18 Unmissable Pop-Ups To Add To Your August Itinerary

Book a table at Chishuru’s Summer Suya Sessions

Chishuru, Adejoké Bakare’s Michelin-starred Fitzrovia restaurant, is running Summer Suya Sessions all month long, and it isn’t one to miss.

It’ll be serving up a relaxed, à la carte menu inspired by the street-side suya grills of Nigeria, with dishes starting from just £7. The menu is built for sharing and repeat ordering, with suya-spiced bavette skewers, whole prawns in yaji butter, lamb tongue with green strawberries and what is already being tipped as a cult dish, the spaghetti jollof. It marks an exciting new format shift for one of London’s best restaurants, running until 2nd September.

Where: 3 Great Titchfield St., London W1W 8AX
Website: www.chishuru.com

Celebrate a London institution’s 10th birthday with this special menu

Michelin-starred Clerkenwell favourite LUCA is turning ten, and to mark the occasion Chef Robert Chambers has put together the LUCA10 Menu. Think a three-course greatest hits menu at £75 a head, available from August 3rd to September 5th. Highlights include the legendary Parmesan fries that have been on the menu since day one, taglierini of Cornish lobster with datterini tomatoes, and the return of the caramelised lemon tart with fennel ice cream, with a complimentary pour of LUCA-cello to finish.

Where: 88 St John St, London EC1M 4EH
Website: www.luca.com

Visit this waterside street food festival

KERB Goes East is landing at Canada Water on 8th and 9th August, and with 50-plus traders celebrating the best of East and Southeast Asian street food, it’s shaping up to be one of the food events of the summer.

Highlights include Oishi Don’s Japanese comfort food, Singapore’s famous curry puffs from Old Chang Kee, Himalayan dumplings from Mandala and the Korea-Mexico fusion of Komex, all set alongside an independent craft and culture market and live music by the water. Free to attend and very much worth the trip south.

Where: Canada Water
Website: www.kerbfood.com

Order this limited-edition summer pizza

Franco Manca has teamed up with Aaron Potter, chef patron of Belgravia’s Wildflowers, on a limited-edition Summer in Bloom pizza that’s available until the end of August.

Topped with peach, gorgonzola, crispy coppa and truffle honey, with a truffle honey and gorgonzola dip for the crusts, it’s a seriously good combination for £14.50, available across Franco Manca restaurants in England and Wales as well as via delivery.

Where: venues across London
Website: www.francomanca.com

Book into this Jamaican guest chef dinner

Elsa’s, the Alsatian-inspired bistro, is running a summer guest chef series and the August 17th edition is a good one. Frankie Clarke is bringing his modern Jamaican pop-up concept Irie to the kitchen for an evening that blends his Caribbean roots with Elsa’s Franco-German DNA.

It’s a combination that sounds unlikely on paper but brilliant in practice, with Clarke developing the menu collaboratively with Elsa’s head chef Holly.

Where: 10 Charlotte St., London W1T 2LT
Website: www.elsa.com

Try this Georgian dessert pop-up from cult baker Lily Vanilli

Lily Vanilli, the east London baker with a serious cult following, is bringing a Georgian-inspired dessert menu to DakaDaka from 1st to 8th August, and it isn’t one to miss. Having previously launched a bakery in Tbilisi, Lily knows her way around the cuisine, with highlights including a Sweet Adjarian Khachapuri, a Saperavi Black Forest Sundae and a Cha Cha Sour Cherry Jelly. The crowd favourite will stick around on the menu for the rest of August too.

Where: 10 Heddon St, London W1B 4BX
Website: www.dakadaka.com

Grab a table at this live-fire garden supper

The Zetter Bloomsbury’s Garden Grill series continues on August 23rd with Ella Williams, Head Chef of No. Forty Nine in St John’s Wood and one of London’s most exciting young chefs.

Her menu leans into bold Caribbean flavours and late-summer produce. Think jerk pork loin with pimento tonnato, coconut-braised cowpeas and a rum and raisin plantain split to finish, all cooked over fire in The Zetter’s secluded garden. At £40 a head including a welcome drink, it’s a lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

Where: 2-7 Montague St, London WC1B 5BP
Website: www.thezetter.com

Feast on the best of summer produce here

The Camberwell Arms is hosting a seasonal feast on August 13th in collaboration with Shrub Provisions, and the menu is a celebration of late summer at its finest. For £55 a head, expect barbecued squid and sweetcorn salad, merguez stuffed green horn peppers with labneh, grilled spatchcocked chickens with flat yellow and French beans, and a showstopping summer fruit pavlova with cold custard, all served feasting style around the table.

Where: 65 Camberwell Church St, London SE5 8TR
Website: www.thecamberwellarms.com

Try your hand at padel with this collab

Chef-driven salad brand Urban Greens has teamed up with premium padel club Padium for a four-week summer series every Saturday throughout August, and at £30 a head it’s one of the better value afternoon plans in the city.

Each session runs from 1pm to 2:30pm, welcomes players of all abilities across Padium’s courts, and comes with coaching, a live DJ, a freshly prepared Urban Greens salad and a few surprise experiences thrown in for good measure.

