Southwark

• Oriole Bar makes a (pop-up) comeback at The Hoxton Southwark

   

  Good news for cocktail aficionados, with the return of Oriole, previously one of the World’s 50 Best Bars, to a new location. After closing its doors on New Year’s Day, as a result of Smithfield Market’s redevelopment and the Museum of London’s relocation, Oriole is hoping to summon its former Farringdon fans just over Blackfriars Bridge to The Hoxton Southwark.

  It’s a

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• Test Driving Tatale - Akwasi Brenya-Mensa brings Africa to Southwark

  

  Chef Akwasi Brenya-Mensa's Tatale is one of the year's most highly-anticipated openings. We went down to Southwark's new African Centre to check it out.

• Carrubo and In Horto, Mediterranean bar and rustic restaurant, are coming to Borough

  

  The team behind Flat Iron Square and Goods Way are just about to open what looks to be an interesting combo of bar and restaurant Carrubo and In Horto just around the corner from Borough Market.

  The restaurant side of things is In Horto which will be serving homestyle food straight from a bespoke brick oven amongst a whole lot of floral décor. On the menu you'll

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• Tatale to open first permanent restaurant at the Africa Centre in Southwark

  

  Updated 10/6/22 with interior pics

  He's already been popping up around London with his supper clubs, but now chef Akwasi Brenya-Mensa is getting ready to open Tatale as a permanent restaurant, housed in The Africa Centre in Southwark. 

  With a menu focused around Pan-African cuisine, Tatale takes its name from a Ghanaian dish, the plantain

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• Bala Baya in Southwark is bossing the winter alfresco game with its umbrella terrace

  

  Given the Tier 2 rules mean that all socialising is pretty much outdoors for the foreseeable, London's restaurants and bars have been busy weatherproofing their terraces and outside spaces. All of which makes it hard to stand out from the crowd, but Southwark restaurant Bala Baya seems to have succeeded.

  They've just opened their Discarded Umbrella Winter Garden. It's a tie in with Discarded Spirits Co and Bala Baya’s

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• Gordon Ramsay launches Street Burger in St Paul's and plots Street Pizza roll out in Southwark and Battersea

  

  It's now clear what Gordon Ramsay has spent Lockdown 2.0 doing. In addition to messing around on TikTok, he's been planning world domination. And he's starting with London, where he's opening five new 'street food' restaurants, three of those before the end of 2020.

  Launching a new Gordon Ramsay brand will be Street Burger. That's opening at One New Change, presumably as part of Ramsay's sprawling

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• Tandoor Tacos spins out from Tandoor Chop House, landing in the Hoxton Southwark

  

  Tandoor Chop House (currently in Covent Garden) is about to get a new spin-off in Southwark called Tandoor Tacos. They are exactly as they sound - a mash-up of Mexican and Indian food, with the Chop House paratha breads converted into tacos. 

  Here's what's on the menu:

  • A Peas Yourself - Chickpeas, ginger, garlic and chilli, pickled cucumber and endive,
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• Nando's are back in London! Four restaurants across the capital start delivering

  

  This is not a drill. Nando's are starting to reopen their restaurants.

  Last night, Nando's revealed to a customer that they had quietly reopened seven restaurants in the UK and Ireland - four of them in London.

  Having initially opened to "support the NHS and local charities" - they have so far delivered over 10,000 meals to those - the restaurant chain was using that to see how

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• Test Driving Seabird - What's that in the sky? London's hottest new restaurant.

  

  We head up to the 14th floor of the Hoxton Southwark and fall hopelessly in love with this high rise seafood spot where the decor is pure Miami but the vibe is all London.

• Albie is The Hoxton's Southwark's all day dining restaurant

  Southwark's hip new Hoxton hotel may be going big on its rooftop seafood spot, but it also has this buzzy ground floor all day dining restaurant with a plant-based focus.

• Seabird is the high-rise seafood restaurant in the Hoxton Southwark - and NYC's Maison Premiere are in charge

  The newest Hoxton hotel is bringing with it a seafood restaurant with an impressive view across London. And they've brought in the people behind top Brooklyn restaurant Maison Premiere to run it. 

• Maria Elia brings her Smashing Plates residency to Great Guns Social

  

  If you've ever tried chef Maria Elia's food, then you'll know that her upcoming three week residency at Great Guns Social in Southwark is worth pencilling in the diary.

  The globetrotting chef and author (she's launched restaurants in California and done pop-ups in Rwanda) is planning a modern Greek menu for her return to London. Dishes will include:

  • Savoury Baklavas
  • Moussaka Croquettes
  • Bream with pourgouri, cherries and
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• Test Driving Casa do Frango - Piri Piri chicken Algarve style in Southwark

  

  This wonderful looking dining room on Southwark High Street is serving up Portuguese food and wine with a distinctly London vibe.

• Provisioners is coming to Tower Bridge's new boutique hotel, The Dixon, from the man who launched Riding House Cafe

  Having opened Riding House Cafe and now runnning Blixen Clive Watson is well able to put together a lovely all day space so hopes for this new Tower Bridge hotel restaurant/cafe are high.

• Southwark's Chinese Food Festival returns with a 14 vendors in a night market setting

  

  It sure is festival season, isn’t it? (And we don’t just mean Boomtown, Wilderness et al.)

  We’d only just gotten over WingFest, before starting to gear up for 

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