Soho

• Patisserie Lidl is popping up in Soho for London Fashion Week (with its Croissant handbags)

  

  Dubbed the viral bag of the season, the Nik Bentel x Lidl Croissant bag took just two minutes to sell out when it launched a few weeks ago. The American designer, whose previous kooky food bags retailed for hundreds of dollars, made the headlines with his leather bakery bag (made to look like the store's pastry paper bags) and a crescent-shaped leather purse inspired by the supermarket's pastry

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• Chef David Thompson to bring Long Chim pop-up to Hovarda in Soho

  

  In news that should get your Thai-food taste-buds tingling, acclaimed Australian chef David Thompson is bringing a modern Bangkok-inspired menu to London, with the launch of Long Chim. Meaning ‘come and try’, Long Chim currently has outlets in Sydney, Perth and Dubai (and previously in Melbourne and Singapore).

  If this is all ringing vague bells for you, we reported a couple of years back that the London Long Chim ...

• Bébé Bob has brought in Mr Lyan for a cocktail menu with caviar bar snacks

  

  There are so many things right with what we're about to tell you, that our one proviso is that when rushing to book you make sure to leave a table free for us. We loved Bébé Bob when we first visited it, and we've been longtime fans of uber-mixologist Ryan Chetiyawardana. The phrase match made in heaven has never sounded so

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• New York's 7th Street Burger is popping up in London

  

  Back in the spring you may recall that Hot Dinners paid a much overdue visit to New York. And one of the things we particularly enjoyed while we were there was a late-night visit to the very popular 7th Street Burger. The smash burger joint was, while we were there, certainly among the best-reviewed

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• Junk is bringing French smash burgers to Soho

  

  On a time when all eyes are on Paris for the Olympics, one French burger company is making its way over to the UK. Junk is getting ready to open a burger bar in Soho (where Wonderland was briefly). 

  It's not the first French burger brand to try and make a go of it in London, of course. Big Fernand had a few sites around London and are still serving up their French burgers in South Kensington.

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• Michelin-starred SOLA is offering a la carte for the first time

  

  Back in December when Soho restaurant SOLA unveiled its dramatic new look, one of the key new additions was the Bourbon Room lounge and bar downstairs. Now they're using that space to offer diners the chance to pop in and try the restaurant's key dishes on an a la carte basis, rather than

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• Test Driving The Counter Soho - a burst of Mediterranean hospitality in the heart of Carnaby

  

  Having already scored a hit in Notting Hill chef Kemal Demirasal has brought his Mediterranean and Levantine dishes to Carnaby. We went to check it out.

• KöD head to Soho for their second Danish steakhouse

  

  A year on from opening its restaurant in the City the confusingly-named Danish steakhouse KöD is gearing up to open its second place, this time in the West End.

  They've taken over the site in St Anne's Place that's already hosted two restaurants that were about all things meaty, Zelman Meats and Block Soho. It's one of those spots that no one can seem to make work, so here's hoping for a more positive outcome

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• Stormzy opens his own bar, the immersive House Party in Soho

  

  One opening that we didn't have on our radar for June was none other than Stormzy opening an immersive bar in Soho, which also serves pizza. But that is exactly what we have with House Party, opening today and taking over the space that was once Milk & Honey. 

  Sounding not 100% dissimilar to The Little Door bars, it's a doing-what-it-says-on-the-tin place in that it's "modelled

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• CDMX tacos sees Soho getting a Mexico City-style taqueria

  

  Remember last year when Supernova opened its doors in Soho with a seriously pared-back aesthetic and menu, and was an immediate hit? Well, a new place with similar vibes has just opened in the next street to them and are hoping to be an equally runaway success. CDMX Tacos is the name and it's

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