Residency

• From Chicago's Smyth to Shoreditch, chef Evelyn Aloupas arrives for a month at Oranj

  

  Smyth is the restaurant that Jeremy Allen White said his character's restaurant in Season 2 of the Bear took inspiration from, and now Londoners can try the food of the restaurant's CDP when she arrives in Shoreditch. Evelyn Aloupas spent two years at the three Michelin-starred Chicago restaurant and she's going to be spending a month cooking up a storm as Oranj's latest residency chef.

  For Evelyn's London

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• Jackson Boxer is behind the latest Selfridges Corner Restaurant residency

   

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

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