Kokova Magazine

From Saturday 25 June to Saturday 23 July, London’s most exciting pop-up restaurants and interactive art installations will appear for just five weeks in CREATE House, a secret building in Canary Wharf, donated by Canary Wharf Group plc.

CREATE11, now in its fourth year, is a summer arts festival for east London, celebrating the intrinsic creativity of the area and sponsored by Deutsche Bank.

The festival presents over 200 homemade, world-class events profiling east London creativity taking place in surprising spaces.

Restaurants in Residence

Heralding a new era of pop-up, dining, the CREATE11 festival commission Restaurants in Residence will showcase four of the very best restaurants from London's underground dining scene every week during the festival.

Each week from 25 June to 23 July will bring a fresh and innovative approach to seasonal British cooking.

Kicking off the culinary creativity, The Clove Club brings their cutting-edge supper club to this quirky setting, with The Young Turks collective James Lowe and Isaac McHale serving-up a unique produce led approach to British food from 25 June to 7 July 2011.

Moving into the Restaurants in Residence kitchens on 8 July 2011, A Bit More Of What You Fancy, the apt spin-off of A Little Of What You Fancy will be showcasing the very best local London produce, from salmon smoked in Stoke Newington to fennel tops grown in Old Street.

With a tradition of authentic British food and a friendly relaxed vibe, the brains behind A Bit More Of What You Fancy will no doubt tempt visitors to enjoy just that little bit more.

During week three of this pioneering venture Shacklewell Nights will spread the joy of seasonal British food from 12 to 16 July 2011.

As two of the leading players on the capital's 'pop-up' dining scene, Claire Roberson and Jonathan Woolway will leave their old Dalston clothing factory for Restaurants in Residence's retro office set-up for five days of experimental dining.

For the final week, East London institution and originator of POP-UP, Bistrotheque will bring a dining experience to celebrate the excess and glamour of the Eighties.

Somewhere between historical 'document' and soap opera, the menu will be an amalgamation of dishes from the culinary giants of the decade and the service will offer a reminder of the way we used to dine.

A perfect climax to CREATE11 Restaurants in Residence.

The essence of the pop-up movement is about taking alien spaces and re-interpreting them for your own usage. What better setting to explore this ethos for Restaurants in Residence than Canary Wharf, as well as having as much fun with it as possible.

Ben Rymer, Founder of Restaurants in Residence

Tickets for the hidden dining experience are now on sale at www.restaurantsinresidence.com with a set menu of up to six courses priced at just £45.

Celebrating east London art at CREATE House.

To celebrate the wealth of creative and artistic talent in east London, CREATE House will also be home to two interactive installations by local artists.

The Space Between, an exhibition by graduating BA 'Design for Interaction and Moving Image' students from the distinguished London College of Communication offers an intriguing approach to interactive art. In collaboration with award-winning Shoreditch-based production company and animation studio, Nexus Productions and Interactive Arts, a series of live events will explore the concept of space, pushing its boundaries through a range of media and technologies.

Alongside this, PROTOCOL, an intercultural exhibition by Swiss artist Yann Gross and UK artist Bronwen Parker-Rhodes offers a 'laboratory' that facilitates exchange and collaboration between the two creative forces. Brainchild of the Helvetic Centre, the project consists of a series of exhibitions and talks dedicated to photography.

We are delighted to partner for the first year with the Canary Wharf Group and are incredibly excited about the east London, culinary and cultural talents in CREATE House!

With one year to go to the London 2012 Games, the CREATE festival is at the forefront of celebrating Europe's largest cultural quarter with an extraordinary range of cultural experiences for all.

Following the success of previous site-specific festival collaborations, this year CREATE continues to present homemade, world class programming in surprising spaces such as CREATE House.

Hadrian Garrard, Director of the CREATE festival