Caribbean

• Veg & Tings Caribbean vegetarian restaurant in Brixton is next up from Brian Danclair

  

  He already has Fish, Wings & Tings and Danclair's Kitchen, and now Brian Danclair is getting ready to open his third restaurant in Brixton - Veg & Tings. 

  As you might expect from the name, this is a similar affair to Fish, Wings & Tings but with the focus on Caribbean vegetarian food. On the menu you can expect doubles - street food from

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• Test Driving The Good Front Room - high-end Caribbean cuisine at The Langham

  

  Chef Dom Taylor became the first winner of Five Star Chef on Channel 4 and his prize was launching The Good Front Room at The Langham. We went down to take a look.  

• Jam Delish bring their vegan Caribbean food to Islington with an ex-Fifteen chef in charge

  

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  If you're looking for a positive thing you can say about the lockdowns, they do seem to have given a lot of people the push they needed to open their own business. One such lockdown-generated company is Jam Delish. Co-founder Jordan Johnson was furloughed during lockdown, which is when he took that opportunity to start up his own popup. Jordan, whose mother is

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• Cottons in Shoreditch gets bigger, moving to Hoxton Square

  

  When we are hearing about more restaurants closing than ever before, it's a nice change to hear of one that's moving and growing - and that's what's happening to Cottons. 

  The Caribbean restaurant is leaving its home on Curtain Road, but moving only just up the road to Hoxton Square (taking over the space that used to be Adam Handling's The Frog).

  It'll be split into two areas - an upstairs restaurant and a

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• Andi Oliver's Wadadli Kitchen and Roadside land in Hackney

  

  It's popped up before, last seen at the Crooked Billet, but now Andi Oliver's Wadadli Kitchen has its own space for a 12-month run in Hackney - and it's added a roadside diner too. 

  First up is Wadadli Kitchen, That's all about communal dining, primarily on a covered terrace space. There, they'll be focusing on two dishes - the Caribbean spiced Seafood Boil, with shrimps, mussels, crab

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• Where to find the best plantain being served up in London

  

  If you love plantain,there's no question that London is a great place to find it served in every conceivable way. So we asked Rui Da Silva, author of A Quick Ting on Plantain, to give us his guided tour of London's best places serving up plantain right now.

• Test Driving Soul Ride - a Caribbean inspired delivery spin-off by Riding House

  

  Riding House Cafe has several delivery options on offer - we decided to try out chef Henry Omereye's Caribbean-inspired dishes and drinks.

• Great British menu judge Andi Oliver launches Wadadli delivery box

  

  Last summer, GBM judge Andi Oliver joined forces with another TV face, First Dates' Fred Sirieix for her Wadadli One Love pop-up in Clapton. The residency was a celebration of Oliver's Caribbean and British heritage.

  Now she's brought the kitchen team together again to offer Londoners a

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• Riding House Cafe re-launches as Soul Ride Caribbean food delivery

  

  Fitzrovia's Riding House Cafe has returned to the delivery scene for 2021 with something of a difference - launching Soul Ride, a Caribbean-influenced spin-off. 

  It's headed up by Chef Patron Henry Omereye and Chef Martin Kanu, and it's taking over the entire Riding House menu, for both local deliveries and nationwide meal kits. 

  Starting with the local

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• Rudies are bringing their Jerk Shack to Brixton Village

  

  Rudie's have already built up a big following in both Shoreditch and Borough Market, but this will be their first main restaurant. Jamaican jerk chicken will be at the centre of the menu.

• Andi Oliver brings Andi's Wadadli Kitchen and Caribbean food to Clapton

  

  Great British Menu's Andi Oliver is getting ready to deliver. This time she's teaming up with The Crooked Billet in Clapton to launch Wadadli Kitchen and it's all about Caribbean food. Here's how they describe it:

  Andi's Wadadli Kitchen is real Caribbean home cooking. Food from the heart of all the islands, from Antigua to St Lucia, Cuba to Jamaica, Martinique to Guyana. The influences

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• Island Social Club are bringing their Caribbean rotis and rum bar to Haggerston

  Island Social Club have been popping up around town with a number of Caribbean-led pop-ups and supperclubs. Now they're setting up shop in Haggerston with a long-term residency, bringing it all together. 

• Counter Culture's next stop on their World Tour is the Caribbean

  

  They've been to Mexico and the South of France, but next up on the world tour at Clapham's Counter Culture is The Caribbean. Every stage features menus influenced by one of the chefs’ own backgrounds. This time it's Jack Barwick who was born and raised in the Cayman Islands and who won Bookatable's young chef of the year 2017.

  They say:

  Jack's menu will showcase the very best of the Caribbean with some playful

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