For those who just can’t wait for MasterChef to start again next year, there’s a pop-up opening today (2 September) that will scratch your itch. Over the next five weeks, winners and finalists – old and new – will be running a temporary restaurant and bar at the Blue Fin building in Southwark. Tickets have already sold […]
Can food really be art? Shuttlecock Inc hopes to deliver a spirited case for the defence in the form of Carousel – a new interactive space opening this August in Marylebone. The self-style ‘foodie nomads’ (pop-up dining operatives to the rest of us) will open a three storey interactive and immersive restaurant/gallery which delves not […]
No-one could accuse the people behind roaming restaurant Platterform of not paying their dues. After three years of hosting pop-ups on rooftops (in sometimes Arctic conditions) they have finally secured a permanent home at Hackney Empire. Platterform plan to introduce their mix of food, drink, music and immersive events to the area, with nights like […]
Acclaimed roaming restaurant Chateau Marmot is bringing its new Supernature dinners to London. The menu will be overseen by Dan Doherty (he of Duck & Waffle fame), showcasing seasonal British herbs and flowers across eight courses, served with a selection of matching wines. Taking place in a secret location in Waterloo 18-19 July, this pop-up marks the […]
A new Portuguese piri piri chicken restaurant, Fire and Feathers, has opened today on Fulham Road. Founded by first-time restaurateur Harry Deighton, Fire and Feathers is London’s latest pop-up-goes-perm (following a temporary residency last year at the Earl of Portobello, Westbourne Park). The restaurant, which will has an interior designed by 44th Hill (who also decked out […]
Although London now has a dining scene to rival any major city, we do often – too often, some might say – still take our cuisine cues from New York. So kudos to London’s Shuttlecock Inc, and their “immersive theatre and dining experience”, for turning the tables and taking their pop-up concept, Mile High, all […]
Pop-up-goes-permanent – it’s a familiar story these days. But what about ‘permanent-restaurant-not-opening-on-schedule-launches-pop-up-to-keep-its-dream-alive’? Granted, it’s not quite as catchy, but it transpires that that is indeed why chef Scott Hallsworth decided to open a temporary version of his Japanese izakaya (pub), Kurobuta, in October last year. It turns out that before Kurobuta’s arrival last week at its […]
The long-awaited Kurobuta from ex Nobu chef Scott Hallsworth will officially open in Marylebone on 23 April. Another in London’s ever-growing list of ‘pop-up-turned-permanent-restaurants’, Kurobuta started out as a temporary spot on the Kings Road in October 2013. This casual dining space, serving up Japanese food, beers and cocktails, was the UK’s first Izakaya – Japanese […]
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 […]
If – after recent openings like One Sixty Smokehouse, Q Grill and Avenue – you still haven’t had your fill of the cuisine du jour, you’ll be really pleased to hear a new American pop-up is coming our way. Ruby Jean’s Diner will kick off a run of residencies at The Royal George in Charing Cross Road […]
