Hospitality couple Lidia and Simone Crepaldi will tomorrow launch their first venture together – Italian restaurant Hoax with a ‘secret’ basement bar called The Devil You Know (TDYK) in Dalston. Taking over the original site of Chick ‘n’ Sours on Kingsland Road, Hoax has a semi-open kitchen run by Sardinian-born chef Riccardo Lottero, Simone’s cousin, […]
One of East London’s ‘lost’ eel, pie and mash shops has been revived as a pub called The Black Eel by Andy and Steph Solley of Walthamstow’s Exale Brewing. The new pub opens this Friday (24 October), with 150 free pints of beer waiting for the first arrivals through the door from midday. The spacious […]
An old Dalston boozer, the Marquis of Lansdowne, is to be reopened next week having been transformed into the Marquee Moon, a restaurant and ‘listening bar’ from the team behind nightclub The Cause. Stuart Glen and Eugene Wild, who also run Hackney Wick bar All My Friends and The Greyhound in Peckham, have renovated the […]
Stevie Parle, of Dock Kitchen fame, has opened his new restaurant in Dalston. The Kingsland Road spot will be called Rotorino (once thought to be called Sardine). Backed by The Rushmore Group (Milk & Honey and Danger of Death), this is Parle’s second restaurant, the Dock Kitchen having opened in 2009. Parle’s new venture has […]
Ex-Spuntino head chef Rachel O’Sullivan has opened a deli, Pinch Pantry, off Dalston Lane (just round the corner from Steve Parle’s new Rotorino). The former Polpo Group chef is working with Venus McMahon (formerly of local dine ’n’ wine spot, L’Entrepot). To keep up to date with all the latest London goings-on and news […]
