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Islington Ottolenghi
This is both a deli and restaurant, seating about 50 people.
Open for breakfast, lunch and supper, the restaurant, located opposite the Almeida, is a pre-theatre favourite.
Reservations are taken for dinner but not during the day – try to make it extra early if you are planning on a weekend brunch!
This branch offers a limited catering service - for enquiries about weekend or large party events please contact our Notting Hill, Belgravia or Spitalfields’ branches.
If you would like to order from our daily menu, please contact Natalia or Clodagh, who will be happy to talk through your options and requirements.
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Fathom - Yotam Ottolenghi's Nopi Restaurant in London
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It's dish after dish of acid, umami, uncanny seasoning, temperature play.
Yotam Ottolenghi's Nopi is everything Emily Fiffer hoped it would be.
After a recent trip to London and a meal at Nopi in Soho, I can say with certainty that one man — lauded chef Yotam Ottolenghi (Plenty, Jerusalem, Ottolenghi restaurants, Nopi, you know the drill) — coaxes nettles the way I assume Jack Nicholson does women.
Nopi was everything I'd hoped it would be: a meal that tasted as if it were cooked by someone who understands exactly what makes my palate hum.
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The Palomar, restaurant review: I took the precaution of inviting ...
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A curious, crazy one-off, where the chefs and owners are having as much fun as the customers, the menu brims with bountiful Middle Eastern maximalism, and the music rocks nearly as hard as the food.
In a party atmosphere, with chefs downing shots, singing and dancing, it showcases local produce in fusion dishes which draw inspiration from Jewish, Arabic and Mediterranean traditions.
The traditional mezze selection is served here as the Daily 6, six small bowls filled with good things – Swiss chard scattered with nubbles of feta and candied almonds; sharply-dressed fried aubergine with pomegranate seeds; a cloud of labneh floating in za'atar-spiked olive oil.
From the raw bar, kubenia, a take on steak tartare; chopped beef, spiked with bulgur and anointed with tahini and pomegranate seeds.
Clamorous, cramped and exciting, The Palomar comes from a place where sharing and breaking down barriers between Jewish and Arabic food is a more profoundly meaningful business than it is here.
Ottolenghi pours out extravagant cocktails at new Spitalfields ...
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Now Ottolenghi has turned his flair for original flavour to drinks, with new cocktails in cheering colours featuring on-brand ingredients.
Saffron Chase, left, mixes gin with saffron, elderflower, lemon, and saffron syrup Wakula stops to spritz rosewater onto a tall drink of kumquat, passion fruit, lemon, golden tequila and Cointreau and explains that the crossover from the kitchen means cocktails such as the sumac martini, which is a wonderful creation — dry with a bittersweet pomegranate juice kick.
Read our review of The Piano Works Press Image 3/80 Opso, W1 The drinks have a lot of care stirred into them, the bar nibbles are impossible to refuse, and everyone seems to know each other.
Read our review of Opso 4/80 Kansas Smitty's, E8 Some bars are about the drinks and some are about the experience.
Read our review of Bull in a China Shop 9/80 Black Dice, W1B Good for a stylish late night drink - it's open until 3am.
Bala Baya: Ottolenghi protégé's restaurant has Middle Eastern ...
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You’ll see the influence of the Israeli super-cook in the dishes at Bala Baya, which aims to bring a slice of hip Tel Aviv to London.
It takes its lead from Eran’s mother’s Middle Eastern home cooking, as well as the city’s dynamic street food scene.
But as the cusine has flourished — thanks in no small part to the influence of Ottolenghi — the game has been upped.
Final flavour: Middle Eastern promise from an Ottolenghi protégé — but there's work to do.
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Restaurant review: Nopi | Life and style | The Guardian
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Meal for two, including wine and service £110 I stared down the long, shiny dining room of Nopi, Yotam Ottolenghi's new, flash, rather grown-up restaurant, named a little clumsily for its position North Of Piccadilly.
His north London deli-cafés (and the cookbooks they have spawned) have a cool, clean fresh look which serves only to act as a frame for the vibrancy of his food.
More thrills were to be found in a salad of braised artichokes with broad beans and the mediated sharpness of preserved lemons, in a plateful of wobbly, fresh burrata – young mozzarella – with blood oranges and coriander seeds, and in a special of shredded brussels sprouts with wild mushrooms.
We loved fat seared scallops with a slick of umami-rich chilli jam alongside (shredded) green apples and pickled daikon, and some equally big prawns in a tomato sauce flavoured with fennel and feta, that simply demanded to be spooned straight from the dish.
Better still was fresh churros – long, deep-fried Spanish-style doughnuts – with, for dipping, a hot chocolate sauce and a saucer of sugar, blitzed with fennel seeds.