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Shoreditch’s new Essence Cuisine brings clean vegan eating with big flavour

Information: 24 August 2017

More good news for the vegans of the world, as Essence Cuisine is bringing their animal-free cuisine to East London. They’ve got every intention of eschewing the belief that clean eating = bland as...

Brixton Market’s Salon is reopening with a wine bar, bar snacks, and standalone wine shop

Information: 24 August 2017

If you’ve been missing Brixton Market’s pop-up-turned-restaurant Salon ever since it closed its doors this summer, then here’s some good news. After a rather quick two weeks spent redecorating, the...

Jacob the Angel is a coffee house from people behind The Palomar

Information: 23 August 2017

23/8/17 - Updated with opening details and the menu. There's another new place from the people behind the ever-popular The Palomar and The Barbary, siblings Layo and Zoe Paskin. They're opening a...

Pickled Fred mixes Asian food and "unusual cocktails" and there’ll be loads for vegans

Information: 23 August 2017

Shoreditch’s latest trendy restaurant is the lovechild of two chefs who’ve want to experiment with their love of Asian food and “unusual cocktails.” There’ll be loads of pickled goods and flavours,...

The Severn Sisters feast is a female food and drink team-up in Borough Market

Information: 23 August 2017

An event for the calendar is coming up - the Severn Sisters Feast which sees 11 women from the world of food and drink team up. The night is a platform for established and emerging female talent in the...

Brixton’s Canova Hall: hotdesks by day, cocktails by night, and pizza around the clock

Information: 22 August 2017

Brixton’s Canova Hall will be open from very early in the morning until 1am, all week long, but what goes on inside will change as the hours pass, from coffee and wifi in the early hours, to Italian...

Moo Ping by KraPow LDN gets voted top #MyLondonDish

Information: 22 August 2017

Over the past few weeks, you may have seen the hashtag #MyLondonDish on Instagram. It's been part of the Mayor of London's quest to find the capital's favourite food dishes. The best were collated...

Soho restaurant Flavour Bastard - yes, really - will bring "cuisine-agnostic" dining

Information: 21 August 2017

Soho, get ready - Flavour Bastard (no, really) is coming and it’s got a menu full of packed with big ideas and intriguing combinations of international flavours, like white lentil and chorizo...

POWDERKEG relaunches in Battersea with Ben Mulock at the helm

Information: 21 August 2017

Battersea favourite Powder Keg Diplomacy is being reborn as POWDERKEG. And with the new look and name they're also getting former Opera Tavern chef Ben Mulock in the kitchen for some Spanish/Italian grill...

Wool Yard is coming to Woolwich from the people behind Pop Brixton

Information: 21 August 2017

If you're a fan of Pop Brixton, then this news will definitely be of interest. The man behind that success story, Carl Turner, has turned his sights on Woolwich where he plans to open a follow-up...

Marco-Pierre White launching Mr White’s English Chophouse in Whitechapel

Information: 18 August 2017

Whitechapel is set to get a trendy new hotel by the name of the New Road Hotel, that’s going to have a flash new restaurant built in which will have chef/entrepreneur/TV star Marco-Pierre White...

La Fromagerie is bringing cheese to Bloomsbury with their latest spot

Information: 17 August 2017

Head upstairs for oysters at the seafood bar, downstairs for the Tasting Room, or pick up some delicacies from the special ‘walk-in cheese room’ to take home with you at La Fromagerie Bloomsbury.

Nathan Outlaw tops the Good Food Guide Top 50 for 2018

Information: 17 August 2017

Cornish seafood restaurant nabs the top slot as London's share of the top 50 slides

London's best new dishes from Instagram, August

Information: 17 August 2017

We've teamed up with Felicity Spector to help us round up some of the best dishes shared on Instagram that are hitting London''s tables right now...

Brick & Liquor mixes cocktails and sharing plates in Clapham

Information: 17 August 2017

After getting off to a great start down in Tooting, Brick and Liquor has made the move to Clapham to open their next branch of his cocktail bar. It's larger, with seats for 100, has a decently sized...

Bento box pop-up Mission Sato comes to Old Street and Bermondsey from ex-Story chef

Information: 17 August 2017

Bento boxes are always a reliable go-to when we’re in a Japanese restaurant, with their comforting array of rectangular portions that guarantee you a little bit of everything. About time they took a...

Alan Yau is back with pide restaurant Yamabahçe in Marylebone

Information: 16 August 2017

Following Babaji Pide, Alan Yau is back at it again with this pide-centric (Turkish flatbread) restaurant.

Slicer Decider returns for fifth year and here's who's competing

Information: 16 August 2017

We love a good slider (or 10).They’re just oh-so-perfectly sized to snack on, and to fill up you have to eat *loads* of them - never a bad thing. It’s the kind of behaviour that we’ll be expecting...

Adam Handling to open The Frog restaurant in Covent Garden

Information: 15 August 2017

15/8/17 - updated with opening date What: Adam Handling opens in Covent Garden In a nutshell: The Frog goes west Summing it all up: Adam Handling is bringing his Frog concept from Spitalfields to...

Barcelona's Mamarosa restaurant is coming to London's Shoreditch Village

Information: 15 August 2017

The Barcelona beach restaurant Mamarosa migrates to the new Shoreditch Village space. Expect a mix of Mediterranean and Italian cuisine (but no beach views).

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