The City of London

• Flat Iron X Winemakers Club in The City combines steak with magnums of wine

  The next restaurant from steak masters Flat Iron is something of a departure. They'll be concentrating on bavette steak - and pairing that with a huge range of wines by the magnum.

• Join The Jugged Hare for the Murphia Games dinner

  Join The Jugged Hare’s infamous gourmet dinner series this game season, The Murphia Games, as they enjoy the finest culinary creations from Ireland’s most celebrated chefs.

• Vinery London is a pop up honesty wine bar where you pay what you think it's worth

  

  Would you describe yourself as an honest person? One way to really put that to the test is with the return of Vinery London next month. This irregular pop-up boasts that it's the only honesty wine bar in London where they trust you to pay what you think you should.

  The idea is that you buy a ticket (£7.50) which gives you entry plus a wine glass which you can then top as much as you like throughout the evening. When you head off into the night,

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• Farmer J are bringing their trays to Finsbury Square

  This will be the fourth Farmer J in London as they serve up healthy breakfast and lunchtime snacks in their signature "fieldtrays". 

• Test Driving the Dining Room at The Ned - a seasonal tour of the British Isles

  

  The Dining Room at the Ned sees an Italian chef enjoying himself, using the bounty of the British isles.

• Waka is bringing its grab and go Nikkei dishes to the City

  Waka is coming back to the City, bringing its Nikkei Peruvian/Japanese grab and go food to Houndsditch.

• Black Rock expands with a whisky hotel, pub and a blend-your-own room

  

  You might remember that a couple of years ago, we tried out a one-room hotel in London - above the Black Rock Whisky bar. Well, that's going through a bit of a change - planning to become what they're calling "London's first Whisky hotel".

  Black Rock, the whisky bar previously only in the basement, is taking over

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• Ex-River Cafe chef Shuli Wimer launches The Fancy Fork at Farmer J in the City

  

  A City restaurant has brought in an exciting new chef to charge up its evening offering. By day Farmer J serves up breakfasts and 'field trays' for lunch to City workers beside Monument. By evening it'll now turn into The Fancy Fork - with chef Shuli Wimer running the kitchen.

  Wimer, who was born in Galilee, trained up at L28 in Tel Aviv and then spent five years working at The River Cafe in London will serve up a menu inspired by Middle Eastern and Mediterranean

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• 14 Hills will be the new high-rise restaurant at 120 Fenchurch Street

  The prolific D&D restaurant group (who own Blueprint Cafe, German Gymnasium, Quaglinos and more) are gearing up for their next opening. Fen will be near the top of a big new building on Fenchurch St.  

• Sub Cult's award-winning sandwiches get a permanent City spot

  They've been street food legends for five years and now Sub Cult are getting a much-deserved permanent place in the City. With brand new subs along with the classics, this looks like your new City lunch spot. 

• Konditor bring their cakes to The City with a new Bank shop

  

  We'll admit, we're quite partial to a Konditor cake, particularly their wonderful Curly Whirly concoction. And now, after a rebrand (they've dropped the "and Cook") they're heading to Bank for their next shop. 

  And this store will be familiar if you've visited their others, featuring all the celebration cakes you could ever want as well as salted caramel brownies, desserts and more. They'll have ten seats

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• The Market is a huge food hall by the YBFs in the City's 22 Bishopsgate building

  The next people to get into the food hall business are The YBF's. They're teaming up with Rhubarb for this huge new food and drink area inside the big 22 Bishopsgate development. 

• Test Driving Bob Bob Cite - a shiny City palace of fine wines and 'country' French cooking

  

  The much-anticipated sequel to Bob Bob Ricard has opened in the City with Eric Chavot at the helm. We went to see how the millions have been spent.

• Bob Bob Cité is coming to the City, and it looks VERY bling

  Soho's iconic restaurant Bob Bob Ricard is opening a second place on the third floor of the Cheesegrater and they've got a top chef to head up the operation

• Test Driving Barullo - a City spot where the paella has the power to transport you

  Rambla's Victor Garvey is back in the City with his latest Spanish restaurant, Barullo - and this time there's added paella. We head down to try it out.