A new café/bar/restaurant offering ‘eclectic modern European cuisine with an Asian twist’ has just opened in Shoreditch. Penkul & Banks, serving tapas and sharing plates (what else?), takes its name from two furniture craftsmen whose Victorian workshops were sited at 77 Curtain Road. Of course more recently the site was home to a manly-menued place […]

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We all know breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Brunch on the other hand is a lazy, leisurely feast, king of hangover cures, waster of Saturday and Sunday mornings. But we love them both, for so many reasons…eggs, Bloody Mary, sourdough bread, mimosas, bacon… we could go on. So whether your next […]

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