Shoreditch

• Test Driving Gloria - a gloriously OTT Italian trattoria in Shoreditch

  Parisian restaurant folk Big Mamma Group picked Shoreditch for their first London restaurant opening. We went to see how their upbeat Italian trattoria fits into the London restaurant scene.

• Gloria sees Big Mamma bring their Italian trattoria to London (via Paris)

  The Big Mamma group in Paris have had huge hits with their trattorias and now they're coming to London with Gloria, taking over a big space in Shoreditch. Expect Italian food in a classic looking space (as well as a hidden 80s-set dining room). 

• Test Driving Gizzi Erskine's Filth popup in Shoreditch - fast but guilt-free food

  Gizzi Erskine and Rosemary Ferguson have taken their dream to open plant-based burger shop Filth a step further with a three-month popup in Shoreditch. We went to check it out. 

• A fried chicken and eyeliner pop-up is coming to Shoreditch

   

  Well, this is a collaboration we weren't quite expecting. The latest pop-up to hit Shoreditch is a mash-up of fried chicken wings and eyeliner - courtesy of Mother Clucker and Benefit Cosmetics. 

  The mind slightly boggles, but in the store - called JUST Wing IT - we're told that you'll be able to pop in, order your wings and get a demo of the liquid matte eyeliner while you're snacking away (eating wings and doing

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• Gizzi Erskine's FILTH veggie burger joint pops up in Shoreditch

  Gizzi Erskine and Rosemary Ferguson team up to take on the fast food giants with their vegetarian burger chain

• Test Driving Burger and Beyond - really living up to both parts of the name

  Burger and Beyond have set up their first permanent restaurant in Shoreditch - with the emphasis on building the "beyond" part. We head down for a look. 

• Test Driving Blacklock Shoreditch - the one with its own bar

  Blacklock's third restaurant, in Shoreditch, turns out to be a light-filled dining room with a cracking cocktail list as well as all manner of meat treats. 

• Burger and Beyond are setting up a permanent burger place in Shoreditch - updated

  You'll have seen Burger and Beyond at street food markets all over town, and now they're settling down in Shoreditch. Expect all your favourite burgers and a lot more new additions too. 

• Ninety One Living Room kicks off with a Sabel residency in Shoreditch

  Ninety One Living Room is a new all-day space in Shoreditch's Brick Lane. It's a cafe/workspace by day and restaurant/bar in the evening. And they have husband and wife duo, Sable, kicking off the first food residency. 

• St Leonards launches a bargain caviar deal

  

  It's really a testament to how far Shoreditch's restaurant scene has come with the fact that we're bringing you news of a special caviar offer that's just hit EC2.

  We've already tried the lunchtime bar menu at St Leonards, but we might have to go back to have a bash at the new Caviar Service they've launched today. All day Monday and at lunchtimes on

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• Goose Island Shoreditch Brewpub promises a holy trinity of beer, pizzas and live music

  Expect a holy trinity of beer, food and live music at this American beer company's first UK brewpub which has landed on Shoreditch High Street.

• Mikkeller Bar and Rick Astley are opening their Shoreditch bar tomorrow

  They're an unlikely pair but gypsy beermaker Mikkel Borg Bjergsø has teamed up with 80s pop icon Rick Astley to open a super hip beer bar in Shoreditch. I know!! 

• Test Driving Two Lights - the new Modern American restaurant in Shoreditch from the Clove Club team

  Obviously, any new opening by the Clove Club team is going to whip

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• Pachamama East sees the team behind the original restaurant open in Shoreditch

  The team behind the original Pachamama in Marylebone and Chicama in Chelsea are bringing Pachamama to Shoreditch, with some Asian influences as well as Peruvian.

• Soho House are opening Cecconi's Shoreditch at their new Redchurch Townhouse

  Expect a bit of Italian pizzazz as Soho House open their Redchurch Townhouse hotel complete with Cecconi's Shoreditch on the ground floor, just a street away from Shoreditch House.