A campaign has been launched to save Boxpark Shoreditch from closure when its lease expires at the end of this summer. Hailed as “the world’s first pop-up mall” when it launched in 2011, the venue pioneered the use of shipping containers as instant mini restaurants and brought new confidence and energy to the capital’s street-food […]
BOXPARK has confirmed its first site outside of London with the launch of sibling concept BoxHall in Bristol scheduled for summer 2022. The group has just agreed a lease for the historic harbourside location at Welsh Back Bristol’s O&M’s sheds, which will house its first BoxHall site. Opening in June 2022, BoxHall Bristol will be a modern food hall structure with […]
Boxpark has appointed financial firm KPMG to help it find further investment to develop its portfolio and expand out of London. The pop-up mall group currently counts Shoreditch, Wembley, and Croydon on its roster, but plans are afoot to cast a wider net. Back in London, Harden’s understands the company was also investigating a location […]
Celebrated chef James Cochran, who currently runs his casual fine dining restaurant 1251 in Islington, is to launch a street food concept called Goat. The Great British Menu winner is opening a site at Boxpark Croydon, with a view to set up there permanently. On the BBC2 show, Cochran wowed judges with his goat meat […]
Coqfighter, the fried chicken pop-up that has been operating at Boxpark in Shoreditch and Croydon, has secured a site in Soho and will be opening later this month. The street food traders will launch a permanant restaurant on the aptly named Beak Street, with space for 40 covers. Coqfighter will bring its fried chicken bao, […]
Rohit Ghai, who has just opened the fine-dining Indian restaurant Kutir in Chelsea, will next turn his hand to a street food concept at Boxpark Wembley. Whereas once upon a time a chef with ‘fine dining’ aspirations would not have been seen dead in the mass market, it’s yet another example of the chef […]
Doesn’t your Mum deserve more than a bunch of flowers this year on Mother’s Day? Breakfast in bed, some pampering and chocolate is a start, but why not take her out for a meal to show her how special she is? Here are a few ideas … Enoteca Turi Enoteca Turi, 87 Pimlico Rd, London, SW1W […]
Mushrooming dude food chain MEATLiquor – once memorably described by a Harden’s reporter as being “like a cross between a divey biker bar and a branch of Hollisters” – is to open a branch at Boxpark Croydon next year. Like Shoreditch’s Boxpark (a mix of retail outlets and restaurants), Croydon’s will be set within disused […]
The expansion of Porky’s BBQ is fairly picking up speed. An outpost of the barbecue joint – specialising in American-style smoked meats – arrived on the South Bank’s Globe Walk in June and now another restaurant has opened at Boxpark, Shoreditch. Meat-loving hipsters can sample authentic slow-cooked American barbecue, including Memphis meaty ribs and tips (pork ribs […]
The expansion of Porky’s BBQ is fairly picking up speed with the announcement of its second new site this year. An outpost of the barbecue joint, specialising in American-style smoked meats, arrived on the South Bank’s Globe Walk in June and now another restaurant is planned for late October. This latest Porky’s will open in the Boxpark […]
