Ukrainian restaurant Tatar Bunar launches next week in Shoreditch, showcasing home-style regional cooking from Bessarabia in the south of the country. It takes its name from Tatarbunary, close to Romania on the Black Sea coast and the hometown of co-founder Alex Cooper, and has a menu inspired by his grandmother’s recipes for such classic comfort […]
Shoreditch will get just a little bit hipper this summer as new ‘Nordic Smokehouse’ restaurant and bar, Rök, opens on Curtain Road in August. Taking over the site of an old east London café, the owners have turned the space into a 40-cover restaurant and bar open for lunch, dinner and late night drinks with a downstairs […]
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 […]
