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- Test Driving Plates - GBM winner Kirk Haworth's plant-based restaurant is a deserved hit
Great British Menu winner Kirk Haworth has teamed up with his sister Keeley for their first permanent Plates restaurant in Shoreditch and it's already a huge success, booked out for months in advance. We went down to the plant-based restaurant to see what the fuss was all about.
- Noble Rot chef Alex Jackson is leaving to cook at Leila's Shop in Shoreditch
A few weeks back a Hot Dinners reader alerted us to an interview with chef Alex Jackson on the Go To Food podcast. Turns out the chef who's been helming at Noble Rot Soho for the past four years was about to make a
... - Kaso is the new rooftop bar and restaurant at One Hundred Shoreditch
It's been just two years since the East London hotel One Hundred Shoreditch opened its doors, but it's already changed both of its restaurants in that short time. On the ground floor Sticks 'n' Sushi has taken over from the original spot Goddard & Gibbs and now on the rooftop, the unimaginatively named The Rooftop has given way to Kaso.
Although the look hasn't changed, the menu certainly
... - Chef Jay Morjaria is popping up with Park & Kim Korean diner at Callooh Callay
Over the past few years chef and Million Pound Menu winner Jay Morjaria has popped up with residencies all over London involving different iterations of Korean food. Now he's back with a Korean diner which he's showcasing for the next three months with a residency at Shoreditch cocktail bar Callooh Callay.
Park & Kim is going to serve up Korean food in an American diner environment. "Imagine an American opening
... - Cavita is taking over the menu at Shoreditch's Seed Library for tacos and tostadas
Ryan Chetiyawardana's Seed Library bar in Shoredirch has had some notably great residencies since it opened, with recent takeovers including My Neighbours The Dumplings and Norman's Café. Their next team-up looks just as good, with Cavita the next place to take over the food menu for three months.
Chef Adriana Cavita's restaurant in Marylebone, celebrating
... - 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
... - 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
... - 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
- The Brush East London Grand Café is coming to Hoxton’s new art’otel
Updated 13/3/25 with new restaurant name
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 East London Grand Café, with upstairs home to the Brush Lounge & Cocktail Bar.
If you’re a fan of whimsical
... - 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
... - 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,
... - 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.
