Ceremony

Ceremony is a new restaurant and bar in NW5 serving modern British dishes that happen to be vegetarian.

Ceremony Restaurant London | Greater London | Vegetarian Restaurant

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Ceremony is a new British restaurant that hopes to wow foodies in North London with its menu of reimagined classics and intriguing cocktails.

Setting up shop on Fortess Road, the restaurant is the brainchild of former Honey and Milk bartender Joe Stokoe and the creative director behind London Beer Week Ali Dedianko.

Details are still pretty thin at present, but we do know that Ceremony hopes to be a vegetarian restaurant unlike any other.

As the founders explain, their aim was to recreate and serve 'delicious food that happens to not have meat'.

Stokoe and Dedianko are both experienced in London's nightlife circles and will have a good understanding of what it takes for a new restaurant to do survive and thrive.

Ceremony: Review

Or actually we might have, given the spate of enthusiastic reviews from other critics that followed… Even if the venue wanted to have a great big launch party, there wouldn’t be enough room.

As opposed to being a ‘vegetarian restaurant’, Ceremony wants to be known for serving Modern British food ‘that happens to be vegetarian.’

Layers of umami-laden flavours were also present in cannellini bean broth with cavolo nero and dumplings – own-made cheesy potato gnocchi.

Ceremony is owned by a husband and wife team who are a big deal in the drinks business.

In an interview with a local publication, Dedianko said: ‘We serve vegetarian food that’s not trying to be good for you.

Review: Ceremony, Tufnell Park | Kentishtowner

Over recent months, a new husband and wife team – Joe Stokoe and Ali Dedianko – have been reimagining the place as Ceremony, their dream restaurant, featuring a mostly plant-based menu alongside killer cocktail bar.

Dishes are twists on the favourites, so a chunky challah French toast (with fluffy bread from Spence Bakery opposite) smothered in berries and cream, rich orange-hued sweet potato pancakes oozing maple syrup, or a fried egg croissant-wich, based on Ali’s own go-to breakfast at home, manages to layer many more flavours than its simple name implies.

Meanwhile Ali is the creative director of London Beer Week, having previously worked for Belvedere Vodka and in bars and restaurants across the US.

Returning a few weeks later without a booking, we realise how popular the restaurant already is, but we manage to get a stool at the counter, before being moved to a cosier booth: and the food impresses again, especially a simple starter of grilled rainbow carrots with puy lentils (way more tasty than that sounds) and pappardelle with pea and celeriac (a rather steep £17, however).

This is box title Starters from £6, mains from £14, Ceremony, 131 Fortess Rd, NW5 Additional words and second visit reporting by Stephen Emms.

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Grace Dent reviews Ceremony: A restaurant joyously bucking the ...

It’s also a restaurant, they say, which happens to be vegetarian rather than a vegetarian restaurant.

Still, if you want a good reason to kill pigs, it is the landscape of vegetarian restaurants which is, even now, a bit joyless; all hairy toes in Birkenstocks and a clientele comprising mainly those puritans from Blackadder II who arrive for dinner demanding a raw unpeeled parsnip and the chairs to be replaced by spikes.

Good Food Guide 2018: Top 50 UK restaurants - the top 10 in pictures Good Food Guide 2018: Top 50 UK restaurants - the top 10 in pictures 1/12 #1 Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, Cornwall 2/12 #1 Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, Cornwall The view of Port Isaac from the restaurant 3/12 #2 L'Enclume, Cumbria 4/12 #3 Pollen Street Social, London 5/12 #3 Pollen Street Social, London 6/12 #4 Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottinghamshire 7/12 #5 The Fat Duck, Berkshire 8/12 #6 Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, London 9/12 #7 Hedone, London 10/12 #8 Restaurant Andrew Fairlie, Tayside 11/12 #9 Claude Bosi at Bibendum, London Adrian Lourie 12/12 #10 Casamia, Bristol Patently, there will be vegans tantruming ‘but are there vegan options?’

And right now they appear to be turning away walk-ins — because it feels like when, if one decides to make a vegetarian restaurant resolutely non-vegetarian feeling, well, like Field of Dreams, you build it and they come.

Ceremony  4 Glasses of Crémant £30 2 Glasses of oloroso £18 2 Glasses of Madeira £15 1 Water £1 1 Raw veggies £4.50 1 Courgette fritters £4 1 Vegetable crisps £3 1 Charred leek rarebit £8 1 Duck egg and wild mushrooms £9 1 Sweet potato curry £15 1 White bean stew £16 1 Grilled lettuce £3 1 Cheese board £9 Total £135.50