A nine hole crazy golf pop-up – with a clubhouse serving food by the likes of Patty & Bun and Pizza Pilgrims – is coming to town. Only in Shoreditch. And, in true and trendy local style, the place has one of those slightly risqué names and a vintage concept. Swingers comes with a 1920s-inspired clubhouse, bar and terrace […]

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Enter our GOAT and Jack Daniels competition Your chance to win dinner and drinks at GOAT’s speakeasy night: Fat Sam’s.   Grace Dent gives Cafe Football a red card “There’s nothing I don’t love about this concept. Except, that is, the food.” says the Evening Standard critic.   Goodbye Bones? Has the trendy Shoreditch chicken/sharing […]

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Bones, Shoreditch’s bang on trend chicken and sharing plates spot, has closed. Ostensibly the restaurant has shut up shop in order to carry out a refurb, but murmurings from the foodie cognoscenti denote an air of wishful thinking on the part of the owners. Indeed their website www.ieatbones.com has already been taken offline. Although serving up-to-the-minute fashionable […]

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Sacre bleu! It’s been announced that an American chef is to head up one of London’s more popular Gallic bistros. David Fogelman has taken the reins at Bruno’s Loubet’s eponymous establishment at the Zetter Townhouse hotel in Clerkenwell. Fogelman, however, has been semi-nautralised, having worked in London kitchens since 2009, cutting his teeth at restaurants like Gordon Ramsay at Claridge’s and Fergus Henderson’s […]

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Marylebone’s Canvas, which opened six months ago, has closed and relocated to the former site of Le Cercle. Chef/restaurateur Michael Riemenschneider will relaunch the restaurant on 2 September in Wilbraham Place, just off Sloane Square. The new Canvas will not only be bigger (60-80 covers instead of 20) and less central, it will also (crucially) […]

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During our usually damp summers we Brits have braved many adverse weather conditions in the hope of lighting the barbecue and enjoying a good burger. And it looks as though tomorrow’s National Burger Day (27 August) will be no different. Events to mark this auspicious day include Mr Hyde’s CAR-B-Q at Battersea Powerstation – in a […]

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In Brick Lane’s Old Truman Brewery, a casual new diner from the founders of Wahaca; the food has its moments, but the whole experience can be somewhat uneven. Thomasina Miers and Mark Selby seem to be paid-up subscribers to the notion that the art of cool is being in the know. The name of the […]

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