Plant-based restaurant, Halo Burger, is to open its second site on January 22 on Great Eastern Street in Shoreditch. The expansion comes after a “successful year” at a site at POP Brixton. Halo Burgers uses Beyond Meat, an increasingly popular plant-based product developed in San Francisco, California. Halo Burger founder Ross Forder said: “We can’t […]
Damian Clisby, former chef director of Petersham Nurseries, and Nick Gibson, owner of Islington gastropub The Drapers Arms, will open their first joint venture, Emile, in Shoreditch. The restaurant and wine bar will open at 26 Curtain Road for six months from on October 10, with Mediterranean-inspired food and a refined wine list. The 40-cover […]
The team behind Italian favourites Padella and Trullo look to be opening a new site in Shoreditch. A licence application, proposed under the Padella name, has been submitted to Hackney Council. A notice has been attached to a premises on Phipp Street, as one eagle-eyed diner shared on Twitter. Tim Siadatan and Jordan Frieda opened […]
A new distillery, bakery, and restaurant called Serata Hall is to open in Shoreditch on April 3. An announcement from owners Albion & East said on Thursday: “Serata Hall will offer a brand-new haven for East Londoners and city creatives. “The eclectic new space will accommodate everything all under one roof – for work, play, […]
Big Mamma, an Italian restaurant group from Paris, is soon to open two sites in London. The group announced an opening in Shoreditch in autumn last year, and news now comes that it is also set to launch on Rathbone Square in Fitzrovia. That’s the latest update, anyway, from a business owner local to the […]
Former pop-up TÁ TÁ Eatery is to open a nearly, possibly permanent site in Old Street. The restaurant left Borough Wines in Kensal Rise some time ago, and has since been without a home. The European, Japanese fusion food concept has seen widespread success after launching in multiple temporary sites across London, and has now found […]
In the same week that one in five GBKs are to close, another street food pop-up has revealed plans to open its first bricks and mortar restaurant. Burger & Beyond (what else?) will open in Shoreditch (where else?) next month. The 75-cover restaurant will feature an expanded menu, working in new dishes to bolster the […]
Nuno Mendes and business partner James Brown have finally opened Mãos, their ‘restaurant dining room’ at Blue Mountain School in Shoreditch, east London. The venue seeks to “redefine the traditional restaurant experience”, with an “interdisciplinary space” occupying a six-story townhouse. The founders say “Mãos is an intimate experience, free from the trappings of conventional dining”. While we’re not entirely […]
Peruvian-inspired restaurant Pachamama is to open a second site in Shoreditch. Harden’s readers say the first site is “innovative and delicious”, serving fusion dishes combined with cocktails based on pisco and mezcal. The first Pachamama has been running for three years at its Marylebone home, and there was – at least the last time we […]
Fay Maschler in the Evening Standard, heads to another of London’s many ‘baby roll-outs’ as she samples the second Smoking Goat… “’Nu-Thai’ is what the cool kids call it, I am told, food from white boys who have travelled widely in South-East Asia. “New place, groovy food, stripper ghosts, Shoreditch, buzz, buzz, buzz. Drinking Foods — the […]