Ceru

Middle Eastern Restaurant in The City
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7 / 10 from 1 review
Address
135 Cannon Street
The City
London
EC4N 5BP
Map
Telephone
020 3195 3001
Cuisine
Middle Eastern
Region
The City
Nearest Station
Monument
0.09 miles
Opening Summary
Mon - Fri: 08:00 - 00:00
Sat: 10:00 - 00:00

Introducing Ceru, a three-month Levantine pop up bringing the fierce flavours of the Middle East to Fiztrovia. Serving everything from za’atar laced breakfast wraps to lunch and dinner dishes designed to share, Ceru takes you on an all day culinary journey from Lebanese street snacks to the tastes of southern Turkey.

Start the day with health-conscious Greek Yoghurt with honeycomb, cranberries and pistachio nuts and freshly squeezed vegetable and fruit juices in cute glass bottles; or build-your-own breakfast wraps with options including Murguez sausage, halloumi and tomato, cinnamon & chilli relish.

Too busy to take a lunch hour? To go options include Lebanese flatbread wraps filled with Chicken Kebab Marinated With Lemon & Saffron with cucumber & mint or Chickpea and Broad Bean Falafel with tahini, garlic & yoghurt; salads such as the Crisp Apple, Pomegranate & Mint with green chilli, lemon & roasted pine nuts; and Herbed Zucchini Fritters with Feta Cheese. All dishes on the take away menu can be picked up or delivered to any office within a two-kilometer radius.

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All In London Review

A Middle Eastern pop-up in the City with an exquisite slow-roasted lamb shoulder

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This latest pop-up from Ceru is on Cannon Street, however they’ve previously had successful stints on Rathbone Place near Oxford Street and by Tower Bridge. The food is Middle Eastern, with dishes inspired by the Levant, roughly the area stretching between Turkey, Cyprus, Israel and the Lebanon. The menu has mezze style dishes, and it’s open for breakfast and lunch when they do wraps to eat in or take away (think spicy merguez and lamb shawarma in a toasted wrap).

But we’re here for dinner, when it’s dimly lit and quiet, and we overhear other diners being very effusive over the food, always a good sign.

We like the courgette and cheese fritters, smeared with a yogurt and mint dip, as well as the baked halloumi, served on rocket and cherry tomato, which has absorbed a lot of the salt from the cheese.

The squid salad with red peppers and chermoula dressing is less interesting. The chermoula dressing is soupy and lacks flavour, which doesn’t stand up to the squid, which is well-cooked and soft. The star of the show however is their signature dish: slow roasted shoulder of lamb. It’s tender and juicy, has been marinated in shawarma spices and is sprinkled with pomegranate seeds and pistachios.

It’s a very pleasant spot overall in an area filled with chains catering to City workers.

Ceru is open till January 2016.

Reviewed by Leila anonymously
Published on Nov 27, 2015


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