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21.02.12 - Pinterested in food

There’s little point paying our social media squirrel, Terry Nutkins, unless he’s going to help us ‘connect’ and ‘engage’ with you, our number one fans, on the digital platform du jour.

Actually, we think you should like Pinterest a lot. Because if you like Canteen, you probably love food. And if you love food, then you probably also love looking at photographs of food.

Which is bascially what Pinterest is all about – it’s a social network for images. Food porn, some might call it, although we couldn’t possibly comment. Of course, you can share pictures of whatever you like. It doesn’t have to be edible.

In our case, we’ve got boards for design and people and animals, because that’s what we care about. Apart from puddings, vegetables, meat, breakfast and drinks, that is. Pintersted in finding out more? Cop a load of our lovely pins here.

21.02.12 - New Canteen drinks menu

Raise your glass, say ‘cheers’ and get your timing completely wrong as you down your beverage an embarassingly long time before everyone else, making you look like an impatient drunk.

Because our new drinks menu arrives on the 29th of February.

The switched on among you will realise that the 29th is a leap day, the 366th day in the year, when normally there are 365.

And if another day isn’t a reason to have a drink, we don’t know what is. Just think of all that extra sleeping, eating and watching Masterchef you can do.

Just as well you’ll have a new wine list stocked with good, great and brilliant reds and whites, not to mention fine roses and sparkling wines, as well, to help you get through it. Cheers.

02.02.12 - New opening times

Covent Garden: 10am-7pm, seven days a week.

Canary Wharf:

Now open from 7.30am Monday to Friday, instead of from 8am
(lunch may be for wimps but breakfast is unmissable).

Saturday: 9am-11pm.
Sunday: 10am-7pm.

21.10.11 - Introducing Canteen Covent Garden

That’s it in the photo above.

It’s taken months of hard work (the reason you haven’t heard from us in a while).

But we hope you agree it was worth it and we’re delighted to say that Canteen Covent Garden, located in the heart of the market, is open for all day dining, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner – and everything in between.

You can’t book but our bar staff serve drinks and snacks, including Welsh rarebit sandwiches, west country dusted chicken wings and bags of doughnuts with seasonal jam or chocolate sauce, to keep you happy if you have to wait.

We’re the first such restaurant in residence and we’ll have to make room for the next one around March 2012, so come now and don’t miss out.

21.10.11 - Autumn 2011 Canteen menu lands

So what’s new on our new menu?

In a word, lots. What else would you expect from our new food team? (That’s Richard Edney, Mark Sargeant, Patrick Clayton-Malone and Dominic Lake to me and you).

Here’s a flavour of our new, autumn/winter menu 2011:

We’ve got loads of new soups, including London Particular, which as you may know is pea and smoked ham.

We’ve also got iron bark pumpkin soup, with roasted walnut oil.
And cullen skink, which is smoked haddock, potato & poached egg.

Some new pies, too, including curried root vegatable and smoked paprika.

Classics such as steak & kidney and chicken & mushroom remain.

There’s also a new roast chicken with honey roasted pumpkin salad and a new smoked mackerel pate with pickled gherkin starter.

And for breakfast a spiced apple compote with granola and yoghurt.

Which would you like to try?

17.09.10 - Festive parties. Get them wrapped up

We’re taking bookings for Christmas and New Year’s Eve parties.

Dribble over the menu then call or email one of our branches.

Starters: half pint of prawns with mayonnaise, chicken liver pâté, piccalilli and toast, or roast tomato and caramelised onion and sage tart.

Main: roast duck with roast potatoes, greens, gravy and apple sauce, fried fish & chips with tartare sauce, or pie and mash, greens and gravy.

Pudding: treacle tart with clotted cream, bread pudding with caramel ice cream, or Christmas pudding.

Think of the love you’ll get for suggesting Canteen for Xmas. Email specialfood@canteen.co.uk to book.

15.09.10 - Stefi Orazi’s limited edition Canteen postcards

Until you can wear an edible wristband that’ll ‘check you into’ a Canteen branch, tweet your location and tell people you ‘like’ our food by updating your facebook account automatically, we’re supplying you with good, old-fashioned postcards to help spread the Canteen word.

And what beautiful postcards they are, too.

Look out for these pocket-sized masterpieces from illustrator Stefi Orazi in any one of our branches from Saturday.

Pop a stamp on them and send to friends you’d like to share a Canteen meal with.

Or just put them on your wall because they look great.

13.09.10 - Canteen Full English now all city

You wanted it. You’ve got it.

The fullest, most fully English full English is now available at every single one of our branches.

You get toast, free range organic eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms, the finest bacon and our very own special recipe sausage, the Canteen ‘London Banger’.

And we get a warm feeling for giving you something you asked for.

19.08.10 - Canteen introduces Full English Breakfast

As it gets colder outside, perhaps you need something hotter to get you going in the morning – and throughout the day.

For only a few more pounds than it would cost in a greasy spoon, our Canary Wharf branch is offering toast, free-range organic eggs, roasted tomatoes, mushrooms, the finest bacon and our very own special recipe sausage, the Canteen ‘London Banger’.

All our pork comes from royally appointed Richard Woodall, whose meats are one of Cumbria’s finest exports.

And you can’t get much more fully English than that.

If you want us to, we’ll roll it out across other branches. Not literally, though. That would be wierd. And messy.

12.08.10 - Canteen on twitter and facebook

You can now follow us on twitter @CanteenLondon, where you’ll get real deals in real time, so to speak.

And obviously we’ll follow you back, unless you put cats in bins or give frozen chips to kids or anything strange like that, so it’s a great opportunity for us to talk more.

And in case you didn’t know, we’d also like it if you liked Canteen’s facebook page by clicking the ‘like’ button.

What’s not to like? You’ll get word of the latest deals and news faster than you can say ‘social media changed my life’.

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