Bethnal Green

• Due East restaurant is opening at Bethnal Green's new East London Hotel

  A fancy new hotel, the East London Hotel, is opening in Bethnal Green. It's bringing along with it the Due East restaurant - an all-day affair that pays a lot of attention to the food and drink being produced out east.

• A three course dessert bar pop-up is about to open in East London

  

  Sweet toothed Londoners should make a note in their diary now for a pop-up dessert experience that's hitting London in a few weeks. The Whisk Dessert Bar doesn't mess around with savoury stuff, instead you can enjoy three courses of desserts.

  Pastry Chef Simon Jenkins has worked with everyone from Raymond Blanc to Gordon Ramsay and Marcus Wareing. And his desserts do sound intriguing. There's fresh pineapple soft serve with a chilli confit and spiced crumb in a

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• Chiringuito converts a Bethnal Green loo into a Spanish restaurant with a rooftop overlooking the park

  Expect Spanish beach-bar vibes as well as an impressive rooftop space from Chiringuito in Bethnal Green. And big Gin Tonics too, of course. All in what used to be a public loo.

• Bethnal Green's Typing Room restaurant is closing at the end of June

  

  We're always sad to hear of a London restaurant closing, particularly any that have managed to survive their first year, let alone three more. But these things happen and yesterday Bethnal Green's The Typing Room sent out an email to its customers saying that they'd be doing their last service at the end of June.

  According to the mailout the head chef Lee Westcott "has decided to pursue new culinary ambitions and will focus on other future

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• Lahpet bring their take on Burmese food to Bethnal Green Road

  From their simple start on a Maltby Street stall to their new permanent digs on Bethnal Green Road, Lahpet are hoping to introduce Londoners to the delights of Burmese food.

• Arepa and Co's second Venezuelan restaurant is on Paradise Row, Bethnal Green

  It's the second restaurant from people behind the Original Arepa & Co, this time in Bethnal Green. Expect lots of Venezuelan style sandwiches and lots more. 

• Bar Bingo aims to offer London's coolest bar crawl

  

  Ever wanted to be more in the know about London's coolest bars? A new company aims to do just that.

  Bar Bingo is a cocktail based bar crawl where no bar is more than five minutes walk from the next. As founder Helen Glaberson explained to Hot Dinners "As industry insiders we take it for granted where the best bars are, but actually a great deal of Londoners don't know about some of the city's best bars.

  The tour books the bars and atable for you, so you

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• The Budapest Bar and Kitchen goes back to Cambridge Heath - and they've got pálinka

  

  Italian-meets-Hungarian pop-up Pasta 'n' Goulash will return once more to its spiritual home in CambridgeHeath, when it revives The Budapest Bar & Kitchen for a three-month residency.

  Underneath

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• Test Driving Coupette in Bethnal Green - a very French cocktail bar

  With Calvados and more on the menu, Coupette is a very French cocktail bar in Bethnal Green. We head east for an early look. 

• Coupette in Bethnal Green sees ex-Savoy bartender bring a French accent to the East End

  Ex-Beaufort Bar head bartender heads east

• Sager and Wilde have opened an Old Fashioned cocktail bar

  

  So Sager + Wilde Paradise Row are launching an Old Fashioned (the drink AND the style) cocktail bar up on their Mezzanine level, and if that wasn't enough to get you down there pronto, just feast your eyes on the cocktail list they've knocked up.

  • Classic Old Fashioned
  • Olive Oil Old Fashioned
  • Toasted Coconut Old Fashioned
  • Burnt Maple Old Fashioned
  • Tonka Bean & Rooibos Old Fashioned

  Alongside

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• Chiltern Firehouse chef takes over at Mission

  

  A year on from opening Mission in Bethnal Green, from the wonder wine due Sager + Wilde, is hitting its strike with a whole new team both in the kitchen and front of house. Taking over from James de Jong in the kitchen is Australian chef Sebastien Myers. Myer worked under Nuno Mendes at Viajante before heading up the kitchen at Chiltern Firehouse. He's most recently done a stage at Faviken before joining Mission.

  And Seb has gathered an interesting team with him.

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