Lunchtime

• Why The Yellow Bittern is a restaurant you need to know about

  

  In a London restaurant scene of robot chefs and the like, there's something fabulously analogue about the arrival of The Yellow Bittern restaurant on Caledonian Road. This tiny space will be an office for the art, fashion and food-focused Luncheon magazine, a bookshop and also a restaurant that's

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• The best London restaurants with set lunch menu deals

  

  Hot Dinners rounds up some of the best-value set lunch deals in London's top restaurants.

• KFC launches new office-friendly lunchtime meal deal

  

  If you've ever felt judged by your al desko lunch choices at work but have secretly been longing to take a Big Mac or KFC bucket back to your office, then a new lunch option at KFC might have your name all over it.

  The fast food company has just announced its first-ever lunch-only meal deal. For just over a fiver you can choose between a Kentucky Mayo Twister Wrap or a Fillet Burger, a packet of Walkers MAX crisps or a

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• Test Driving Sola 2.0, which has the big guns out for its set lunch offering

  

  Four years on from its opening, Sola in Soho has just revealed its new look following a major redesign. We returned to have a look at the new space and to check out the set lunch offering.

• Business lunches - the best restaurants in London for every kind of client

   

  Heading back to the office means the return of business lunches – and we don’t mean sandwiches in a conference room. After two years of Zoom, the return of IRL client meetings deserves to be toasted with a spread to impress in a restaurant that does the schmoozing for you. From the capital’s hottest reservations to private nooks and ethically-inclined

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• Cocorico is Cocotte's new breakfast and lunch spin-off

  

  With so many Londoners continuing to work from home, it makes sense for restaurants to look at the the breakfast and lunch delivery market. So that's what rotisserie chicken folk Cocotte are doing with their new launch this week.

  The group have brought out a new offering, Cocorico, which is all about breakfast dishes and sandwiches. It's available from the Cocotte kitchen in Parsons Green now and will be rolling out to Notting

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• Mac & Wild tempt Liverpool Street workers with a new toastie and sausage roll menu

  

  If you work in or around Liverpool Street, you could of course have your usual sarnie from Pret or Birley for lunch today, but a new tempting alternative has just arrived that you might want to check out.

  Mac & Wild in nearby Devonshire Square have opened a Grab and Go section filled with (their words) cheese porn worthy toastie treats.

  Key to that is a new Toastie and Sausage Roll menu with specials

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• Gunpowder Tower Bridge team up with Instagrammers to up their lunchtime sarnie game

  

  If you've suspected for quite some time that your lunch game is a little off, then news of the latest lunch innovation at Gunpowder Tower Bridge will only serve to confirm that.

  They've teamed up with four popular Instagrammers to create a series of lunchtime sandwiches. Each of them will be available for two weeks at a time during the working week to take away. As you might imagine, they not only sound good but should be eminently

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• Kym's at the Bloomberg Arcade launches a Grab and Go lunch offering

  

  We're already jealous of the city people who work anywhere near Bloomberg Arcade for having all those lovely places to eat on their shiny, office doorsteps. Now we're even more so at the news that Andrew Wong's Kym's is starting a Grab & Go lunch offering.

  It sounds really good too. There's a choice of Cantonese Crispy Pork Belly, Soy Poached Chicken or Sichuanese Spiced Aubergine - all of which we tried on our Test Drive - and each will

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• Test Driving Rambla's new Menu del Dia

  

  Who doesn't love a cracking set lunch deal? Right now it seems one of the top spots for doing just that in Soho is Rambla. Having heard that they had a new Menu del Dia in place - and it being a while since we were last in - we decided to head back to try it. And it's good to see that the place, besides being rammed, is still turning out freaking fantastic food.

  If you haven't been before, this Dean Street restaurant is run by chef and

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• KooKoo brings healthy lunches to Camden from the people behind Hook

  Camden gets a new healthy daytime spot to pep up lunches with salads, gluten-free wraps and more from the folk who run Hook on Parkway.

• Deliveroo are starting lunchtimes deals for under a fiver

  

  If your usual lunchtime routine consists of you dashing to Pret or nuking yesterday's leftovers in the office microwave, then Deliveroo have designs on you. They've just begun a lunchtime range of 'Flash Deals' offering dishes for under a fiver.

  Every day a different restaurant partner will drop its price on a particular dish to £4.99 - and when you learn there's also no delivery fee, it suddenly becomes a lot more affordable. Folk they're teaming up with on the

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• Soho is getting a new lunchtime steak sandwich kiosk

  

  If you live, work or are just generally passing through Soho, take note that the new Sophie's on Great Windmill Street will be opening a kiosk next to their restaurant which will be serving up steak sarnies every lunchtime.

  The Pit Roast Steak Sandwiches cost £8 and will feature five hour pit roasted prime rib of beef from Philip Warren butchers served with fresh garden leaves and Sophie’s signature horseradish and charcoal crème on Arapina sourdough

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• Marcus Wareing has a new lunch menu planned with produce from his own farm

  

  You've got to hand it to Marcus Wareing - that man does not like to stand still. His latest idea combines the introduction of a new lunch menu at his two Michelin-starred restaurant at The Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge with food from his own farmstead Melfort Farm.

  In particular, Wareing has shifted the spotlight on to other key members of his kitchen. The new menu is supposed to showcase "the personality and talent of each of its five most senior

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• Cupboard Love Café pop up will serve up free lunches to Londoners for a day

  

  If you're feeling a little strapped for cash, as the days stretch out until payday, we bring you good news. A pop up restaurant is hitting London next week serving up free lunches.

  It's the PR brainchild of the brands Hellmann’s, Marmite and Knorr and the idea is to inspire Londoners to delve into their storecupboard at home and make something to eat from what they have already.

  Motivated by survey findings that the public have on average just £28.26

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