Islington

• Islington gets a combo wine bar, coffee shop and gelato bar with an ex-Papi chef

  

  Updated 21/6/24 with opening date and menu details

  Lucky Islington residents are about to get a new coffee shop, wine bar and restaurant and an ice cream parlour, all in the space of a month or so. The three businesses by co-founders Alex Young and George de Vos are taking over the old Michael's Den pub on the borders of Islington and De Beauvoir.

  First to open will be the coffee shop

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• Westerns Laundry

  The people behind Primeur have opened this seafood spot in Islington.

• Xi'an Impression

  Xi'an Street food just opposite the Emirates stadium.

• Compton Arms

  Classic Islington pub with great food

• The Nook

  Wine bar, deli and restaurant in Islington

• Tofu Vegan

  Vegan Chinese food in Islington

• Sourdough Sophia opens her bakery in Islington

  

  Islington is starting to do very well indeed when it comes to great bakeries. We already have Jolene and Pophams, Quince opened only a couple of months ago and now there's the arrival of Sourdough Sophia, who's just unveiled her second bakery, on Essex Road. 

  Taking over what used to be a Costa

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• Popular Islington restaurant Delhi Grill is closing

  

  Fourteen years after opening their doors in Islington, popular Punjabi restaurant Delhi Grill announced this weekend that it was closing its doors for good.

  Posting on Instagram they said: "With a heavy heart we would like to announce the closing of our little dhaba. It has been an incredible journey and we couldn't have done it without the support from our loyal customers and our team. But it is now time to

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• Chapel Market Kitchen sees former Basta chef opening in Islington

  

  Islington readers who've been wandering up and down Chapel Market recently may have spotted the under-the-radar arrival of a new seafood spot on the market. Head up to the Penton Street end of the street and you'll find Chapel Market Kitchen.

  The man behind this new oyster bar and grill is chef Maoz Alonim who for many years had a huge reputation for his restaurant Basta in Carmel Market in Tel Aviv. In recent years

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• Detroit Pizza comes to Islington (bringing deep-fried lasagna too)

  

  Deep-dish Detroit pizza is becoming a bit of a thing again. We've had Ria's in Notting Hill and Kin Pizza in Notting Hill while Detroit Pizza, already a big deal in Spitalfields, has just opened its second restaurant, in

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• Quince Bakery prepares to open in Islington

  

  Updated 8/2/24 with opening date

  Lucky Islington residents will have a very interesting new bakery on their doorstep. Quince Bakery is the brainchild of baker Anna Higham. She ran the bakery at Flor before becoming Executive Pastry Chef at The River Café. So it's fair to say she knows a thing or two about baked goods. 

  As for the bread she'll be baking, it'll be sourdough breads

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• Auld Hag are opening The Shoap - a Scottish shop and deli at Angel

  

  Updated 1/2/24 with the launch date

  Gregg Boyd has been on a one-man mission to spread the joy of Scottish food to Londoners. He started as a stallholder Auld Hag in Dalston selling bowls of haggis, neeps and tatties. Now he's about to open a permanent 'shoap' - that's Scottish slang for shop - in Islington.

  "When I moved to London I couldn't believe Scottish food wasn't readily available," he explains.

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• Good Manners is the new coffee and sandwich stall from Bad Manners by Canonbury station

  

  Bad Manners (formerly Quarter Kitchen) have been a big deal in Hackney since launch, with their take on Mexican food forging quite the fan base. And now they've just launched a spin-off in Islington (as first spotted by London on the

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• How an Islington greasy spoon became part of Luke Littler's World Darts Championship journey

  

  Up until this week, some of the best-known places for breakfast in Islington were probably The Breakfast Club on Camden Passage or maybe Ottolenghi on Upper Street. But following the explosion of interest in the World Darts Championship and, more specifically, the teenage finalist Luke Littler, a very different kind of N1 cafe has stolen the limelight.

  Cafe Millennium on Chapel Market turned

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• Test Driving The Tamil Crown - a great Indian pub follow-up in Islington

   

  The Tamil Crown sees the same team behind The Tamil Prince reviving another classic Islington pub with an excellent Indian menu.