Holborn

• Test Driving Gezellig - Holborn's new Dream Team

  

  They've flourished in pop-ups and residencies and now Gezellig have launched a permanent restaurant in the old Holborn Town Hall building. We went in to try it out. 

• Gezellig brings a formidable restaurant team to Holborn Town Hall

  A formidable restaurant team are taking on the space at the Grade II listed Holborn Town Hall with their first venture.

• We learn pie making with Calum Franklin at Holborn Dining Room

  

  We learn how to make a pork pie from the king of pies himself, Calum Franklin. Find out how we got on... 

• Chef Tony Fleming tells us why The Baptist Grill at L'oscar will be a place "to come, hang out and have fun"

  

  London's newest stylish hotel, L'oscar (read our story on its opening here) has opened for business in Holborn. And running the food side of things is Tony Fleming - who picked up a Michelin star at Angler in the South Place Hotel. With the hotel's all-day spot Cafe 'Oscar already open and the main restaurant The Baptist Grill

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• L'oscar London opening in Holborn sees NoMad and Hotel Costes designer take on London

  Holborn's credentials as a dining destination just got a boost with the news that L'oscar London is opening with a Michelin-starred chef in the restaurant and an all day cafe planned too.

• Calum Franklin opens the Pie Room at Holborn Dining Room - updated

  Calum Franklin's pastry making prowess nets him a special pie room opening at Holborn Dining Room with pies to go and a special pie hatch coming

• The Dayrooms Cafe WC1 brings Antipodean food to Holborn

  Just in time for the turn of the seasons comes The Dayrooms Cafe WC1, a new food and drink spot on Theobald's Row that’ll focus on providing the busy souls of the City with healthy, Antipodean-inspired options from coconut waffles, to mac and cheese jaffles.

• Holborn’s Sano To Go has healthy takeaway breakfasts and lunches

  Sano is new contender on the scene for those who’re fed up with the same old supermarket salads, with lots of takeaway options that use big flavours from the Middle East, Asia and more.

• GQ announces its own pop-up at Rosewood London

  GQ Bar is the magazine's first pop-up in London, serving up food and drink designed to bring its pages to life, like wagyu beef burgers and a trademark Manhattan with two types of Bourbon.

• Breddos’ Taco Truck pitches up in Holborn for lunch

  

  Breddos are at it again. Not content leading the charge the capital’s Mexican food revival, and a host of partnerships,they're now they’re going back to their roots by taking their taco truck to Holborn.

  Come lunchtime, the lucky souls working and living in and around the area will now be able to get a taste of the taco action, choosing from a simple

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• Noble Rot is teaming up with Gymkhana for a special dinner and more

  

  Noble Rot and Gymkhana – two of our favourite restaurants - have just announced a special one-off collaborative wine dinner to be held on Monday 27 February.Hosted by award-winning sommelier Sunaina Sethi and Noble Rot founder Dan Keeling, the dinner marks the launch of a month-long collaboration between the Bloomsbury wine bar and Michelin-starred Indian restaurant.

  Hosted downstairs at Gymkhana, guests will be led

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• The Pate en Croute at Holborn Dining Room: anatomy of a dish

  

  We've seen a lot of Christmas specials hitting London restaurants (much of which have made it onto our festive roundup page). But if we had to choose a winner, and for the purposes of this piece we are, it's got to be the amazing Crimbo Pate en Croute devised by Head Chef Calum Franklin at Holborn Dining Rooms.

  Calum has

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• Meat meets chic at Haché’s fashion-themed burger pop up in Holborn

  

  Burgers and beauty will finally be together at last thanks to Haché’s latest quirky pop-up, giving attendees the chance to tuck into some new burger creations while taking in some fairly slick fashion-oriented workshops and classes.

  First things first though: the burgers. Haché will be presenting two new meaty offerings, starting with the Steak Haché, a 6oz Scottish steak burger dressed with a Madeira jus and a soft

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• Test driving Noble Rot - a new breed of wine bar with a built-in history

  This much-anticipated wine bar hits Lamb's Conduit Street and immediately makes itself at home

• Noble Rot team up with Sportsman pair to open London wine bar and restaurant

  

  02/11/2015 - updated with soft launch info

  Vats wine bar has been a pleasingly low-key place to quaff wine down on Lamb's Conduit Street since the 70s. In fact, Hot Dinners has rather pleasant, but vague, memories of evenings spent there so if anyone was going to take it

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