The cocktail refuses to disappear from the limelight, and this new bar below the iconic Smithfield Market shows exactly how and why. What do you need to know? Well, for starters, it's from the team behind City Road speakeasy Nightjar, recently placed third in the World's 50 Best Bars; and it'll feature a bar menu themed around discovery and exploration, with cocktails based around the Old World (Europe and Africa), the New World (the Americas) and the Orient.
To say we're excited about this new opening from Karam, Jyotin and Sunaina Sethi – the team behind vaunted modern Indian restaurants Trishna and Gymkhana – would be an understatement. It offers casual Indian and Sri Lankan roadside food, with the dosa taking centre stage alongside the eponymous street food. A departure from the fine-dining style of the aforementioned it may be, but you just can't fault that track record.
An East Dulwich pop-up from former Noma and Polpo acolytes? Count us in. You can expect a buzzy atmosphere at Platform 1, the wine bar that'll play host to the residency. Dishes include pot-roast cauliflower coated in lardo with juiced walnuts and fried duck egg with mussels and lovage, and the wine’s taken care of by the bar, with a focus on rare grape varieties.
Love Le Bun's laid-back, French-meets-American fare? Get down to its new, five-week residency at the Zetter Hotel in Clerkenwell. Duck 'fries' poutine, pig cheek hash – oh, and that burger. We'll see you there.
If there's one place that isn't lacking in Chinese restaurants, it's Chinatown (go figure), but this one's far from your usual late-night joint. Diners choose ingredients from a conveyor – there are more than 50 on offer, from pork sliced razor-thin to crab and greens – and it all gets turned into a traditional Chinese hot-pot. There are five different types of broth available, too, so you'll never have the same thing twice (unless you really want to, that is).
