A brand new culinary-led pub and eating room, The Parakeet, is about to open in Kentish City in March. With ex-BRAT chef – and born and bred North Londoner – Ben Allen on the helm alongside sous-chef Ed Jennings, the 60-cover eating room will serve their debut menu of domestically sourced, seasonal dishes expertly cooked over flames on their custom-made grill.
Serving a produce-led, seasonally altering blackboard menu, diners can count on a collection of fashionable European dishes influenced by Head Chef Ben Allen’s skilled chef expertise at high-quality eating eating places, which in addition to world famend BRAT contains the two Michelin Star Steirereck restaurant in Austria. Cooking over fireplace can be a key element of the menu at The Parakeet all through the seasons, with lots of Ben and Ed’s dishes constructed round using The Parakeet’s {custom} flame grill.
Signature dishes at The Parakeet are set to incorporate ‘Poached Oyster with Pickled Elderflower’, ‘Braised Leeks, Pecorino and Smoked Mushrooms, and ‘Wooden Roasted Rabbit, Kohlrabi and Curry Leaf’. The menu may even characteristic meat and fish primarily based sharing dishes constructed round domestically sourced Ox-Cheek and Bream.
‘We’re vastly excited to have the ability to put our personal inventive stamp on the menu right here at The Parakeet with our seasonal menus. Every season has its personal distinctive advantages, spring is thrilling with new shoots like wild garlic, the quick asparagus season is a favorite. We each love autumnal flavours with comforting chilly climate meals and the problem of being inventive with restricted selection in winter and the abundance of summer season.’ Ben Allen, Head Chef at The Parakeet and Ed Jennings, Sous Chef at The Parakeet.
The Parakeet is a private undertaking from Steve Ball and Riz Shaikh of The Columbo Group. As longstanding residents of the world, their newest enterprise is born out of their love of the London restaurant scene and need to carry one thing new to the Kentish City neighbourhood.
‘We stay domestically in Highgate and Camden, and with The Parakeet, we wish to construct one thing that offers again to our neighbourhood, and that matches the outline of someplace we’d wish to hang around with our household and buddies. It’s nice to have Ben Allen on board as Head Chef – he’s somebody we actually admire, and we will’t watch for guests (and ourselves) to sit down down and have a style of the seasonal menu he’s created.’ Steve Ball.
Handle: The Parakeet, 256 Kentish City Highway, London NW5 2EN
Web site: www.theparakeetpub.com
Reservation hyperlink: www.theparakeetpub.com
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