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Last night saw us join forces with the Londoneer at the amazing Stew House pop up in London Fields
Also accompanying us for the evening were our competition winners Laura Fenn and Steph Bamsey.
After a few minor issues finding the venue, the warm flicker of candlelight and the gentle hum of music told us we were in the right place. The Stew House’s entrance is a modest doorway positioned underneath a large, imposing building.
After tackling a rather imposing velvet …
Pop-up, 
pop-up, pop-up…
It’s a social epidemic that’s infected Londoners across all four corners of the city, and its popularity shows no sign of abating.
The ‘pop-up’ concept has exploded onto the capital’s social scene in a big way in the past couple of years. Fuelled by the merciless economic climate infecting wallets and bank accounts up and down the nation, pop-up restaurants, markets, clubs, shops and cinemas (and more) have sprung up all over London. It seems that this is partly as a means of combating the steep prices …
Friday 2 
6th November saw the opening of the newly-founded Long Table pop-up night time food market. A bit of a mouthful (literally and metaphorically), this weekly feast is being staged in the cultural cauldron that is Dalston, East London, to provide a winter warmer for those keen to ‘celebrate a rich cultural diversity by mixing foodies, chefs, artists and musicians’ – and for those who like the idea of being …
Most wouldn’t consider ‘cake’ baking as the driving force of an emerging patisserie subculture that’s circulating in cities up and down the country.
But, described as ‘a national idea‘ that has recently taken off in the wake of the success of television programmes such as ‘The Great British Bake Off’, there’s a secret movement evolving that has seen cake become the latest trend for the nation’s baking enthusiasts recently, with a wave of close knit members groups cropping up everywhere in the name of ‘cake.’
The ‘Clandestine Cake Club’ …
