Get a taste of A Fine Collab in London

02 Dec 2025

Fine Dining Lovers

Editorial Staff

A Fine Collab, where fine dining meets street food, is coming to London this December. Discover more about the experience and how you can be part of it

What happens when fine dining meets street food? When haute cuisine meets cool and casual? When precise plating meets on-the-go?

A Fine Collab is a brand new experience from S.Pellegrino and Fine Dining Lovers, bringing these two seemingly disparate worlds together for a special collaboration. And the best thing is, you get to taste the result.

Having started its journey in Paris in early December, A Fine Collab will be coming to London from 18-23 December 2025, bringing together one of the city’s best fine-dining chefs with one of its finest bakeries. The result will be a unique dish that will only be available for the duration of A Fine Collab, with an exclusive discount available for FDL readers.

Intrigued? Let us explain.

Two worlds, one bite: Tom Aikens x Forno

For the first A Fine Collab on UK soil, S.Pellegrino and Fine Dining Lovers will be bringing together renowned British chef Tom Aikens, of Michelin-starred Muse restaurant in Belgravia, and Hackney’s much-loved Italian bakery Forno. Together, they will create an Italian-inspired sandwich that will change lunchtimes forever.

We’re calling it a Michelin-starred sandwich with an Italian twist.

The said sandwich will be available for purchase at Forno from 18 to 23 December 2025, with a special discount available for FDL readers. Follow the link below from 9 December to download your discount voucher, take it along to Forno and enjoy the fruits of the collaboration – just a little cheaper. Vouchers are limited, so make sure you don’t miss out!

Download your discount voucher

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Tom Aikens

Tom Aikens is one of the UK’s best known and influential chefs. Having worked with the likes of Pierre Koffman, and Joël Robuchon in Paris, at the age of just 26, his French-inspired cooking helped London’s Pied à Terre restaurant win two Michelin stars. He then went on to open his own, eponymous restaurant, which also won two stars, before most recently opening Muse in a covetable Georgian townhouse in Belgravia. It was awarded a star by the Michelin Guide in 2021, barely a year after opening. According to the Guide: “Each well-judged and sophisticated dish relates to something memorable from Tom's past, whether that was climbing a tree or enjoying the last barbecue of summer.”

Forno

Forno is an Italian bakery, pastificio and deli from the team behind the restaurant Ombra. Famous for delicious creations like their cream-filled maritozzi buns and colomba pasquale, the all-day Forno, headed up by chef Baldo Pellegrini, also offers focaccia sandwiches and soups at lunchtimes, a stocked deli counter with fresh pastas, bread, cold cuts and wine, amongst other things, and on Friday evenings, turns into a listening bar serving Roman pizza and natural wines. Aside from the flagship Hackney location, there are also further Fornos in Leytonstone and Mile End.