Arabica Bar & Kitchen

Mezze / wood grill / wine / cocktails inspired by the sun rise nations of the Levant. Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Palestine and Israel.

Arabica Bar & Kitchen

All reservations are subject to a time restriction.

If you are running late please call us to let us know, as due to demand, we may need to give your table away, if you have not arrived after 15 minutes.

Walk-in guests are welcome at the bar and tables at the front of the restaurant on a first come first serve basis.

Restaurant tables will be available for walk-ins subject to availability.

For reservations for 5 guests or more, please call us on +44 203 011 5151.

http://www.arabicabarandkitchen.com

Arabica Bar and Kitchen | Mediterranean restaurant 'Arabica Bar ...

The menu was genionely very interesting, and was divided into nibbles, dips, fried dishes, clay oven dishes, charcoal dishes, salads, cold/raw/cured dishes, stove and grill dishes and vegetable/ rice/ pulse dishes.

I chose another Turkish dish – cacik – from the dips section which had Thick strained yogurt, cucumber, mint, dill, also very popular in Greece, but under a different name.

The clay oven section had various wonderful flat bread/ pizza style dishes from Turkish to Armenian ones, and the one we went for was the Armenian style lahmacun, Flatbread with spiced lamb, tomato, peppers, pine kernels.

Halloumi was good, there is virtually no difference in this dish among restaurant as they just grill halloumi and serve it, and the babaganoush (Half a charred aubergine, olive oil, lemon, parsley, mint, saffron yoghurt, pomegranate molasses, pinenuts) was delicioius, althoygh Ithought it had too much saffron yoghurt which overpowered the other amazing flavours a bit, but with it removed, the dish was lovely.

We skipped the vegetable/ rice/ pulse dishes and ordered summer fattoush salad from the salad section, which had Mixed leaves, radish, cumcumber, croutons, parsley, mint, za'tar, pomegranate vinaigrette.

Arabica Bar and Kitchen, Borough Market - restaurant review ...

There are the traditional fruit, vegetables, bread and meat but these days the market reflects how cosmopolitan London eats.

That spread included House Pickles of cucumber, carrots, cauliflower, turnip and chillies; a dish of traditional Hummus; Whipped Feta with charred Turkish chilli, toasted sunflower seeds and mint, which was tangy and light; and Beiruti Falafel made with broad beans, chickpeas, onions, peppers, green chilli, herbs, and spices was a winner with my guest, who is now addicted to these fried morsels.

Jordanian Style Lamb Mensaf and Spring Vegetable Freeke were our main courses, although there was also a fish dish on the menu.

Spring Vegetable Freeke was a melange of seasonal veggies cooked with grains and garnished with crispy onions, toasted nuts, herbs and minted lebneh, a soft natural cheese.

Jelly and Ice Cream sounds like old-fashioned nursery fare but this dessert is rather sophisticated: candied orange, rosewater, milk and honey jelly with mastica ice cream and a scattering of toasted Kadyfi pastry.

Arabica, London SE1, restaurant review - Telegraph

We had a Sujuk pide (£7), following a hard sell from the waiter, who said, “It’s not a Turkish pizza” (which is how the menu described it), “it is a Turkish flatbread full of very interesting things.”

We had a fattoush salad (£5) as well – cucumber, radishes and flatbread croûtons that took a bit of getting used to (they go so hard when you toast them, but they are a great as a showcase for a tart, vinegar-ey dressing).

The menu stars a delicious (and good-value) line-up of Moroccan tagines, Tunisian cous cous and Lebanese lamb kebabs, and has a BYOB, no-corkage policy to boot.

Try the bamia, with tender okra cooked in a fragrant tomato sauce (£9.95) A busy spot, especially at lunchtimes, where a tasting platter of eight dishes (including batata harra, moreish spicy fried potatoes) offers a good-value starting-point to the tempting Lebanese menu (£6 per person).

Follow up with rice-based chicken kabsah (£12.95), scattered with almonds and sultanas This half-timbered country house serves Persian-inspired dishes, from cockle-warming khoresht-e-gheimeh, a split-pea stew pepped up with sun-dried limes and turmeric (£10.95), to gosht-e-akbari, a rich and aromatic Indo-Persian lamb curry (£12.95)

arabica bar & kitchen, borough market - review • The Cutlery ...

Remarkably, not the opening to a joke with potential to offend, but an innocuous intro to an evening at recently launched Arabica Bar & Kitchen in the thick of Borough Market.

It has blossomed into a devilishly handsome and confident young buck that feeds people great food and flirts with wild abandon from the menu.

Levantine pastries of akawi cheese, nigella seeds and parsley were good, if a little heavy.

Liked lots: a great looking menu, that tartare, dips, kofta, cocktails, design, atmosphere, staff, a spot on wine list devised by wine man of the moment Zeren Wilson – we enjoyed a very agreeable bottle of Grenace-Cinsault 2012 rosé Liked less: I’d like to see more bread options – the land of the Levant is so good at bread – not showcasing them here feels like a missed opportunity.

Good for: exciting Middle Eastern food that isn’t stuck in the tired old ways of Edgware Road, and superior to the Wahaca equivalent that is Yalla-Yalla.

