Pub

• The Newman Arms reopens with a pie menu and downstairs snugs

  

  It's always a worry when any central London pub closes its doors, ostensibly to be renovated. So when The Newman Arms shut a year or so ago to have the upstairs section turned into flats, the chances that this historic pub, which had been a popular spot for foodie pop-ups more recently, would ever reopen seemed pretty bleak.

  So we're particularly pleased to see that not only is it remaining a pub, but the 18th century boozer has also had a bit of a

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• Tom Oldroyd is opening The Duke of Richmond pub and dining room in Hackney

  Tom Oldroyd's follow-up project to his neighbourhood restaurant in Islington will be a Hackney pub serving up French dishes created with British seasonal produce and he has serious plans for a Sunday roast too.

• The Bluecoats pub is taking over The Pride of Tottenham with burgers by Lucky Chip

  A top bar team and food by Lucky Chip are turning this Tottenham landmark into a pub worth travelling to. It'll also be bloody handy for match days.

• Chicken and Gochu take over the Friday night residency at Walthamstow's Ye Olde Rose and Crown

  

  We don't know about you, but the idea of a Friday night pub menu devoted to Korean and Japanese style 'anju', or bar bites sounds EXACTLY what we'd want to stave off a Saturday morning hangover.

  And if you live in Walthamstow, that's just what you've got as Chicken and Gochu become the latest folk to take over the Friday night slot at Ye Olde Rose and Crown. This is the first time the Highams Park-based husband and wife team have popped up anywhere. Korean

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• Camden boozer The Good Mixer gets a makeover from The Magic Roundabout team

  Expect live music, top beer and plenty of pies at this iconic North London pub's revival.

• Smoking Goat wins the 2018 Scotch Egg Challenge

  

  Islington pub The Canonbury Tavern was packed out last night with chefs and foodies all keen to discover who would be turn out this year's winning entry in the 8th Scotch Egg Challenge.

  23 restaurants and gastropubs were in the running this year and the judging panel facing all those eggs were new Sunday Times Magazine food editor Lisa Markwell, Guardian and New Statesman writer Felicity Cloake, Restaurant Magazine

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• New Liverpool Street pub Lady Abercorn’s Pub & Kitchen serves up bottomless Yorkshire puddings

  City hotel the Andaz London Liverpool Street has just opened a public house brewing its own beer and serving up a roast every day of the week

• Racine’s Henry Harris is running the menus at THREE new pubs in London

  

  8/12/17 - updated with Three Cranes soft launch details

  There was much rejoicing when it was announced that Maida Vale's Truscott Arms would reopen (to be renamed Hero of Maida), home to top roasts and a widely beloved upmarket boozer, with none other than Racine’s

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• Rock and roll at Stoke Newington's new 50s pub Be-Bop-A-Lula

  If you love puns, the 50s, and American diner food via Stoke Newington, then get down to Be-Bop-A-Lula, a new watering hole from the team behind very respected pub The Alma.

• The Coach Maker's Arms in Marylebone gets a big makeover from Cubitt House

  The people behind pubs like The Thomas Cubitt have taken over this 140-year-old pub for a full renovation. Expect a new British menu, an underground cocktail bar and more. 

• Mc & Sons is Southwark's new Irish boozer with a Thai kitchen

  Traditionally, deep fried carbs are the mainstay of Irish pub grub. Not so at Mc & Sons, who's Chiang Mai head chef will be cooking up heavily spiced traditional Thai food - perfect to accompany your Guinness.

• Hammerton Brewery have opened House of Hammerton on Holloway Road

  Islington beer folk Hammerton Brewery have opened their own pub on the Holloway Road

• The Clifton in St John will reopen as a modern all-day gastropub

  

  What: The Clifton

  In a nutshell: The Clifton in St John's Wood is saved and reopening as a new pub.

  Summing it all up: Haggis sausage rolls, Wild Grouse ketchup and roast cod with arrocina beans will be some of the dishes on offer to those who visit The Clifton, St John’s Wood’s newest pub.

• Chefs and judges announced for the 2017 Scotch Egg Challenge

  

  Updated 19/1/17 with shortlist

  After six years, the Scotch Egg Challenge is now one of the key dates in the London food calendar. This year's event will take place at The Canonbury in Islington on 8 February.

  Confirmed judges for the event itself include Fay Maschler from the Evening Standard, Ben Chapman of Smoking Goat and Kiln and Bob Granleese of the Guardian, while the evening will be compered by Joe

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• Clerkenwell’s The Green gets a revamp courtesy of the Culpeper folk

  

  The team behind Culpeper, the roof garden-resplendent Commercial Street cocktail joint, is opening a third establishment called The Green, named after Clerkenwell Green where it lives.

  Director Nico Treguer has been working together with his counterpart Gareth Roberts for some years now, on a quest to convince London’s landlords to utilise what can often be the only bit

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