Residency

  • Jackson Boxer is behind the latest Selfridges Corner Restaurant residency

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    We're still waiting to hear if Jackson Boxer is going to be opening his Lumette restaurant that he previewed last year, but in the meantime, the chef behind Orasay and Brunswick House is popping up at Selfridges with a new residency. 

    He's taking over the

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  • Rowley Leigh pops up in Notting Hill with Chez Rowley residency

    Rowley Leigh pops up in Notting Hill with Chez Rowley residency

    It's been a while since we last saw chef Rowley Leigh in a London kitchen. After closing  Le Cafe Anglais in 2014 (his follow-up to Kensington Place) he helped open Cafe Monico on Shaftesbury Avenue but has been relatively quiet since then. But now the chef is back, popping up at a Notting Hill residency. 

    Chez Rowley will be an Italian bistro, featuring dishes

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  • Clapton's 107 wine bar signs up ex St John chef Elliot Hashtroudi for five month residency

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    All eyes have been on the wine bar formerly known as P Franco to see who's taking over cheffing duties now that the bar is properly up and running again. This week we got the answer; they've signed up former St John sous chef Elliott Hashtroudi who'll be cooking up a storm here for the rest of the year.

    Asked what his menu will consist of Elliot said it would be "influenced from time at St. JOHN, but it’s an

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  • Five Star Chef winner Dom Taylor opens The Good Front Room at The Langham

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    If a Caribbean getaway this summer is feeling a little too…well, hot, in the current climate, we have the next best thing. The Langham, London has transformed its Palm Court into a six-month Caribbean-inspired restaurant pop-up called The Good Front Room. Running it is chef Dom Taylor, fresh from winning Five Star Kitchen: Britain’s Next Great Chef on Channel 4 (and Netflix) last week.

    If

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  • My Neighbours The Dumplings are the latest Seed Library residency in Shoreditch

    My Neighbours The Dumplings are the latest Seed Library residency in Shoreditch

    Shoreditch's Seed Library, the bar from Ryan Chetiyawardana (Mr Lyan) below the One Hundred Shoreditch hotel, has been getting some pretty great residencies in. They've already had Norman's Cafe and Ruben's Reubens and now the next residency is getting ready - My Neighbours The Dumplings. 

    Already a big hit in Clapton and Victoria Park, they'll also be taking

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  • NYC's Eddie Huang brings Baohaus' Taiwanese buns to London

    NYC's Eddie Huang brings Bauhaus' Taiwanese buns to London

    They've previously brought over Ivan Orkin's Ivan Mazemen for a popular residency and now Neighbourhood in Islington are getting ready for another US import. This time it's the turn of NYC chef and TV personality Eddie Huang (who also created the hit TV show Fresh Off The Boat). 

    He's bringing over the restaurant that first brought him to fame in New York, Baohaus. It was a

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  • Compton Arms gets new Italian residency, Tiella

    Compton Arms gets new Italian residency, Tiella

    After a bit of a fright last year, the future of one of Islington's best pubs, the Compton Arms looks bright. And now they're getting ready to launch an all-new residency. 

    Taking over the kitchens will be Tiella, run by chef Dara Klein. She was last seen at Sager + Wilde as

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  • Esti, a Greek-Australian restaurant, is opening at Shoreditch’s TT Liquor

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    What do you get when you mix Greek dining and British produce with Australian hospitality? You’ll find the answer at a new six-month residency at TT Liquor in Shoreditch, when esti brings its blend of fire-cooked casual Greek food (with bonus Aussie influences) to the Orangery on the bar's first floor.

    The name ‘esti’ is both an ancient Greek term that means ‘to do’ and a riff on ‘estiatorio’ (the

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  • Test Driving Ivan Mazemen - Ivan Orkin's London residency at Neighbourhood in Islington

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    There are a few weeks left to try the Ramen Junkie's London residency. Here's why you should...

  • Roving NYC pop-up Ha’s Đặc Biệt hits Shoreditch for a month

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    They've been raved about by the New Yorker, and have spent the last few months roaming Paris for residencies. Now Ha’s Đặc Biệt are about to give Londoners a taste of what they've been missing.

    The cult Vietamese American residency is run by chefs Anthony Ha and Sadie Mae Burns who met while working at Mission Chinese. After leaving there they forged a reputation first for their food cart and then for their

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  • Ivan Ramen's Ivan is popping up in London with Ivan Mazemen in Islington

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    You may have seen him on Netflix's Chef's Table, or tried his food at last year's collaboration with Bone Daddies. But now ramen hot shot Ivan Orkin of Ivan Ramen fame is coming to London for a full-blown residency.

    The TV star and New York restaurateur will be running his Ivan Mazemen residency at Islington food hall Neighbourhood (previously known as Sessions) for four weeks. Mazemen is Ivan's broth-less ramen

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  • Only Food and Courses takes over the kitchens at The Cheshire Cheese

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    The chef behind the 80s and 90s-inspired popup Only Food and Courses is about to move into more permanent digs. Robbie Lorraine, who first unveiled his restaurant pop-up at Pop Brixton in 2020, has found his restaurant a fixed residency in Temple. He'll be taking over the food offering at The Cheshire Cheese (that's the one off the Strand, not Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street).

    The pub's been taken over

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  • Jackson Boxer previews his new restaurant in ‘Lumette’ Residency at 180 Corner

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    If you'd like a first look at what chef Jackson Boxer (Brunswick House, Orasay) is working on for his next restaurant, he'll be previewing it for just three days next month.

    Lumette will be Jackson's residency at 180 Corner at 180 Strand and it'll showcase dishes from a project the chef has been working on for most of this year "with a view to opening a new restaurant in 2023".

    Alongside his friend Max Osborne,

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  • Duck + Champagne is serving up duck burgers and grower champagnes at the Chelsea Funhouse

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    We're always looking out for interesting new pop-ups and residencies and a new one down in Chelsea has caught our eye. Duck + Champagne at the Chelsea Funhouse on King's Road sounds definitely worth a punt.

    The key thing is that the people behind it. Steve Huggett and Claire Hodgson, have a frankly stellar CV of having worked for top restaurants here in London and New York. Steve's background includes two

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  • Dollars is the latest Rondo residency, bringing American sandwiches to the Hoxton

    Dollars is the latest Rondo residency, bringing American sandwiches to the Hoxton

    The Hoxton's Rondo La Cave has been home to some interesting pop-up kitchens of late - we were impressed by their last residency Chet's.

    But as Chet's winds down, it's time for a new residency, and this one is all about sandwiches. Once again they're

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