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  • Julie's spawns a sibling with new Holland Park pop up Little Julie's

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    Eagle-eyed Holland Park residents will have spotted a new arrival on their doorsteps this past week or so. Popular restaurant Julie's has extended across Clarendon Cross to a new site.

    Little Julie's is, right now, a pop-up. In the mornings, they're serving up brioche breakfast rolls along with chef Owen Kenworthy's homemade granola with seasonal compote. At lunchtime that changes to include a range of

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  • Kerth Gumbs is popping up at the Royal Albert Hall with curried goat and a Caribbean Eton mess

    Kerth Gumbs brings a Caribbean flavour to the Royal Albert Hall with a one-month pop-up

    He's normally seen at the top of 20 Fenchurch Street (aka the Walkie Talkie), but for one month, specifically Black History Month, chef Kerth Gumbs is coming closer to earth with a pop-up at the Royal Albert Hall. 

    For his Elgar pop-up (taking over the Elgar Room Brasserie), the chef has put together a menu with references to his Caribbean heritage that

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  • The best food and restaurant pop-ups and events in London right now

    The best pop-ups and events in London 

    Hot Dinners rounds up some of the best food and restaurant pop-ups and events around town at the moment.

  • Bodega City are popping up with their NYC chopped cheese sarnies on the South Bank

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    Their chopped cheese sandwiches are the talk of the Big Apple and now Londoners are going to get a chance to try them. Bodega City made a name for itself, moving from an insanely popular street food truck to a permanent spot in the South Bronx. If you haven't had a chopped cheese before, then as owner Jeremy explains, "it's essentially a cheeseburger chopped up on a roll with lettuce, tomato, ketchup and mayo...to me

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  • NYC fried chicken spot Pecking House is popping up in London

    NYC fried chicken spot Pecking House is popping up in London

    London is getting a new fried chicken pop-up thanks to The Standard, which is bringing New York's Pecking House to the hotel for a two-month stint. 

    The New York spot was set up by ex-Eleven Madison Park sous chef Eric Huang, a project that originally kicked off during the Covid lockdown. It started as a pop-up in Queens and now they have a Chinatown outpost, serving up chicken that

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  • The Pot Luck Club is bringing a touch of South Africa to its London pop-up

    The Pot Luck Club is bringing a touch of South Africa to the Waldorf Hilton

    If you’d like to experience a little bit of exciting Cape Town dining without leaving the comfort of home, there’s a pop-up coming to London that you’d better put on your radar.

    The Pot Luck Club is coming to the UK for the first time, giving Londoners the chance to experience British-born chef Luke Dale Roberts’ Cape Town–based restaurant. You’ll find it taking up

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  • Austin's Nixta Taqueria is popping up in Soho at Truffle Burger

    Austin's Nixta Taqueria is popping up in Soho at Truffle Burger

    Truffle Burger have been on something of a roll with their collabs and takeovers of late. They recently had Charles Pan Fried Chicken in a South Bank pop-up and next up is a taqueria takeover of their Soho restaurant. 

    The taqueria in question is Nixta Taqueria, which hails from Austin, Texas run by a chef with Michelin and James Beard awards under his belt. It takes the

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  • Hawksmoor are heading into the woods this summer, with woodland feasts at The Grove

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    If you love the idea of a festival, but baulk at the general lack of comfort and sanitation, then we might have a halfway house solution for you. For four nights this summer, everyone's (except the far right) favourite steakhouse Hawksmoor, is popping up in a Hertfordshire woodland with a special feast.

    They're holding a cooking over fire experience in the woods at The Grove, a swanky five-star hotel in

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  • A Baileys iced coffee pop-up is coming to Shoreditch

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    These days, are you really a proper high street brand if you haven't launched a food and drink pop-up or two? This year, Bosch have already had us eating off the floor and there was a pop-up dedicated to

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  • London is about to get a pop-up olive oil bar

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    Unless you’re a professional food taster, you may not have had the pleasure of cleansing your palate with a shot of olive oil, but that’s all about to change with the news that an olive-oil pop-up bar is coming to Notting Hill.

    Much more than a health food, extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) conjures up majestic drizzles of the golden stuff on sun-drenched Mediterranean escapes. And for a short time, you can both educate

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  • A Twin Peaks diner and a Wes Anderson bar are both popping up in London this summer

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    We love a well-themed pop up and this summer, London has two good ones to choose from.

    To start with, there's the Wes Anderson-themed takeover of the bar at Bob Bob Ricard in Soho. The downstairs bar of the restaurant has been transformed into Marseille Bob's, after a key character in the Anderson's new movie, The Phoenician Scheme. You'll find props dotted throughout the space alluding to key moments

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  • Crosta Mollica is bringing its pizza bases to Shoreditch for pop-up pizzeria, Il Leopardo

    Crosta Mollica are bringing their pizza bases to Shoreditch for a pop-up pizzeria

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    Crosta Mollica already have quite the reputation for their excellent ready-made pizza bases. If you haven't already cottoned on to them as a great home pizza option, now you can have a chance to try the pizzas out first, with the help of some expert pizza makers.

    The authentic Italian pizza brand is

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  • Soleil by Claude is Bosi's new Mediterranean summer pop-up at Brooklands

    Soleil by Claude is Bosi's new Mediterranean summer pop-up at Brooklands

    One of the biggest draws of Claude Bosi's two-Michelin-starred Brooklands is the fantastic terrace, one of the best rooftop dining spaces in London. However, the stunning terrace perhaps isn't the ideal space for a fine-dining Michelin-level experience, and now it's getting something of a summer overhaul.

    Taking over this space for the whole of Summer is a new pop-up

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  • Top New York bar Dante is popping up in Claridge's for a month

    Top New York bar Dante is popping up in Claridge's for a month

    Caffe Dante has had quite a history in New York, having originally been established back in 1915. However, its current iteration launched as Dante back in 2015, and the restaurant and  bar have since won heaps of accolades in the decade since.

    But if you haven't managed to make it over to New York to check it out, Dante is coming to London instead. It'll be taking over the bar

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  • A McVitie's Digestives pop-up is coming to Piccadilly Circus

    A McVitie's Digestives pop-up is coming to Piccadilly Circus

    Slightly mad brand pop-ups are the thing these days. We've recently had KitKat launching a new Blockbuster store and Bosch making you eat off the floor. Next up, a temple to chocolate

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