Two London Restaurant Stars Reunite for Annual Burns Night Dinner

Quo Vadis and Black Axe Mangal could bring back the ‘Cock Em Bouche’

The now traditional Burns Night collaboration between Jeremy Lee’s Soho restaurant Quo Vadis and Lee Tiernan’s Black Axe Mangal in Islington returns on 25 January. Menu details are under wraps, but past dishes from two of London’s essential restaurants have included mutton with numbing spices, foie gras doughnuts, and that pink, indecent, towering dessert. Book tickets for Quo Vadis x Black Axe Mangal Burns Night here.

Gourmet-junk burger pioneers announce second closure in two months

Meatliquor Brixton is now closed, but the burger restaurant group is after an alternative site.

London’s most nominatively determinist coffee shop opens a sixth site

The Gentlemen Baristas is now open at East India Docks. The 70-cover all-day café joins coffee shops in Borough, Fitzrovia, Southwark, London Bridge, and North Greenwich. [The Caterer]

Someone in London thinks a chicken wing and eyeliner pop-up will fly

Mother Clucker and Benefit Cosmetics will serve chicken wings and eyeliner on Commercial Street from 30 January until 3 February. One for the nichest-of-the-niche crowd. [Hot Dinners]

Southbank performing arts hub gets new all-day restaurant

Spiritland — with locations in King’s Cross and Mayfair — is now open at Royal Festival Hall. Expect antipodean cooking from new group head chef Moondog, who previously worked with New Zealand icon Peter Gordon at The Providores in Marylebone.