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Reviews: Jimi Famurewa is optimistic for the future of Imad s Syrian Kitchen, while Fay Ripley visits the Bull and Last 02 June 2021
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London Evening Standard s Jimi Famurewa finds optimism for the future of Imad s Syrian Kitchen in London s Soho
My pal Richard and I settled in happily, clinked glasses of beautiful Tokaj-Hetszolo Hungarian dry furmint from a confidently short wine list, and then the first few arrivals from a snappy menu of small sharing dishes turned up and our faces became twin masks of tight-smiled concern.
Baba ghanoj arrived in a flattened boat of roasted aubergine, coyly seasoned and a little crowded out by an accompanying avalanche of radish, cherry tomato, pomegranate seeds and dribbled tahini. Fattoush felt similarly disharmonious. A brooding, gorgeously spice-kissed and slow-roasted lamb shoulder (ketf ghanam) was tragically a touch dry.