Clerkenwell

• Grab a very British bite to eat from Burberry in Clerkenwell Green

  

  Updated 23/9/17 with pictures and more details

  Clerkenwell has a new pop-up from luxury Brit brand Burberry which has temporarily extended its West End restaurant (which we're rather fond of) to support the photography exhibition it's putting on by Clerkenwell Green.

  Much like the main venue in town, the menu will be heaving

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• Fermented French cuisine with a Persian twist from Clerkenwell’s The Drunken Butler

  Yuma Hashemi has been all over, from Portugal to San Francisco. Now he’s opened his first ever solo restaurant in London. It’ll be loosely French themed, with a Persian and Korean twist, and you can expect to see more than a bit of preserving and fermenting...

• Palatino in Clerkenwell is doing carbonara for breakfast

  

  Londoners, welcome to the next level breakfast hitting our streets from today. Palatino, Stevie Parle’s latest opening on Central Street, will be serving up Buccatini carbonara for breakfast.

  If, for some unknown reason, the thought of breaking your fast with a bowlful of top pasta doesn't entice you, maybe the other dishes of salt cod, potatoes & broken eggs or maybe onglet steak, egg, sage & chilli will do the trick. And there's also

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• The Gibson celebrates their first year with new cocktail and locally sourced bar menu

  

  The Gibson, one of the hottest bars of 2016, is celebrating its first year in operation with the launch of a new cocktail and food menu.Going well beyond the standard crisp and nuts route, The Gibson’s new locally sourced menu features inventive flavours and exotic ingredients specially chosen to be enjoyed alongside their extensive list of award-winning cocktails.

  Led by Marian Beke

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• Test Driving Palatino - a modern Roman canteen in Clerkenwell

  This modern Italian dining room is an exercise in good taste, from design to what's on the plate

• Luca Italian restaurant from the people behind The Clove Club
• LA’s Guerrilla Tacos will takeover Breddos for one weekend only

  

  Everyone wants a piece of Breddos Tacos these days, and they’re only too happy to oblige it. After a successful partnership with Yard Sale Pizza in Finsbury Park, they’ve now decided to launch a series of pop-up ‘Tacovers’, welcoming serious taco chefs from all over the world to temporarily take the reigns in their new Clerkenwell digs.

  First up, it’ll be Guerrilla Tacos from Los Angeles - the heartland of

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• Test Driving Breddos - top tacos and Mezcal in Clerkenwell

  London's taco credentials are massively boosted by the arrival of Breddo's in Clerkenwell

• Apres Food Co brings hearty and healthy comfort food to Clerkenwell

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  Can a cafe be based on nutritional medicine, cook with absolutely no gluten or sugar, and yet still not feel ‘too’ healthy? Yes, according to Apres Food Co, a new self-funded startup about to open on St. John Street.

  The name of their game is all about redefining comfort food, so those who keep an eye on what they’re eating, for whatever the reason, can still

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• Breddos Tacos brings tortillas and tlayudas to Clerkenwell

  

  Updated 8/12/16 with soft launch info

  Until recently, it's felt like London's tacos have played second fiddle to the burrito, their gut-busting cousin. So it’s great news that street vendor Breddos Tacos, winner of the Taco Wars 2014 (yes, it was a real thing) will be setting up permanent shop in Clerkenwell later this month as they finally close the doors on their roving

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• Stevie Parle's Palatino brings a taste of Rome to Clerkenwell​

  

  Updated 10/1/17 with soft launch info

  Stevie Parle, whole behind Craft, Rotorino, Dock Kitchen and Sardine, is turning his hand to his newest venture Palatino, a Rome-influenced restaurant in Clerkenwell (a place where it's all happening at the moment). 

  It will be taking Rome as a culinary melting pot of Italian cuisine, with recipes collected over many years and taking

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• Clerkenwell’s The Green gets a revamp courtesy of the Culpeper folk

  

  The team behind Culpeper, the roof garden-resplendent Commercial Street cocktail joint, is opening a third establishment called The Green, named after Clerkenwell Green where it lives.

  Director Nico Treguer has been working together with his counterpart Gareth Roberts for some years now, on a quest to convince London’s landlords to utilise what can often be the only bit

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• Test Driving Luca in Clerkenwell - an Italian from The Clove Club team

  Luca is the latest restaurant from the people behind The Clove Club. We head down to Clerkenwell to take a look. 

• Luca is the Clove Club's new restaurant in Clerkenwell

  

  31/10/16 - updated with opening info. 

  We've been noting with interest that the Clove Club have been tweeting about recruiting staff for a new restaurant and now we have all the details - and it's called Luca in Clerkenwell. 

  Isaac McHale, Daniel Willis and Johnny Smith are all working on the new place, with Johnny moving to Luca full-time. There will be an Italian twist as the menu will be primarily Italian, but using

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• Drinks, dinners and dancing at Grind’s newest base in Clerkenwell

  

  Next month, Grind will return to its spiritual home in East London bringing with it a fresh menu, pink velvet booths and those espresso martinis.  

  Following the cafe chain’s unstoppable run of successful openings in central and East London, Grind will be making the move into late night dancing and drinks with an updated menu when it opens its sixth branch in Clerkenwell in

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