Aldgate

• Get exclusive access to soft launch bookings at Ara with 50% off food

  

  Restaurateur and self-taught chef, Murat Kilic who is also behind Amber restaurant, is opening Ara in Aldgate, focusing on seasonal produce and ingredient-led cooking using vibrant global flavours. Now Hot Dinners readers can try it with 50% off food during the soft launch. 

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• Ara in Aldgate is a new all day spot from the team behind nearby Amber

  

  What's better than having one successful restaurant in Aldgate? Having two of course. That's the trajectory London restaurateur Murat Kilic is hoping for when he opens Ara just down the road from his already bustling business Amber.

  But while Amber focuses on Middle Eastern food, Ara will broaden its horizons with a menu influenced by Murat's "love of travel and

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• Tian Tian Market have opened a massive Asian supermarket in Aldgate

  

  Anyone searching for food shopping nirvana during lockdown should make an instant beeline for Aldgate. That's because a new branch of Tian Tian Market has opened there, and it's freaking massive.

  The Asian supermarket's first branch opened in South Quay five years ago and it stocks a wide variety of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese food. But the new one in Aldgate, which opened this week, is properly next

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• Alter gears up for a vegan residency at Leman Locke in Aldgate

  

  They already had a successful stint at (now closed) Counter Culture in Clapham, but now Alter from Andy Hogben (previously Dabbous, Som Saa and Kym's) is kicking off a residency in Aldgate's Leman Locke aparthotel. The vegan residency will be setting up there in the Shaman

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• Zia Lucia are bringing their pizzas to Aldgate East

  With restaurants in Islington and Hammersmith already, Zia Lucia have won many fans for their pizzas - available in four types of dough from vegetable charcoal to the more traditional. This sees them heading to the City with their third pizza restaurant.