🌞🌞🌞 BIG SUNNY SATURDAY VIBES 🌞🌞🌞
Strawberry Elderflower Halva Buns 🍓
Crispy Lamb Belly, Pea Yoghurt, Broad Beans, Asparagus 🐑
@curveroasters El Silencio, can confirm it's jammy dried mango in the cup 🥭
Here's what else we have today! 📃
WE'RE OPEN SUN IS SHINING COME AND GET YOUR CARB LOAD FOR THE HACKNEY HALF TOMORROW 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓
We are well and truly into the hungry gap, but this unseasonally dry Spring has brought on such delights as courgettes and cucumbers much much earlier than usual, so we have that to look forward to next week.
In the meantime, we make use of store cupboard classics such as delicious pulses and faithful macaroni in this Spring minestrone, finished off with wild garlic pesto. @growingcommunities supplied us with a very generous amount of rainbow chard, which lends the soup a lovely pink hue. The default version has nourishing chicken broth and parmesan, but we can make it vegan for you, just ask. Actually, we can even do it GF. Don't say we don't look after you!!
Lunch is 12-230, but don't forget you can get coffee/sweet treats until 330!!!!! 🌞🌞🌞🌞
The Cuban sandwich. We're making our own telera, roasting @ftjspa pork shoulder in with a citrus mojo, house dill pickles, Milano salami, Emmental, pressed in butter until the crust cracks. Let's do the Saturday the right wayyy eyyyyy 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Remember people! We'll fill up any receptacle with your favourite beverage and you'll get 30 fine English pennies off. Mugs, keep cups, thermos, you name it 🥰 Hallelujah 🙏🏼
Perfect chicken salad weather. Packington free range chickens poached with ginger and lemongrass, dressed in fish sauce, lime, mandarin and panela sugar. New season kohlrabi and carrots, crunchy jewels of fried shallot, peanut and sesame throughout - all against a background of fragrant spring herbs. Sun's out, it's on til we run out ☀️
💖Bircher is BACK 💖
Porridge, it's been a pleasure.... but warmer days call for a change. We're showing our appreciation for the first outdoor rhubarb and citrus season finale, kicking off with a rhubarb-blood orange compote, whey-soaked organic oats, honey mandarin yoghurt (house-made, alwaysss and foreverrr) and a super crunchy polenta, pumpkin & hemp seed crown. Eats like a dessert, feels like the breakfast to put the SPRING in your stride 🌱🌸🌿
GRA POW 💥
The weather is perfect for some spicy Thai gra pow. @ftjspa pork mince meets our house made prik tum, a slow cooked chilli-garlic paste... meets oyster sauce, meets @flourishproduce seasonal greens. A fried egg just seals the deal. Watch out for the sidecar of jasmine rice tho....MOP up that sauce
Open from 9
Brunch 9-230
Coffee & Cake til 330
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ASPARAGUS SZN ’26 🤳🌱
The standard-bearer of Spring on these shores, and now properly in full flow. Ours comes from a field in Cambridgeshire (cheers Mike), via @flourishproduce , alongside some cheeky purple from @wykhamparkfarm .
Two ways with the stalky friends:
– Asparagus vichyssoise, made creamily vegan with pumpkin seeds… who’s asking?
– With soft steamed leeks in a galette-that-wants-to-be-a-quiche: silky Comté custard, spring herbs, and a sharply dressed salad of lettuces, frilly golden mustard and breakfast radishes.
The galette’s made with 100% @landracemilling April Bearded flour with near-equal its weight in butter. Free-form tart energy, not buckwheat crêpe territory.
✨WEEKEND SPECIAL✨
A generous and uncomplicated plate of bavette, pink fir potatoes and fried egg, adorned with pretty spears of pickled asparagus and promptly set 🔥 with a chermou-lata butter - you guessed it - equally inspired by the spice-y herb-y North African chermoula and the brightness of Italian gremolata.
Swipe to see what else is on the menu today.
Doors at 9! See ya soon! Beautiful day!
We take @lbpedlar buttery, flaky croissants. Dunk them in sugar syrup for extra crunch. Fill them generously with almond paste with the finest @foodandforest nuts, before baking them until crisp golden perfection.
On the days they don't sell out, we repurpose them into a gooey bread and butter croissant pudding studded with seasonal fruits.
On the bar every day ✨
Each week brings two new specials, one for weekdays, one for the weekend (which for us includes Friday btw).
The weekday special is an opportunity for us to offer value for money, highlighting what's peaking from our farmers whilst also utilising what there might be an excess of. @flourishproduce have an abundance of sprouting greens currently - kales and brassicas that are tender and very delicious.
There's plenty of them in this Spring Minestrone, getting cosy with @hodmedods coco beans, tubetti pasta, deep flavourful broth, and topped with wild garlic pesto.
Once it's gone, it's gone! For lunch, this week, 12-230
It's a porchetta sandwich with crisps!! Incredible middle white pork from @ftjspa generously rubbed with lemon, wild garlic and fennel seeds. Roasted to a pink perfection before being chilled and sliced ever so thinly. Sitting atop braised smoked chilli garlic @flourishproduce sprouting greens, wild garlic mayo, and of course served up with house fried crisps coated in what we call magic dust ✨✨✨
Plenty available, we open at 9, see you soon xxx
