ack in 2020, New York’s chef-restaurateur-opera singer-renaissance man Alexander Smalls opened a temporary African Dining Hall at Expo 2020 in Dubai — a partnership with TGP International (the group behind 3 Henrietta Street in Covent Garden).
Called Alkebulan, the pop up has proved such a draw that all talk of an end date’s gone utterly silent. And Smalls and TGP are looking further afield now, with a London opening slated for sometime in 2022.
