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Wingerz Wingz, the Tottenham chicken wing brand behind apple crumble wings, opens at Boxpark Shoreditch on Friday 6 November with free wings for the first 20 people and £1.50 wings on launch day
Wingerz Wingz opens at Boxpark Shoreditch on Friday 6 November. The first 20 people get free wings, and wings are £1.50 on launch day. All the chicken is halal.
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Tattu is opening a floating Chinese restaurant at Canary Wharf on 12 November in the former Marceline site, with four rooms themed on sea dragons and a Saturday brunch from £55
Tattu's second London restaurant opens on the water at 5 Water Street, Canary Wharf, on 12 November in the old Marceline site. Brunch starts 14 November.
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More than 5,000 people signed up for the second Lime bike joust in London Fields, where two knights in chainmail charged at each other on hire bikes on Halloween although Lime says its bikes are not for jousting
Jack Carden and Camtholomew the First jousted on Lime bikes in London Fields, Hackney, on 31 October. More than 5,000 RSVPed and over £1,000 was raised.
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Shoreditch Town Hall heard the whole inquest into Mary Jane Kelly, the last of Jack the Ripper’s five canonical victims, in a single day in November 1888, after jurors protested that she had not died in Shoreditch
On 12 November 1888 the coroner Roderick Macdonald heard 12 witnesses at Shoreditch Town Hall and closed the inquest into Mary Jane Kelly the same afternoon, after jurors objected that the murder had happened in Spitalfields.
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Bottle Factory Flea, the vintage market started by the Peckham Car Boot team, brings more than 40 traders to Hackney Bridge on Sunday 8 November, with £5 early entry and £3 after midday
Bottle Factory Flea comes to Hackney Bridge, by Hackney Wick, on Sunday 8 November from 10am to 4pm, with vintage clothing, furniture and homeware from more than 40 traders. Early entry is £5, then £3 from midday.
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Imad’s Syrian Kitchen, which started as a pop-up on Columbia Road in 2017, opens its second restaurant on Blossom Street in Shoreditch on 18 November with 71 covers and dishes only served there
Imad Alarnab opens a second Imad's Syrian Kitchen on Blossom Street, in the Norton Folgate development in Shoreditch, on Wednesday 18 November. The 71-cover restaurant will serve Kingly Court favourites and Shoreditch-only dishes.
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Voodoo Ray’s, the Dalston pizza restaurant known for 22-inch slices, will stay open under a long-serving member of staff after the company behind it went into liquidation, and Doña is running weekend nights in its basement
Voodoo Ray's on Kingsland High Street in Dalston has a new owner, Rebecca Lines, after its operating company entered creditors' voluntary liquidation on 15 October. Doña now runs weekend nights in the basement.
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Ben Jonson killed an actor in a duel in Hoxton Fields in 1598 with a sword he said was 10 inches shorter than his opponent’s, and escaped the gallows by reading a verse of the Bible in Latin
On 22 September 1598 the playwright Ben Jonson killed the actor Gabriel Spencer in a duel in Hoxton Fields. He pleaded benefit of clergy, was branded on the thumb and went free. Spencer is buried at St Leonard's, Shoreditch.
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Ceilidh, a new musical in which the audience gets up and dances, has opened at Shoreditch Town Hall for a run until 13 November, with tickets from £25 and a Tony-winning director
Ceilidh, Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie's dance-along musical directed by Sam Pinkleton, plays Shoreditch Town Hall until Friday 13 November. Main-floor audiences can join the dances.
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Moth Club in Hackney says it is out of danger after the council refused a second plan for flats next to the venue, which had warned that complaints from new neighbours could force it to close
Hackney Council has refused a plan for seven flats at 6 Morning Lane, backing onto Moth Club. The venue says it is no longer under threat and is planning a party.
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Acme Taco opens its second site at 40ft Brewery in Dalston on Sunday 1 November, next door to Acme Fire Cult, with free tacos for the first 50 people through the door
Andrew Clarke's Acme Taco opens at 40ft Brewery's Dalston taproom on Sunday 1 November, next to Acme Fire Cult, with tostadas, grills and sharing platters alongside the tacos.
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Hoxton Hall lost its music hall licence in 1871 after police complaints, eight years after it opened on Hoxton Street, and spent the next century as a temperance mission and a Quaker institute
Hoxton Hall opened on Hoxton Street in 1863 and lost its music hall licence in 1871 after police complaints. A temperance mission and then Quakers ran it, which is why the galleried auditorium survives.