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Pulse, a new restaurant whose menu is built around beans and pulses, is opening at 227-229 Hoxton Street with two free soft-launch dinners on 18 and 19 November

Pulse, a restaurant devoted to beans and pulses, opens at 227-229 Hoxton Street in November. Its soft launch on Wed 18 and Thu 19 November is free, with sittings at 6.30pm and 8.30pm. More tables open on 9 November.
A view down Hoxton Street in Hoxton, east London
Hoxton Street, Hoxton. Photo: Robert Lamb / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

Pulse, a restaurant with a menu built entirely around beans and pulses, is opening at 227-229 Hoxton Street in November, starting with two free dinners on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 November.

Guests at the soft launch will be able to try the menu “completely free of charge”, the restaurant says on its OpenTable page. Tables are for one to five people, with sittings at 6.30pm and 8.30pm only. A limited number can be booked now, and more reservations open on Monday 9 November.

The restaurant also plans a takeaway lunch hatch, Hospitality Week reported. The listing does not give a date for regular service.

What is on the menu

Dishes listed by the restaurant include a spiced black bean tostada with charred corn, avocado and pickled onion; herby sausage and tomato cannellini beans on toasted sourdough; and curried chickpea and roasted cauliflower with coconut, raisin and crispy onion.

There is also “Marry Me” cannellini agnolotti with parmesan cream and crispy sage, and a dark chocolate and white bean fondant with salted caramel for pudding. OpenTable puts the restaurant in its £25-and-under price band.

“Pulse means business when it comes to beans,” the restaurant’s listing says.

The essentials

  • What: Pulse, a restaurant built around beans and pulses
  • Where: 227-229 Hoxton Street, London N1 5LG
  • Soft launch: Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 November 2026, sittings at 6.30pm and 8.30pm, free
  • Bookings: Pulse on OpenTable; more tables from Monday 9 November
  • Updates: Instagram @pulse_shoreditch

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