Seafood

• 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.

• Crab, crab and yet more crab at Marylebone’s Fancy Crab

  Fans of shellfish will be keen to get to this new all-day concept restaurant in Marylebone where red king crab is the order of the day, every day.  If that's not enough to lure you in, then there’ll be other seafood delicacies and two bars as well.

• Bonnie Gull’s Mayfair popup offers seafood for breakfast, lunch and dinner

  The West End has a rather nice new seafood pop-up to try for the summer

• The Oystermen Seafood Bar and Kitchen (and its happy hour) is coming to Covent Garden

  After a 10 month residency in South Kensington, the oyster experts have found a permanent home in Covent Garden to serve up the shellfish every which way, as well as heaps of British seafood, wine, champagne and a very attractive Happy Hour offer…

• Test Driving Westerns Laundry - the new restaurant from the folk at Primeur

  The folk behind Primeur have opened a second restaurant, Westerns Laundry. We went to see how their empire is expanding

• Test Driving Rick Stein Barnes - the top chef brings his seafood restaurant to London

  We take a trip to Barnes to visit Rick Stein's new Thames-side restaurant, to see how the seafood master fares away from the seaside...

• Prawn on the Lawn gets a lot bigger at its new Islington location

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  Big news for lovers of Islington's Prawn on the Lawn, they're about to move into a much bigger spot - and it's just a short hop away from the original, taking over the spot where LeCoq used to be. 

  If you're not familiar with Prawn on the Lawn, it's half fishmongers and half wine bar serving up cold bar seafood dishes. So, up until now. that means plenty of prawns,

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• Trawler Trash comes to Islington - sustainable seafood on Upper Street

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  What: Trawler Trash

  In a nutshell: A new fish restaurant for Islington

  Summing it all up: Expect a sustainable, weekly changing seafood menu. And there's a cocktail bar at the back too. 

• Wright Brothers brings seafood to Battersea Power Station

  

  What: Wright Brothers Battersea

  In a nutshell: Seafood, oysters and more at the Power station.

  Summing it all up: Wright Brothers have some very highly rated seafood restaurants dotted across town and this sees them opening in the area around the iconic Battersea Power Station. 

• CLAW will be the next residency at Soho's Sun and 13 Cantons

  

  Updated 27/1/17 with extended dates and new dishes

  You've got to hand it to Soho pub The Sun & 13 Cantons, they really know how to pick their pop-ups. Following hard on the heels of Sambal Shiok and Adam Rawson's residency, the next folk in charge will be CLAW.

  The sustainable seafood streetfood vendors will stay in situ over the winter in an extended residency which will allow them to serve an expanded menu. In addition to their signature

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• London Shell Co Floating seafood restaurant
• Extra Fancy comes to London at the Blues Kitchen for three nights only

  

  Another New York restaurant is making the trip to London as New York's Extra Fancy is popping up in the Blues Kitchen in Shoreditch for three nights only. They're a very popular Brooklyn seafood and crab shack and they'll be bringing their best dishes over for a surf vs turf mash-up menu against Blue's Kitchen's Texas offering. 

  So from Extra Fancy, there

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• Bonnie Gull to open up their second seafood shack in Soho

  

  If you like your seafood a bit more interesting than your bog standard cod and chips, then you may have come across the Bonnie Gull Seafood Shack, who’ve been enjoying a rather popular five years at their Fitzrovia home. Now they’ll be bringing their ‘Squid Toast’ with ink aioli and ember-cooked mussels to a new, second branch in Soho.

  You should only eat oysters in the months with an ‘R’ in them, as the saying

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• The London Shell Co are opening a floating restaurant at Paddington

  

  If you've been to any of London Shell's pop-ups, you'll know that it's good news that this enthusiastic bunch of foodies have signed a deal to open a permanent restaurant in London. However, it's not bricks and mortar - more wood and steel. They'll be launching a floating restaurant on the Regent’s Canal at Paddington with dinner either moored up or on the move.

  As you might expect from such a watery location, the menu focuses on seasonal seafood.

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• Smith & Wollensky launch a massive seafood feast for summer

  

  Feast your eyes - and your stomachs! This stonking looking shellfish platter is a new summer special hitting Smith & Wollensky on Friday. The treat for two includes lobster, crabmeat, jumbo shrimp, oysters and Amandes clams with a classic cocktail sauce, cognac mustard sauce, ginger sauce and sherry mignonette. And it comes with a bottle of Provencal rose from Château de l’Aumérade. Seems a good enough reason to slope off early this Friday, or have a lovely long

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