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  • TĀ TĀ Eatery's TOU returns, bringing sandos to Borough Market

    TĀ TĀ Eatery's TOU returns, bringing sandos to Borough Market

    Ana Gonçalves and Zijun Meng of TA TA Eatery are bringing back their spin-off TOU, this time as a residency in Borough Market. 

    They're taking over the upstairs room at the Globe Tavern, which they're pitching as a "1970s Japanese Americana-inspired sando bar". Previously seen at the original incarnation of Arcade Food Hall, they'll be bringing their truly great Ibérico Pork

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  • The best food and restaurant pop-ups and events in London right now

    Ixta Belfrage at The Standard

    Hot Dinners rounds up some of the best food and restaurant pop-ups and events around town at the moment.

  • Easter Sunday sorted with a Crisp Pizza x Charles Bryant collab

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    His previous pop-ups have seen queues snaking down the riverside in Chelsea but now chef Charles Bryant is hoping to top those with an Easter collaboration that's bound to be a sellout.

    This Easter he's joining forces with the folks at Crisp Pizza in Hammersmith for an Easter Sunday roast sub that sounds seriously good. It features slow-cooked rare breed pork, crackling, beef fat roasties, pork fat gravy,

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  • Barra Bourgogne launches as a Spanish-Burgundy pop-up in Highbury

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    Exciting news for North Londoners - we're bringing you news of a new pop up that will satisfy both lovers of Spanish flavours and the wines of Burgundy.

    After a successful soft-launch weekend in early March the team behind Barra Bourgogne, comprising chef Iain (formerly of Stoke Newington’s Jolene) and

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  • Ixta Belfrage is popping up at The Standard and bringing her king prawn lasagne

    Ixta Belfridge is popping up at The Standard and bringing her king prawn lasagne

    The Standard has had a run of impressive pop-ups and residencies, and that's continuing into spring as chef Ixta Belfrage takes over their restaurant Isla for three months. 

    Having worked for five years with Yotam Ottolenghi in his Test Kitchen and also a runner-up for best debut cookbook at the Fortum & Mason Awards, Ixta will draw on inspiration from

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  • A Petrossian caviar cafe and shop is popping up at The Savoy

    A Petrossian caviar cafe and shop is popping up at The Savoy

    The latest pop-up to take over the shop space in The Thames Lobby at The Savoy, following their Gucci one, is by caviar specialists Petrossian. The Parisian-based caviar merchants have opened a shop and cafe serving up an array of luxe food. You'll find it through the first section of the lobby, down the stairs just before you hit the Beaufort Bar.

    Outside the shop are a handful of

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  • Le Gavroche is popping up at Wimbledon

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    If you didn't manage to get hold of a ticket in the Wimbledon draw (and don't fancy the queues) there is one other way of ensuring a seat at this year's Championships. Seats have just gone on sale today for Le Gavroche at The Lawn, a pop-up restaurant overseen by Michel Roux and his team who'll be at Wimbledon for the duration of the event.

    A seat at the restaurant run by Keith Prowse, Wimbledon's Official

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  • BAO are popping up at Dover Street Market with merch and baked goods

    BAO are popping up at Dover Street Market with merch and baked goods

    BAO has arrived in Mayfair - but not as you might expect. They've landed at Dover Street Market for a pop-up kiosk that's as much about their merch as it is about the food.

    On the merch side, they've created limited edition Year of the Dragon t-shirts, made by Carhartt WIP, and you'll also be able to pick up sweatshirts, umbrellas, caps and even a custom zippo

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  • St John is popping up at Fortnum & Mason while the builders are in

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    Most restaurants have to close for a few weeks when they do any internal work. But St John, always one to do things differently, has approached its upcoming kitchen refurb as an opportunity to try something new. So while their Smithfield restaurant is shut next month, they'll be decamping to Piccadilly store Fortnum & Mason for a three-week pop-up.

    "Smithfield may be closed," says co-owner Trevor Gulliver,

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  • The Landmark London has opened a cake shop pop up selling broissants

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    Ever since their Patisserie chefs Mauro and Daniel won Bake Off: The Professionals 2023 The Landmark London has been doing its best to bring the chefs' top-tier pastry work to the fore. Now, for the festive season, they've opened a cake shop pop-up in the hotel's foyer which will be selling a range of festive French pastries.

    What we're particularly interested in though are the range of

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  • Aldi open a bottomless pigs in blankets pop-up restaurant in Islington

    Aldi are opening a bottomless pigs in blankets pop-up restaurant in Islington

    24/11/23 - updated with new pics

    Like many people, one of the things we love about Christmas is the return of pigs in blankets. If, like us, you think you can eat an awful lot of them, Aldi is about to put that to the test. For two days only, they're launching a bottomless pigs in blankets restaurant. 

    Set in Islington's Camden Passage, there's a

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  • Ruben's Reubens lands a three-month residency in Brixton Village

    Ruben's Reubens lands a three-month residency in Brixton Village

    He's been popping up in various places over town, including most recently Robin Gill's Rye by the Water in Brentford, but now Ruben Dawnay's Ruben's Reubens is back. As with Rye by the Water, he's once again teaming up with Gill, and this time it's a three-month residency in Brixton Village.

    Ruben entered the Brixton Kitchen competition when he was first starting out (a competition

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  • The Stranger Things Scoops Ahoy ice cream truck is popping up in London

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    By this point. there have been quite a few successful Stranger Things pop-ups, but the launch of the new spin off play in the West End this month is giving the team behind it a new opportunity. This time, it's  Scoops Ahoy ice cream.

    The ice cream shop featured prominently in series three and has popped up quite a few times across the globe too. There are two ways to get that ice cream - either in Pan-n-Ice shops (in

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  • Madame Pigg returns, coming to the new Islington Arts Club

    Madame Pigg returns, landing at Islington Arts Club

    Once known for its particularly strong Sunday lunches, chef and owner Adam Hardiman was forced to close Madame Pigg in Dalston after the particularly tough pandemic years. But now he's back, resurrecting Madame Pigg in Islington.

    It's part of the pub that used to be The Library (and still has

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  • A pop-up cereal bar is coming to Shoreditch from Kellogg's

    A pop-up cereal bar is coming to Shoreditch from Kellogg's

    It's been a while since the Cereal Killer cafes closed (an early victim of the lockdowns) but for a few days only, a new cereal bar pop-up is coming to Shoreditch. 

    This time, it's the turn of Kellogg's who are opening the Kellogg's Kombos Pop-Up. They'll have 25 cereals on offer and, as the name suggests, you'll be able to combine them into any kind of cereal you want. They say

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