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Canary Wharf's newest restaurant officially opened its doors to the paying public this week.

If the track record of the man behind the concept - Jamie Oliver - is anything to go by it will be a resounding success. His first foray into Docklands sees him returning to his first and greatest love, Italian cooking.

While most of Canary Wharf remains obstinately static regardless of the seasons, Canada Square Park goes through more makeovers than Madonna.

The arrival of spring scrapes away the ice rink like yesterday's nail varnish, only for the world's latest magnificent automobiles to drop onto the turf.

Only a couple of decades ago, the idea of going to an Italian restaurant was pretty exotic.

I remember discerning diners flocking to the Pasta Pasta restaurant on the seafront near Hastings,
humming to themselves at the unique prospect of eating tagliatelle cooked in an actual professional kitchen.

Since then the British have been treated to everything from dim sum to shark vindaloo, and we’ve started taking the delights of pizza and pasta for granted.

But for me, it’s hard to top the taste of a freshly-made Italian-style pizza when it’s done well.

TRADITIONAL drinkers don’t usually have much time for gastropubs.

In fact, they usually see them as some sort of dining equivalent of 70s cult film Logan’s Run – sniffy culinary “utopias� with no character, cold shiny surfaces and the faint whiff of social injustice.

The Gun doesn’t have that problem.

The Grade II-listed Coldharbour watering hole neatly straddles the gulf between the two warring camps of the modern pub world.

LUNCHTIMES are set to change around these parts.

It can be very tempting to grab a quick sandwich and coffee rather than disappearing for a few hours and
returning to raised eyebrows from colleagues.

But with Nakhon Thai recently opening its third eatery in the area – with a fourth planned for Canary Wharf later this year – options are expanding.