Holloway

• Test Driving Sambal Shiok - a laksa bar and much more on Holloway Road

  Mandy Yin's popular pop-up has finally settled down in permanent digs on Holloway Road. We went to see why everyone's raving about her laksas.

• Sambal Shiok are opening a permanent laksa bar on Holloway Road

  Malaysian laksa specialists Sambal Shiok have finally found a permanent spot for their critically-acclaimed dishes. Opening up on Holloway Road they're planning some epic weekend brunches and the Riesling wine list sounds good too.

• LeyLey's comes to Holloway with burgers and chicken skin sugar doughnuts

  

  Looking for a new burger spot in Holloway/Highbury Corner? They LeyLeys may be exactly what you need. They've already appeared as a Marylebone pub residency, and now they've have found a new home in Holloway for six months. 

  It's been set up by William Leighton, who told us:

  "LeyLey's was an idea born out of time I had spent living on the west coast of the US, I fell in love with the

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• Dirty Burger & Chicken Shop open on Holloway Road

  

  Bit late to this (in that it opened three weeks ago) but in addition to having opened Cafe Monico last week, Soho House have also unveiled their latest Dirty Burger and Chicken Shop. The newest one is on the Holloway Road and - in a first for the group - features both restaurants in the one space. Handy if you can't decide whether it's

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• Provisions wine and cheese store opens on Holloway Road

  

  Opening its doors on Holloway Road today is new wine and cheese store Provisions. It's the brainchild of two ex-Borough Wine blokes - Hugo and Ben. "We want to put the producer at the fore and tell their story to people here," Ben told Hot Dinners. "It’s what got us hooked on them in the first place and what we love about working with them."

  Expect to find around 100 wines in stock from France and Italy. There'll be a wine refill system where a reusable bottle

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• Croft Kitchen pops up at Holloway Road's Vagabond with ex-Mugaritz chef

  

  To add to its burgeoning cafe scene, Holloway Road is about to get a hot new pop-up with some very interesting folk involved. Croft Kitchen describes itself as as a "seasonal British pop-up restaurant and bar". They're taking over Vagabond Coffee in the evenings from Thursday to Sunday from this month.

  In the kitchen is Phil Walther, who has previously worked at Mugaritz (No 6 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants List for 2015) as well as Ryugin (29 on the

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