Residency

• The Rogues London duo are popping up at Hackney Coffee Co

   

  With restaurants reopening on 2 December (we hope), there's news of a brand new residency from Rogues London to look forward to. The team, Freddie Sheen and Zac Whittle who originally met at Galvin La Chapelle, have recently popped up in Parlour at Kensal Rise (including a lockdown delivery service) and now they'll be taking over Hackney Coffee Company in the evenings and brunch at

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• Edu bring their Spanish burgers to The Spit and Sawdust in Bermondsey

  

  You may have seen them before at Flat Iron Square. Now Spanish burger merchants Edu are about to kick off a new nearby residency, settling in Bermondsey pub The Spit and Sawdust. 

  They call their offering "Mixto" being a mix of Spanish and international cooking. Burgers coming to the pub will be:

  • The Spanglish Burger: 25 days aged beef patty, sherry pickled red
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• Satsu is the new residency to watch at Homerton's The Gun

  

  A promising new residency has launched at The Gun in Homerton (sister pub to The Compton Arms) and yes, you can still visit even though Tier 2 status is imminent. 

  Called Satsu (that means ‘murder’ or ‘kill’ in Japanese - a play on The Gun's name), it's from Reece Moore (Four Legs, Dabbous, Texture and Bao), Jenny Phung (pop up Ling Ling’s) and James Shepherd (ran Haggerston cocktail bar, Shep’s).

  The menu is pitched as "Western dishes are subtly

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• Chef Tom Cenci kicks off evening residencies at Stoney Street in Borough

  

  Honestly, we were pretty gutted when we heard that chef Tom Cenci's Loyal Tavern was to become another restaurant victim of Covid. So it was cheering news to learn this week that Cenci is back behind the stoves again.

  This time he's running a three-month residency at Stoney Street in Borough Market. The restaurant had

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• Carousel returns to Marylebone kicking off a new series of residencies

  

  After shutting down back in March, rolling residency restaurant Carousel is back in action in Marylebone. They've just launched a new series of residencies throughout October. You'll have a chance to see what some chefs have been working on, preview an upcoming restaurant and there's even a chef from overseas.

  Here's who's on duty:

  Thomas Straker - now until 3 October:

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• Jack Whitehall is bringing a decadent Foodslut residency to Tower Bridge

  

  You may know Jack Whitehall more from his standup or Netflix shows with his dad, but he also has a blog called Foodslut. That site specialises in " Brat extends its popup at Climpson's Arch

  

  27/8/20 - updated with details of an extended residency

  After being without Tomos Parry's excellent Brat restaurant for a few months - it returned in two different incarnations. 

  Over the past month, one of the huge successes of post-lockdown pivoting has been the Brat x Climpson’s Arch residency. It saw Parry going back to his roots as he had previously been in the kitchen there

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• Jay Morjaria is opening his restaurant JAE as a residency at Dalston's Untitled

  

  His 'plant-forward' food was enough to win him a £500,000 stake on TV's Million Pound Menu. Now chef Jay Morjaria, is going to be showcasing that winning talent at his new Dalston residency, JAE.

  Having popped up with JAE at various spots across London over the past year or so, this new weekend slot at Untitled will be a semi-permanent base for Morjaria running every Thursday to Saturday night. 

  The menu focuses on

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• Leroy's spin-off Royale will be roasting chicken IRL at a Hackney residency

  

  During the lockdown, Shoreditch's Michelin-starred restaurant Leroy pivoted to create a chicken delivery service in the shape of Royale. But now the restaurant is back up and running, the questions was - what will happen to Royale? Now we know, as they're carrying on serving up chicken, this time in a Hackney residency at the East London Liquor Co. 

  The menu remains the same - rotisserie

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• Anglo Thai are landing at Dalston's Newcomer Wines for a new residency

  

  AngloThai, John and Desiree Chantarasak, have been pretty busy during the lockdown, with an excellent hot-dog kit and a recent collaboration with Cornerstone in Hackney. Now they're

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• Mamapen sets up a Cambodian residency at Dalston's Prince Arthur

  

  In these times of restricted flight policies, know that you can taste the food of Cambodia much closer to home: specifically, at the recently resurrected The Prince Arthur pub in London Fields. During the pub’s year of closure, it consulted with its neighbours as to what exactly residents wanted and has relaunched with the desired focus on community gatherings and independent, yet traditional pub spirit. Fitting

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• Coqbull Irish chicken and burger restaurant kicks off a residency in Camden

  

  New to Camden is a residency from Coqbull, who have already been doing rather well in Ireland. They've opened over there in both Cork and Limerick and have become pretty popular, winning awards along the way. Now they've got their sights set on London, starting with a residency at the Lock Tavern. 

  On the menu will be their "Chicken wings in buffalo or teriyaki sauce" as well as an "all-day

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• Chef Michael Thompson takes on a residency at Crispin restaurant, promising "sustainable luxury"

  

  Spitalfields restaurant, café, and natural wine bar Crispin has announced the latest in its run of guest chef residencies. It’s the sustainability-focused Michael Thompson, formerly head chef of Cub in Hoxton and also known for his Fodder pop-up, which focuses on foraged ingredients.

  For six weeks, Michael will present a menu focused on what Crispin is calling ‘sustainable

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• Fallow will be the next 10 Heddon Street residency

  Fallow are Jack Croft and Will Murray, who met while they were both working at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal and they're very much followers of a "nose to tail" and "root to stem" cooking approach with a big focus on no/low waste. 

• Gizzi Erskine is launching a three month residency The Nitery at the St Martins Lane London hotel

  

  If you've been wondering what Gizzi Erskine was up to next, well she's just about to open a three-month residency at the St Martins Lane London hotel.

  And we rather like the sound of The Nitery by Gizzi Erskine. It's inspired by early 20th-century Parisian niteries (which sound like they were the first restaurant pop-ups) and the more louche spots of the same name that were seen later across the pond in Atlantic City. It's going to be a mix

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