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The Palm House, Kew Gardens

“Fruit Salad Boating Lake” At Kew Gardens

Another wild scheme from the fruitful minds of Bompas and Parr.

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Preview: Drive Thru Restaurant @ Old Selfridges Hotel

More culinary weirdness from Bompas & Parr.

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Extra, Extra

The rest of the day’s news, with added moon.

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London Food & Drink News: 23 February 2012

Bompas & Parr launch new “food explosion service for weddings” and more London-centric foodie news.

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Review: Hendrick’s Carriage of Curiosities

As you’d have gathered from our London Cocktail Week preview last week, we’ve been pretty excited about the return of the Hendrick’s Horseless Carriage of Curiosities, which has been saddled up for one week only at the disused petrol station on Clerkenwell Road (the same …

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Preview: London Cocktail Week

Shopkeepers of London, stock up on the Aspirin. There could be a few sore heads on the mornings of next week as we welcome the first ever London Cocktail Week. Forget the Thames, it will be mojitos, mai tais and martinis that will be flowing …

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Preview: Experimental Food Society Spectacular

The Experimental Food Society collective is about bringing together and showing off the UK’s most creative culinary crazies, many of whom have become quite well known on the London foodie scene. Members include Jellymongers Bompas & Parr, the fun but not really that rebellious Rebel …

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Heston Blumenthal To Open London Restaurant

Photo / Brian Minkoff Anyone craving some umami-heavy foodstuffs can rejoice: culinary iconoclast Heston Blumenthal has announced that his first London restaurant will open on December 1st. The venue, to be named (somewhat onanistically) ‘Dinner by Heston Blumenthal’, will be located in the Mandarin Oriental …

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Review: Bompas and Parr’s Complete History of Food

Not content with building a jelly skyline for the city, plying Londoners with cocktails the size of a house, or getting us to vote with our stomachs, jellymongering duo Bompas and Parr launched A Complete History of Food last night in Belgrave Square. Serving dishes …

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Review: Bompas & Parr @ The Experimental Food Society

If you like to mix up your food and your art, eat the unusual, or simply eat unusually; then the Experimental Food Society may be the thing for you. We’d be tempted to say it’s like the Stonemasons but with a better canteen, but it …

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Architectural Dessert Trolley visits Royal London Hospital

A dessert trolly complete with a giant-sized gingerbread Gherkin, that is, 30 St Mary Axe and a massive tower of jellies, dare we say it, wobbled into The Royal London Hospital to bring some early Christmas cheer to the patients. There were huge smiles in …