Shoreditch

For one day only, a free noodle shop is popping up in Shoreditch. This one comes from supermarket brand Kitchen Joy. They make frozen noodles, and they'll be cooking those up for their one-day pop-up (the first time they've done one). On the menu will be:

• Crispy Chilli Oil Biang Biang Noodles
• Khao Soi Chicken Noodles
• Garlic & Soy Prawn Wonton Noodles
• Chicken Pho Noodles

It'll be a grab-and-go operation, and running from noon to 6pm on the day. So if you're looking for a very easy lunch, this is worth knowing

For more than 20 years the British restaurant Roast has lorded it over Borough Market, its dining room literally perched above the market floor. But now there's change on the horizon with plans to open a second branch, this time in Shoreditch.

The space they're taking on is the cavernous restaurant at the Virgin Hotels London Shoreditch. That was previously the Mondrian and you might remember either Marcus Samuelsson's Red Rooster or Dani Garcia's Bibo which were in this space before. Now we've moved from American and Spanish back to British, with Sunday roasts and proper Full

The original Bistro Sable opened in Islington late last year, taking over from The Smokehouse in Islington. That seems to have worked pretty well as the people behind it also own The Princess of Shoreditch and will now be bringing Bistro Sablé there too.

That pub has a restaurant space upstairs that used to be a big deal (particularly when run by Ruth Hansom), but has been coasting for a few years. So they've decided to revamp the pub's restaurant, turning it into a second

Shoreditch has been home to quite a few mad pop-ups, but we're rather liking the idea of this latest one which sees McDonald's opening a butcher's. 

Taking over a corner site on Shoreditch High Street, the pop-up is designed like a traditional butcher's, with the British and Irish beef that goes into a McDonald's burger all laid out. Apparently, the idea behind it is to showcase that the burgers at McDonald's really are just made of beef with a little added salt and pepper and nothing else. As part of the pop-up, you can book a free masterclass that will let you go behind the

You know how it is. You wait ages for a shop devoted to tiramisu, and then two come along at once. Hard on the heels of Marrone in Soho comes Giuseppe's Tiramisu, which is about to open up at Boxpark Shoreditch. The man behind it, Giuseppe Federici, hasn't worked in hospitality before, but it's most definitely in his blood with his Sicilian grandparents having an Italian restaurant in Stoke on Trent and his parents running an ice cream business.

What's different about Giuseppe's

The team behind Michelin-starred Restaurant St Barts have turned their old Shoredith restaurant Nest into British bistro Tavern. We went to see how the makeover had changed things. 

Chef Josh Dallaway and sommelier Sinead Murdoch's Tasca has been extremely well received in both its original appearance at (now closed) Cav and the follow-up residency at Giacco's. Now they're launching a new residency for the summer (and maybe longer). 

They'll be taking over Shoreditch cafe Project 44, and bringing in their menu, which is a crossover between Spanish and Portuguese cuisine. That means things start off with smaller plates like cured Cecina de León on grilled bread with cep butter or Cornish crab over requeijão (a Portuguese cured cheese). There

It's been a long time since Andrew Wong has concentrated on anything other than his two-Michelin-starred restaurant A Wong, last opening the short-lived Kym's in Bloomberg Arcade, back in 2018. 

But now he's getting ready to head to Shoreditch, opening Kong in the Nolton Folgate development (where you'll also find Osteria Angelina). He's taking over the address that was The Water Poet in the area, but that whole space has been completely redeveloped so we're not sure just what remains of that old pub. 

For this, he's teamed up with Dishoom co-founder Amar

With perfect timing for the current hot weather, a pop-up bakery is opening its doors in East London for the weekend, serving up a range of limited-edition cinnamon rolls in a collaboration with Magnum.

The Magnum After Hours bakery is an evening-only affair, which has taken over the Roll Boys bakery for the next two nights. It's going to be serving up three limited-edition Magnum Bonbon x Roll Boys cinnamon rolls:

• Milk Chocolate & Cherry
• White Chocolate & Cookies
• Gold Caramel Billionaire

"From the second the idea of

It's all change over at the restaurant formerly known as Counter 71 in Shoreditch. The chef's table restaurant previously focused on an all-British menu. Now it's being turned into Appalachia, a restaurant inspired by the mountainous region of the US.

For the new restaurant, a new chef has been brought in - Alistair Borer (ex-Smoking Goat and Nutbourne). He's taking the American co-owners Camilla Meshiea and Ryan Sheenan's vision to the table. And really, the idea to turn the restaurant over to American influences does marry the whole space here together as the bar downstairs,

Three incredibly experienced bar professionals have set out on their own, opening Without Papers, a Shoreditch bar serving up excellent Italo/British cocktails. We pulled up a stool at the bar.

They already have orange, yellow, scarlet, blue and violet Little Doors around town and now a Little Neon Door is getting ready to open in Shoreditch. 

Taking over what was once Floripa cocktail bar, this is going to follow the template of the other, very successful, Little Doors in the growing franchise. So it's essentially themed after a house party, and you could have cocktails in the Sitting Room, a party in the Living Room and Kitchen, karaoke in the shower and loot the fancy dress cupboard in the Dressing Room (which also has karaoke).

Alongside the cocktails,

It might have somehow escaped your notice to date that there's a new Star Wars film coming out. But in the next few weeks, that movie is going to be hard to miss. And where there's a big new film, there's a pop-up. So as The Mandalorian and Grogu gets ready for release, Londoners will have a chance to visit the Grogu Café, popping up in Shoreditch.

Given that it's all centred around the green-tinged character formerly known as "baby Yoda", it makes sense that this will be a matcha café. So they've teamed up with Bread Ahead, Bubble CiTea and PerfectTed on the food and drink front.

It's been a while since we've had a big brand launching a mad pop-up in town, but here comes Heinz to change that. This week, they're holding a one-day pop-up in Shoreditch to launch their new Ranch Sauce. 

They'll be taking over Shoreditch newcomer Vincenzo's and for one day it'll be "Ranchenzo's". Apparently, it's all about how people love dipping their pizza crusts in ranch sauce, so as a part of that, there will be a one-day-only pizza that's "just crust". That is, as you can see from the photo above, either a pizza with the centre cut out or a very, very big dough ball. You

Kirk Haworth is the chef behind the hugely popular, Michelin-starred, plant-based restaurant Plates. He both lives and works in Shoreditch so here are his top tips in the area.