Black Truffle & Ricotta Tortellini in Brodo
Postcodes are kind of like an access pass to different cultures. London is the literal expression of a melting pot, its a place where people dismantle the notion that difference creates division, what better way to explore this than through food? You’ll see a few things here - food I have thunk (yes thats a word) up and photographed (decently might I add) and some recommendations of places I think you have to try (I mean you don’t have to but if you don’t then mercury will be in gatorade). London and Truffle is a journal really, an interesting outlook on food and the way we experience it.
-TOBI A.
Scallop, Prawn with Cauliflower puree
Sesame & Chilli Lettuce
Sous vide steak and enoki purée
Fresh Pasta
Smoked Pork Suya with Miyan
Oysters with champagne butter sauce
York & Albany - Dulce de leche
Our Favourite spots this month Sept 2024 —
EC1: Quality Chop House
Butchers, wine shop and an incredible roast on a Sunday, this spot has been around for over a century (how’s that for work experience in industry). No but really the roast dinner UNMATCHED.
SE1: Legare
I took up residence in this “neighbourhood Italian restaurant”. The food consistently incredible but the people and the attention to the most basic human need. You’ll have the best time with Alice (tell her Tobi sent you). There isn’t a restaurant in London like it.
SW9: Adulis
I want to live in the kitchen and I’d also love to have njera with everything in my life. Adulis is such a great Eritrean place in Camberwell. There is this beautiful thing we do in Africa - eat with hands, I can’t explain what happens all I can say is it tastes better.
SE1: Akara
Three words - you have to go (okay, that is four words but ‘to’ doesn’t count). Words are inadequate for this Nigerian-Brazilian place in London Bridge. Spicy, nostalgic and f***in’ delicious.
E8: Pidgin
In Nigeria, ‘pidgin’ refers to a broken english and honestly that was the initial pull to this restaurant, and like the pidgin english in Nigeria, this (non nigerian) restaurant, served food laced with flavour, character and unexpected isms.
W1T: Akoko
Being West African, it is so important that I experience food I grew up with, differently. The oysters are insane, the zobo panacotta - can I have that every day please, the bofrot (aka puff puff) magical. Just go and thank Jesus and his parents later.
