Clerkenwell

• The Quality Chop House Shop is back in action

  

  Have you been going low on pork pies and confit potatoes? Well, if you're local to Clerkenwell, the painful wait is over. The Quality Chop House shop closed just as the current lockdown began, as many restaurants were unsure of their next moves. But as of today, they're back in action.

  There's a slightly new look - things have been moved around to facilitate social distancing - but they're promising that all their usual stock is in

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• Firebrand to open their second pizzeria in Clerkenwell, with all-day cafe Diggs next door

  Firebrand pizza has won a lot of fans in its original Marylebone site - and now they're opening a second pizzeria in Clerkenwell. But that's not all, as they're also opening Diggs, an all-day cafe next door. 

• Wing Shack Co is winging its way to Clerkenwell

  Wing Shack has grown quite the following in Loughton, so they're coming into town with a new chicken shop in Clerkenwell. Expect wings, fillets, burgers and more - as well as a pretty varied selection of sides that includes plantain and cajun squid. 

• Anna Hansen is leaving the Modern Pantry

  

  it's one of the best restaurants in Clerkenwell and serves a mean weekend brunch, but now Modern Pantry is losing the chef that's led it for ten years. Chef Anna Hansen, who also launched Providores with Peter Gordon (which is closing at the end of July) before opening the Modern Pantry, is moving on.

  Here's what she had to say:

  I can’t thank the loyal customers of The Modern Pantry enough for making it the

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• Alex Kratena and TÁ TÁ Eatery to open Tayer and Elementary on Old St

  When the bartender who ran the World's Best Bar for years prepares to open an all-day bar and restaurant in London with fellow top class mixologist Monica Berg, you better believe people are going to sit up and take notice. And when TÁ TÁ Eatery is in charge of the food? Lucky Old Street.

• Clerkenwell gets a new wine and tapas bar on St John Street with Le Cellar

  The former wine buyer at Club and Cellar Gascon has come back to the area to open a wine and tapas bar on St John Street.

• Breddos are doing a special Christmas TacOver and the line-up looks great

  

  Following on from their TacOver series, in which chefs from all over the world popped up at their gaff and did some amazing taco mashups, the guys at breddos are doing a special seasonal version.

  Their Christmas TacOver is going to be a one off tasting menu with TABASCO® Sauce and they've lined up some cracking partners for it. Joining Nud in the kitchen in Clerkenwell will be:

  • John Chantarasak (som saa, Anglo Thai)
  • Nicholas
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• Palatino previews an Autumn menu packed with seasonal goodies

  Head to Stevie Parle's restaurant in Clerkenwell where the new Autumn menu has just been revealed.

• The Green

  Clerkenwell pub

• Quality Chop House's wine bar kicks off a small plates menu

  

  We reported on Quality Chop House opening a wine bar back in July - but now they're taking things a little further. Their former Sous Chef Nick Bramham will be putting together a new menu for the place, serving up small plates every Tuesday - Saturday night. Here's what's on the menu:

  • Focaccia
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• LUCA team up with Turin chef Matteo Baronetto and MARTINI for one hell of an aperitivo menu

  

  London is awash with collaboration menus and cocktail pop-ups, but one coming to Clerkenwell next month sounds particularly noteworthy.

  MARTINI are joining up with Italian restaurant LUCA for a month long aperitivo festival and the food sounds every bit as amazing as the drinks they'll be serving to go with them. They've roped in Michelin-starred Head Chef Matteo Baronetto of Turin’s Del Cambio, one of Italy’s oldest restaurants. Matteo has, in turn, worked with LUCA

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• Quality Chop House is expanding with a new cafe

  

  Not content with a restaurant, bar and deli, Farringdon's Quality Chop House is now adding a cafe too. If you've been to the deli there recently - and we have many times for arguably the best pork pies in London - you'll have seen the wine shop that's next door (previously run by Noble Wines). It's that area that's becoming their new cafe. 

  There you'll be able to sit down and work your way through as many of those pork pies as you can (and we

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• Clerkenwell’s got a new fish and chip shop called United Chip

  Forget your greasy local frier - Clerkenwell’s new fish and chip restaurant United Chip’s all about the millennial pink, Bangkok prawn burgers and complimentary aioli.

• Poons is back - iconic restaurant returns as a Clerkenwell pop-up

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  If you've lived in London long enough to remember the days before pop-ups, when fine dining was French dining and we were all clambering over each other to get past the clipboard nazis at one of Oliver Peyton's gaffs, then the name Poons will have some meaning to you. Back in the day (the day in question being the 70s, 80s and 90s), Bill Poon built up a mini empire of Chinese restaurants across London, even gaining a

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• Racine’s Henry Harris is running the menus at THREE new pubs in London

  

  8/12/17 - updated with Three Cranes soft launch details

  There was much rejoicing when it was announced that Maida Vale's Truscott Arms would reopen (to be renamed Hero of Maida), home to top roasts and a widely beloved upmarket boozer, with none other than Racine’s

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