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- New Spitalfields bar 68 & Shanghai pairs wine and katsu sandos
Regular Hot Dinners readers will know that we're very much in favour of all the new wine bars opening in London of late and this latest Spitalfields addition sounds very promising.
68 & Shanghai comes from the team behind 68 & Boston in Soho, who also run the nearby Yuu Kitchen (as well as Opium, The Last Talisman and Lucy Wong). It's replaced what was the
... - Boulebar take petanque and French food to Spitalfields
As Christmas approaches, expect London's competitive socialising venues - from darts to cricket - to do very well. Now another place is about to join the ranks and this one's all about indoor boules (or pétanque if you're being pedantic).
Boulebar originally launched in the UK on the South Bank (it's also in Sweden and Denmark) and now they're coming to Spitalfields for round two. There
... - Test Driving Kolamba East - the Sri Lanka restaurant comes to the City
Five years after opening in Soho, Kolamba have gone east for their second restaurant, bringing Sri Lankan food to the City. We went down to try Kolamba East.
- Dang’s Thai chicken restaurant and cocktail bar to open below Spitalfields’ Slurp Noodles
Looking for somewhere new to get your spicy fried chicken fix? With cocktails too? Then head East London way, as Dang’s is taking up a prime position in a basement bar below Slurp Noodles in Spitalfields.
Accessed either via Slurp or from its own entrance down the side of the building, Dang’s is all about Thai fried chicken, aka Hat Yai chicken (a nod to the
... - Kolamba East sees the Sri Lankan restaurant head to the City
21/7/24 - Updated with the opening date
After finding success with their first Sri Lankan restaurant in Soho, Kolamba founders Eroshan and Aushi Meewella are going east for their second opening.
It's opening as part of the Norton Folgate development just off Bishopsgate, which is pretty much right on the edge of Spitalfields, Shoreditch and The City. As for
... - Test Driving 65a - a classic French brasserie in Spitalfields
There's a classic French brasserie right on the edge of Spitalfields Market. We went down to see what they're cooking up at 65a.
- Test Driving Alfi - wine pub, restaurant and all round vibey space in Spitalfields
Spitalfields Market just got a hot new place to try out with both a wine bar and restaurant vying for attention. We headed east to take a look at Alfi.
- Test of Time: Revisiting Galvin La Chapelle on its 15th birthday
The Galvin brothers are celebrating 15 years of Galvin La Chapelle in its amazing Grade II listed surroundings. We went down to see how the 15 years have treated the Michelin-starred restaurant.
- Alfi wine pub and restaurant is opening in Spitalfields
Updated 2/12/23 with new opening date
When is a pub not a pub? When it's a wine pub of course. That's the distinction a new East London business is making when it opens its doors this month. Alfi is being billed as a wine pub and restaurant by experienced hospitality folk Ben Hodges and Alex Lewis and it's taken over the old Leon space inside Spitalfields market.
The pub will be the first part to
... - Wagyu burgers and Neapolitan pizzas come to Spitalfields Market
If you're in the Spitalfield area - there are two promising new traders to check out.
First up is Pizza Guys. They hail from Italy, having kicked off things in Caserta back in 2020. They've brought Neapolitan pizzas to the market and are a bit fond of limited-edition crossover specials like a Korean Kimchi Pizza and Shakshuka Pizza. Here, you'll also find their
... - Cornerstone's Tom Brown is opening Pearly Queen oyster bar and seafood restaurant in Spitalfields
He's had a lot of success with Cornerstone and now Tom Brown is getting his second restaurant ready, the seafood-led Pearly Queen in Spitalfields (taking over from The Space on Commercial Street).
Billed as both an oyster bar and a restaurant, UK-sourced oysters will be a big thing on the menu, both fresh and grilled, and there will be
... - French Brasserie 65a lands in Spitalfields
A new brasserie is coming to Spitalfields in the shape of 65a. It comes from Irish-born entrepreneur, Patrick Frawley, who's launching the restaurant after 30 years in hospitality. He's joined by Executive Chef Maura Baxter, recently at Clapham’s The Saxon and The Gun in Spitalfields.
At 65a, they're going the classic French brasserie route, which means dishes like:
- Spitalfields' Lamb Street unveils new food traders
If you've been in and around Spitalfields over the last year or so, you'll probably have noticed some big works going on, on Lamb Street. For the past eighteen months they've been building a street for housing a whole load of new food traders and they're just unveiling the results now.
In total, there are eight new places for workers and visitors to try out, some of which have moved from street trucks to a
... - Crunch are bringing their banging brioche sandwiches to Spitalfields
A Hot Dinners exclusive
Last summer, a trio of sandwich obsessives began making a name for themselves with the Crunch pop-up in Shoreditch. The group comprises Alexandre Yonan and Michael Medovnikov, who'd met at college, and chef Joni Francisco. Francisco trained under Alexis Gauthier at Gauthier Soho and Nuno Mendes at Chiltern Firehouse before becoming executive chef for the Experimental Group. It took a
... - Club Mexicana goes big with vegan tacos and frozen pina coladas in Spitalfields
If the thought of California-style street food gets your motor running, or if you were already making pilgrimages to Club Mexicana at their Kingly Court or Seven Dials locations, then news of an upcoming Spitalfields location will make the job of hunting down vegan tacos even easier.
Located in the former HotBox site, Club Mexicana Spitalfields promises an even bigger menu and some serious bar
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