New flexitarian restaurant & bar set to open in Notting Hill

A new independent restaurant and bar is to open in Notting Hill this month, offering a ‘flexitarian’ menu with wood-fire grilled fish and meat and plant-based dishes.

The two-floored venue is home to a restaurant on the ground floor and downstairs, a subterranean bar with sharing plates to enjoy alongside cocktails.

The sharing plates include Black rice lobster croquettes, spicy arbol aioli, Purple sprouting broccoli, beetroot hummus, crispy onion, and Seared tuna carpaccio, shiso, pink perppercorn & ponzu.

Main dishes will be Grilled hispi, chicory, pear & feta salad, Flame caramelised octopus, ink black rice, harissa, Jerusalem artichoke (pictured), and Eloise wild garlic gnocchi. There are a couple of meat dishes, like Yakitori pork belly skewers, grilled pineapple.

To finish, diners can enjoy Chocolate Ganache & burnt Apple sorbet, and Spiced rice pudding with salted caramel nuts.

The woman behind the venture is Alex Giri, who opened West London?s Canal Brasserie in the 1980s. Her son Oscar Harris has joined her in this new venture.

Heading up the kitchen is Peter Tonge, who?s also worked at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal and at Tom Aikens, and honed his grilling skills at Barbecoa.