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• Treats Club are popping up with a Carnaby dessert bar

  

  Lungi Mhlanga's Treats Club, known for their freshly made filled doughnuts, is coming into Central London for a six-month doughnut-laden dessert bar pop-up in Carnaby. 

  The filled doughnuts on offer at the Carnaby Treats will include their strawberry white chocolate, churros horchata and cornflake cereal milk and their do-ssaint will be making an appearance (yes, that is a

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• F Cooke are coming back to Broadway Market with a pie pop for one day only

  

  Three years after F Cooke closed its doors on Broadway Market after 120 years of trading, citing a lack of Eastenders, the iconic pie and mash shop is returning to its former home - for one day only.

  The Cooke family have been invited back by the current occupiers of the old pie shop, spectacle sellers Cubitts. Cubitts took over the site left vacant since F Cooke's departure this summer - the building's Grade II

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• Max and his sandwiches are popping up at The Deli at 80

  

  Easily one of the best places for sandwiches in London, the amazing Max's Sandwich Shop is closing for a little bit of refurb for the next few weeks. But Max isn't going away completely - he's decided to move (literally) up the road for the duration. 

  For just one week, from today, Max will be popping up at Neil Gill's Deli at 80 where he'll be making three completely new

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• Morley's, The Standard and Heinz team up for a King's Cross chicken shop with added caviar

  

  The fried chicken behemoth that is Morley's (which just opened its 100th store) is trying something a little bit different - a team-up with The Standard hotel and Heinz. 

  They're launching a one-month chicken shop pop-up, taking over Double Standard on the ground floor and terrace of the King's Cross hotel (although there will be takeaway too, just

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• KFC are opening an omakase restaurant in Waterloo - for one day

  

  You've got to admire the marketing bods at KFC; whatever they're paying that team is paying dividends. Last year their chicken-fuelled pub in Hammersmith for the World Cup was the talk of the town. This year they've gone one better. To promote the arrival of the teriyaki burger in their

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• Lobster roll pop-up kicks off Café Pier's takeover programme in Chelsea

  

  Last month we reported on the revival of an early 20th century cabmen's shelter in Chelsea which had been turned into the diminutive Café Pier. Now the riverside spot is about to get its first pop-up.

  Chef Charles Bryant is going to be the first one to take over the space with

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• 310 Portobello is The Pelican and Straker's Notting Hill summer pop-up

  

  They're two of the hottest places in West London right now and over the course of the summer The Pelican and Straker's have taken over the spot on Portobello Road that was Pizza East for a pop-up.

  The menu is short and sweet serving up dishes like fritto misto and aubergine parmigiana together with the fabulous flatbreads that customers have raved about in reviews of Straker’s and which the chef will be

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• Big Penny Social creates Walthamstow-on-Sea with a big city beach

  

  Can't quite make the time to get away to the beach this summer? Well if you're near Walthamstow, the beach is coming to you. 

  Big Penny Social have created Walthamstow-on-Sea (or at least "on reservoir") by dumping a tonne or so of sand in their backyard. They're even adding beach huts, which you can book for up to four people for the entire session (lunch or

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• Outcrop sees the AngloThai and Luca teams pop up at 180 Strand

  

  14/7/22 - updated with new photos of Outcrop

  We've been waiting for the opening of AngloThai by John and Desiree Chantarasak but while it looks like we'll have to wait a while longer for that, they will in the meantime be popping up with a restaurant on The

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• Anya Hindmarch's Ice Cream Project is back - this year's flavours include Branston pickle and petit pois

  

  Last year, the launch of Anya Cafe's ice cream pop-up from Anya Hindmarch caused a bit of a stir. Rather than use plain old flavours like vanilla, they had mayonnaise, ketchup and even Lee and Perrins Worcestershire sauce.

  Well, it proved to be something of a hit (TikTok certainly helped) and now they're back with another helping for

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• TĀTĀ Eatery is back, popping up for a one-month residency at The Sea, The Sea in Hackney

  

  it's been a while since we've seen something from TATA Eatery, with the team more recently helping to launch Mr Ji in Camden. But now they're back for a one-month appearance, popping up at The Sea, The Sea in Hackney in a team-up with Resy. Run by Zijun Meng and Ana Gonçalves the menu for this run is "inspired by Meng’s personal journey through mindfulness

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• A Wes Anderson diner is coming to 180 Strand

  

  If you're maybe getting a little weary of the Wes Anderson TikToks that have been proliferating of late, it's not about to stop any time soon. The director has another film coming out this month, Asteroid City, and there will be a special pop-up to celebrate. 

  Taking place in 180 Strand (which will also see ...

• Walkers takes over Max's Sandwich Shop for a week

  

  There are few greater culinary delights out there than the simple pleasures of a good crisp sandwich. You've probably got strong feelings about the bread (sliced white, surely?) and the crisps (obviously ready salted) but until now this has been a treat reserved for late-night snackage at home.

  Now, for one week only, the folks at Walkers are taking over sandwich shops the length and breadth of the

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• Lilith & Co is a Diablo IV pop-up shop selling "goremet chocolate"

  

  A new pop-up with a difference is about to hit London. Opening as part of the launch of the game Diablo IV (a big deal if you're into gaming),  Lilith & Co will be an over-18s-only chocolate shop offering what they're calling "goremet chocolate". Lilith is one of the main characters in the game, in case you're not familiar. 

  Inside the shop, they'll

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• En Root bring their plant-based Indian food to Tulse Hill's Railway Tavern

  

  They only recently launched at The Ritzy in Brixton, but now the Indian-inspired and plant-based food of En Root has opened up in another new home, The Railway Tavern in Tulse Hill.

  They've just taken over the kitchen there and this makes it their fourth

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