Kyseri
You can’t keep a good girl down, and buoyed by her success at Oklava, Great British Menu star Selin Kiazim has opened a second restaurant called Kyseri in Fitzrovia with business partner Laura Christie that shines a light on Turkish pasta.
Specialising in modern Turkish cuisine, Kiazim makes her pasta from scratch each morning and has taken inspiration from the Kayseri region of Turkey in Central Anatolia as well as drawing on her Turkish Cypriot roots.
Among the dishes on the opening menu are slow cooked celeriac, preserved mandarin and sunflower seeds; spiced beef and sour cherry manti dumplings, yoghurt, tomato and chilli butter and pine nuts; and veal sweetbreads with baised garlic, brown butter and hazelnut yoghurt.
Laura Christie, who also runs Linden Stores in Islington, is in charge of the wines, which shine a light on drops made by small producers in Turkey and the Middle East.