Jazz saxophonist and entrepreneur YolanDa Brown is to open her restaurant and music venue Soul Mama in Stratford this September. Originally slated for Islington, Soul Mama is set in the Gantry hotel, opposite Westfield, and will offer a menu inspired by Caribbean, African and South American cooking. The project is funded by a Kickstarter campaign […]

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Chef Kerth Gumbs, from the tiny West Indian island of Anguilla (pop 15,000), will bring some unusual Caribbean influences to new restaurant Boiler & Co, which opens behind Tate Modern in Southwark next week. Takeaway coffee will be available from next Friday, January 14, although diners may have to wait a little longer for a […]

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No sooner have we noted Londoners’ love affair with chicken, than another poultry place arrives on the scene. Bird, now open in Shoreditch, is billing itself as a ‘free range, fried chicken’ restaurant which takes inspiration from across the Pond, but this is, say the founders, a ‘distinctly British’, London version of local community restaurants found in Brooklyn […]

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