Fork to Fork: Celebrated Chefs Make Their Signature Dishes For Charity On Saturday 11th June
By Something CuratedThis Saturday 11th June in Kensal Rise, Fork to Fork, the charity food festival, will offer 35 food stalls from some of London’s finest restaurant kitchens. Renown chefs including Tom Aikens, Angela Hartnett, Yotam Ottolenghi and Jose Pizarro will support the project by being present and serving up their signature dishes.
The festival will take place at the Ark Franklin Primary Academy school in Kensal Rise and will be led by Wahaca co-founder and former MasterChef winner Thomasina Miers and Caravan co-founder Laura Harper-Hinton. The festival aims to raise money for an Open Air classroom project.
Something Curated has selected the 10 of its favourites taking part on Saturday 11th June.
Hoppers
Hoppers is inspired by the family home cooking and roadside boutiques of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, with the hopper – a thin, bowl shaped pancake made with fermented rice batter and coconut milk – and dosa at the heart of the menu. Launched in November 2015 at 49 Frith Street, Soho, the restaurant is the latest opening from the Karam, Jyotin and Sunaina Sethi, who are also behind the much lauded Michelin-starred restaurants, Gymkhana, Mayfair and Trishna, Marylebone and investors in Bubbledogs, Kitchen Table, Lyle’s and BAO.
www.hopperslondon.com
Granger & Co
Granger & Co by Bill Granger captures the spirit of Australian lifestyle and their relaxed approach to dining – sunny, easy-going and generous. Granger & Co is home from home, a place for breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, cocktails and dinner. Bill’s infectious joy in good food, atmosphere and design makes each of his restaurants a delightful space to enjoy any time of the day. There are three restaurants in Notting Hill, Clerkenwell and King’s Cross.
www.grangerandco.com
Hereford Road
Hereford Road will be bringing whole-hearted, robust, simple British cooking using the great wealth of British national produce. Friendly, informed staff introduce the daily changing menu that champions well sourced British food at reasonable prices. The simplicity, honesty and quality of the food are reflected through the restaurant with its comfortable and straightforward design. An emphasis on seasonality is also echoed in the interior of this 60 cover establishment. It is light and airy in the summertime. In winter, the open kitchen at the front of the restaurant creates a warm and intimate setting.
www.herefordroad.org
Kitty Fishers
Kitty Fisher’s is a small neighbourhood restaurant located in Shepherd Market, Mayfair, and named after the eponymous courtesan who lived close by. Head Chef Tomos Parry centres his cooking on seasonality, produce and the relationship between fire and food. Since opening their doors in 2015 they have won Restaurant of the Year at the Evening Standard London Restaurant Festival, Best Buzz at the Tatler Restaurant Awards, been placed 16th in the National Restaurant Awards Top 100 Restaurants in the UK, and are short-listed at this year’s GQ Magazine Food & Drink Awards for Restaurant of the Year and Front of House of the Year.
www.kittyfishers.com
Lyle’s
James Lowe opened his first restaurant, Lyle’s, in London’s Shoreditch in April 2014. The
food is modern, British, produce-led and driven by a common sense kind of mentality. He
was previously head chef at St John Bread & Wine for four years and started the London
based Young Turks chef collective in 2011.
James was awarded ‘Chef of the Year’ at the London Restaurant Festival Awards in November 2015. Lyle’s received it’s first Michelin star in September 2015 and was voted 6th Best Restaurant in the UK by National Restaurant Awards in June 2015.
www.lyleslondon.com
Raw Duck
Rawduck is an all day dining restaurant in London Fields, Hackney, the menu draws inspiration from many parts of the world, but the focus is always on seasonality, simple cooking and vibrant flavours. The constantly evolving menu takes a healthful approach to eating, and offers plates that will nourish and satisfy from breakfast through to dinner.
www.rawduckhackney.co.uk
The Modern Pantry
Anna Hansen’s cooking reflects her Danish ancestry, a childhood in New Zealand, and a culinary journey to the UK. With years of experience in the restaurant business, Anna is a culinary prodigy with a fresh and contemporary take on food. Anna’s restaurants, The Modern Pantry, in Clerkenwell and Finsbury Square, are sanctuaries of bold flavours, colourful ingredients and herbs and spices from around the world that are expertly brought together to create fresh, original and captivating dishes. Anna’s culinary philosophy is driven by the desire to please and excite the palate by renewing everyday cooking with modern ingredients and global inspiration.
www.themodernpantry.co.uk
Moro
Chef proprietors, Sam and Sam Clark opened their award-winning restaurant, Moro in Exmouth Market in 1997. Eighteen years on and Moro is as popular as ever and continues to serve the Moorish signature dishes it has become known for – including crab brik and yoghurt cake – while executing a thoughtful approach to creating new dishes and introducing new ingredients.
Morito Hackney Road, the third restaurant from Sam & Sam Clark, will open in May 2016 headed up by Samantha Clark and Marianna Leivaditaki who is currently Head Chef at Moro. Serving made-to-order Moroccan breads, tapas dishes and larger family-style plates for the whole table, Samantha and Marianna have worked hard sourcing exceptional produce from southern Spain, Morocco, Turkey and Crete to feature in the new menus.
www.moro.co.uk
The Ledbury
Brett Graham began his cooking career in Newcastle, Australia, aged 15, working in a simple fish restaurant.
He then moved to Sydney where, during a 3 year stint under Liam Tomlin at the highly acclaimed Banc restaurant, he won the Josephine Pignolet Award.
This granted him a trip to the UK where he secured a job at The Square, working for chef Philip Howard. Further awards followed, including the “Young Chef of the Year” in 2002.
The restaurant has gained many accolades including the much coveted second Michelin Star.
www.theledbury.com
The River Cafe
Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray founded The River Cafe in 1987, inspired by their experience of living and cooking in Italy. The importance of seasonality, robust flavours and the connection between a region’s food and its wine, still remains at the heart of The River Cafe today.
An open kitchen, wood-burning oven and adjacent vegetable garden are all key elements of the restaurant which influence the twice-daily changing menu. Ingredients are all carefully sourced from the UK and Italy.Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers published their first cookbook, The River Cafe Cook Book in 1995, and later went on to publish a further 10 cookbooks.
www.rivercafe.co.uk
Text By Tamara Akcay