Shoreditch

• Test Driving TT - smoking on the rooftops of Shoreditch

   

  TT in Shoreditch has made its rooftop restaurant permanent and brought in a chef who's behind a new wood-fired menu. We popped up to the roof to see what he's cooking.  

• Kirk Haworth's Plates is opening in Shoreditch

  

  If you're ever wondering what the sign of a hot restaurant is going to be in advance then look no further than the upcoming return of chef Kirk Haworth's Plates restaurant. The Great British Menu 2024 winner announced last night that bookings had opened for Plates' new venue in Shoreditch and the deluge of bookings promptly crashed the website. More than 70k people were trying to get hold of a table with

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• Test Driving 65a - a classic French brasserie in Spitalfields

  

  There's a classic French brasserie right on the edge of Spitalfields Market. We went down to see what they're cooking up at 65a. 

• From Chicago's Smyth to Shoreditch, chef Evelyn Aloupas arrives for a month at Oranj

  

  Smyth is the restaurant that Jeremy Allen White said his character's restaurant in Season 2 of the Bear took inspiration from, and now Londoners can try the food of the restaurant's CDP when she arrives in Shoreditch. Evelyn Aloupas spent two years at the three Michelin-starred Chicago restaurant and she's going to be spending a month cooking up a storm as Oranj's latest residency chef.

  For Evelyn's London

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• UBA sees ex-Aqua Kyoto chef opening a Pan Asian restaurant at Hart Shoreditch

  

  It's all change at the Hart Shoreditch hotel where Latin American residency Mostrador is giving way to UBA a Pan-Asian restaurant. Heading up the kitchens is chef Paul Greening who was previously Executive Chef at Aqua Kyoto on Regent Street.

  We're told the menu is being inspired by Paul's travels across Tokyo, Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Dishes will include:

  • Spicy salmon tartare served on an ice plate
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• The Brush Grand Café, Lounge and Cocktail Bar is coming to Hoxton’s new art’otel

  

  If we told you there’s a new all-day dining concept coming to the art’otel, you might be thinking of Battersea Power Station, but we have some double-barrelled news today: Hoxton is also getting an art’otel; its ground floor will house The Brush Grand Café, with upstairs home to the Brush Lounge & Cocktail Bar.

  If you’re a fan of whimsical grand cafes a là Vienna and Paris, then you’ll feel at home at The

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• Bangers are opening a permanent breakfast bar in Shoreditch

  

  Bangers have been delivering breakfast buns to East London for a while, but now they're getting ready to move to the next level, opening a breakfast bar in Shoreditch. 

  The new place will be part-restaurant, part-deli, so as well as ordering yourself a breakfast bun, you'll be able to take things home like their slow-cooked baked beans in jars and amazing bacon.

  As for the

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• Pearly Queen

  A seafood and oyster bar in Shoreditch from Tom Brown, the man behind Cornerstone restaurant.

• Nancy Spain's Irish pub is opening in Shoreditch

  

  If there's one date you want to open in time for if you're a new Irish pub, it's St Patrick's Day. So Shoreditch pub Nancy Spain's is coming in just under the wire with the intention of flinging open its doors a few days before the big day.

  The folks behind it are Kerry-born brothers Peter and Nicholas O’Halloran and they're hoping their pub will bring something new to Shoreditch. Interestingly,

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• Cycene

  Theo Chench's Shoreditch tasting menu restaurant

• Rochelle Canteen

  Margot Henderson's Shoreditch home

• Test Driving Pearly Queen - Tom Brown's Spitalfields oyster bar makes a big impression

  

  Cornerstone's Tom Brown has opened his second restaurant, a seafood restaurant and oyster bar in the East End. We went to Commercial Street to take a look. 

• Test Driving Bistro Freddie - a classic bistro for Shoreditch with a modern touch

  

  Tucked down a side street between Old Street and Shoreditch, this lovely spot is serving up modern takes on bistro classics. 

• A pop-up cereal bar is coming to Shoreditch from Kellogg's

  

  It's been a while since the Cereal Killer cafes closed (an early victim of the lockdowns) but for a few days only, a new cereal bar pop-up is coming to Shoreditch. 

  This time, it's the turn of Kellogg's who are opening the Kellogg's Kombos Pop-Up. They'll have 25 cereals on offer and, as the name suggests, you'll be able to combine them into any kind of cereal you want. They say

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• Taco Taco to open in Shoreditch with footballer Hakim Ziyech as co-owner

  

  Updated 8/9/23 with opening date

  If the name Hakim Ziyech makes you sit up, then you are probably a football fan (or at least a Chelsea supporter). We’re here to tell you that he’s launching a taco restaurant in Shoreditch. That’s right, joining an extremely niche list of famous footballer restaurant owners, Hakim (along with three other co-founders, including two

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