Vegetarian London: Arabica Bar And Kitchen Review | Londonist

Located in the modern-day London souk that’s the Borough Market, this contemporary Levantine restaurant and bar opened to generally enthusiastic reviews last summer.

It’s owned by James Walters, co-founder of the Arabica Food & Spice Company, which started as a Borough Market stall around 15 years ago selling a small selection of meze from a cool box on a trestle table.

The menu, peppered with classic and contemporary street food from the East Mediterranean, is divided into categories like dips, soups and salads as well as cooking techniques such as clay oven, grill and charcoal.

Studded with pomegranate seeds, moutabel features gently-smoked aubergines with tahini; and koosa is a simple but sunny combination of char-grilled courgettes and strained yoghurt lifted by a fresh, zesty blast of lemon and mint.

Arabica Bar & Kitchen, 3 Rochester Walk, Borough Market, SE1 9AF.

Cookery Classes — The Arabica Food & Spice Company

Join us for a hands on cookery classes in a truly unique and intimate location in The Cookhouse in the heart of Borough Market.

Choose from our current schedule of hands on cookery courses below.

For specific workshop information or to book a cookery class click the links below.

If you interested in booking a private class for up to 8 guests, drop us a

Arabica Bar & Kitchen

All reservations are subject to a time restriction.

If you are running late please call us to let us know, as due to demand, we may need to give your table away, if you have not arrived after 15 minutes.

Walk-in guests are welcome at the bar and tables at the front of the restaurant on a first come first serve basis.

Restaurant tables will be available for walk-ins subject to availability.

For reservations for 5 guests or more, please call us on +44 203 011 5151.

Grace Dent reviews Arabica Bar & Kitchen | London Evening Standard

ES Food Newsletter A balmy Wednesday night jaunt, this week, to Borough for Arabica Bar Kitchen.

Arabica Bar Kitchen — the clue is in the title — is a Levant restaurant.

A delicious oily slick of hummus with a scattering of Herdwick lamb fillet, toasted pine nuts and ghee appeared with tiny paper bags full of freshly baked flatbread, then a bowl of subtle smoked aubergine moutabel.

The Lebanese seven spiced chicken wings were fought over, then a beautiful, satisfying stew of lamb sausages in an unctuous caramelised onion sauce vanished in moments, too.

Arabica bar kitchen 3 Rochester Walk, Borough Market, SE1 (020 3011 5151; arabicabarandkitchen.com) 3 cocktails £27 1 hummus £6.50 1 aubergine £6 1 sausages £8 1 chicken wings £7 1 Kibbeh nayeh £9.50 1 pudding £5 TOTAL £69 Browse Grace Dent's latest restaurant reviews Browse Grace Dent's latest restaurant reviews 1/10 El Pastór 2/10 Radio Alice 3/10 Lingholm Kitchen 4/10 Luca 5/10 Anzu 6/10 Temper Paul Winch-Furness 7/10 Smokestak Daniel Hambury/Stella Pictures 8/10 Noble Rot 9/10 Laughing Heart Evening Standard / eyevine 10/10 Park Chinois

Arabica, London SE1, restaurant review - Telegraph

We had a Sujuk pide (£7), following a hard sell from the waiter, who said, “It’s not a Turkish pizza” (which is how the menu described it), “it is a Turkish flatbread full of very interesting things.”

We had a fattoush salad (£5) as well – cucumber, radishes and flatbread croûtons that took a bit of getting used to (they go so hard when you toast them, but they are a great as a showcase for a tart, vinegar-ey dressing).

The menu stars a delicious (and good-value) line-up of Moroccan tagines, Tunisian cous cous and Lebanese lamb kebabs, and has a BYOB, no-corkage policy to boot.

Try the bamia, with tender okra cooked in a fragrant tomato sauce (£9.95) A busy spot, especially at lunchtimes, where a tasting platter of eight dishes (including batata harra, moreish spicy fried potatoes) offers a good-value starting-point to the tempting Lebanese menu (£6 per person).

Follow up with rice-based chicken kabsah (£12.95), scattered with almonds and sultanas This half-timbered country house serves Persian-inspired dishes, from cockle-warming khoresht-e-gheimeh, a split-pea stew pepped up with sun-dried limes and turmeric (£10.95), to gosht-e-akbari, a rich and aromatic Indo-Persian lamb curry (£12.95)

Arabica Bar & Kitchen | Restaurants in South Bank, London

One of London's new-wave Middle Eastern-inspired cafés but with leather banquettes, cocktails and an unhurried restaurant experience; great meze.

With its fashionable buzz and lively energy, there’s no other Levantine restaurant in London quite like Arabica.

It was a golden age, and a moment in history that this new restaurant in Borough Market tries to recapture.

Meze dishes are the highlight of Lebanese cooking, and here the fried snacks such as lamb or spinach kibbeh – which look a bit like scotch eggs – were excellent.

Arabica joins the new wave of London’s Middle Eastern-inspired cafés, but goes one better with leather banquettes, cocktails and an unhurried restaurant experience, which would satisfy any modern TE Lawrence.