Harden's survey result
Summary
This hipster Newington Green bakery and restaurant from the founders of Primeur and Westerns Laundry is every bit the archetypal, achingly on-trend East End operation. As well as coffee, bread and bakes it provides a short and simple blackboard menu of bistro-esque dishes: for example, grilled sardines, pasta with tomato and mussels, baked custard. Sceptics, though, find the whole scene just too right-on: “there are queues around the block, so taking yourself too seriously is clearly popular!”. Its undisputed success has spawned a new flagship brand ‘Big Jo Bakery’ (see also) and later in 2021 there are three other satellites promised in Islington, Shoreditch and Crouch End.
Summary
“This too-kool-for-school hangout in Newington Green” – a yearling bakery/café/restaurant from Primeur and Westerns Laundry founders Jeremie Cometto-Lingenheim and David Gingell – is “full to the rafters with Stokie’s coolest hipsters with good reason – the food is spot-on”. The vibe, all ‘unaltered grains milled onsite’, gets up one or two reporters’ noses though, who feel “its mincing pomposity makes it the Jacob Rees-Mogg of the Hackney restaurant scene!”
Summary
“This too-kool-for-school hangout in Newington Green” – a yearling bakery/café/restaurant from Primeur and Westerns Laundry founders Jeremie Cometto-Lingenheim and David Gingell – is “full to the rafters with Stokie’s coolest hipsters with good reason – the food is spot-on”. The vibe, all ‘unaltered grains milled onsite’, gets up one or two reporters’ noses though, who feel “its mincing pomposity makes it the Jacob Rees-Mogg of the Hackney restaurant scene!”
Summary
On the former Newington Green site of Dandy (RIP), a new bakery (and evening restaurant) from the founders of Primeur and Westerns Laundry, Jeremie Cometto-Lingenheim and David Gingell. Rare and ancient grains [you can say that sort of thing with a straight face nowadays! Ed] feature in the bread and cakes, milled and baked daily on site.
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Restaurant details
Prices
 Drinks |
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|---|---|
| Wine per bottle | £28.00 |
| Filter Coffee | £4.00 |
 Extras |
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|---|---|
| Bread | £3.00 |
| Service | 10.00% |
21 Newington Green, London, N16 9PU
Opening hours
| Monday | CLOSED |
| Tuesday | 9 am‑3 pm, 6 pm‑10 pm |
| Wednesday | 9 am‑3 pm, 6 pm‑10 pm |
| Thursday | 9 am‑3 pm, 6 pm‑10 pm |
| Friday | 9 am‑3 pm, 6 pm‑10 pm |
| Saturday | 9 am‑3 pm, 6 pm‑10 pm |
| Sunday | 9 am‑3 pm, 6 pm‑10 pm |
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