Well-travelled sommelier Yukiyasu Kaneko has opened a wine bar/restaurant in a Hackney railway arch that specialises in rare and high-quality natural wines. Yuki began his career in Tokyo and has worked around the world, with stints at Noma in Copenhagen and P. Franco in East London. He has also studied winemaking in Oregon, and last […]
A collaboration between ex-Mayfields chef Matthew Young and sommelier Jack Lewens, formerly of Spring and River Café – due to open on 20 November in Hackney’s Netil House – is sure to have east London foodsters (foodie-hipsters) excited. And foodies in general if we’re honest. Young’s food has been praised by everyone from the broadsheet big guns […]
Yet more hip, pop-up news for Hackney’s über-trendy London Fields as self proclaimed ‘East End drinks maverick’ Gerry Calabrese (founder of Hoxton Pony and Hoxton Gin) brings a new venture to Hackney’s Laundry Building. Wringer & Mangle will take over the site that until recently housed Scott Hallsworth’s (of Kurobuta fame) pan-Asian eating and drinking […]
Devilishly spicy Thai pop-up som saa (currently housed within Hackney’s trendy Climpson’s Arch) is looking for a permanent home – and they need backers. Founded by chefs Andy Oliver and Mark Dobbie – who met at London’s prestigious Nahm under the tutelage of the somewhat legendary David Thompson – and managed by Tom George, the restaurant has […]
Hackney’s railway arches, already home to the lauded Thai residency Som Saa, is about to get another tenant that’s sure to have further foodies flocking to London Fields. Il Cudega, an Italian deli and wine bar showcasing the flavours of the Lombardy region, will open in September, just a stone’s throw from the burgeoning restaurant scene […]
London finally has an American restaurant big enough to represent the ‘Land of the Huge’ as the 500-cover Blues Kitchen is open in Shoreditch. An outpost of the original Camden venture of the same name, the restaurant has twice the capacity of, say, Brasserie Zédel. The restaurant, open all day, features a Texan BBQ menu including […]
London finally has an American restaurant big enough to represent the ‘Land of the Huge’ as the 500-cover Blues Kitchen is open in Shoreditch. An outpost of the original Camden venture of the same name, the restaurant has twice the capacity of, say, Brasserie Zédel. The restaurant, open all day, features a Texan BBQ menu including […]
Grub, the edible insects company, is back with its take on alternative eating for one night only in Hackney. After a sell-out run at Moniker’s in Hoxton Square during March, the pop-up restaurant returns on 25 April. This time Grub will be at the Hothouse Rooftop in London Fields, serving up crickets, grasshoppers and mealworm with […]
