Former Ottolenghi head chef Esra Muslu opens her first London restaurant next week, based on Istanbulite home cooking including recipes and traditional methods handed down by her mother. Zahter, named after a wild herb in the thyme family that grows in southern Turkey, is conceived as Esra’s “love letter” to her native country. It occupies […]
Qavali, a glamorous Indo-Persian restaurant, opened this month in Birmingham’s Brindley Place, inspired by the ecstatic Sufi singing tradition (also known as qawwali) whose adherents stretch from Turkey across Iran and Afghanistan into India and Pakistan. With a menu that takes “the best dishes from each cuisine” in this region, the 250-seat venue features a […]
Celebrated Turkish chef Civan Er is to open Yeni in Soho on January 28. Yeni will launch on Beak Street, an announcement said, and will “introduce London to the flavours and culinary traditions of Istanbul”. The modern Istanbul restaurant – called Yeni Lokanta – features in the World’s 50 Best and has long been a […]
⦿ AA Gill of the Sunday Times opened his review of The Magpie Café 5/5 in Whitby with the bombshell that he has cancer, an announcement that – uniquely perhaps for a restaurant review – was trailed by a front-page report. “I’ve got an embarrassment of cancer, the full English,” he wrote, promising to let his readers know […]
A new Middle Eastern restaurant, nestled between Clapham and Wandsworth Commons, will open this June offering south Londoners a taste of the Caspian with influences from Iran and Turkey. JAN, on Clapham’s Northcote Road, boasts an impressive, medieval-style charcoal oven for traditionally cooked meat, bread and veg dishes, as well as innovative cocktails set in a […]
