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  • Katsu & Buns are popping up with just that in Islington

    Katsu and Buns are popping up with just that in Islington

    Katsu & Buns are doing right what is says there in the name - katsu curry and bao buns. They've been delivering for a while but are now getting a pop-up space in Islington at The Chapel Bar Terrace. 

    The main menu features small plates and a special bao menu on Saturdays. So you'll find things like:

    • Ebi Katsu - lightly coated king prawns, sweet chili
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  • Tesco opens a pop-up pub, The King in the Castle, for the Coronation

    Tesco to open a pop-up pub, The King in the Castle, for the Coronation 

    4/5/23 - Updated with photos of the pub

    It’s not often we have cause at Hot Dinners to speak of Tesco-related matters, but when the supermarket chain and retailer starts veering into dining-out territory, we feel it’s our duty. Tesco is opening a pub in honour of the King’s Coronation. Yes, you read that right.

    Called The King in the Castle, it’s only a

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  • Veuve Clicquot are bringing back their Sunny Side Up Cafe, this time to Piccadilly Circus

    veuve clicquot sunny side up cafe piccadilly circus london

    Last year, Champagne house Veuve Clicquot caused quite the stir with their breakfast cafe pop-up in Soho. Now the team behind that are back with a new offering, this time in Piccadilly. The 2023 iteration of the Sunny Side Up Café will be part of their

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  • MasterChef finalist Philli Armitage-Mattin takes over Kebab Queen

    MasterChef finalist Philli Armitage-Mattin takes over Kebab Queen

    We quickly became big fans of Kebab Queen, the counter restaurant below Le Bab in Covent Garden where everything's served to you on a heated countertop. It all sounds mad, but it works really, really well. 

    They're now changing things up for the next few months, bringing in a guest chef to run the counter (while chef Manu Canales takes a break). It's MasterChef The

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  • Chishuru chef Adejoké Bakare’s pop-up is coming to Borough Market’s Globe Tavern

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    This summer there's another enticing reason to visit Borough Market, with word of West African chef Adejoké (‘Joké’) Bakare’s forthcoming pop-up at Globe Tavern. The two-month residency, Joké & Friends, will act as something of a taster before the opening of her new Chishuru restaurant in Fitzrovia, which ...

  • Harrods opens the Prada Caffe for a taste of Milan in London

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    Following on from the huge success of their Dior Cafe and Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama pop-up, Harrods are at it again. They've just unveiled their latest designer collaboration - the Prada Caffè.

    Open all day, serving everything from breakfast through to cocktails and bites for aperitivo, the cafe will be on the ground floor of the store until the end of the year. The fashion house says the cafe's been inspired by

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  • Experimental Sandwich Shop pops up by London Bridge

    Experimental Sandwich Shop pops up by London Bridge

    We do love a good sandwich and if you do too, then a new pop-up that's coming to Vinegar Yard should be well worth a look. 

    The Experimental Sandwich Shop comes from the people behind Bad Boy Pizza Society and it's all inspired by a

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  • Wolfgang Puck's Spago is popping up in London

    Wolfgang Puck's Spago is popping up in London

    If there's one restaurant that seems synonymous with Hollywood (to us in the UK at least) it's Wolfgang Puck's Spago (the chef also caters the main Oscars afterparty). If you've ever fancied eating like the LA elite, now you don't even have to cross the Atlantic as Puck is bringing Spago to the UK for four days only. 

    Taking over his UK restaurant, Cut at 45 Park Lane will be a special Spago pop-up,

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  • Izakaya Nights launches at Supermarket of Dreams in Notting Hill

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    Over the past few years once shopping hours are over, the Supermarket of Dreams in Notting Hill has been turning itself into an irregular popup izakaya showcasing various chefs and their take on sushi. Now they're about to launch it as a permanent evening spot.

    Izakaya Nights features a long communal table running the length of the shop. It has pretty much a dream team running it. The chefs are

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  • Oriole Bar makes a (pop-up) comeback at The Hoxton Southwark

    Oriole Bar makes a (pop-up) comeback at The Hoxton Southwark 

    Good news for cocktail aficionados, with the return of Oriole, previously one of the World’s 50 Best Bars, to a new location. After closing its doors on New Year’s Day, as a result of Smithfield Market’s redevelopment and the Museum of London’s relocation, Oriole is hoping to summon its former Farringdon fans just over Blackfriars Bridge to The Hoxton Southwark.

    It’s a

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  • Howl's Moving Castle comes to Selfridges - we have afternoon tea at Calcifer's Kitchen

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    Selfridges have teamed up with Loewe, Studio Ghibli and Balboste for the immersive Howl's Moving Castle Cafe, Calcifer's Kitchen. We popped down to try out one of the hottest tickets in town. 

  • St John is popping up in New York's Long Island Bar for one night

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    Here's a hot ticket for any expat Hot Dinners reader who happens to be in New York. St John are heading across the pond for a one night only pop up that's pretty much guaranteed to be a sell-out.

    They're teaming up with clothing brand Drake's to bring the St. JOHN Drake's Diner to Brooklyn's Long Island Bar. Tickets for the event don't come cheap though - they're £230 (or about $275). For that though, you are

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  • Selfridges opens Howl’s Moving Castle pop-up, Calcifer's Kitchen

    Selfridges opens Howl’s Moving Castle pop-up, Calcifer's Kitchen

    Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle is coming to Selfridges in food form as it takes over their Dolly’s Café for a month. 

    It's all part of Loewe's new capture collection inspired by the movie. It's actually the third of Loewe's Studio Ghibli collections (they've already done My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away) but the first to come with a pop-up on

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  • Ruben's Ruebens are bringing their salt beef and pastrami to Shoreditch's Seed Library

    Ruben's Ruebens are bringing their salt beef and pastrami to Shoreditch's Seed Library

    Norman's Cafe popped up there last year and now it's the turn of Brixton smokehouse Ruben's Reubens to take on the residency in Shoreditch's Seed Library. 

    Ruben Dawnay will be in charge of the food in the bar for two months and yes, his pastrami and salt beef will be on the menu. Here's a taste of what to expect:

    • Reuben spring roll - Salt
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  • Harrods have opened a Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama pop-up with a polka dot patisserie counter

    Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama pop-up at Harrods London

    Trying to keep on top of what Harrods is doing food-wise is a tricky task. They do have a tendency to just throw open the doors on a new project without telling anyone. So their latest pop-up was open a week before we got wind of it.

    Following hard upon the heels of their amazingly successful Dior Cafe pop-up over Christmas, they've now launched a new pop-up space with Louis Vuitton. It's

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