Founders Tasos Gaitanos and Alex Large (pictured below) have taken on the Poland Street site for what will be the seventh London restaurant in their group.
The restaurant will occupy the venue’s three storeys with a ground floor dining room and a subterranean 14-seat private dining room – another first for Brother Marcus. Upstairs, taking over the previous space of speakeasy The Blind Pig, will be cocktail bar Kamara, developed in partnership with Angelos Bafas, formerly of Kioku Sake Bar, Nipperkin, and Soma, that will serve drinks alongside a tight mezze style small plates menu.
Brother Marcus founders Tas Gaitanos and Alex Large (©Brother Marcus)
The Soho restaurant will serve the group’s Eastern Mediterranean cuisine from breakfast through to diner, with brunch dishes including the smoky shakshuka – two poached eggs in a pepper and tomato sauce topped with labneh and feta with a side of toasted pita; and sweet potato, courgette and feta fritters with avocado, crispy kale, turmeric yoghurt a poached egg.
The restaurant will serve an extensive brunch menu (©Brother Marcus)
Mezzes dishes will include bream with almond and dill gremolata; roasted chicken, sun-dried tomato harissa, fresh herb salad, labneh and nigella seeds; and Greek feta sausage, louvi beans, grated plum tomatoes and herb salad.
Cocktails will be based on in-house macerated spirits and ferments drawing on Bafas’ northern Greek heritage.
Brother Marcus launched in Balham, south London, in 2016 (which has since closed) and currently operates six sites in the capital in Spitalfields Market, Angel, South Kensington, Borough Yards, Covent Garden, and Canary Wharf, its most recent opening.
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