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Copenhagen's Cult Burger Brand Gasoline Grill Is Popping Up at The Standard
The Standard is on a roll with food residencies this summer, following Ixta Belfrage’s popular pop-up with Copenhagen’s Gasoline Grill. Regarded as one of the best burgers in the world, Gasoline Grill started serving smash burgers out of a gas station in 2016 and hasn’t looked back since. Now operating seven locations in Copenhagen, the brand is heading outside of the city for the first time for a four-week residency at The Standard. The menu will feature Gasoline Grill’s crinkle cut fries, Original Burger, Cheeseburger, Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich and Vegetarian Burger, alongside a spesh Surf & Turf Burger created in collaboration with The Standard, which you can pair with Two Tribes Brewery beers and frozen beer cocktails. And on weekends, there’ll be brunch specials like Nashville chicken waffles, blueberry pancakes, and strawberry & jalapeno micheladas.
Pick Up a Piece by London's Coolest Artists at This Souvenir Shop
If you’re out and about in King’s Cross, make sure to swing by the new pop-up souvenir shop that’s landed in Granary Square. Blending French Riviera stripes and British seaside charm, the shop is stocked with a range of items created in collaboration with some of the city’s coolest artists, illustrators and designers, Lucy Loves This, Real Hackney Dave and MaxMadeMe. Swing by and pick up a print, slogan postcard, t-shirt, towel or stick of rock as a way to remember the summer of 2024.
Check Out the Coolest Brands Coming Out of Lagos at This Shoreditch Pop-Up
Nigerian fashion and lifestyle brand THIS IS US, founded by Oroma Itegboje and Osione Itegboje, is known for its timeless designs featuring oversized silhouettes and indigo fabrics. And you can check out some of its pieces in person, alongside other brands from Lagos, like Dye Lab and Kkerele, at its pop-up in Shoreditch. As well sustainable fashion, you’ll also be able to enjoy music, art and culture from Gida, Dada, Egwu Records and Boy Brother Friend.
Joseph Denison Carey Is in Residence at Boundary Shoreditch
Joseph Denison Carey, who’s spent time at Caravel, Pidgin and The Waterhouse Project, as well as running his own project The Bread + Butter Supperclub, is taking up residence at Boundary for the summer. He’ll be cooking dinner at the hotel’s ground floor restaurant, showcasing his take on comfort food. His menu includes dishes like pork & fennel polpette in arrabbiata sauce, leek tart with bechamel suace, grilled onglet with braised lettuce, tagliatelle in tomato and lemon, grilled leeks in romesco sauce, chocolate tart with creme diplomat, lemon & almond cake, and tiramisu.
Eggbreak Is Heading East For the First Time
Eggbreak is one of Notting Hill’s best brunch spots and now east Londoners can get in on the action without having to cross town as the restaurant is popping up at The Hoxton, Shoreditch. Open every day from 7am – 4pm for six months, the Eggbreak pop-up at The Hoxton Grill will feature all signatures, including the Eggybreak Melt (a potato bun stuffed with roasted red pepper jam, cheddar and scrambled eggs), Turkish Eggs with dill yoghurt, Hot Honey French Toast with poached eggs and labneh, Ari’s Pancakes with banana and salted caramel butter, and Nutella French Toast. All of Eggbreak’s collab dishes, including a nasi lemak dish with Old Chang Kee, will also be available in Shoreditch and there’ll be a few exclusives on offer at the pop-up, like the Eggbreak Burger topped with bacon and a fried egg. Wash it down with a Tahini Frozen Coffee and you’ve got yourself a bangin’ brunch any day of the week.
Jay Morjaria Is Popping Up With a Korean Diner at Callooh Callay
Million Pound Menu winner Jay Morjaria is following up his JAE residency in Dalston with new pop-up Korean diner concept Park & Kim at Shoreditch cocktail bar Callooh Callay this summer. Park & Kim blends the retro vibe of an American diner with punchy Korean flavours, so go through the wardrobe for dishes like bulgogi smash burgers with bulgogi glaze, sesame onions and Korean mustard; Korean fried chicken burgers; kimchi burritos with fried rice, pulled pork, chiptole mole and Nongshim shrimp crackers; gochujang hot honey wings; vegetable mandu with fried eggs and gochugaru; and loaded bulgogi fries with bulgogi mince, American cheese and ssamjang mayo.
