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1. Hot dishes at the event include:

• Flour & Grape: Roasted Pork Shoulder Tortelloni with Sage Butter with a glass of Inama Soave Classico
• Londrino: Porto Hot dog; Fried Pickled Mussels
• Tom Simmons: Brixham Crab Croquette, Laverbread Mayo, Pickled Samphire; Gorse Flower Lemonade (gorse picked from the Preseli mountains)
• Santo Remedio: Octopus Tikin Xik Achiote, Pineapple pico de gallo
• The Rose: the famous London Bridge pub are making vegan fried ‘chicken’ for the event
• Texas Joe: Joe will be smoking his famous Brisket
• The Coal Shed: Moroccan Spiced Smoked Goat, Za’atar Flatbread, Harissa, Zhug, and Coal Shed ‘sweets’
• Yo Sushi! will be dishing up their vegan ‘Green & Beets’ roll with avocado, jalapeño, cucumber, peppery Japanese mizuna and creamy vegan beetroot mayo.   Kickin’ Salmon is their take on the American Philly roll, finishing it in Korean red pepper, crispy shallots and sriracha mayo
• Constancia: - Signture steak sandwich served in ciabatta roll, with rocket, roasted red peppers and Chimichurri sauce. They will also be offering the traditional Choripan, a beef and pork Argentine style sausage roll
• Honest Burgers: Market Special – beef patty, Brindisa chorizo, Kappacasein London Raclette cheese, garlic mayo, rocket and pickles

…and some of those providing the liquid refreshments will be:

• Prosecco House will be serving up their dazzling arrays of proseccos
• Neighborhood cocktail bar Nine Lives will be serving the perfect brunch cocktails – Bloody Marys, Iced Chai Lattes & Ruby Mimosas.

2. This year’s London Bridge Open Kitchen is part of the London Festival of Architecture (LFA2018) programme being hosted in the sweeping new forecourt of London Bridge station. The redevelopment of the railway station has exposed a stretch of the Victorian viaduct that was previously hidden and created brand new public spaces, making the perfect spot for events and activations that will welcome travellers to the area. For centuries, the area was known as ‘London’s Larder’ as sugar, tea and spices were brought ashore, stored and traded here. Open Kitchen explores this year’s LFA2018 theme of IDENTITY to revisit this tradition in a refined, contemporary manner while celebrating the striking architecture of the new station.

3. Social media: Atlondonbridge.com / londonfestivalofarchitecture.org / @atlondonbridge / @teamlondonbdg / #LBOK18

4. Friday 29^th June to Saturday 30^th June inclusive.  Entry is free but registration via www.atlondonbridge.com/lbok18 is heartily encouraged.

5. This event is organised by Team London Bridge, with support from Thameslink Programme and Network Rail.

6. The Government-sponsored £7bn Thameslink Programme is an ambitious 10 year programme to transform north-south travel through London. It is delivering new longer and more spacious trains running every 2 to 3 minutes through central London in the peak, improved connections to more destinations on an expanded Thameslink network including Cambridge and Peterborough and more robust tracks and modern signalling using digital railway technology to make journeys more reliable. The Programme has also completely rebuilt stations at Blackfriars and London Bridge. “

The Thameslink Programme is being delivered in partnership between the Department for Transport, Network Rail, Govia Thameslink Railway, Southeastern and Siemens.