Southwark

• Southwark's Chinese Food Festival returns with a 14 vendors in a night market setting

  

  It sure is festival season, isn’t it? (And we don’t just mean Boomtown, Wilderness et al.)

  We’d only just gotten over WingFest, before starting to gear up for 

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• Casa do Frango will serve up Algarvian piri piri chicken in Southwark

   Hoping to lure Londoners away from Nando's, this Algarvian restaurant will be cooking its chicken on a wood fired grill. Oh and there's also a secret bar worth checking out.

• At Borough’s Yen Burger, swap your burger cheese for kimchi and shiso

  Yen Nguyen is brings her East-meets-West burger chain idea to life, featuring ingredients like shiso, edamame and kimchi on gluten-free buns from Bread Ahead.

• Native are moving to Flatiron Square from Covent Garden

  

  Updated 4/6/18 with soft launch details

  Last week, we were a little concerned to see Covent Garden restaurant Native announcing that they were closing down due to planning permission being declined.

  But the good news is that they already have a new home to go to. Today they've announced they'll be moving into bigger, better premises over at Flat Iron Square. The new space will have twice the capacity of their current spot and there'll also be room for a

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• Test Driving Paladar - tour South America without leaving South London

  South London meets South America at Paladar - a restaurant that brings Londoners a taste of Cuba, Peru and more.

• Cheese Town is taking over Flat Iron Square for Easter weekend

  

  If you've been considering leaving town for Easter weekend, we may have news that'll make you change your mind. Returning for a third instalment is Cheese Town - the food festival (not to be confused with the dire Giant Cheese Board which broke the internet just before Christmas).

  Moving from Brixton to Flat Iron Square in Borough the event features a range of street food traders, all serving up something deeply cheesy. So there's:

  • Mac to the
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• Chimis Argentinean parilla restaurant is grilling up a storm on Southwark Bridge Road

  The former head chef of Brindisa and the founder of Portena in Borough Market have joined forces to open an Argentinean parilla restaurant with all manner of grilled meat on the menu.

• Duddell's arrives in London Bridge with Michelin-starred dim sum

  After setting down roots in Hong Kong, Duddell's is making the leap to the UK, opening its first overseas restaurant in the palatial St Thomas Church in London Bridge. 

• Mc & Sons is Southwark's new Irish boozer with a Thai kitchen

  Traditionally, deep fried carbs are the mainstay of Irish pub grub. Not so at Mc & Sons, who's Chiang Mai head chef will be cooking up heavily spiced traditional Thai food - perfect to accompany your Guinness.

• Bala Baya is bringing a market to the Union Arches in Southwark

  

  Under the Union Street arches in October, Bala Baya is expanding to the streets with their new Bala Baya Shook. Yes, it's a Middle Eastern style market where you'll be able to pick up lots of Bala Baya goodies to either eat there or grab to take home.

  So for breakfast, expect snacks like Babka Pretzels, Pitta Pie and Poppy Seed Filas, Iced Cinnamon Buns, Chocolate Babka Swirl and Quince & Almond

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• Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Cafe launches an olive oil cocktail pop-up

  

  If you hadn't already read our headline you'd be forgiven for thinking this rather rustic scene was a trattoria somewhere south of Naples. But, no, it's actually the basement bar of Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Cafe in Southwark.

  The place has been completely transformed into an olive grove complete with olive trees and vines and it's the fruit of the trees which is key to the experience. The restaurant has teamed up with Martini to make a special olive oil cocktail menu.

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• Test Driving Bala Baya - Tel Aviv comes to Southwark

  Bala Baya is bringing Tel Aviv to London, by way of up-and-coming Southwark - we head down to take a look. 

• Bala Baya brings Tel Aviv-style Israeli food to Southwark’s arches

  

  14/12/16 - updated with soft launch details.

  Southwark’s Old Union arches will be home to new Israeli restaurant come January 2017, with its own in-house Gazoz bar. It’s the first solo venture from Eran Tibi, who cut his teeth working with Israeli food legend Yotam Ottolenghi.

  By day, Bala Baya will be sending out freshly, piping hot pitta bread cooked in house in their special pitta oven, Tel

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