Residency

• 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.

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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...

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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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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