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Coffee in London: Ottolenghi

Ottolenghi exterior

Ottolenghi is by now a bit of a culinary cliché. I don’t mean that in any bad way – just that it has been so talked and written about that it seems as familiar as soft falling rain. In case you haven’t heard of it, the phenomena that is Ottolenghi is a set of four food shops in central London run by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi. The shops are in Islington, Belgravia, Notting Hill and Kensington; the Islington branch is also a full restaurant, the Belgravia and Notting Hill branches have small communal eating-in areas at the back of the shops and Kensington which is the smallest shop serves take-out food only.

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Books for Cooks

Books for Cooks, Notting Hill, London

If a trainee fairy maniacal working her way through ‘Bewitchment for Dummies’ were to cast a spell  which meant I had to eat lunch in the same place everyday for evermore, I hope that place would be the Books for Cooks café in London.

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