Pub

• Test Driving Dickie Fitz - a taste of the Pacific Rim in Fitzrovia

  A Fitzrovian gastropub gets an Antipodean makeover

• Oisin Rogers takes over at The Guinea Grill in Mayfair

  

  If you've been wondering where Oisin Rogers, London pub manager extraordinaire and key member of our Murphia list, was going to pop up next, then let us enlighten you. Rogers, who ran The Ship in Wandsworth for ages and then last year helped Young's

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• The Great Sausage Roll Off announces 2016 shortlist

  

  Following hard on the heels of the Scotch Egg Challenge comes another bar snack competition - this year's Great Sausage Roll Off. The annual event is now in its fourth year and take place at The Red Lion in Barnes.

  Hot Dinners managed to inveigle them to give us the shortlist of those entering their finest rolls in this year's contest. Both 2015 and 2014's champions are back to defend/claim back their title, so it sounds like it'll be one hell of a

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• The Stoke Newington Tea House is a very different type of pub now open on Church Street

  

  Just in time to do brisk trade as the temperatures dip, The Stoke Newington Tea House has just opened on Stoke Newington Church Street, taking over the Daniel Dafoe. And anyone who knew the old pub will be pretty surprised when they return - particularly as there's no longer a a bar. That's been replaced with more of a beer wall. What will be on offer is six hand pulls with regularly rotating craft ales, as well as lagers, bitters and stouts.

  There will, as the

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• Six new London pubs in the Michelin Eating out in Pubs Guide for 2016

  

  The Michelin Eating Out In Pubs Guide 2016 is out today in bookshops and six London pubs have made it into the guide for the first time.

  The Ealing Park Tavern
  

  The Anglesea Arms, Hammersmith

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• Brompton Food Market duo take on Kensington pub The Hour Glass

  

  Well here's a pub opening we're pretty darned excited about. The Hour Glass pub is getting two new owners - Luke Mackay and David Turcan, who currently run Brompton Food Market. And if the food offering at the pub turns out to be anything like the stuff we've had from their deli then this might be worth crossing town for.

  Luke has form for taking on pubs and turning them into something special, having already done this with well regarded country pub The Royal Oak

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