This week's big (tin) opening

A new 'pop-up' restaurant set up shop in Soho this week. Hardly the most exciting of news items, is it? With so many places to eat and drink either springing up or fizzling out around town, whether intentionally temporary or not, it's not really news at all. No sooner has one restaurant or bar opened and become so popular that the queues for a table stretch down the street and round the corner, than another opens round said corner, and those at the back of the queue for the first place find themselves at the front of the queue of the second. This week's opening probably won't attract such huge crowds, but as far as I'm concerned, it's the most important and exciting new venture of the year, if not the decade. The unique selling point of the place? It serves tinned fish. And nothing else.

Who knew the world of tinned food could be so topical?

While it might have been a better article if produced by the likes of Private Eye or The Onion, I was quite amused by the following spoof article, which featured in the Sunday Sport yesterday (or so Twitter informs me; I certainly don't read the paper myself!):