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• Beverly Hills hotspot the Polo Lounge is popping up on The Dorchester Rooftop

  

  2/7/21 - Updated with details of the menu

  London's reputation as a staycation hotspot has just got an injection of pure West Coast glamour with the news that the Polo Lounge is popping up here this summer. The famous Los Angeles restaurant from The Beverly Hills Hotel will spend the whole of July and August on the rooftop of The Dorchester.

  The

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• Rapsa launches a Filipino taco pop-up in Selfridges

  

  Hoxton's Rapsa has made a move into the centre of London - as a pop-up in the Selfridges food hall. The Filipino restaurant has launched a six-week pop-up in the food hall, with a focus on Filipino tacos and frozen cocktails. 

  It's led by chef Francis Puyat (previously Ottolenghi and NOPI) who says "“Filipino cuisine has some of the punchiest Asian flavours thanks to our native

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• Anders Terrace is D&D's summer popup alfresco restaurant in Stratford

  

  Now that the weather's not quite so hellish, it feels safe again to talk about new alfresco options in town. Over in Stratford the restaurant group D&D (think German Gymnasium, Bluebird, 14 Hills) has just opened a pop up outdoors restaurant.

  Set in Endeavour Square, the summery spot is hoping to bring the flavour of the Alps to East London. It's a very tight menu as you can see:

  • Severn and Wye
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• Top US supperclub Outstanding in the Field comes to London for the first time

  

  We've been tormenting ourselves by following the Outstanding in the Field Instagram account for years now. This 'roving restaurant without walls' spends the summers travelling across the States setting up alfresco dinner tables in the most gorgeous settings - from farms to vineyards and beaches. Their aim is "to connect diners to the origins of their food while celebrating the hardworking hands that feed

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• Tendril are back with a plant-based menu at the Sun & 13 Cantons in Soho

  

  After a brief reopening late last year, Soho's Sun and 13 Cantons is back and continuing its series of very interesting pop-ups (they hosted Darjeeling Express before Asma Khan opened their first restaurant) and it's a continuation of the last - Tendril.

  It comes from Rishim Sachdeva, previously at Chiltern Firehouse, Almeida and The Dairy and who is now going it alone with Tendril, serving up a plant-based

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• Head to Hackney for Cornerstone To Go on Saturdays

  

  While Tom Brown and James Toth are waiting to reopen Cornerstone they've decided to set the ball in motion, with a series of Saturday pop-up takeaways outside the restaurant in Hackney Wick.

  "Because we’re bored of sitting twiddling our thumbs we thought we’d do a lil takeaway event down in the wick this Saturday," said Tom. "Same deal as the one last year, first come first served."

  Dishes available to

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• Burger & Lobster open their lobster shack for business at West India Quay

  

  Even if the temperature doesn't quite match the blue skies, it's clear that summer is on its way and over at Canary Wharf, Burger & Lobster are ready for it. Their West India Quay branch has just opened up a lobster shack down by the water, serving up takeaway lobster dishes and drinks.

  There's grilled classic lobster - or you can opt for one marinated in The Ribman's Holy Fuck sauce. Alongside that they're

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• Tredwells' Chantelle Nicholson pops up in Hackney with All's Well

  

  20/4/21 - Updated with reopening details

  On top of being chef-owner of Tredwells, Chantelle Nicholson is in charge of a pop-up in Hackney called All's Well. It opened at the end of October 2020 - getting in a month before everything shut down again. But now it's on the way back. 

  Hyper seasonal, sustainable plates will be at the heart of the menu which will celebrate

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• Imad's Syrian Kitchen pops up in Carnaby with a falafel bar

  

  It's been a bit of a wait but we're finally getting closer to the opening of Imad's Syrian Kitchen, which sees the former sell-out pop-up, settling down in Kingly Court. But while we wait for the opening in May, Imad Alarnab is back to his pop-up roots with a new Falafel

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• Picnic in the Queen's back garden with Alfresco At The Palace

  

  Update: 12pm. Well done to those of you who spotted it - this was our April Fool's Day story - joining a long line of times we've tried with varying degrees of success to pull the wool over your eyes. Mind you, it actually is a good idea....

   

  It's been a very tough 12 months for the hospitality business. And for

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• Hotel Savioli pops up at Hackney's Silver Lining with a must-have sandwich

   

  Popham's Chef de Partie Jack Padoan is getting ready to kick off his newest venture, Hotel Savioli, as a pop-up at Hackney's Silver Lining. It's all starting with one hell of a sandwich. 

  Hotel Savoli is inspired by the hotel that the chef's late Great Aunt and Uncle ran in Riccione and the aim is to focus on modern British fare. The pop-up

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• Kerridge's Garden Grill pops up at the Corinthia London

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  It's fair to say chefs and restaurateurs are being pretty cunning when it comes to finding ways to ensure they can reopen on 12 April. Take Tom Kerridge for example. His restaurant, Kerridge's Bar and Grill, at the Corinthia London, doesn't have any outside space. But, as if by magic, the hotel's managed to conjure some out of thin air.

  To that end, Kerridge's

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• Eggs n Stuff pops up on Holloway Road

  

  They've been delivery-only for a while, but now Eggs n Stuff are getting ready for their first foray into the real world with a three-month pop-up in Holloway. 

  Taking over the space next to The Horatia on Holloway Road (home of a few choice pop-ups), they're mainly about eggy brioche buns, including: 

  • Sausage, Egg and Cheese - British sausage patty, free-range Clarence Court egg, American cheese and house
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• Roulote is a new pop-up sandwich bar from Bar Douro

  

  Restaurants won't be open to customers until April (outside at least) so we're starting to see some more interesting ways that they've devised to reopen before then (particularly now that we're allowed to sit and eat in the park). 

  Roulote is Bar Douro's way of slowly getting back to business. It's a sandwich pop up, named after Portuguese street food trailers, that's being run from the

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• The Joanna's burger pop-up is returning

  

  We may still be a little way off from actually eating in (or outside) restaurants again, but they are still finding new ways to give us a small taste of the real thing. One of those is the burger pop-up outside Joanna's in Crystal Palace. A big success on its last appearance, it's making a return this weekend. 

  There are three burgers up for grabs:

  • The Joanna’s Hamburger - beef,
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