Chet's Is Hosting a Kerbside Pizza Party
Chet’s in Shepherd’s Bush is bringing in some friends for a mega pizza party this June, blending its Thai-Americana flavours with some of the best dough in town. South London’s Dinner for One Hundred will be up first on 1st June, with Vincenzo’s from Bushey taking over the Gozney ovens on 8th June. There’ll be toppings like mu ping pork neck and SangSom caramelised pineapple pizzas, Chet’s Thai full moon party buckets, and hopefully some summer sun on beaming down on the front patio. Tickets for the Kerbside pizza party cost £25 and include one limited-edition pizza and a cocktail.
Following the closure of his restaurants at Birch in Croydon, Lee Westcott is back in South London, popping up at Robin Gill’s Brixton wine bar Bottle + Rye. The six-week stint is a space for him to try out some dishes as he looks for a permanent pub space in East London, and the French/Southern Med-inspired menu he’s cooking up sounds good. You can expect dishes like oysters with fermented wild garlic, grilled asparagus with purple sprouting broccoli and seaweed hollandaise, aged sirloin steak tartare with crispy potato, Cornish bouillabaisse with baguette and rouille, breast of lamb with spring veg and salsa verde, and Yorkshire rhubarb choux bun, and there’s also a £40 set menu option available too.
Try Dishes From Ixta Belfrage's Mezcla at Isla
Ixta Belfrage, chef and award-winning author of Mezcla: Recipes to Excite, is going to be taking over the kitchen at The Standard’s Isla for three months this spring. The all-day restaurant will be serving up an exclusive flavour-packed menu inspired by the recipes in Ixta’s hit cookbook and the culinary traditions of Italy, Brazil and Mexico, with the star of the show being a fan-favourite, her king prawn lasagne. Other highlights will include guava roast duck tacos with chipotle crema; crisped sticky rice stuffed aubergine; a moqueca fish slider on curried coconut brioche; sea bream and yellow tomato aguachile; and honey-roasted cashew ice cream choco-taco.
Londoners have gone crazy for Anya Hindmarch’s unusual ice creams, including flavours like Branston Pickle and Heinz Tomato Ketchup, and now the designer is bringing them to us in scented candle form. Anya Mart, the latest pop-up shop at the Anya Hindmarch Village in Knightsbridge, is stocked with candles smelling like Fanta, Imperial Leather, Coco Pops, Heinz Baked Beans and more. The shop, a playful nod to the corner shops of yesteryear, is pleasingly retro inside – it’s giving high-end Supermarket Sweep vibes – and is also filled with charms, purses, bags, PJs, and slippers from the Anya Brands collection.
SPAGO AT 45 PARK LANE
Beverly Hills fave and celeb magnet Spago, founded by Wolfgang Puck, is coming back across the pond to the capital for a pop-up this March. The restaurant will be taking over Puck’s London restaurant CUT at 45 Park Lane for three days, with Byron Puck and Tetsu Yahagi coming over to collaborate with 45 Park Lane’s Elliot Grover on a five-course dinner menu. Dishes will include lobster and asparagus salad with yuzu miso vinaigrette; bacon-wrapped monkfish with broad beans and chanterelle mushrooms; uovo in raviolo with French black truffles; grilled New York steak with braised beef cheeks, wild ramps and ricotta-nettle gnocchi; and tiramisu.
Chef Eric Wan (of Dinner by Heston) runs modern Vietnamese pop-up Lá Lốt, inspired by his Chinese/Vietnamese background and his mother’s birthplace of Chợ Lớn in Saigon, where he puts a twist on traditional ingredients and street food dishes. He’s taking over High Ground in Angel for two nights this March, with four-course menu including dishes like chicken, sweet basil & peanut salad; beef, star anise & lemongrass with jasmine rice; and Vietnamese coffee tiramisu. And you can add on paired wines from the High Ground team, who’ll be pouring Austrian and European bottles. You can book a table by buying a £20 ticket here, which’ll be taken off your bill at the end.
