Residency

• Squid Kitchen comes to the King & Co for a month long residency

  

  We're always partial to a bit of squid, so the latest residency to come to the King & Co in Clapham for September. Squid Kitchen will be bringing a number of dishes they've perfected as street food traders who specialise in Madrid-style food including, of course squid cones - and the menu includes:

  • Squid Kitchen Cones with Vampire Killer aioli
  • Bocadillo de Calamares (sourdough rolls
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• Ex Hedone chef Lee Skeet sets up residency at Hackney Empire

  

  Now this looks like an interesting residency - on for four weeks only. Lee Skeet was head chef at Hedone and has also worked with Marcus Wareing and Tom Aikens before that. It's his second residency since popping up at Carousel and this one will be all about fish. The menu will change depending on the day's catch, but the draft one does look pretty good indeed:

  • Baked oyster, bone marrow and
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• Pilau settles down with their Indian street wraps in Soho

  

  A short while ago, we reported on a new pop-up appearing at Leicester Square station called Pilau (following an earlier stint at Old Street). It proved very popular indeed, so much so that they've now settled down in Soho for a long-term residency. They've taken up a spot just beside the Berwick Street Market and

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• Allan Pickett launches residency at The Sanderson

  

  Allan Pickett is certainly busy. He's not just opening his own restaurant, Piquet, in the heart of Fitzrovia with Bodean founder Andre Blais: he's also taken on the first ever summer residency at the Morgan Group's Sanderson Hotel.

  Allan - who was previously head chef at

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