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Dont show me this message again✕ Kricket’s Keralan fried chicken (Kricket) T he restaurants are opening again and we can almost taste the end of lockdown. We are once again able to sit at a table with friends, eating great food, drinking wonderful wine and and simply enjoying not being at home. But while it has certainly been a tough time for the customers of restaurants, and those that thrive on a full schedule of new restaurants to try, it has been even harder for the restaurant owners ...

Back ‘vital’ work of food charities, City Corporation urges What is city talk? The City of London Corporation has provided funding for thousands of meals to be delivered to families in need – and is urging others to follow suit. The £25,000 grant from the City Corporation’s International Disasters Fund to the food distribution charity City Harvest will enable the Livery Kitchens initiative to continue until July. The scheme, which supports people in East London, se...

Jailed... 18-year-olds Smith-Williams and accomplice Gabriel Burke-Georgiou - Credit: BTP Three teenagers who stabbed a passenger on a busy commuter train from Liverpool Street and left him permanently blind in one eye have been jailed for a total of more than 18 years.  Jaheim Smith-Williams, an 18-year-old from Whites Row in Spitalfields, got six years and nine months.  Accomplice Gabriel Burke-Georgiou of Poynton Road in Tottenham, also 18, got the same sentence when the pair ...

Friday Five: the weeks top news This weeks main hospitality news stories include Albert Adrià closing nearly all his Barcelona restaurants, operators struggling with inconsistent enforcement of outdoor trading rules, and Bar Crispin opening in Soho. - Barcelona-based chef Albert Adrià has closed nearly all of his restaurants in Barcelona​​ citing the city’s pandemic-related restrictions. Hoja Santa, Pakta, Bodega 1900 and the hugely influential Tickets will...

City of London Corporation appoints new top team to lead transformational change What is city talk? Following its decision in December 2020 to endorse a new Operating Model, the City of London Corporation’s governing Court of Common Council today welcomed the appointment of eight new senior officers and formally confirmed the appointment of the first woman as Chamberlain, the Corporation’s Chief Financial Officer, since the post was created in 1237. Chair of the Establi...

Jaheim Smith-Williams, Gabriel Burke-Georgiou, both 18, and a now 15-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons attacked the man in front of passengers on a train in Tottenham.

Morris+Company set to win approval for Shoreditch office block 1/23 Morris + Companys office-led proposals for the Huntingdon estate in Shoreditch, east London - plans submitted 2020. View west along Bethnal Green Road Source: 2/23 Morris + Companys office-led proposals for the Huntingdon estate in Shoreditch, east London - plans submitted 2020. View east along Bethnal Green Road Source:&nbspSecchi Smith 3/23 Morris + Companys office-led proposals for the Huntingdon estate in Shoreditch, east L...

Time to celebrate: 66 bars and restaurants open NOW It’s finally here, the day we’ve all been waiting for, with bars and restaurants with outdoor seating finally allowed to reopen. To help you celebrate, we’ve collected a bumper list of more than 60 places to meet up with friends and support the hospitality industry. With outdoor spots across London, there is something for everyone in our eating and drinking extravaganza, focused on the traditional City A.M. heartlands o...

Council delivers proposals to pedestrianise Brick Lane Future Visualisation of Brick Lane, PIC: Liveable Streets New proposals to pedestrianise Brick Lane have been developed by Tower Hamlets Council based on feedback from the local community. The proposals, part of the Liveable Streers progrsamme are currently out for public consultation on the Tower Hamlets Council website. The consultation ends on April 14. Brick Lane was pedestrianised for part of last year, which went down wll with the ...

Museums may still be shut, but commercial art galleries are opening – heres what to see On Monday, you can finally experience art in the flesh. From Rachel Whiteread to Georg Baselitz, take your pick of London shows 11 April 2021 • 1:10pm Untitled (Corrugated Blue), 2017 by Rachel Whiteread is at Gagosian Credit: Gagosian/Rachel Whiteread One pitfall of being a critic is getting jaded. Another Picasso blockbuster? Yawn. No chance, though, of that over the past year, with exhibitions rarer t...