Eat Out London!The Modern Pantry Clerkenwell
The desire to please and excite the palate by fusing everyday cooking with modern ingredients.
The Modern Pantry – Restaurant Clerkenwell, Café and Deli Farringdon London
Modern comes from the Latin term modernus; pertaining to, or characteristic of the current period.
Pantry comes from the Latin word panis, meaning bread.
A pantry is a cupboard or room which houses the necessities of life... Together, these two words embody The Modern Pantry's philosophy: the desire to please and excite the palate by fusing everyday cooking with modern ingredients.
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It offers an inventive menu with worldly flavours and contrasting influences.
The very interesting menu didn’t deliver the wow in the food, and the service was rather slow.
I booked in for a weekday dinner catchup, and The Modern Panty is in a nice spot in a quieter part of Clerkenwell.
The service was warm and friendly over our time but there was a delay between starter and main that mildly irked.
It’s a nice, relaxed setting at The Modern Pantry but I wouldn’t mind the fusion flavours calming down a bit and maybe I’d give it another shot.
Chef Anna Hansen's Modern Pantry in the City Has Closed [Updated]
It was the second restaurant, by the same name, from chef/restaurateur Anna Hansen, who opened her first site in Clerkenwell in 2008; the follow-up opened in the City in September 2015 meaning it closes after just over two years of trading.
Journalist Richard Vines tweeted the news and though the restaurant’s website remains live, a pre-recorded phone message tells callers: “The Modern Pantry team regret to inform you that our Finsbury Square location is no longer open.
In an email sent to the restaurant’s customers on Friday 15 December, Hansen said: “It is with much sadness that we announce that The Modern Pantry Finsbury Square is no longer open.
The specific reason for the closure is not known, “The decision to close comes as they look to concentrate efforts on their original restaurant, [Clerkenwell], which will celebrate its 10th birthday next year, and focus on The Pantry and online retail side of the business, and other new opportunities,” a spokesperson for the restaurant said.
The Modern Pantry Finsbury Square is one of a number of notable restaurant closures in the capital this year.
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However, if it’s love not lust you’re after, there is no wiser gesture after a night of passion than to take your date to brunch.
The Modern Pantry offers all day dining but is widely acknowledged to be a superb London brunch option.
All dishes are well executed but I must play favourites here and applaud the sugar-cured prawn omelette with green chilli, spring onion, corrianda and smoked chilli sambal.
My god is this a tasty omelette, a fiery edge to a sweet, buttery dish.
You woke up next to your date after a night of abusing the cocktail lists of Shoreditch, had a delightfully sleepless night and faced the morning light with hangovers but no regrets.
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It’s served on a bed of crushed almonds, raisins and zesty coriander – beautifully sweet, crumbly and adding a Moroccan warmth to the entire palate.
Fish is the order of the day; my guests choose the mussels steamed in ginger and white wine with saffron aioli (£14) and the tempura crab with coconut and tamarind laska (£17.50).
The mussels are delightfully fresh but the sauce a little watery, and the aioli tastes overwhelmingly of olive-oil, masking the flavour of the saffron.
When it comes to the sweet stuff, the menu is another array of unusual flavour pairings and delicious descriptions.
We try the raspberry and pink peppercorn sorbet and the malt ice cream (both £4.50 a scoop) – the latter tastes like a high-end trip to the cinema with caramel popcorn flavours, and it’s bloody delicious.
The Modern Pantry: Don't come for plain, simple and predictable ...
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The Modern Pantry declares the modest aim of fusing everyday cooking with modern ingredients, but the reality is much more impressive than that.
It is run by Anna Hansen, who first made her mark in London as one of the cooks and co-owners - along with fellow New Zealander Peter Gordon - of The Providores in Marylebone, a restaurant credited with pioneering fusion food because of the way it successfully brought together unexpected ingredients and spices from around the world.
The word fusion is overused (and underwhelming) these days, but there is no other way to describe the expansive influences that Anna brings together, on a menu that finds room for sashimi alongside masala pork, and grilled ribeye with umeboshi butter next to crab arancini.
Top billing from a menu of highlights goes to her now-famous sugar-cured prawn omelette, which comes lavished with green chilli, spring onion, coriander and a smoked chilli sambal, and pulls together on one plate pretty much every dimension of flavour we know about.
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