10 Awesome August Pop-Ups
And just like that we’re in August already – this year is flying by and whilst it appears that our summer was fleeting and has now gone (why we say this like we’re surprised we don’t know) that isn’t going to stop us making the most of August by visiting the best pop-ups and supper clubs; which this month seems to include some rather obscure drinks – beer made from lobster anyone?
Lucky & Joy
Eat Your Way Through China
Want to branch out from your usual Chinese order? Then head to Lucky & Joy, where Ellen Parr (co-founder of The Art of Dining) and Pete Kelly will be serving up a menu that maps the breath of regional Chinese cooking. Following successful stints in Tottenham and Hackney’s Institute of Light, the duo will now be on Cambridge Heath Road until the end of September. Dishes will include Xinjiang cumin lamb ribs hailing from the provence North- West Muslim China, as well as the numbing heat of Sichaun cooking with a Bang Bang chicken salad. In the adjoining arch, you’ll find The New Leaf, a bar from the team at The Art of Drinking and inspired by the drinking dens that line Beijing’s hutong alleyways.
3rd August – 31st September
Where: 298-299 Railway Arches, Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9HA
Website: More Information Here
Sardine
Monday Night Feast
Make more of your Monday by heading to Sardine for their next La Grand Bouffe supper club. Hosted on the first Monday of each month, this month it’s all about lamb à la ficelle. The feast starts with socca (an unleavened pancake), before a girolles, samphire and tomato salad and then the main event of lamb à la ficelle, fresh coco de paimpol beans and green sauce ratatouille, whilst to finish there is roast peach with vanilla ice cream.
7th August
Where: 15 Micawber Street, London N1 7TB, United Kingdom
Website: www.sardine.london
East London Liquor x BAO
Cocktails and Steamed Buns
For one night and one night only the bar at BAO Fitzrovia is being taken over by the team from East London Liquor Company as they whip up a unique menu of cocktails designed to be paired with a set menu of five dishes from BAO founders Shing, Wai Ting and Erchen. You’ll then be able to vote for your favourite to be kept on the menu for the rest of the month. Drinks will be far from ordinary with the likes of a cep-infused gin, Kummel, vanilla and squid ink creation on offer…
8th August
Where: BAO Fitzrovia, 31 Windmill Street, W1T 2JN
Website: www.baolondon.com
Claw
Seafood and Craft Beer Supper Club
Seafood champions, Claw is hosting a one-off feast which will pair brews from the UK’s top craft breweries with a six -course menu of British seafood. Top beers include Magic Rock Brewery’s Salty Kiss Gose and a rather interesting entry from The Wild Beer Co, Of the Sea – made with lobsters, cockles, sea salt and Kombu (maybe just don’t think about that too much when you drink it). To eat there’ll be crab beignets with pickled sea vegetables, XO crab, kelp and cured egg yolk and for pudding millionaire shortbread paired with Wild Beer Co’s chocolate and salted caramel milk stout.
10th August
Where: Claw Finsbury Avenue Square, EC2M 2PA
Website: Get Tickets Here
Rabbit
Glorious Twelfth
To celebrate the start of the grouse season, Rabbit Restaurant in Chelsea is teaming up with The London Shooting Club for a Glorious Twelfth supper. The London Shooting Club will hurry down from the Yorkshire moors to bring the first grouse back to London in time for a dinner of roasted grouse served with candied beetroot, smoked onion petals and blackcurrant and Armagnac game sauce. If nothing else you can guarantee it’s going to be fresh with a capital F.
12th August
Where: 172 Kings Road, Chelsea, SW3 4UP, United Kingdom
Website: www.rabbit-restaurant.com
Lahpet
Burmese Supper Club
Burmese cuisine might not have hit the big time in London yet, but one restaurant on a mission to bring it to the forefront is Lahpet in London fields. They’re launching a new supper club which each month will showcase the finest authentic and contemporary dishes from Myanamar. Created by Head Chef Zaw Mahesh, using the best Burmese and British produce the menu will revolve around small plates of crispy fritters, salads, fresh seafood and vibrant curries.
17th August
Where: 5 Helmsley Place, London Fields, E8 3SB
Website: Get Tickets Here
Billy and Jack
MasterChef Supper Club
If you recognise Billy and Jack it’s because they were on MasterChef, since then they’ve launched a sell-out supper club, but they’re bringing it to London for one month in partnership with Silent Pool Gin. Taking place on top of the Southbank Centre, they’ll be hosting brunches, early suppers and feasts and the menu will include salted Cornish sardines with heritage tomatoes and roasted quinoa; Notting Hill Carnival-inspired jerk hangar steak; and the boys’ cheeky tribute to Wall’s iconic Fab ice lolly. Visit on the 10th-12th August and Three Girls Cook – MasterChef 2017 finalists Alison, Giovanna and Lorna, will be guest hosting!
Throughout August
Where: St Paul's Roof Pavilion, Level 6, Blue side, Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, Southbank, SE1 8XX
Website: www.billyandjack.co.uk
