunch entertainment.

  Things kick off with an avocado margarita before launching into the menu:

  • Avocado gazpacho with watermelon
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• Potlatch supperclub turns up at The Clerkenwell Kitchen

  

  Everybody likes a new, interesting venture and, following The Potlatch's sold-out launch event last month, they're back with a second installment. This month, Nick Gilkinson has chosen The Clerkenwell Kitchen - who specialise in organic and free-range produce - to host his 'gift-giving feast'. In the kitchen is current Portland sous chef, Edoardo Pellicano, and his five course menu for the pop-up's second event sounds amazing.

  After enjoying a welcome cocktail

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• Pizza Pilgrims and Forza win reunite for a month-long Peckham residency

  

  Back at the very beginning of Forza Win, it was the team up between Forza and Pizza Pilgrims which kicked everything off on a Shoreditch rooftop. Now they're teaming up again (as Forza Win get ready to open another restaurant) with a two month residency in Peckham. On the menu

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• JaguarShoes Collective are popping up After Hours at Manze on Chapel Market

  

  JaguarShoes Collective are expanding their empire further north, taking over pie and mash spot Manze on Chapel Market for two months. Every evening the beautiful art deco cafe will transform into a cocktail speakeasy. They'll be serving up prohibition era style cocktails with a modern twist - such as Hanky Panky - Gin, Sweet Vermouth, Fernet Branca Menta. They're also promising plenty of oysters too. If you're heading out after work, head down there

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