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London's new crisps and dips café and bar, now open in the heart of Soho. Dine in or delivery.
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Review: Hipchips crisp and dips restaurant in Soho is pretty weird ...
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Share this article with Google Plus Back in October, we reported that a crisp and dip bar was opening in Soho.
Situated on Old Compton Street in Soho, the crisp restaurant has thrown open its hipster doors to the public with their conveyor belt of heritage potato slices and fancy dips.
So fancy in fact, that a pile of multicoloured crisps and two dips costs £4.50 – which is pricey in my book.
You pick your sweet and/or savoury dips and the chefs season your crisps accordingly – covered in sugar and cinnamon or salt respectively.
For me, the sweet crisps dipped in pudding pots (we also had a cheesecake and a lemon tart dip which were basically fully constructed desserts) were a bit much.
Restaurant Review: HipChips, Soho | Life & Loves
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The dips were also a mixed bag – out of Peanut Butter & Jam, S’mores, Passionfruit, Chocolate & Salted Caramel, Cheesecake and Blackberry & Liquorice there was two clear favourites, and only another two we really ate.
However the Passionfruit and Peanut Butter with Jam were both winners.
The savoury dips sounded good, but I felt a bit limited with the tomato-free options and, having devoured a satay chicken at Leon, was in the mood for something sweet.
And that’s what sums up my review of HipChips.
Would you go sweet or savoury with your chips’n’dips?
Best new food to eat in London this week: Honest Kebabs, Lobos ...
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Well how about Honest Burger launching Honest Kebabs, excellent tapas from Lobos in Soho, Smokestak resting their weary meat bones in Shoreditch.
Honest Kebabs will officially be launching in Dalston in 2017 but the team are offering you the chance to sample the kebaby beauties every Wednesday and Thursday from this week (30th November) in their Dalston branch alongside their usual burger menu.
Because the dudes behind Lobos Meat & Tapas in Borough Market opened their second Lobos tapas restaurant in Soho a couple of weeks back.
Winning the award for the stupidest thing I have heard this year is Hipchips, a restaurant serving only fried potato chips and dips which opened in Soho last week.
Kings of barbecue meat, Smokestak, have been kicking ALL arses at various pop-ups and street food venues across London for the last few years, and at the beginning of November they opened their first permanent restaurant in Shoreditch.
Food Review: HipChips | Londonist
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And there's a lot to like about HipChips, a single-focus bar serving just crisps and dips.
On balance we reckon you're no better or worse off than with a supermarket grab bag from the posher end of the crisp spectrum.
Our mixed box of six comes with a trough of crisps — we go half salty, half dessert crisps, dusted with sugar and cinnamon.
But the smokiness and garlicky hit's missing from our baba ganoush, and the dessert dips — like the Campfire S'mores, chocolate mousse topped with marshmallows — are only for the seriously sweet-toothed.
But is this Soho spot any better than the crisp feast you could knock up in your own living room with a tenner and a Tesco Metro to hand?
HipChips, Soho review | Culture Whisper
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Fruity attempts at making crisps fancier (Prosecco and Elderberry flavour, etc) have been largely ignored by the salt and vinegar/cheese and onion hungry public.
But, such is London's perverse bent to bestow haute-cuisine honours upon our humble staples, a new concept restaurant is serving crisps and dips - and only crisps and dips.
HipChips, Soho, takes fried potato, and adds epithets 'heritage' 'vintage' and 'dessert' along with a crisp conveyor belt to justify prices ranging from £4.50 - £11.50.
The artisan varieties of potatoes look like mixed up bags of vegetable crisps or bright autumn leaves, depending on your outlook.
Creme Brulee is lumpy cold custard with more biscuit crumbs.
HipChips, Crisp and Dip Eatery, Soho, London
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HipChips, a new Central London eatery with a rather revolutionary crisp-and-dip concept, has just launched in Soho.
HipChips has paired the UK’s favourite snack with a range of sweet and savoury dips.
To go with the crisps, head chef Scott Davis (Providores, Mirabelle) has created a selection of one-of-a-kind dips.
HipChips uses five heritage and vintage potato varieties to make its crisps.
Drawing inspiration from doughnuts, their sweet crisps are seasoned with cinnamon sugar instead of salt.
Hipchips: Crisps restaurant serving £11.50 crisps opens in Soho today
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ES Food Newsletter London already boasts a café dedicated to breakfast cereals and a diner specialising in cheese toasties.
Today it welcomes a new arrival — a Soho restaurant serving solely crisps and dips.
A conveyor belt crisp café is coming to Soho The restaurant, the brainchild of Mr Davies and businessman David Morris, follows on from the Cereal Killer café in Shoreditch and Melt Room, also in Soho.
Mr Davies, who has previously worked at Marylebone tapas restaurant Providores, said: “I’ve taken my inspiration for the sweet crisps from doughnuts by sprinkling them with cinnamon sugar as soon as they come out of the fryer.
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