A small internal courtyard garden at 180 The Strand has now been transformed into Outcrop, a new pop-up venture from Luca founders Johnny Smith and Daniel Willis, along with Tom Allott, Andrea Moccia and Sabrina Goreeba from Secret Cinema. The outdoor restaurant, bar, and arts space is also the new temporary home for one of our favourite chefs, John Chantarasak, who’s behind the stoves until the end of September, cooking up his signature brand of Thai dishes made with seasonal British ingredients. There’s an open (air) kitchen and a tented dining area filled with plants and vintage speakers (music is a big part of the experience too, with regular guest DJs throughout the summer) and some absolutely killer Thai food on show. Don’t miss the Wildfarmed flatbread with shrimp paste butter and Brixham crab; the corn with London honey butter, lime and a dusting of spicy laab seasoning; the monkfish crudo with a fish sauce caramel we’d happily have drank a gallon of;a spicy, sour soup with langoustines and mussels; the superb skate wing jungle curry enriched with pork fat; and spelt cooked in beef fat and topped with cured ox heart. The wine list has been been curated by AngloThai co-owner Desiree Chantarasak and features some superb low intervention wines, many of which are available by the glass or carafe, as well as AngloThai’s own wine, Eleonore, a Chardonnay made in partnership with Austria’s Malinga winery.