Street food in Peckham
North Londoners are going to have put on their trekking boots if they want to be part of one of the buzziest food events in town. The event in question is Street Food @ The Rye - where from 16 May for 16 days, 16 street food hawkers (you're seeing the theme now?) are pulling up outside one pub, the Rye in Peckham, to ply their wares. There's a different van each day ranging from Ca Phe Vietnam to Jamon Jamon Paella. And on the final day, well that's when Meatwagon takes up the spot at the Rye under their new moniker Q Gardens. Find out more at Eat St.
Red Fort does Lassi
Over in Soho, Zenna bar underneath The Red Fort is a good place to go if you're off the sauce for a while. Award winning mixologist, Dan Thomson has come up with a special Lassi List of drinks which are blended to order. You can still try the usual Mango or Plain Salted flavours, but we liked the sound of Coriander Mint Apple or Salted Caramel.
Young Turk supper club
In the east - Victoria Park wine bar Bottle Apostle has lured back Young Turk James Lowe for a series of supper clubs. Given our experience of his food at the recent Young Turks at the Loft event, we'd highly recommend anyone in the area grabbing a place as he's definitely a chef to watch over the coming months. Find out more about the event.
Other things we've learned this week:
- If you don't want your football team's charity dinner at The Grosvenor to descend into a free-for-all fist fight, give the paying punters autographs when they ask nicely.
- The best place to be a fly on the wall will be at Dinner by Heston when Kate Moss and Jamie Hince have their pre-wedding dinner there to introduce the families.
- How New Yorkers are finally embracing British food
- And you had better be a rich man if you're eating at Gordon Ramsay at the London. The chef's Manhattan restaurant is giving New Yorkers palpatations over the menu prices. According to Eater, it's the priciest three-course restaurant in New York which is going some.
Finally, it's been a busy old week for Hot Dinners. One of our founding team celebrated his 40th (he's still recovering, thanks for asking) and we'd be a good-for-nothing bunch if we didn't give thanks to Pommery Pop champagne, who helped make his transition into middle-age slightly more bearable.
The bottles are as cute as a button, and we particularly love the bubblegum-pink Rose version which is £12.75 a bottle and available at Selfridges, Harvey Nichols and Justerini & Brooks.
