Review
Me and the wife dropped in Sunday lunchtime for a cheap meal.
First up - the good things. Food is fast, service is more than passable, brown pita bread is terrific and we left quite full for £13.
The bad things. After the spiels on the toilet wall (one for everyone) and on the table mats about the owners' long experimentation on hummus recipes, the stuff itself is disasterous.
Obliterated by tahini (the sesame seed flavour in hummus), distinctly lacking in the other typical taste components (chickpea, salt, lemon, garlic/herbs) and pureed unmercifully, I've honestly had far superior stuff out of cans from Middle East grocery stores.
The idea of using hummus as a base for toppings is good, but really not recommendable for stewed mushrooms (tasteless; thin brown stewing liquid blends unattractively with hummus) or the guacamole (bland! How!?! It's guacamole!!).
We poured on the salt, pepper and lemon supplied but to no avail and left as quickly as possible, with two things in mind: the feeling that no one else seemed to be getting into the food; and the question of how did they get the hummus, a truly great food invention, so wrong?
I can only suggest that Time Out has another go at reviewing because, even at £13 for 2 people, I still somehow felt ripped off.
Rated on 14 Apr 2008
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