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Spanish-themed Wharf restaurant La Tasca has added a number of new dishes to its menu for the summer months.
Changing its selection, a process usually undertaken every six months, has allowed the West India Quay venue to bring a sunny feel to its offerings. And some of the dishes are already proving very popular with Wharfers.
German street artist Edgar Mueller has transformed the pavement around West India Quay into a cave.
Edgar arrived in the area last week for the beginning of the area's summer festival and on Wednesday morning completed his 100m sq work.
West India Quay is aiming to put on a summer in Canary Wharf like none before.
X-Leisure, the manager of the site, is beginning a month-long festival, A British Big Splash, next week, celebrating the best of this country's culture.
West India Quay's Ledger Building is aiming to break into the UK's beer bible.
The Wetherspoons outlet is adopting old fashioned storage methods in a bid to be listed in Camra's annual Good Beer Guide.
If you're struggling to find a place to unwind tonight, why not try the Wetherspoons International Real Ale Festival?
The event will run at bars including West India Quay's Ledger Building from today until Monday May 4.
The Docklands Light Railway was hit by further problems on Wednesday morning - separate to the derailment on Tuesday.
A faulty train at Lewisham meant delays and disruption across all DLR networks.
DLR travellers heading west can now touch out at Tower Gateway once again.
The City terminal opened today after a closure of around eight months for maintenance works, but some lines were disrupted this morning by a signal failure at West India Quay.
WHARF bar operators may not have needed much encouragement to slam the door on 2008.
But a brisk Christmas and New Year ensured they did so with a smile on their faces.
Ah, Christmas.
The season of cheer and goodwill, something noticeably absent around Canary Wharf in recent months. But Browns, on West India Quay, plans to change all that with a festive menu to get Christmas off to a cracking start.
A West India Quay drinker was "covered in blood" after being hit by a hurled glass object during a bar fight.
Police were called after a scuffle broke out near the bar area at Bar 38 on Friday night. The 25-year-old victim suffered a cut to the eyebrow.
Wharfers are invited to a Remembrance Day service at the Museum of London Docklands on Tuesday.
The Bishop's Chaplain in Docklands, Rev Fiona Stewart-Darling, will be holding the ceremony between 10:45am and 11:15am to remember the service men and women who died in conflicts.
Banish those blues by browsing some of the finest beers from around the world at an 18-day festival starting today.
Beers from Australia, Denmark, USA, Poland, Belgium and Japan will be among 50 available to try at the Wetherspoons pub in the Ledger Building on West India Quay.
BARS and restaurants in West India Quay say they are optimistic they can succeed despite two in the strip falling foul of the credit crunch.
Following the recent demise of independently owned Beluga, Dion customers were informed last week the bar would also close.
RESTAURANTS may be disappearing by the week in Canary Wharf, but the area’s retail managers are refusing to buckle amid the gloomy news.
This week, plans for a Tom’s Kitchen at Canada Square were scrapped, while Dion joined Beluga in shutting its doors for good at West India Quay.
KYLIE was in Canary Wharf this week, but don’t let it out of the bag.
Early-afternoon drinkers on West India Quay had a surprise on Monday when the pint-sized pop princess appeared right in front of them, alongside Gavin And Stacey stars Mathew Horne and James Corden.
DLR commuters hoping for a better journey this morning were left disappointed.
The service was hit by a signal failure at West India Quay at rush hour.
DLR COMMUTERS may have to plot a slightly different route out of the Wharf at the end of the month.
The rail operator's run of maintenance works will spill into the week next Thursday and Friday (September 25 and 26), as trains between West India Quay and Westferry are suspended to allow construction on an extra track.
A SIGNALLING fault delayed commuters for up to half an hour during this morning's rush hour.
A WHARFER struck it lucky in the West India Quay hole-in-one challenge this week.
Ian Hiege won £2,000 in the competition which sees golfers fire balls towards a temporary green in the middle of the marina.
Ian's shot hit the flag before dropping in to the hole to earn him the star prize.
One of the organisers, Ken Coetzee said: "He was ecstatic."
There's still a weekend of play left at the golf challenge, as it is finishing on Sunday.
It costs £5 for three shots and 10 per cent of the fee goes to the male cancer charity, Orchid.
The competition has been running for two weeks. Pictured right is a golfer.
