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Bloom's was a famous kosher restaurant located in the East End of London. The original restaurant was opened on Brick Lane in 1920 by a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant, Morris Bloom. In 1952 his son Sidney opened a new restaurant on Whitechapel High Street which would become synonymous with traditional Ashkenazi Jewish cooking in London.

Over the years Bloom's had many celebrity diners including actor Charlie Chaplin and musician Ronnie Scott. As the East End Jewish population began to move into north London after World War Two, a second branch was opened in Golders Green in 1965. The Whitechapel restaurant closed down in 1996. The Golders Green restaurant followed suit in 2010 marking the end of a Jewish culinary institution. This polystyrene tub was used for takeaway soup at Bloom's in Whitechapel.