London has a personality and style of its own- from grand to edgy, modern to heritage and urban to shabby chic.
It’s impossible to define the vast, sprawling, living, breathing entity that is London city, but there is an unmistaken essence that can be identified through the radar of places it hosts. from shops, street markets, corner pubs, local restaurants and my recent favourite…
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…pop-up restaurants.
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Pop up restaurants have increased in popularity across the city, with their fluidity, exclusivity and intimate settings, coupled with an element of punk rebellion. Typically only available for a few nights, weeks or months, these nifty eateries provide a fantastic platform for visionary chefs and entrepreneurs to gain exposure and build a following alongside aspiring or professional chefs in a free-range fashion.
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Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen
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Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen is a perfect example of a pop up restaurant that share’s London’s diversity, eccentricity, quirkiness and independence of spirit. The temporary dinning event and catering services merges its Ghanaian roots with a contemporary dining experience, that I would co-sign in saying is home spun, home cooked, always fun, relaxed and always tasty!
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“Born from creating a ‘pop-up’ Ghanaian restaurant in her live/workspace in Hackney Wick
in the summer of 2011 as part of Hackney Wicked Arts Festival,
Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen has grown with popular demand.”
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Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen held its most recent event ‘Ghana goes Sky High with Platterform’ at London’s Sky Rooms. The event held every Thursday offers a three course meal, served overlooking the Thames. On the menu for the evening was:
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Starter
Red Red with Kelewele (v)
Slow cooked black eye beans in palm oil with sweet fried plantain in ginger and chilli
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Mains
‘Nkatenkwan’
Peanut Butter Stew w / lamb, yams and sweet fried plantain
(veggie option available)
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Grilled Tilapia
Delicate fish marinated in fresh ginger and garlic, gently spiced, served with rice and sautéed peppers and onions
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Kenkey w/Kentumere
Maize dough dumpling served in a corn husk with a spicy sardine, kale & tomato sauce and Shito hot chilli sauce on the side
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Dessert
Chin Chin Banofee Pie
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The food was as promised, tasty and bountiful! I said to Zoe on the evening, that I couldn’t remember when I last had tilapia that was as good as my mum cooks it. Regrettably, I still feel that London lacks good mid-range African restaurants, and having visited a few, I have yet to come across another African dining experience that is equally priced providing well cooked food in a creative, modern and authentic way.
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So with that said, well done and many thanks to the ZGK team, I had a fantastic time!
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Fancy a taste? Get Tasty next Friday 24th May @London’s Pipdish, Islington!
Book here
http://www.edibleexperiences.com/p/539054/Zoes-Ghana-Kitchen/42002/ZGKs-PopUp-Challenge-event
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