On one of our last mornings, we visited the Spitalfields outpost of Yotam Ottolenghi’s mini restaurant empire for breakfast. The food is upscale Middle Eastern.
We have an Ottolenghi cookbook at home which is beautiful, and although the recipes are pretty complicated the few we’ve attempted have turned out well. It was nice try the real thing.
This is my “shakshuka” breakfast from Ottolenghi in Spitalfields. It’s one of those traditional recipes that everyone does a bit differently, but mine had nicely poached eggs on top of a sauce of tomatoes, garlic, onions, red peppers. It was very good but the the accompanying crusty charred bread was even better.
After breakfast we wandered through nearby Old Spitalfields Market, which was in full swing on a Sunday morning.
It was large and impressive but most of the knickknacks and antiques on sale didn’t really interest us, and we were too full to explore the food options.