Shoreditch

• Test Driving Llama Inn - the Brooklyn Peruvian hit makes its way to London from New York

  

  A bona fide hit in Brooklyn, the popular Peruvian restaurant Llama Inn has now opened in London. From NYC to Shoreditch we see how it's faring this side of the pond. 

• Bistro Freddie from Crispin is coming to Shoreditch

  

  Updated 4/9/23 with opening date

  The people behind Crispin (Spitalfields) and Bar Crispin (Soho) have their third opening lined up - Bistro Freddie.

  It's taking over the space that used to be Oklava and will have a bistro-style menu using British Isles produce while focusing mainly on independent producers and growers.

  In charge of the kitchen will be Anna Søgaard,

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• NYC's Peruvian Llama Inn comes to Shoreditch

  

  Updated 14/8/23 with soft launch info

  A new Peruvian restaurant is coming to London via a somewhat unexpected route - New York. 

  Llama Inn opened in New York back in 2015 and has been a hit ever since. Just this year it made it onto the New York Times' Top 100 Restaurants list and its chef Erik Ramirez was a finalist on the James Beard "Outstanding Chef" list this year too. So

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• Chuo's sushi monorail has arrived in Shoreditch

  

  What to do when mere conveyor belts are no longer a sufficiently exciting food delivery system? As once declared on The Simpsons "Well sir, there's nothing on earth like a genuine, bona fide electrified monorail" and now there's one in Shoreditch serving up sushi. 

  How does

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• Nest are moving from Hackney to Shoreditch

  

  If you’d previously had the pleasure of dining at Hackney’s tiny Nest restaurant over the past few years, then things are on the move – and in a good way. Taking over an impressive Victorian building next to Shoreditch Town Hall, Nest is really branching out (pardon the pun). There’ll be space for 24 diners in the main

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• My Neighbours The Dumplings are the latest Seed Library residency in Shoreditch

  

  Shoreditch's Seed Library, the bar from Ryan Chetiyawardana (Mr Lyan) below the One Hundred Shoreditch hotel, has been getting some pretty great residencies in. They've already had Norman's Cafe and Ruben's Reubens and now the next residency is getting ready - My Neighbours The Dumplings. 

  Already a big hit in Clapton and Victoria Park, they'll also be taking

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• Test Driving Lilienblum - Eyal Shani's first London follow-up to Miznon

  

  Miznon chef Eyal Shani has opened the latest restaurant in his burgeoning London empire. This is more about sharing plates that filled pitas - we went down to check it out. 

• Top Mexico City taqueria Cariñito Tacos is popping up in London at Oranj

  

  Having already nailed down one of NYC's coolest roving restaurants as a pop up, Shoreditch wine bar Oranj is keeping the momentum going with their next residency. They've persuaded one of Mexico City's best taquerias to make the journey to London for a month.

  Cariñito's been wowing foodies in Mexico for the past few years with their short but great menus and handmade tortillas. The 'hipster taqueria' uses

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• Sticks'n'Sushi are heading east, opening on Shoreditch High Street

  

  Popular sushi company Sticks n Sushi are getting ready to open in Shoreditch. What will be their ninth London restaurant is taking over the restaurant space that was previously Goddard & Gibbs at the One Hundred Shoreditch hotel.

  It's a pretty big space - with room for over 200 to peruse their menu of sushi, sashimi and yakitori sticks. We're told that the new Shoreditch restaurant will have a large central bar and a

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• Counter 71 and Lowcountry bring a mix of British counter dining and the American south to Shoreditch

  

  11/6/23 - updated with the opening date

  Joe Laker, the former head chef at Fulham's Fenn which is sadly closing at the end of April, already has his next place planned - a restaurant called Counter 71 and a bar, Low Country. 

  The restaurant will, as the name suggests, be all counter dining and is described as a seasonal "ode to the

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• Zapote

  Mexican in Shoreditch

• Esti, a Greek-Australian restaurant, is opening at Shoreditch’s TT Liquor

  

  What do you get when you mix Greek dining and British produce with Australian hospitality? You’ll find the answer at a new six-month residency at TT Liquor in Shoreditch, when esti brings its blend of fire-cooked casual Greek food (with bonus Aussie influences) to the Orangery on the bar's first floor.

  The name ‘esti’ is both an ancient Greek term that means ‘to do’ and a riff on ‘estiatorio’ (the

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• Gordon Ramsay has bought Pizza East

  

  7/3/23 - updated with Shoreditch reopening date

  Gordon Ramsay continues his march across London with news that he's now in charge of a second London pizzeria - he now owns Pizza East.

  The pizzeria was previously part of the Soho House group with a restaurant in Notting Hill and a flagship space in the Tea Building in Shoreditch (next to Lyle's). When that originally launched in 2009, it was

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• Test Driving Zapote - modern Mexican in Shoreditch

  

  This modern mid-level Mexican has just opened in Shoreditch, with a large bar. We head down for tacos and more.

• Treats Club bring their hot doughnuts to Shoreditch

  

  We've seen fresh hot doughnut maker Treats Club in various forms, as both a pop-up and a longer-term space in Netil Market. Now owner Lungi Mhlanga is bringing Treats to Shoreditch with a new permanent shop. 

  If you haven't been to Treats before, it works a little differently to your average doughnut shop. Each one on the menu is cooked to order so when it gets to your hands it'll be

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