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- The third annual Magic Dinner, which supports the charity Magic Breakfast, will take place on Monday 18 September. The event will be hosted by Grace Dent and Jonny Woo and will take place on The Rooftop at Ace Hotel. The event is designed to raise funds “to provide healthy breakfasts to children in deprived areas who arrive at school too hungry or malnourished to learn.” The five-course dinner in aid of the charity will be prepared by Jeremy Lee (Quo Vadis), Nuno Mendes (Chiltern Firehouse), Andrew Clarke (Brunswick House), Anna Higham (Lyle’s) and Sebastian Myers and Freddie Janssen (Snackbar) — all will prepare one dish on the night. 100 tickets are available for £120 — and they’re available to buy here. The event starts at 6.30pm.
- Gilly’s Fry Bar — a British chippie and Japanese fusion restaurant — will open in Finsbury Park this month. Neil Gill, the owner, is from Sunderland and the restaurant is inspired by the chip shops he grew up around, as well as Japanese izakayas, which he became familiar with when working as a chef with Alan Yau (at Busaba Eathai), the Evening Standard report. It will open at 4A Clifton Terrace, London N4 3JP on 19 September.
- Wringer & Mangle will open a second location in Spitalfields on 11 of September. The original site is in London Fields. The restaurant and bar will serve “hearty seasonal dishes” from newly appointed head chef Peter Tomkinson and a “bottomless weekend brunch.” The two floor site will be an all day dining restaurant and bar.
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- Chef and restaurateur Roaya Saleh is bringing Bahraini restaurant Villa Mamas from Bahrain to Chelsea this month. An all-day menu will include breakfast flatbreads with homemade yoghurt; Mezzeh sharing plates menu will be available for lunch and dinner. The restaurant will open on 25 September at 25-27 Elystan Street, London SW3 3NT.