Hurwundeki

Cafe at Arches 298-299 Cambridge Heath Road
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8 / 10 from 1 review
Address
Arches 298-299 Cambridge Heath Road
Bethnal Green
London
E2 9HA
Map
Telephone
020 8981 0267
Region
Bethnal Green
Nearest Station
Cambridge Heath
0.08 miles
Opening Summary
Café
Mon - Sat: 10:00-16:00

Restaurant
Lunch 12:00–16:00
Dinner 18:00–22:00

Salon
Mon - Fri: 10:00-20:00
Sat: 10:00-19:00

C A F E - The only way to start the day! With delicious artisan pastries delivered daily from Yeast Bakery and freshly made Workshop Coffee, the most aromatic coffee beans we can find.

R E S T A U R A N T - At Hurwundeki restaurant we create fresh, simple and authentic Korean food by fusing traditional Korean dishes with modern cooking techniques. We blend our own soy and chilli sauces to make sure they’re as fresh as possible. And our food contains NO MSG or artificial additives, JUST the finest.

H A I R S A L O N - A new concept by Ki Lee, the founder and creative director of H U R W U N D E K I . Introducing a new system of hairdressing: quick, stylish and inexpensive. HWDK offers fantastic style at an affordable price – the future of men and woman’s hairstyling. Just as architecture relies on blueprints and fashion relies on patterns, HWDK offer an efficient and systemised method of hairdressing that encourages hair to grow naturally, requiring minimum maintenance.

All In London Review

Rough edged and charming with a killer Korean evening menu

Hackney has a fair few restaurants and cafes that take advantage of everyone’s penchant for a rustic little place to eat great food. However, none of them even come close to Hurwendeki’s inimitable rough edged charm.

The Bethnal Green café was first a boutique that then graduated into a café before launching a Korean evening menu. All about the exposed deformities and visible chinks the venue’s chipped brickwork, peeling paint and wobbly wooden furniture creates an intimate environment. By candlelight Hurwendeki is just about as attractive a restaurant as we’ve ever been in. Okay, there might be a touch of hyperbole there but if you like the idea of squeezing up, sharing dishes and interacting with the chef then this is the place to come. Casual is an understatement. Hurwendeki’s interior reminds you of the charming tumbledown wreck that you hope you’ll one day inherit from a long-lost aunt you never knew about - or something.

We visited in the evening and sampled the Korean menu. Sharing plates of vegetable dumplings and kimchi were excellent and as a big group we agreed with the chef that we would pay per person and eat as much as we wanted. It’s informal like that. Main courses of Bi Bim Bap – Korea’s national dish – were equally as good as the sides. Although, the rice, bean sprouts, pork and vegetable served in a red-hot clay bowl possibly missed the saltiness that miso sauces served at less ‘fresh’ establishments often give the dish.

As if Hurwendeki needed extra points the place is also BYOB. Which means the cost of a meal with drinks of your choice amounts to little over £18 per person. For home-cooked Korean food in an engaging environment, that’s a bargain.

Reviewed by T.A.O
Published on Jul 3, 2013


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Good food at bargain prices

Part Korean café, part hair salon, Hurwendeki is certainly not your average cheap eat restaurant. Located on Cambridge Heath Road, this weird but wonderful place has an evening meal deal that offers one main, one side and roast seaweed for £10. Hurwendeki is about simple, delicious, home-cooked Korean food. And it is another BYO restaurant.

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You’d be forgiven for thinking that a hair salon and Korean restaurant rolled into one is going to be so insufferably cool your ears will bleed. While it’s positioned firmly in hipsterville the restaurant’s marinated bulgogi beef, crispy pork belly and spicy stew with kimchi and pork are fantastic and all priced under £9. Then you can get a haircut next door in less than 20 minutes.

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