It can sometimes be hard to know if a restaurant is trying to make food that you will savour and enjoy, or is simply creating dishes to feed the Instagram craze. Taking no chances, Shoreditch’s Clove Club is doing both.
The Clove Club’s menu is a masterpiece of contemporary aspirations. With a no-choice list of nine courses, there’s no possibility of a fashion faux pas when ordering. This daily-changing menu is economically worded. It describes a succession of small plates: dishes which are seasonal, that champion British produce, yet are oddly esoteric. It is both accessible and obscurantist.
Everything comes together in the amazing building of Shoreditch town hall. Food to dream about long after you left – especially the heavenly buttermilk chicken and pine salt.
This is how your neighborhood coffee joint should be. Cozy, friendly, great food and amazing coffee. Timber yard is perfect. Too bad it has only two locations and both are in London (one on Old Street and the other in Seven Dials. Timberyard recently won the award for Best Independent Coffee Shop in Europe at the Allegra European Coffee Awards The winners were chosen through a targeted voting campaign by Allegra, where over 1000 senior industry executives were able to have their say.
Forget the restaurant guides compiled by a panel of mysterious experts, this new guide is by the real insiders: more than 600 of the world’s leading chefs. Listing their favourite places to eat from neighbourhood eateries to high-end restaurants, Where Chefs Eat is the ultimate guide to the world’s best food. With entertaining reviews the books should appeal to restaurant-goers and food lovers worldwide..
This new edition includes 3,000 recommended restaurants (of which 2,000 are new) from more than 70 countries and chefs such as René Redzepi, David Chang, Jason Atherton, Shannon Bennett, Helena Rizzo, Massimo Bottura, Yotam Ottolenghi and Yoshihiro Narisawa.
Look mum no hands! Coffee, cycling and beer. What else do you need? This is the coolest place on earth – or at least in London. Cool bikes, a bike shop, tasty coffee, yummy food and all kinds of amazing beer. And of course mind blowing merchandise. This has franchise written all over it. Look mum no hands! 2 locations. One on Old Street in Shoreditch the other one on Mare Street in Hackney. Only the coolest locations.
Coffee Houses are always looking for the new special something. Back to the roots it is for the Cereal Killer Cafe on London’s Brick Lane. Cereals. As simple as that. This is how they describe themselves: We are the first speciality Cereal Cafe. We are obsessed with everything cereal. We sell over 120 different types of cereal from around the world, if we can source it, we will sell it. To create the perfect bowl of cereal you can choose from 30 different varieties of milk and 20 different toppings. To give you the real sugar rush feeling you had when you were a kid come and visit us for breakfast, lunch or dinner in our nostalgic cafe displaying hundreds of pieces of memorabilia from the 80s and 90s for you to feast your eyes on.
Athens Greece was not on the map if it came to extraordinary chefs. That has changed. Funky Gourmet is embracing its Greek origins and has just been awarded with 2 Michelin Stars.
It’s a place where chef and owners Georgianna Hiliadaki and Nick Roussos have lots of fun with their funky meets gourmet concept of plates that aim to activate the sense of their customers in unconventional ways.
They are Greece’s top avant-garde restaurant and with amazing dishes like Squaring The Pea and Choriatiki salad the do stand out. This is not just some crazy molecular cuisine but unbelievable food that just tastes amazing.
Berlin is ubercool – that much we all know. But the Restaurant La Soupe Populaire by German star chef Tim Raue beats them all. Located in an old abandoned factory this is almost too good to be true. German classics revisited is the concept. The prices are reasonable and the interior design soooo amazing. The absolute favorite of TrendEngel is Bienenstich. Spongy pastry filled with custard – the kind you would buy in Germany in any bakery for the last 50 years. But don’t be fooled. This is different. The only thing I am saying is: apricot ice cream…
In Berlin gibts alles. Food, Coolness und Feelgood a discretion. Das alles in einem vereint der Burgermeister am Schlesischen Tor, dem Epizentrum des neuen Berliner Lebensgefühls. Burgermeister machts den Amis vor und muss den Vergleich mit Klassikern wie In N Out Burger oder Shake Shack nicht scheuen. Macht euch auf eine lange Schlange gefasst und darauf, dass Bürgermeister unter der Bahn in einer ehemaligen Toilette untergebracht ist. Doch was dann geschmacklich rüberkommt ist klasse. Zieht Eure Wartenummer, bestellt den Meister Burger oder den Meister aller Klassen und lasst es Euch schmecken.
Berlin muss sich nicht hinter irgendjemandem verstecken. Nicht hinter London oder New York und schon gar nicht hinter Paris oder Rom. Berlin ist einfach klasse. Welcher Kiez der liebste von TrendEngel ist wollt ihr wissen? Schwer zu sagen. Doch der Bergmannkiez in Krezberg ist bestimmt ganz vorne dabei. Das liegt nicht zuletzt am Restaurant Ø, das vom Interior Design her gesehen einfach nicht zu überbieten ist. Ø bedeutet Insel, Berlin ist Insel seit jeher und das merkt man. Hier entsteht was Eigenes, was lokales und was gutes. Nicht zu kompliziert und vor allem Spass. Das ist hier die Devise. Schaut Euch doch mal die Bilder an.
It can sometimes be hard to know if a restaurant is trying to make food that you will savour and enjoy, or is simply creating dishes to feed the Instagram craze. Taking no chances, Shoreditch’s Clove Club is doing both.
The Clove Club’s menu is a masterpiece of contemporary aspirations. With a no-choice list of nine courses, there’s no possibility of a fashion faux pas when ordering. This daily-changing menu is economically worded. It describes a succession of small plates: dishes which are seasonal, that champion British produce, yet are oddly esoteric. It is both accessible and obscurantist.
Everything comes together in the amazing building of Shoreditch town hall. Food to dream about long after you left – especially the heavenly buttermilk chicken and pine salt.
