Cheese

• Test Driving Pick and Cheese - the world's first cheese conveyor belt restaurant

  

  You may have seen loads of videos of this new place by The Cheese Bar folk on your Insta feed, but how does it actually work? We went to find out.

• Red Hand in Dalston has some compelling cheese toasties you'll want to try

  

  Here at Hot Dinners, we're particularly partial to a good cheese toastie, so news of a whole bunch of them hitting a menu in East London certainly got our attention.

  Red Hand opened earlier this year on Stoke Newington High Street - the bar serves craft beer and cocktails on tap, focuses on natural wines and small batch spirits.

  In the kitchen is chef Rebecca Lever from I Will Kill Again and she's the one responsible for their

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• Pick and Cheese at Seven Dials Market will be London's (nay the world's) first cheese conveyor belt restaurant

  If you've ever wondered what entirely new delights the London food scene held for jaded city dwellers, then behold the new cheese conveyor belt restaurant coming your way.

• Honest Burgers have teamed up with Kupros Dairy for the Halloumi burger this summer

  

  Another day, another limited edition burger. This one's the new Halloumi burger at Honest Burgers. They've teamed with British halloumi producer Kupros Dairy for it - if you haven't already tried the Hertfordshire dairy's halloumi, you REALLY need to. We first tasted it at Stroud Green spot Goods Office and were blown away by how

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• Morty and Bob's team up with Mark Hix for a new cheese toastie at King's Cross

  

  Recently launched in Coal Drops Yard, Morty and Bobs are well known for their very fine cheese toasties. Now they're settled in their fancy new restaurant, they're teaming up with other chefs for the monthly Melt Collaborations. And to kick things off, they've drafted in Mark Hix.

  The new toastie from Hix and M&B features black pudding, spring onions and tangy apple sauce, grilled between thick

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• Jumi cheesemongers are opening on Newington Green and raclette evenings are planned

  Borough Market's Swiss cheese specialists Jumi are opening their first permanent store in Stoke Newington with plans afoot to hold raclette evenings and cheese school.

• Wotsit dust, 70s dishes and low-cal pizzas - your weekly round-up

  

  From Wotsit dust to queue-jumping, we bring you all the news that was fit to print (but we just didn't get around to covering elsewhere this week)...

• Alpes at Pop Brixton is the new Alpine restaurant from the Raclette Brothers

  Street traders the Raclette Brothers are opening a restaurant at Pop Brixton with Alpine-inspired food. So if fondue, raclette and tartiflette are your thing, then you know where to come.

• Grill My Cheese are popping up at Selfridges

  

  The next street food folk to pop up at Selfridges Food Hall are Grill My Cheese. The Leather Lane purveyors of toasted cheese sourdough sarnies will be putting on a combo of classic dishes and Selfridges specials during their four week spot on Oxford Street.

  From their classics, you'll find G.M.C (farmhouse mature Cheddar, Farmhouse Cow Milk Mozzarella and bechamel sauce) £6 and their Insta-worthy Rainbow Toasties with beetroot, rocket and

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• 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:

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• G'rilla is bringing pimped up grilled cheese sarnies to Nova Victoria

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• Pickle and Toast finally opens its doors on Wardour Street

  

  One of London's longest-running restaurant sagas finally came to an end last week. For two years, Pickle and Toast has been tormenting Soho folk with an 'Opening Soon' hoarding, promising decent grilled cheese sandwiches. Many figured it was never actually going to open. And then, quietly, with no fanfare at all, it FINALLY opened last week.

  Woody Bear's cheesy boozy rooftop pop-up comes to Oxford Street

  

  Winter. It's cold, dark, and unavoidably depressing. So, what to do? Well, Oxford Street's new winter pop-up Woody Bear has a few suggestions, mainly in the form of melted cheese and booze.

  The new pop-up will be laying on gooey wheels of raclette, croque monsieur and spiked eggnog to warm your cockles and raise your spirits, all taking place on an urban fairground-themed rooftop with amazing views over

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• La Fromagerie is bringing cheese to Bloomsbury with their latest spot

  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.

• Test Driving The Cheese Bar - cheese in every which way imaginable

  We head over to Camden to try The Cheese Bar, where the Cheese Truck has settled down. It really is ALL about cheese. And that's a good thing.