Honestly, we're rather flummoxed by a press release we've just had in for a pop-up restaurant experience that will be gracing Dalston’s Ridley Road Market for four weeks this September.
Ridley's will be a pop-up with a difference, being a two-storey, outdoor restaurant made out of scaffolding serving up food from the nearby market stalls. Diners will eat at a communal table overlooking the market while the kitchen will be on the ground floor of the structure.
Lunch will be more informal with space for 40 people while dinner will be a sit down meal for fifteen and will cost £15 (which includes the meal and a £10 food shopping voucher for use at the market).
Mariana Pestana from The Decorators - one of the groups behind the project - explains the concept in a way that befuddled Hot Dinners mind entirely. “At Ridley’s we’re using food as a driver to create links with our community. We see this project as a theatre play that will unfold spontaneously over the course of three weeks. We’ve designed the restaurant as a scenario where different actors – chefs, designers, afro-tango dancers (yes, you read that right), market traders - will come into play and contribute for what will hopefully become a collaborative stage to celebrate exchange."
To try it for yourself head down to Dalston. Ridley's opens on Wednesday 7 September 2011.
