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MI CASA, SU CASA
The Loft Project
Conventional restaurants?
Pah! It’s just so not cool to eat out these days unless the place you’re going to is moveable, secret or subterranean (i.e. in someone’s front room, preferably in Deptford). The menu, more than likely, is themed. It’s BYOB and, ideally, juggling midgets serve the amuse-bouches. Yep, it looks like supper clubs, as much as we might try to forget them, are here to stay. |
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Some of them, however, deserve to be taken a bit more seriously. When respected don’t-call-him-a-molecular-gastronomist chef Nuno Mendes turned his, luckily spacious, Dalston flat into weekly supper club The Loft almost a year ago it developed quite a following.
But, with plans to open a new ‘proper’ restaurant, Viajante in Bethnal Green Town Hall in March, Mendes won’t have time to keep The Loft going himself. So... he’s decided rather ingeniously to invite chefs from various gastro hotspots around the world to stay and take his place in the kitchen every Friday and Saturday night.
The first guest chef (starting Feb 18 for four weeks) will be Ben Greeno, from famed Copenhagen restaurant Noma, who will prepare a 12 course tasting menu for a maximum of 16 guests – so book now to secure yourself a place. Dinner doesn’t come cheap at £100 a head + VAT. But along with probably some of the most interesting and imaginative food you’ve tried this year, cocktails are created and wines are perfectly paired – so you can leave that £3.49 bottle of Rioja, along with any inhibitions, at home.
INFO
Reservation requests: info@theloftproject.co.uk
www.theloftproject.co.uk [new website going live next week]
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THE CULTURIST: FEBRUARY
February: the month of fluttering Cherubim, post tax–return overdraft–celebrations, new seasons in all our favourite shops, and a scant 28 days (27 and counting) to get through till March. Of course we’ll touch on the great V–Day later in the week – but in the meantime, for those with more cultural inklings, here’s a wee rundown of what’s tempting our tastebuds this month…
Click here to read the feature… |
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| THIS WEEK’S EVENT PICKS |
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TALK: TUES – Twice winner of the Man Booker, the lovely Peter Carey discusses his new novel. Foyles, 6:30pm, 113 Charing Cross Rd, WC2H 0EB. Free. (adv. booking) |
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SHOP: NOW – Slam City Skates vs. WeSC is getting our long lost skate-kid-within giddy with joy. WeSC, Mon-Sat 10am-7pm, 43 Carnaby St, W1F 7EA. |
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ART: THURS – The second annual Kinetica Art Fair wants desperately to move you. And itself. P3, 35 Marylebone Rd, NW1 5LS. £8-£20. |
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BOOK AHEAD – Mackenzie Crook leads the 12-week run of the wonderful Jerusalem at the Apollo Theatre. Shaftesbury Ave, W1D 7EZ. £25-£55. |
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