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We were, frankly, gutted when Black Axe Mangal closed its legendary Highbury restaurant at the end of last year.
So you can only imagine how chuffed we are to hear that Lee and Kate Tiernan of the cult grillhouse will be returning for two special dates at Dalston’s Dusty Knuckle bakery next month.
On May 21 and 22, they’ll be hosting a ‘two-night blowout’, cooking up the likes of Sichuan-spiced potted pork, pickled cucumbers with Dusty Knuckle linseed baguette, grilled chicken coconut laksa and panna cotta with pink lemonade jelly and yuzu granita (with veggie alternatives available). ