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Let the Fun Times Roll “You’re wasting your time mate, booked up till July…” – One of the enduring myths that swathe the hottest new gigs to open in London…
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Street XO
‘What’s it going to be then, eh?’ – A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (1962) David Muñoz stares out from the website of his three Michelin star garlanded Madrid restaurant DiverXO…
Sushi Tetsu
Worst Sushi in London? A restaurant no-one wants to talk about. Shout its name in the street and you may very well be lynched, a hate mob rugby tackling you…
The Brookmill
Deptford Rising: Pies and Elizabethan Intrigue “Christopher. The other name is unsure. Marlin, Merlin, Marley, Morley. Marlowe will do”— Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford (1993) The playwright…
The Laughing Heart
Poets and Romantics on Hackney Road There’s a new host in town, in the form of Charlie Mellor with the opening of his wine bar and kitchen on Hackney…
The Woodford
Churchill Country Woodford: Sir Winston Churchill was MP for the Woodford and Wanstead constituency during the Second World War, and his statue stands imposingly looking towards Westminster, close to the…
Verden
E5 Clapton. The new Dalston. The old Shoreditch. The next Hoxton. The ex-Hackney. The future of Not Yet There Walthamstow. Whatever Clapton really is, it’s certainly having something of…
House Of Ho
Vietnamese Bobby Dazzler Chef and owner Bobby Chinn arrives in London with a background that exemplifies a ‘melting pot’ to end all melting pots, fusing a New Zealand birthplace, Chinese/Egyptian…
Pitt Cue
The New Era From the ashes of a metal trailer on the blustery Southbank beside The Thames, Pitt Cue will emerge to send smoke signals from a…
Quo Vadis
Enter Jeremy Lee… Jeremy. Dear Jeremy. Darling Jeremy. The biggest transfer of the season is that of Jeremy Lee from Blueprint Café to Quo Vadis, the…
