Pop-up
- Croft Kitchen pops up at Holloway Road's Vagabond with ex-Mugaritz chef
To add to its burgeoning cafe scene, Holloway Road is about to get a hot new pop-up with some very interesting folk involved. Croft Kitchen describes itself as as a "seasonal British pop-up restaurant and bar". They're taking over Vagabond Coffee in the evenings from Thursday to Sunday from this month.
In the kitchen is Phil Walther, who has previously worked at Mugaritz (No 6 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants List for 2015) as well as Ryugin (29 on the
... - Massimo Bottura to run Sotheby's pop-up in London for three days
If your eating out budget doesn't extend to travelling the world to work your way through the World's 50 Best Restaurants list, then take heart because the chef from the restaurant currently at No 3 is bringing his work to London for three days.
Massimo Bottura is going to be bringing his three Michelin-starred Osteria Francescana from the Italian medieval city of Modena to
... - Tom Sellers teams up with Krug for Krug & Chips pop-up in Covent Garden
If you like your fish and chips high-end, then make a date for Krug & Chips, a gourmet chipper popping up in Covent Garden this summer. The champagne house has teamed up with Michelin starred chef Tom Sellers or restaurant Story.
Sellers has come up with his own particular take - Fish in Chips. Diners will be able to choose from three dishes; a potato ravioli with fish in tartar sauce, Monkfish cheek curry with matchstick fries and Lobster claw wrapped in potato
... - The Good Year wine bar pop-up launching on Old Street
The resurgence in wine bars continues with a new Old Street pop-up that's being launched to coincide with London Wine Week next month - popping up at Attendant coffee shop in Shoreditch
It's been set up by Mumtaz Lalani and David Payne who are looking to manage an ever-changing wine list of wines by the glass starting at a fiver - but thee will also be smaller tasting glasses if you want to experiment a little. The wines themselves will focus on
... - Barrafina, Gymkhana, Clove Club and Colony Grill hit London Art15
Next week's Art15 which hits London is shaping up to be feast for the stomach as well as the eyes. The Global Art Fair is now in its third year and will be exhibiting work from 150 galleries from 40 different countries from across the world. But what we're really interested in is Food 4 Art, the pop-up restaurant there.
When you know that the four days of the fair's restaurant have been curated by the Evening Standard’s Fay Maschler you'll know it's worth paying
... - The Porridge Cafe is back in Victoria
After a stint in Shoreditch, the Porridge Cafe has returned, this time for a month-long pop-up in Victoria.
Expect a similar set up to the first pop-up and they're promising summer breakfast porridge, two summer savoury porridges and two new summer grain salads as well as weekly changing specials. So that includes:
- Your basic breakfast porridge
- Raw cacoa, blueberry and almond in millet & buckwheat
- Cajun chicken
- Bleecker St Burger return to the South Bank
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They've had huge success in the new Spitalfields space (just AMAZING burgers every time we've been) and now Bleecker St Burger are returning to the Southbank Centre too, where the van had a popular stint last Summer. This time they're taking up a semi-permanent space in one the South Bank's shipping containers (similar to the not-final-version pic below).
They're setting up shop just
... - Mayfair's 34 to host week long Gone Fishing pop-up from Ben Orpwood
Mayfair restaurant 34 is undergoing a week-long change in May as they invite Ben Orpwood, a British chef now based in Sydney, to take over the kitchen for their Gone Fishing pop-up for six days.
He'll be revamping the menu with his own dishes which include:
- Sharing plates with sashimi, scallops with yuzu & soy granita and tuna tataki from the raw bar
- Fish skewers, spicy barbecue octopus,
- Sake no Hana's cherry blossom pop-up Sakura returns
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Yes it is indeed Spring, don't let that cold weather fool you. And with Spring comes the cherry blossom and one of our favourite London pop-ups, Sakura at Sake No Hana. Simply put, the bar is completely redesigned to become an indoor cherry blossom garden. You can see more about last year's pop-up here which is all part of the Japanese
... - York & Albany get ready for their summer beach hut pop-up
With spring well and truly here, now everyone's allowing themselves to think forward to summer - and York And Albany in Camden is getting ahead of the game with the launch of their latest pop-up, the York & Albany’s Beach Hut.
The outside courtyard will be transformed into a shoreline scene with sand and deckchairs, while their hut will be decorated in candy-coloured stripes. Inside that hut, there will be special seaside cocktails and
... - Selfridges latest rooftop pop-up is On the Roof with Vintage Salt
It's tine for another change on the rooftop at Selfridges, where the Chalet is about to be replaced by a new pop-up, the seaside themed On the Roof with Vintage Salt.
It comes from Des McDonald, who was behind the previous pop-ups as well as Q Grill, Fish & Chip Shop and Holborn Dining Room. This new pop-up is apparently based on a Cornish fishing village and feartures include:
A beach hut
... - Ketel One Vodka Kitchen comes to the Folly in the City
The Folly on Gracechurch Street in the City is about to get a new cocktail pop-up, the Ketel One Vodka Kitchen.
The summer-long pop up is promised to be a "a traditional Dutch Kitchen inspired by the home of Ketel One founders the Nolet family" and is focused on a central table where the Ketel One mixologists will be showing off their wares, surrounded by crates of fruits and vegetables, plus exotic seasonings and
... - Country garden pop-up comes to Sky Pod at Sky Garden
While it looks like the good weather is with us for a short while, there's another option to sit out in the garden if you prefer the security of a cover over your cocktail.
The Sky Pod bar at Sky Garden (at the top of the Walkie Talkie building) is launching an Eccentric English Country Garden pop-up. It'll come with a smattering of faux lawns and daffodils with some new cocktails too including Rooibos Tea Party
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