Special dishes

• London's 2024 Christmas food specials - pizzas, cocktails, croquetas and more...

  

  From brussels sprout pizzas to Bailey's dessert baubles - it's time for our guide to all the Christmassy specials that are hitting London restaurants now.

• Simon Rimmer and Tom Kerridge team up for a charity Sunday Brunch burger

  

  If you fancy trying the combined culinary efforts of a TV host and Michelin-starred chef then you'll need to head to Chelsea this month. Sunday Brunch host Simon Rimmer and chef Tom Kerridge have pooled their creative talents to create a burger that's being sold throughout November for charity.

  ‘The Everyday Sunday Brunch’ burger is a beast of a burger and features a patty topped with cheese, Lyonnaise

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• Alley Cats Pizza are putting Thomas Straker butter dough balls on the menu

  

  What happens when two viral food businesses get in bed with each other? We're about to find out as Alley Cats pizzeria has just joined forces with TikTok butter merchant (and restaurateur) Thomas Straker.

  If you haven't been to Alley Cats already it's easy to find it when meandering through Marylebone - it's the place with the perma queue outside. For the rest of the month, they'll be adding Straker's Burnt

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• Don Koko kicks off pizza vs taco evenings with a What Willy Cook vs SG Lewis face-off

  

  Updated 10/5/24 with soft launch info

  Friday nights in Camden are kicking off. Starting this summer Cafe KOKO - the Italian eatery attached to the iconic music venue - is having a series of face-offs between pizza and tacos. The menu, created by the restaurant's Executive Chef Andreas Engberg (La Petite Maison, The Arts Club) sounds great, but we're particularly interested in the limited edition slices and tacos

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• Real Housewives of Clapton have a January special with Yard Sale pizza

  

  If their Insta feed was literally the only thing keeping you sane over the Christmas hols, then you'll be glad to hear that meme mistress The Real Housewives of Clapton now comes in pizza form.

  The Insta account has teamed up with Yard Sale Pizza for a January collab that is 100% something we can get behind. The Glut & Glory is "a half-and-half 18” monster" that will work whether you're hitting 2024 on a health kick or carrying on as

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• Shake Shack are doing an Ikoyi burger - for one day only

  

  One of London's best restaurants is going into business with US burger folk Shake Shack for a one-day-only special. Two Michelin-starred restaurant Ikoyi (also No 35 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants List) normally costs £300 per person if you want to eat there. But for a single day, anyone can pop into Shake Shack and order the burger they've collaborated on.

  The Ikoyi burger will be a cheeseburger topped with

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• Yard Sale and Chuku's are teaming up for a jollof-base pizza

  

  Having hit the news for securing a $10k donation from Beyoncé after she performed just up the road, Tottenham restaurant Chuku's is keeping up the heat with a new collaboration with Yard Sale Pizza. And we'll confess, we fancy this a LOT.

  The ‘Lagos Heat’ pizza, which hits Yard Sale's Tottenham and Walthamstow branches this month is topped with spicy, smoked Lamb Asun (peppered with ginger, garlic, red

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• Where to get coronation chicken in London's restaurants

  

  It's the dish that was created back in 1953 for the late Queen's coronation lunch. Now coronation chicken is a ubiquitous part of any summer buffet spread. For the upcoming Coronation festivities, we've done some digging to find out which restaurants are serving up special twists on it this week.

• Easter specials at London's restaurants, bakeries and cafes

  

  This Easter London's chefs, bakers and mixologists have been inspired to create some very special seasonal dishes and drinks. Here's what's on offer.

• You can get A Stranger Things sushi at Sushi Shop

  

  We're some way from the final season of Stranger Things arriving but there are little things to keep us going in the meantime. As well as an upcoming London play fans are about to get a special sushi box inspired by the show. 

  Yes, Sushi Shop is teaming up with Netflix and is launching The Upside Down Box in all of its UK shops. For a limited time only (that's six weeks), there

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• Mince on toast is back for The Quality Chop House's 10th birthday

  

  Although it's arguably one of its best known dishes, the famous mince on dripping toast isn't always on the menu at the Quality Chop House.

  The dish itself went viral in 2017 when a video on the US site Eater proclaimed it to be a 'quintessential British comfort classic' - a claim that many, including reviewer Jay Rayner, ...

• Top Cuvee teams up with Baban's Naan for both T-shirt and special naan

  

  News arrives today that two of our favourite locals, Top Cuvee and the mighty Baban's Naan have just announced a team-up. 

  If you're unfamiliar with Baban's Naan, it does what it says on the tin. The Kurdish shop sells all types of naan, made fresh to order and they are without question the best naan bread we've ever had (and so, SO cheap too). For this collab, Top Cuvee

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• Din Tai Fung picks Selfridges for its beef dumpling world launch

  

  If you consider yourself to be something of a dumpling aficionado, then you're going to want to put 1 August in your diary. That's when Din Tai Fung are launching their brand new beef xiao long bao and Londoners are going to be the first to try it.

  The new beef dumplings are being revealed at the Din Tai Fung restaurant in Selfridges on Oxford Street. They'l ll be joining the classic pork and crab and pork dumplings

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• TikTok famous chef Thomas Straker has created a burger for Patty & Bun

  

  He's absolutely massive on Instagram and TikTok and now chef Thomas Straker, who's opening his own restaurant in London this summer, is teaming up with Patty & Bun.

  The chef, who's previously worked at Heston Blumenthal’s Dinner and Elystan Street, went big on social during the early stages of the lockdown with a ...

• Max's Sandwich Shop teams up with Burger & Lobster for two very special rolls

  

  Well here's a collab we can 100% endorse - Max Halley of the legendary Max's Sandwich Shop is teaming up with Burger & Lobster for two lobster roll specials that are hitting the group's nine restaurants.

  The first, the Lobster Cocktail Roll, is a brioche roll stuffed with lobster claw and knuckle meat with a retro Marie Rose sauce that's finished with a dash of tabasco and brandy. That's topped with

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