Eat lead, sucker... dining club opens in gang's old gun shop

The former base of an East End gang has been transformed into a boutique store-come-dining club.

The Grade II listed building, renamed 123 Bethnal Green Road, once housed the Moderne Buckles gun shop owned by Guner Salih, who supplied converted weapons to the underworld. Salih, 63, was jailed along with Andrew Meekey, 35, and his father Paul, 65, in 2006.

The building is now home to four floors of British fashion, gifts and kitsch art displays. It even has a Christmas tree adorned with guns from the previous occupiers.

Each floor delivers a course of "home-made" dinner and has its own theme. Visitors start with champagne in the gift shop, followed by canapés and cocktails in menswear in the attic, stews and winter salads in the lingerie boudoir on the floor below, and dessert in the basement.

The "Too Much is Never Enough" experience will run for five weeks from Tuesday. Tickets cost £50 per head and are available from disappearingdiningclub.co.uk