Soho

• Ribs, belly, quail and more - summer dishes preview at the Smoking Goat

  Summer changes are afoot at the Smoking Goat on Denmark Street. It's not that we think you will need much to attract you to the restaurant - which we still think has one of the best smoky aromas in town - but these pics by Paul Winch Furness will definitely do the job. 

  All of them are on the menu now and Ben Chapman tells us a little more about each of them...

  House of Ho launches Ho to Go in Soho

  

  That heading above may have gone a little overbaord on the rhyming - but the latest from House of Ho should be worth checking out from today. They'll be serving a new selection of Banh Mis from a hatch outside the restaurant offering takeaway Banh Mi sandwiches. On offer are chicken, beef, pork and vegetarian and they'll all be at £5 each, But to celebrate the first day - today, July 6th - a limited number will be given away at £2.50 each. So if

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• Hoppers is coming to Soho from the Sethis - the people behind Gymkhana

  

  When it was revealed that Koya was closing for good, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth, quickly followed by speculation as to what would take its place. Now that's been revealed as Hoppers, the latest from Karam, Jyotin and Sunaina Sethi - the siblings who are behind Trishna and Gymkhana. As well as those high

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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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• Blacklock launch the new pork chop sandwich and more besides

  

  A few months in and Blacklock is still doing very well indeed - but they're not resting on their laurels as new dishes have just hit the menu. The first is this wonderful looking pork chop sandwich that's now on the menu for lunch.

  As Blacklock's Gordon Ker says: "The sandwich is an ode to probably the best sandwich we’ve ever tasted, the Maxwell Street Pork Chop Sandwich in Chicago. We first tried that on

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• Duck and Rice Alan Yau's Chinese gastropub
• The Ivy gets a new lease of life - we Test Drive the revamp of one of London's oldest restaurants

  It's just undergone a huge revamp, so we decided it was time to put the nearly 100 year old London restaurant through its paces. 

• Smack Lobster opens second place on Soho's Dean Street

  

  Talk about sneaky! Smack Lobster has just opened its second restaurant and this one's in Soho on Dean Street. We haven't been down to the original for a few months, but a look at the menu tweeted by blogger MelissaFoodie today suggests there are some new dishes available here - mainly lobster salads.

  The salads cost the same as the lobster roll - £10 - and come in four

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• Mark Sargeant to open Morden & Lea brasserie on Wardour Street

  

  2015 is proving to be a busy old year for Mark Sargeant. Just weeks after his appointment as Chef Director at The Strand Dining Rooms was announced, comes news that the chef and restaurateur is in the last stages of opening a restaurant in Soho. Morden & Lea is described as a modern brasserie, named after 17th century cartographer Robert Morden and Philip Lea, who were the first to map out the area now

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• Meatballs for Soho - Balls and Company is the latest ultra-focused restaurant

  

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  We've had burgers & lobsters, chicken & steak, cereal, porridge and more - now it's the turn of the humble meatball to get a restaurant all of its own. Something similar has gone down very well in the States, so it'll be interesting to see how Balls & Company compares.

  So far, we know that the balls at the

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• Soho's Chinese gastropub: we Test Drive Alan Yau's Duck and Rice

  Alan Yau unveils his Chinese gastropub concept on Soho's Berwick Street market. We went along to see what on earth that means in practice.

• Test Driving Shackfuyu from Bone Daddies

  The latest from Bone Daddies is a long-term pop up with all manner of fun dishes. We popped down to take a look.