Waterside

• Sam Harrison to open Sam's Waterside in The Brentford Project, a restaurant, cafe and deli

  

  7/7/23 - updated with a new launch date

  Restaurateur Sam Harrison has been a busy man of late. In addition to his riverside restaurant Sam's Riverside, he's opened two deli concepts, Sam's Larder - in Hammersmith and Chiswick. Now, sticking with West London, he's signed up to be a leading part of a new housing development in Brentford.

  The Brentford Project is going to be a massive

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• Caravel is a floating restaurant on Regents Canal from The Spiteri brothers and Studio Kitchen

  

  We do like a floating restaurant (the Cheese Barge is a thing of wonder) and this latest restaurant on the water sounds like another very promising addition to Regents Canal. Caravel comes from brothers Fin and Lorcan Spiteri who have taken over a restored barge next door to Studio Kitchen (on the canal between Hoxton and Islington) and converted it into a

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• Where to eat at Camden Market Hawley Wharf

  

  Camden has seen a fair bit of development over the past few years and the new Camden Market Hawley Wharf may be the biggest change yet. It's a 580,000sq ft site (aka VERY big) and, as a result, will be adding loads more in the way of places to eat, drink and be entertained to the area. 

  Now the second part of the development is opening, bringing even more to the canalside at Camden when it opens on

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• Sam's Riverside is reopening, with a seafood terrace overlooking the river

  

  As London's restaurants prepare to spill outside, going alfresco in a big way this summer, new Hammersmith restaurant Sam's Riverside is taking full advantage of its waterside location.

  Only open four months before the lockdown - here's a reminder of our Test Drive at the time -  the restaurant will reopen on

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• Humble Grape wine bar and shop is opening in Canary Wharf

  Canary Wharf is getting a next-level wine bar, open all day with space for meetings and a lovely waterside terrace.

• Test Driving The Grand Duchess - Cornish seafood and sparkling wine at Paddington

  

  From the same team as the London Shell Co. this boat may not be going anywhere, but the food transports you to the British seaside.

• The Grand Duchess at Paddington is London Shell Co's permanently moored restaurant

  This sister restaurant to the London Shell Co.'s crusing restaurant will be a permanently moored barge by Paddington serving up seafood and sparkling wine.

• Test Driving Plaquemine Lock - a Cajun and Creole pub in Islington

  Tucked down a residential side street in Angel is a canalside pub turning out Cajun and Creole food. We along for a taste of the Deep South.

• London is getting its first floating food market at Paddington Central

  

  So this is a rather lovely idea, next weekend the bustle of the kind of floating markets you're more likely to find in Bangkok will be coming to West London. For five days Paddington Central will play host to The Floating Market combining market stalls with boat traders.

  On offer will be a wide range of food, drink and artisanal produce from local farmers as well as local producers such as Freddie's Flowers, Crazy Dave Cider, Local Honey Man, Lamar

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• Daisy Green are launching two Peter Blake-designed floating restaurants at Paddington Central

  Try something a different with Daisy Green's new pair of enormous barges, who'll be serving up Antipodean dinners, brunches, lunches and cocktails packed loads of fresh, strong flavours, all while floating on one of London's iconic canals.

• Emilia's Crafted Pasta bar prepares to open at St Katharine Dock

  

  23/11/16 - updated with soft launch info

  Does London have room for two places serving up freshly rolled pasta? Given the permanent queues outside Padella, one would think so. All of which is good news for newcomer Emilia’s Crafted Pasta which is opening next month at St Katharine's Dock.

  The restaurant's founder Andrew Macleod’s says he wants this to be the best pasta restaurant outside of Italy. To that end, every bit of pasta in the place

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