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    Japanese ‘Dad dining’ comes to King’s Cross
    April 25, 2025April 25, 2025 HardensBytes

    A Japanese diner serving Osaka-style ‘Dad’s home cooking’ – possibly superior to its British equivalent – and a third branch of Middle Eastern vegetarian restaurant Bubala are the latest arrivals at the Coal Drops Yard development behind King’s Cross station. Oton, the Japanese option, has opened from the team behind Okan in the former County Hall […]

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    The long road from the Wire to wine
    October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 HardensBytes

    Idris Elba – actor, DJ, rapper, producer, activist and self-style Renaissance man – opens his first wine bar and restaurant next week, in Coal Drops Yard at King’s Cross. With 800 wines in stock and space for 70 guests, Porte Noire is being promoted as ‘one the largest fine wine tasting rooms in London’. London-born Elba, […]

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    Bodega Rita’s to launch guest chef series at new Coal Drops Yard development
    April 11, 2019April 11, 2019 HardensBytes

    Bodega Rita’s, the Coal Drops Yard sandwich shop and deli set up by Rita’s founders Missy Flynn and Gabriel Pryce, is to launch a guest series alongside some of London’s better-known chefs. Bodega opened at the new Coal Drops Yard development in December, and serves New York-style sandwiches, pastries, and lighter dishes. Creations include pork […]

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    Hart brothers to open yet another restaurant in Coal Drops Yard
    November 30, 2018November 30, 2018 HardensBytes

    Not content with three new restaurants in the buzzing Coal Drops Yard, the Hart brothers’ Barrafina team will be launching another in 2019. Parrillan will be a casual terrace bar and grill – a partially covered space with room for 100 diners. The menu will be meat, fish, and seafood-led, with an emphasis on foods cooked […]

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    Coal Drops Yard – Opens 26 Oct
    October 25, 2018October 25, 2018 HardensBytes

    London’s latest restaurant and shopping ‘quarter’ opens today. Coal Drops Yard is the superb new addition to King’s Cross, just around the corner from Granary Square. It is a beautiful restoration of Victorian brick sheds built in the 1850s to transfer coal from rail to road. On Wednesday of this week we dropped in for […]

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    Wild Honey’s Anthony Demetre becomes the latest name to add to the Coal Drops Yard roster
    August 22, 2018August 24, 2018 HardensBytes

    Anthony Demetre is the latest name to throw his hat into the ring at the new Coal Drops Yard development, in King’s Cross. The Wild Honey chef will open Vermuteria Café & Bar at the site in October this year, joining the likes of Pip Lacey’s Hicce and The Drop – a wine bar from the […]

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