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  • Harrods is having a five day gourmet pizza pop-up

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    If you're into pizza, and we mean REALLY into pizza, then the pop-up hitting Harrods this month is going to have you drooling over your deep pan. Two Italian chefs pushing the boundaries of pizzas back in Italy are taking over The Pizzeria in store for five days. Pizza Gourmet will feature six pizzas by Veronese chef Simone Padoan and Neaopolitan chef Franco Pepe as part of a special promotion by Identità Golose.

    Pepe, whose restaurant Pepe in Grani is just outside

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  • The Beer Bakery pops up in Hoxton for a week

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    Like beer? Love bread? Well put this date in your diary. From 27-31 October Tom and Henry Herbert of the Fabulous Baker Brothers and AB InBev are opening a popup combining both those ingredients. The Beer Bakery in Hoxton will feature a range of breads made using ingredients from some of the world’s most popular beers including Stella Artois, Budweiser, Leffe, Becks Vier, Hoegaarden and Corona.

    You might find hop glazings to malted wheat crusts and we've seen a

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  • House of Crab pops-up on Mayfair's Grosvenor Street

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    Just opened, very much on the QT in Mayfair is House of Crab, a short-term pop-up by James Chase of Chase distillery and Dominic Jacobs - the folk behind The Running Horse pub in Mayfair. This new seafood spot, where Chalet (aka Princess Diana's favourite restaurant) used to be, will be here until the end of January, after which the building it's in faces demolition.

    As the name suggests, the menu focuses on crab, Salcombe crab to be specific which is where

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  • Russell Bateman's Meet The Makers dinner at Selfridges

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    Hot Dinners popped along to Oxford Street last night to one of a series of dinners being held at Selfridges for the store's Meet the Makers series.

    Last night was the first of a two night stint by National Chef of the Year Russell Bateman of Colette's restaurant at The Grove. Bateman was introduced by his former boss Daniel Clifford from Midsummer House in Cambridge and Alyn Williams while Clare Smyth from Restaurant Gordon Ramsay

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  • Patty&Bun pops up in Peckham Springs for a two weekend takeover

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    What's this? You really want to know? Oh, it's just the Taking the Swiss - one of the specials going on the menu at Patty&Bun's takeover at Peckham Springs bar/gallery space this weekend and next. They'll also be serving up the classics, but this little baby consists of an aged beef patty, Gruyere cheese, fried hot dog onions, homemade burger sauce and lettuce.

    Patty&Bun pops up at

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  • Little Bao from Hong Kong kicks off a week-long London pop-up

    LIttle Bao from Hong Kong kicks off a week-long London pop-up

    Updated 9/9/15 with images and first-hand impressions

    Following our original story on Little Bao below, we were invited in to try everything at the Soho Kitchen pop-up - and we did indeed have almost everything. First things first, this seems very full-on for a pop-up, with the whole menu changed. temporary signage and lots more touches outside and inside. Indeed, having seen the effort they've been to,

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  • Giorgio Locatelli's Pizza Locadeli pop-up is coming to Islington

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    The roving pizza popup set up by Giorgio Locatelli with his wife Plaxy, which was in Marylebone for a three week stint last September, is once more on the move.

    This time the Michelin-starred chef is going to be throwing pizzas in Islington (well at least his staff will). Pizza Locadeli will take over the old Post Office space on Upper Street for three months. The space around it is currently being redeveloped as Islington Square - part of a multimillion pound new

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  • Squid Kitchen comes to the King & Co for a month long residency

    Squid Kitchen comes to the King & Co for a month long residency

    We're always partial to a bit of squid, so the latest residency to come to the King & Co in Clapham for September. Squid Kitchen will be bringing a number of dishes they've perfected as street food traders who specialise in Madrid-style food including, of course squid cones - and the menu includes:

    • Squid Kitchen Cones with Vampire Killer aioli
    • Bocadillo de Calamares (sourdough rolls
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  • Mother Clucker announces kitchen residency at The Cat and Mutton

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    The Cat and Mutton have announced that fried chicken experts Mother Clucker will join them for their next kitchen residency starting Thursday 27th August.

    The Mother Clucker team are usually found serving their tea-brined, buttermilk soaked fried chicken from a converted US ambulance at the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane.They take the reins from Check On, who have been in charge of the kitchen since June.

    The menu is packed with lots of Southern

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  • Tom Kerridge to launch one-week pop-up, Tom's Table at Harrods

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    As you may know, there's a VERY long wait if you want to get a booking at Tom Kerridge's Hand and Flowers, but if you can't wait or make the trek out to Marlow, there's another option coming soon. As well as becoming Harrods Chef of the Season, he'll also have a week-long pop-up in the food hall. 

    It'll be a counter restaurant, seating 21, called Tom's Table mainly based around grill cooking - with dishes from his book and classic fishes from The

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  • Blu Top ice-cream sandwiches pop up at Bread Street Kitchen for August

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    This? Oh it's just a Bourbon Whiskey Old Fashioned ice-cream sandwich. Yep, thought that might get your interest up. It's just one of the ice-cream sarnies appearing on the menu at City spot Bread Street Kitchen as a result of a month-long residency by Blu Top.

    The ice-cream specialists will be featuring weekly specials on the dessert menu at BSK throughout August - other delights could be Brown Toast and Jam, Coffee and Donuts with the cookie sandwiches ranging from

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  • New noodle bar Bosslady gets preview pop-ups at Forzawin

    New noodle bar Bosslady gets preview pop-ups at Forzawin

    The people behind Forzawin, Arch McLeish and Bash Redford, have a new restaurant on the way - a noodle bar called Bosslady. They've joined up with Henry Chung - who has spent the last six months in Taipo in preparation for their speciality - beef brisket noodles.

    It's all inspired by a Taipo restaurant. It's been there for 30 years and apparently "embodies a humble yet unscrupulous approach to

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  • Pizza Pilgrims and Cinnamon Kitchen join forces for a week-long alfresco pop-up

    Pizza Pilgrims and Cinnamon Kitchen join forces for a week-long alfresco pop-up

    Fresh from getting a Francesco Mazzei seal of approval, Pizza Pilgrims are about to head into the City for a week long pop-up with Vivek Singh's Cinnamon Kitchen.

    They'll be setting up shop (or more accurately, van) on Cinnamon Kitchen's terrace from noon

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  • Breaking Bad style cocktail bar ABQ opens in London

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    Wanna cook? No, we're not talking about taking over the kitchen. A new pop up in Hackney Wick has brought the cult TV show Breaking Bad to life, with an innovative (and cosy) cocktail-'cooking' experience and we popped along to the launch.

    The bar is designed around the famous RV that Walt and his accomplice Jesse used to drive out into the Albuquerque desert to cook crystal meth. Luckily the only mind-altering substances here are the mind-blowing cocktails you

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  • A rooftop street food market comes to west London with Storeys

    A rooftop street food market comes to west London with Storeys

    West London hasn't exactly been blessed with the best opportunities for street food, but that looks like changing at the end of the month as a new summer pop-up takes hold. Called Storeys, it's taking place on the roof of the old BBC Television Centre car park, every Friday to Sunday over the summer.

    The traders will be rotating, but the ones confirmed so far are:

    • Le Bun - burgers and tacos with
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