Choosing restaurant supplies for pop-up eateries

Restaurants have quite literally been popping up across the UK in recent month.

And one sector commentator has suggested that diners may soon need to get used to sitting down at tablecloths and making use of restaurant supplies at a pop-up establishment.

Richard Harden, co-founder of online restaurant guide Harden's, said the innovation is a sign of an increasingly educated interest in dining and could make a positive contribution to the sector by allowing developing chefs to hone their skills.

Looking 20 years into the future, he added that pop-up eateries may have become an ordinary sight in the UK and may even have been institutionalised by bigger brands.

"It wouldn't be the first interesting phenomenon to have been embraced by a big business and then watered down and made bland, boring and commercialised," he claimed.

Mr Harden noted that another benefit of pop-up restaurants is that they allow for a more authentic interplay between the chef and the diner.

Until October 18th, one pod in the London Eye is to be converted into a pop-up restaurant, where up to ten people will be served while sitting 135 metres above the River Thames.