On Cafe

On Cafe London brings you chinese food & french pastries to take away / eat in our restaurant. Enjoy dim sum and dumplings in heart of SW4 Clapham Common.

On Cafe | Chinese Food and French Pastries

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Below is a review from The Independent by John Walsh, recently voted (for the second year running) Restaurant Reviewer of the Year by the Guild of Food Writers ‘Restaurants and literature are such natural bedfellows, it’s amazing nobody’s done this before.

So loud huzzahs for the Café Also, a restaurant in a bookshop – not actually inside among the shelves, but a bread roll’s throw away, through glass doors.

The Café is connected to Joseph’s Bookstore where for 20 years Michael Joseph, a Czech-born Jewish lawyer, has ploughed an independent furrow – offering Jewish-interest books, remaindered books, self-published books, paintings and DVDs (some in Yiddish).

Howard Jacobson is a fan (“If I lived in north London I’d never be out of the place; I’d write there”) and now so am I. There’s been a café of sorts in here for years, in fact, but only recently has Joseph properly integrated food and fiction, dishes and dust-jackets.

‘ The following is a feature on Cafe Also from the JC When the Chef Met the Bookseller Cafe Also, at Michael Joseph’s Temple Fortune bookshop, is fast becoming a gastronomic destination thanks to the arrival of Egyptian cook, Ali Al-Sersy A very interesting article, also in the Independent, on the smoking of food – and Cafe Also gets a mention at the end!

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Even when fresh, ready made Dim Sum tend to be packed with monosodium glutamate (MSG).

More recently, Loretta started On Cafe where she makes and supplies macarons to individuals and retailers such as Harvey Nichols and Michelin-starred restaurants, including Jason Atherton’s Pollen and provides high-quality Dim Sum in a relaxed cafe atmosphere.

I tried the Lamb Curry Masala Boa (£4.30) made with fresh lamb and Cafe On’s own blend of spices.

The fun things about Cafe On is the way it has taken cafe favourites like Lamb Curry Masala and Chicken Shanghai and reinvented them to match modern healthier eating habits.

Loretta has written Modern Dim Sum: Delicious bite-size dumplings, rolls, buns and other small snacks , a little book that will help you make modern Dim Sum at home.

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At On Café they do two things: Chinese dim sum and French patisserie.

The sensibility behind Chinese dim sum and French patisserie is ultimately the same and both are a joy to eat.

‘On’ means balance, and the restaurant offers a balanced menu of light dim sum alongside incredible patisserie.

Asian flavours are used in both the dim sum and patisserie, obviously linking the two sections of the menu together, resulting in exciting flavour fusions.

The chef uses Shaoxing wine, sesame oil, curry leave, Szechuan pepper, lemon grass, red and green fresh chilli and smoked sea salt, giving these little morsels of joy a depth of flavour which is phenomenal.

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Stick us in the basement and we’re happy), and the stairs must have stretched further than we ever thought possible, as we were immediately presented with stunning views across the Thames.

If the views weren’t enough, a small wall-mounted television was also showing some golf.

After browsing the vast menu, which boasts, among other things, burgers, jacket potatoes and ‘morning goodies’, I settled for the fantastically-titled Mextereme Burrito.

The next 3 and a half minutes were simply a blur, as I devoured the entire thing in a state of jalapeno-fuelled delirium.

Highlights: Amazing food, amazing prices, breathtaking nightime views of London, ample seating when hot outside.

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Rowley Leigh’s Kensington Place was, arguably (and do, please, come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough), the most egalitarian fayn-dayner of the late Eighties/early Nineties.

On any given lunchtime, back in the day, one might bump into me, my pa and Princess Diana; never necessarily – or indeed ever – together, but nonetheless gathered in neighbourly simultaneity behind Kensington Church Street’s plate glass, somehow not minding that west London’s (alf)alpha lunch venue had the worst acoustics in the capital.

My father still recalls The Alleged Day Diana Winked at him, while she was dining with girlfriends.

Exiled from London in the mid-Noughties, I only tipped up a couple of times at Leigh’s subsequent Café Anglais, which opened in 2007, just ahead of the recession.

The charmless Bayswater mall, Whiteleys, was and is not the venue for big, shiny, buzzily-glam multi-cover brasserie-cum-event he was clearly aiming to create.

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Duck xiao long bao – the increasingly popular soupy dumplings, their peaks turned to a satisfying twist – burst with ginger, five spice and sesame.

A sizable dish of prawn fried rice, the most expensive item on the menu at £8.50, makes up for not being quite fried enough by containing a generous portion of fresh prawn.

The room is a long way from some of the flashier dim sum outfits in the centre of London, the likes of Royal China and, yes, Yauatcha.

At the top of the cabinet there are the macarons at £4.30 for three: there’s wild strawberry and jasmine, or green tea and azuki bean, raspberry and dark chocolate or black sesame and candied ginger, and so much more besides.

Expect cooking demos, music, street food stands and an introduction to lots of dishes that aren’t jerk The team behind the much-admired Arbutus in London’s Soho have parted company.