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BLOGGER BANTER AT BUMPKINSquare Meal held a special
dinner for nine food bloggers
at Bumpkin restaurant in
Chelsea this June, celebrating
the launch of its summer
menu in the restaurant's
fairy light- lled secret
garden. If you're a restaurant
blogger and would like to get
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restaurant news
WHAT'S HOT
and fi nally...
Marcus Wareing will replace
Michel Roux Jnr as judge on the
next series of MasterChef: The
Professionals
St John has grown its empire
with the launch of the Bakery
Rooms at Maltby Street market
Anna Hansen, chef proprietor
of The Modern Pantry, has signed
the lease on a second site in the
City, due to open next spring
Spanish restaurant Barra na
has launched a second site, in
Covent Garden
Churchill's Port House in Soho
has launched a menu matching
port with chocolates from Paul
A Young
Proving that the only way is
Essex, Albert Roux will open a
restaurant on Brentwood High
Street in spring next year
Wahaca founders Thomasina
Miers and Mark Selby launch a
new Mexican pop-up on Brick
Lane on 24 July, called DF/Mexico
WHAT'S NOT
Coming soon…
THIS MONTH
Lima Floral comes to Covent
Garden, including a piqueos
bar for Peruvian 'tapas'.
The second branch of Flat
Iron opens near CentrePoint
on Denmark Street.
NEXT MONTH
Mark Hix heads south of the
river for the rst time with the
launch of Hixter Bankside.
The restaurant in the
Mondrian London hotel
launches, with New York chef
Seamus Mullen at the helm.
New bar Dandelyan launches
in the same hotel, headed
up by Ryan Chetiyawardana,
who also runs White Lyan on
Hoxton Street.
LATER
Skye Gyngell launches
Spring in Somerset House
in September.
Marcus Wareing will open
Tredwell's in Covent
Garden in September.
WHAT'S
DF/Mexico
CRABS
King crab is served whole at Beast,
you can smash your own at Bonnie
Gull Seafood Café, and US chain
Fatty Crab is due to launch in
London later this year
HIP HOTELS
Ham Yard Hotel has just arrived
in Soho, Mondrian London is
launching by the river next month,
Corbin & King open The Beaumont
in October, and André Balazs's
Standard is coming to the capital
JUICE
Move over Tequila, juice is the new
shot of choice. The Juice Well and
Press have both squeezed into
Soho, while Roots & Bulbs is going
down a treat in Marylebone
PORTUGUESE
It's the cuisine to watch, having
inspired piri-piri restaurant Fire
& Feathers in Fulham, Covent
Garden wine bar Canela, and
Hide & Seed in Putney
TABLECLOTHS
They're a seriously dying breed
in London, with bare-tabled
casual being the new cool. Even
Claridge's has gone without at
Simon Rogan's Fera
USDA BEEF
This top grade of American beef
is de rigueur in restaurants at the
moment, from Burger & Lobster
to Chiltern Firehouse. Good as it is,
we have our own very fine British
beef thank you very much
HIDDEN BARS
It was a bit of fun, but we're fed
up of needing to channel our
inner Sherlock just to get a drink.
Who wants to be tucked away in
a basement or back room over
summer, anyway?
RESTAURANT SELFIES
Pictures of your food are one
thing, but pictures of yourself
eating it? Seriously?