The chef’s behind Stokey’s mega popular brunch spot The Good Egg (just check out that weekend perma-queue!) bring their unique mix of Middle Eastern cooking and spicing with British ingredients to Soho’s Kingly Court this December. The follow-up draws on the distinctive Jewish café-culture of Montreal and Tel-Aviv’s vibrant street-food scene for an all-day restaurant, […]

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Chef, singer, broadcaster and supper club host Andi Oliver is to open her first restaurant next month in Stoke Newington – her home turf. Andi’s will serve brunch classics by day – baked eggs, French toast bacon sandwiches and Reubens with home-cured salt-beef – and transform into a more formal brasserie in the evening. She will be […]

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The Hawksmoor group has suffered its first public reverse with the announcement that the Stoke Newington branch of its Foxlow spinoff will close for business on January 14. The closure comes just weeks before the main Hawksmoor brand is scheduled to open its eighth branch in the prestigious location of Borough Market in Southwark. Founders Huw Gott and […]

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Matt Rix and Marc Dalla-Riva (the duo behind Clerkenwell pub the Blacksmith and Toffeemaker) have taken over the former White Rabbit Cocktail Club in Stoke Newington. The site, once a favourite haunt of the late, great Amy Winehouse – back when it was the Baby Bathhouse – re-opens as café, bar and events space 125 […]

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