25/10/16 - Updated with a full run-down of the dishes on offer...
There's a new fundraising initiative coming our way in November that's well worth supporting. Instagrammer supreme Clerkenwell Boy is teaming up with SUITCASE Magazine and Unicef's NEXTGen London for #CookForSyria. With that, lots of London restaurants will be putting a ‘Syrian inspired twist’ on one of their signature dishes or they'll create a new dish - and £2 from each sale will go to the charity.
And there are some great names involved - the full list (and dishes) so far is:
- Arabica Bar & Kitchen - Porcini mushroom broth with smoked green wheat Freeke and Za’atar oil
- Barrafina - Grilled quail, green harissa, pomegranate and date sauce
- Berber & Q - Aleppo kofte kebab with blackened chilli sauce
- Ben's Canteen - The Syrian Burger, a lamb, rosemary, sumac, lemon, garlic, mint, zatar and chilli patty, topped with falafel, pickled cucumber, pickled red onion, rocket, harissa and sumac mayo, roasted red peppers, pomegranate molasses and feta.
- Black Axe Mangal - Lamb tongue fatteh
- Breddos Tacos - Mutton 'al pastor' with muhammara salsa roja and roasted medjool dates
- Brunswick House - Roast Black Figs, Baklava Ice Cream, Walnut Brittle
- Cafe Murano St James & Covent Garden - Olive oil cake with pistachio ice cream
- Carousel - Roast guinea fowl, labneh and za'atar
- Chick'N'Sours - Crispy chicken, Syrian Hamud, rose & pomegranate
- Chiltern Firehouse - Beef tartare with a Syrian inspired twist
- Crosstown Doughnuts - Cinnamon scrolls with # CookForSyria symbol
- Dock Kitchen - Pistachio and Nutmeg Cake
- Foleys - Beetroot puree with labneh, burnt date, a hazelnut mousse and candied hazelnuts
- Frenchie - Pomegranate glazed guineafowl, medjool dates and tamarind
- Grain Store - Raw salmon kibbeh with yoghurt & flatbread
- Gunpowder - Grilled aubergine with beef keema and pine nuts kachumber
- Honey & Co - Msabacha
- Hoppers - Beef brisket curry, Ceylonese stretched roti, walnut chickpea and pistachio sambol, smoked aubergine and pomegranate raita, oxtail pickle
- Jamie Oliver's Fifteen – Syrian spiced orange blossom Rice pudding with dates
- Jose Pizarro - Slow cooked neck of lamb with hummus and herb oil
- Lyles - Pheasant kebab
- Kricket - Sabudana Vada - muhammara, sesame raita, coriander
- Marksman Pub - Pickled aubergine, salt lemon and chilli
- Morito Hackney Road – Syrian fattoush salad with crisp bread, winter vegetables, fried aubergines and pomegranates
- Ottolenghi - Hark Osbao (Lentils and pasta with tamarind, sumac and pomegranate)
- Oklava - Winter fattoush with tamarind sticky beef, roasted pears, cavalo nero, bitter leaves and crispy Baharat bread
- Paradise Garage - Spiced quail, maqluba, fennel, pomegranate and mint salad
- Patty & Bun - Aged lamb burger with braised lamb shoulder, feta and garlic sauce plus Aleppo pepper relish
- Petersham Nurseries - Pot roast poussin with preserved lemons, rose and pistachios for 2 - with flat breads, yoghurt, fennel, pomegranate, parsley salad
- Pizza Pilgrims - Spiced beef pizza
- Quo Vadis - Chickpea, squash, aubergine dip with a pastry brick (à l’oeuf) with Za’tar
- Salon Brixton - Roasted roots, candied sesame, tahini yoghurt
- Salt Yard Group - Slow cooked Syrian spiced lamb shoulder with flatbread
- Shawarma Bar - Syrian kofte, pickled white cabbage, preserved lemon and yoghurt pita sandwich
- Silo Brighton - Sumac baked squash, tahini & marigold glaze and rose hip harissa
- Spring - Syrian dumplings with smoked aubergine, yoghurt, za'atar and dill
- Taberna do Mercado - Sweet yabraq (rice pudding wrapped in vine leaves with poached figs)
- The Good Egg - Duck kibbeh with pomegranate molasses and smoked aubergine labneh
- The Manor - Smoked aubergine & sour potato flatbread
- The Modern Pantry - Sugar cured prawn omelette made with Aleppo chili
- The Providores and Tapa Room - Turkish eggs - two poached eggs, whipped yoghurt, hot Aleppo-chilli butter and toast
- Yosma - Cilbir - baked eggs, yoghurt, leek and chili butter
There will also be a Syrian breakfast by Symmetry Breakfast, a Syrian pop-up at Brixton's Salon, a one-night-only kebab feast in East London by Honest Burgers, a Syrian inspired brunch at Arabica Bar & Kitchen and Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurant will be holding a charity supperclub.
