Spitalfields

  • Dine at Canto Corvino in Shoreditch and save 50% on your food bill

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    Enjoy a weekend dinner at this chic modern Italian in Shoreditch, saving yourself 50% on the food bill.

    Offer: 50% off the food bill for dinner on Friday and Saturday

    Where: 21 Artillery Lane, London E1 7HA

    When: 8 March to 6 April 2024

  • Test Driving Alfi - wine pub, restaurant and all round vibey space in Spitalfields

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    Spitalfields Market just got a hot new place to try out with both a wine bar and restaurant vying for attention. We headed east to take a look at Alfi.

  • Test of Time: Revisiting Galvin La Chapelle on its 15th birthday

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    The Galvin brothers are celebrating 15 years of Galvin La Chapelle in its amazing Grade II listed surroundings. We went down to see how the 15 years have treated the Michelin-starred restaurant. 

  • Alfi wine pub and restaurant is opening in Spitalfields

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    Updated 2/12/23 with new opening date

    When is a pub not a pub? When it's a wine pub of course. That's the distinction a new East London business is making when it opens its doors this month. Alfi is being billed as a wine pub and restaurant by experienced hospitality folk Ben Hodges and Alex Lewis and it's taken over the old Leon space inside Spitalfields market.

    The pub will be the first part to

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  • Wagyu burgers and Neapolitan pizzas come to Spitalfields Market

    Wagyu burgers and Neapolitan pizzas come to Spitalfields Market

    If you're in the Spitalfield area - there are two promising new traders to check out. 

    First up is Pizza Guys. They hail from Italy, having kicked off things in Caserta back in 2020. They've brought Neapolitan pizzas to the market and are a bit fond of limited-edition crossover specials like a Korean Kimchi Pizza and Shakshuka Pizza. Here, you'll also find their

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  • Cornerstone's Tom Brown is opening Pearly Queen oyster bar and seafood restaurant in Spitalfields

    Cornerstone's Tom Brown opens Pearly Queen oyster bar and seafood restaurant in Spitalfields

    He's had a lot of success with Cornerstone and now Tom Brown is getting his second restaurant ready, the seafood-led Pearly Queen in Spitalfields (taking over from The Space on Commercial Street). 

    Billed as both an oyster bar and a restaurant, UK-sourced oysters will be a big thing on the menu, both fresh and grilled, and there will be

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  • French Brasserie 65a lands in Spitalfields

    French Brasserie 65a lands in Spitalfields

    A new brasserie is coming to Spitalfields in the shape of 65a. It comes from Irish-born entrepreneur, Patrick Frawley, who's launching the restaurant after 30 years in hospitality. He's joined by Executive Chef Maura Baxter, recently at Clapham’s The Saxon and The Gun in Spitalfields. 

    At 65a, they're going the classic French brasserie route, which means dishes like:

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    • Spitalfields' Lamb Street unveils new food traders

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      If you've been in and around Spitalfields over the last year or so, you'll probably have noticed some big works going on, on Lamb Street. For the past eighteen months they've been building a street for housing a whole load of new food traders and they're just unveiling the results now.

      In total, there are eight new places for workers and visitors to try out, some of which have moved from street trucks to a

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    • Crunch are bringing their banging brioche sandwiches to Spitalfields

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      A Hot Dinners exclusive

      Last summer, a trio of sandwich obsessives began making a name for themselves with the Crunch pop-up in Shoreditch. The group comprises Alexandre Yonan and Michael Medovnikov, who'd met at college, and chef Joni Francisco. Francisco trained under Alexis Gauthier at Gauthier Soho and Nuno Mendes at Chiltern Firehouse before becoming executive chef for the Experimental Group. It took a

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    • Club Mexicana goes big with vegan tacos and frozen pina coladas in Spitalfields

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      If the thought of California-style street food gets your motor running, or if you were already making pilgrimages to Club Mexicana at their Kingly Court or Seven Dials locations, then news of an upcoming Spitalfields location will make the job of hunting down vegan tacos even easier.

      Located in the former HotBox site, Club Mexicana Spitalfields promises an even bigger menu and some serious bar

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    • Le Bab hit up Spitalfields for their next opening

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      While they wait to open their next restaurant at Battersea Power Station, Le Bab are joining the traders at Old Spitalfields market in the meantime. The latest opening from the kebab slinger sees them take over the old Bvrger stall inside the market where they'll be serving up a short menu of three of their kebabs - the chicken shish (pictured) along with a pork ribeye kebab and roast aubergine kebab.

      In addition, you'll

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    • Bubblewrap bring their waffles to Spitalfields Market

      Bubblewrap bring their waffles to Spitalfields Market 

      They're hugely popular in Chinatown and Covent Garden and now a third Bubblewrap has landed in Spitalfields Market. 

      If you're somehow yet to encounter these dessert guys (they do pop up rather a lot on Instagram and TikTok), they're all about their signature Hong Kong-style egg waffles which, yes, have huge bubbles all over them. These are wrapped into cones and then filled

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    • The Indians Next Door arrive in Spitalfields with their samosa and bhaji house

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      You may have tried their food in markets across town, but as of last month, The Indians Next Door now have a new Spitalfields samosa and bhaji house.

      The folks behind it track their culinary journey back to their grandparents moving from the state of Gujarat in India, to Narobi, Kenya in the 1920s, where they then lived in a Punjabi comunity. So their food in London today incorporates "the best of Gujarati,

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    • Delicious Pho comes to Spitalfields via Canada

      Delicious Pho comes to Spitalfields via Canada 

      31/1/22 - updated with opening details

      We've seen a lot of US restaurant imports over the past few years (like Eggslut) but not many (if any) from their northern neighbour Canada (at least until they decide to open a Tim Hortons in London). But that's changing with the launch of Delicious Pho. They're opening in Spitalfields, taking over an old Byron site. 

      The pho

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    • St John brings back its bacon sandwich

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      It was a casualty of the various lockdowns but the good news is that, from today, the St John bacon sandwich is back. One of London's top ways to start the day has returned to the menu at St John Bread and Wine in Spitalfields and will be available for takeaway there every day of the week

      But that's not all the good news we have from Fergus Henderson because they've also reverted the bar area at St John Smithfield back to

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