Where: 10 Bank St, Canary Wharf Estate, London E14 4DE
Website: www.urbangreens.com

Spend the bank holiday at this pop-up pub

Cult kitchen knife brand Allday Goods and Cheltenham’s DEYA Brewing Company are joining forces to open The Alldeya Arms, a four-day pop-up pub on Rivington Street in Shoreditch over the bank holiday weekend.

The collaboration centres around a co-branded bar knife made from recycled DEYA brewery plastic and a bespoke limited-edition pale ale, all served up in a space that channels a proper British boozer with dark timber panelling, vintage artwork and antique haberdashery cabinets. It’s the kind of unexpected collab that makes a lot of sense once you’re standing in it with a pint.

Where: 72 Rivington St, London EC2A 3AY
Website: www.alldaygoods.com

Plan your trip to the cocktail event of the summer

London’s ultimate open-air drinks festival is returning to Bedford Square Gardens this summer, and tickets are already flying.

Reimagined as a vibrant pop-up village in Bloomsbury’s largest private Georgian garden, Cocktails in the City will bring together twenty of the capital’s finest bars. Running from August 6th to 8th, guests can look forward to exclusive £10 signature serves, live music, silent discos, and interactive cocktail-making workshops. Given that this sun-soaked celebration sells out completely every single year, you will want to secure your general admission tickets right now to avoid missing out.

Where: Bedford Square Gardens, Bloomsbury
Book here

Round off your summer with this run club

Pip & Nut is wrapping up its summer run club series on August 11th at Oatis in Shoreditch, and it’s a pretty ideal Tuesday morning.

Lace up for a relaxed 5K with a friendly crowd, then refuel with Pip & Nut’s new Stuffed Oat Bars and what might be the most on-brand post-run drink going, a peanut butter iced latte. What’s more, it’s free to join and open to all abilities.

Where: 10 Cygnet St, London E1 6GW
Website: www.pipandnut.com

Sip a St Tropez-inspired cocktail in Harrods

Moët & Chandon and Pharrell Williams have brought a taste of Saint-Tropez to Harrods this summer, and the exclusive Spicy Mango cocktail is reason enough to visit.

The Moët & Chandon Ice Impérial-based serve combines tropical mango, agave and a hint of spice into something that tastes exactly like a sun-drenched afternoon on the Côte d’Azur. Pair it with La Tropézienne, the iconic Saint-Tropez brioche, or its savoury counterpart of potato bun, whipped goat’s cheese and confit lemon, and you’ve got yourself a very elegant afternoon pitstop.

Where: 87-135 Brompton Rd, London SW1X 7XL
Website: www.harrods.com

Celebrate tequila at this agave pop-up

Mercato Metropolitano has launched Cantina Libre, a summer-long agave takeover running until August 31st. At the heart of it is Sagrado, the world’s first sparkling agave cerveza, sitting alongside La Reina Mezcal and Los Locos Tequila, all designed to make the world of agave a little more accessible over a long summer afternoon. With 40-plus international street food traders, live music and DJ sets also on the bill, it’s a solid excuse to spend a Saturday in Elephant & Castle.

Where: 2 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6DR
Website: www.mercatometropolitano.com

Watch a 90s classic on the big screen

Lower Marsh Lates is back for summer 2026 with a free outdoor cinema series on Waterloo’s beloved hidden high street, and the theme is pure 90s nostalgia.

Taking place on the last Thursday of each month through to August, each evening runs from 6pm with food and drinks from local traders, prizes for the best dressed and the kind of atmosphere that makes a Thursday night feel like a proper event.

Where: Lower Marsh, London SE1 7RG
Website: www.lowermarshmarket.com

Make the bank holiday weekend count at this Bristol festival

FORWARDS is back over the bank holiday weekend, and this year’s lineup is one of the strongest yet. Friday 28th August kicks off with Lorde headlining alongside Maisie Peters and Djo, before Saturday brings a brilliant all-female trio of co-headliners in Tems, Self Esteem and Wet Leg.

Sunday rounds things off with Little Simz, Amyl and the Sniffers and Dijon, marking the latter’s first-ever Bristol performance. The best part? It’s not too late to pick up tickets, so make sure to secure yours now to have your August bank holiday weekend sorted.

Where: Circular Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS9 1PG
Website: www.forwards.com

Escape to Somerset for this al fresco Italian banquet

Soho favourite Bocca di Lupo is leaving the city for the weekend of 15th and 16th August to celebrate Ferragosto, Italy’s beloved mid-August holiday, with two long-table banquets in the grounds of Wyke House near Bruton, a Georgian Grade II-listed estate set within six acres of Somerset countryside. In collaboration with the Pharmacy Field Kitchen team, it promises to be a seriously beautiful way to spend a summer weekend outside of London, with tickets available now.

Where: 3 High St, Bruton BA10 0AB
Website: www.thepharmacybruton.com

Take a boat to a secret riverside BBQ dinner in Marlow

Feast over Flame is exactly the kind of summer plan that feels like a proper occasion, complete with a welcome drink, a private boat ride to a secret riverside location in Marlow, and a five-course menu cooked table-side on your own Big Green Egg, finishing with s’mores and sparklers under festoon lights. Now in its sixth year, it runs Thursday to Saturday from 13th August to 12th September, with both adults-only dinners at £99 and family-friendly lunch sessions at £49.50 for children.

Where: Marlow Bridge
Website: www.feast.com