Petek

Time Out says

Mon Jul 2 2012

Out of the way for much of London, Petek depends on enthusiastic local trade – and our busy visit suggests it’s pitching things just right. Gorgeous warm bread appeared with a spicy red dip and fat olives, to settle stomachs upset by the torment of choice. The list of cocktails fluttered its eyelashes at anyone keen to make a night of it. And, above all, our waitress was charming and efficient – even when calmly correcting a mistake we’d made over our wine order.

As on previous visits, the food arrived in industrial quantities. A huge ‘Petek special’ was the pick of our most recent meal: three unctuous meats (charcoal-grilled chicken cubes, and lamb done two ways, as shish köfte and cubed), a dome of tasty rice, mixed salad with pomegranate sauce, and lemon mayonnaise. The ‘vegetarian kebab salad’, which proved to be a neat combination of feta, grilled halloumi, peppers, rocket and spinach, only disappointed with its chewy overcooked portobello mushrooms.

Beneath a hundred multicoloured ceiling lamps, and with simple tea-lights on each table, Petek conjures up an atmospheric night out.