HOKO X WUN'S TEA ROOM WONTON NOODLES POP-UP
Wun’s Tea Room & Bar (from the team behind Bun House in Chinatown and the Pleasant Lady stall in Old Spitalfields Market) has been closed since last summer, but it’s coming back this February and March for a collab with Hong Kong milk tea and French toast experts HOKO. The pop-up will see the Soho spot transformed into a wonton noodles shop where you can grab bowls of the HK speciality, as well as HOKO favourites. There’ll be several wonton noodles options on the menu, each of which will be served with hand-wrapped wontons filled with pork and shrimp. Plus, there’ll be plates of char siu BBQ pork rice, lo mein and HOKO’s classic French toast, as well as plenty of tea to sip on.
After saying a sad goodbye to its former home on Scala Street in Fitzrovia last January, Pollock’s Toy Museum is coming back to London – this time, in pop-up form. The (now, mini) museum will be moving into a space in Croydon’s Whitgift Centre in January for a six-month residency and it’ll be bringing plenty of whimsical toys, games, dolls and theatres along with it. There’ll also be a display of toys made in a local factory, A Barton, exclusive to the Croydon pop-up. They’re open on Saturdays from 10am until 4pm and entry is free (plus, there’ll be special toy theatre shows on Sat 20th January to mark the opening), but donations are welcome and will go towards saving the collection and supporting the museum’s hunt for a new permanent home.
LOUIS VUITTON LOVERS AT THE SELFRIDGES CORNER SHOP
After showing his debut men’s spring-summer 2024 collection for Louis Vuitton on the Pont Neuf during Paris Fashion Week in June 2023, LV’s Menswear Creative Director Pharrell Williams is bringing it to London. For five weeks this winter, LOUIS VUITTON LOVERS will take over The Corner Shop at Selfridges, so you’ll be able to experience a bit of that Parisian magic as well as shop from a curated edit of clothing and accessories from the SS24 collection, including tailoring, leather jackets, retro sportswear and pieces featuring Williams’ pixelated Damoflage print, his take on the iconic LV Damier chessboard pattern. You’ll need to make an appointment if you want to get inside, which you can book here.
Brighton’s first fully dry bar is coming to London for a limited time only with a pop-up in Hoxton this January. Torstig (which means “thirsty” in Danish) has already been revolutionising the world of alcohol-free cocktails in its native city, but now the capital’s getting a taste of the action as the bar will be bringing its menu of signature serves to Kingsland Road for two weeks. Each tipple has been inspired by a classic cocktail, so you’ll know what to order based on your usual order. For example, go for the Tumbol if you like Negronis, the Orso if you like Old Fashioneds or the Agerup if you like Margaritas. There’ll also be a selection of ‘mood-altering’ serves, made with Three Spirit and Wild Eve, which use ingredients such as guayusa, schisandra, cacao, lion’s mane and terpenes for something either uplifting or to help you wind down. And, if you’re not in the mood for a mixed drink, there’ll also be Guinness 0.0 on tap, as well as a wide range of cans and bottles such as Brulo CBD IPA and LOAH’s Lime, Peach and Blood Orange 0.5% beers.
Max Mara’s iconic Teddy Bear Coat is turning ten and to celebrate, the brand has brought its Fluffy Residence to London. After previously popping up in Chengdu and Milan, the installation has now landed in Covent Garden, and as the name suggests, it’s a cocoon of softness just like the famous coat. Everything inside the residence is made out of the camel-coloured Teddy fabric, from the food on the dining table to the presents underneath the Christmas tree to the giant teddy bear headboard above the bed. Of course there are Teddy coats in the wardrobe and there’s also a magic mirror inside the house where you can generate your Teddy alter ego. So if you’re looking for a calming respite from the festive chaos, step inside the Fluffy Residence – you can just walk in or you can book a slot here for fast access.
JAY WOLMAN AT 107
In case you missed the news, P.Franco has closed, reopened and is now called 107. But, while the name is different, the ethos is still very much the same: a stellar wine selection and pop-ups from some of the world’s most exciting chefs. And for their next residency, they’re bringing Jay Wolman – of Diner, LaLou, Marlow & Sons, MIMI and Intermission – onboard. We don’t know exactly what’ll be on the menu just yet, but from the sneak peeks they’ve given us on Instagram, it looks like we can expect very good things.
