Monday Bulletin: Gunpowder | Edmondo | Georgie’s Bar

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EDMONDO  

Further details have been revealed about Big Mamma’s long-heralded Square Mile debut. Edmondo, opening in November, will be a 200-cover osteria within the Grade II-listed former bank building at No. 6 Lombard Street. It will bring “unapologetic 1930s Milanese glamour” to the space, with Art Deco lines, soaring columns, a vast central bar and open kitchen counter. Edmondo knows its City audience: it will serve the French-founded group’s most extensive steak offering (supplied by Philip Warren) and have not one but three private dining rooms including La Libreria, decorated with Enzo Ferrari memorabilia including a vintage racing suit worn by Nigel ‘il leone’ Mansell. Edmondo makes it nine locations for Big Mamma in the UK.

TOM KERRIDGE

The two Michelin-starred Marlow chef relaunches his restaurant and bar at Corinthia London on 5 September with a new, larger bar called Georgie’s Bar. There will be beers, burgers, frickles, haddock fritters… plus four martinis: dry, wet, dirty, and a take on a Gibson.

CARAVAN

Caravan will launch its tenth restaurant – and new flagship – at the Southbank Centre in London in November. The group’s biggest site yet, it will span two floors with multiple restaurant, bar and terrace spaces. A new coffee and cocktail concept, The Klink, follows in 2027.

PAPA DAK

Now open at Flat Iron Square in SE1: Papa Dak, a new Korean fried chicken concept created by Woongchul Park of Michelin-starred Sollip. It’s going for approachability, with a feast for four at just £36. Try the ‘Guinness Black’ fried chicken with a sticky Guinness glaze.

• Join VERiFAIR, supported by CODE, for an industry breakfast and panel talk on The Future of Hospitality Workplaces at HIDE in Mayfair on 6 October. Speakers include Sally Abé and Nathaniel Mortley. Tickets, £15.

• The Food Art Fair hits Ladbroke Hall, W10, on 5-6 September, with a programme of talks, art and installations. Gab Bois, Murder Cake and Toiletpaper Magazine are all on the bill.

• Heckfield Place’s new Workman’s Bar is a tribute to a traditional pub, the Heckfield Place way. Think art on the walls and shandy with zero waste lemon cordial.

• Cloth Cornhill (formerly Simpson’s Tavern, a favourite of Charles Dickens) has an opening date: 1 October.

• Gunpowder’s new Soho Sessions celebrate South Asian London food, music and stories. The first series has an all-women chef line-up: Firangi on 20 September; Roti Mami on 18 October, and Smoke & Lime on 15 November.

• Belly’s Omar Shah opens Bunso in Kentish Town next month. It will be bakery by day, pizzeria by night, Filipino flavours to the fore.

• Elliot Kaye, co-founder of Norman’s (RIP), has a solo project in Hackney incoming. Marrion’s Bar (on the old Nest site) will be a neighbourhood hang, serving comfort food, Sunday brunch, and great drinks.

• Auguste in Hackney is now open on Tuesdays (and is offering 50% off its first Tuesday service tomorrow, 25 August, exclusively for CODE members)
  

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WHAT WE’RE READING

• 10 questions with José Pizarro: CODE

• The Keelson review – the best rotisserie chicken of my life: The Times

• A first look at Mor: Good Food Guide

• Café Clement, London, WC2; “Turns out, it’s really rather good” – restaurant review: The Guardian

THE DUMBWAITER

To the Mildmay Club for the launch of Vittles’ Issue 3 and accompanying exhibition “The Influencers: One Millennium On”, in collaboration with Mam Sham. Fascinating relics of the golden era (2010-2026) included a fossilised matcha cup and a preserved smash burger. To eat? Girl dinner – an exhibit so awe-inspiring, so convincing, the partygoers thought it was for display only.

New research from Škoda (‘Šhhhkoda’) reveals that culinary terms are among the words Brits struggle most to pronounce. Their list includes açaí, charcuterie, quinoa, gnocchi, chipotle and gyro. The Dumbwaiter could add many more but we don’t have all week. Chorizo, phở, bruschetta, expresso…

On a similar note, the Dumbwaiter learns that Shoreditch restaurant Noisy Oyster gets its name from a tongue-twister (“what noise annoys an oyster…”) said to be near impossible to say after two of its mini-Martinis.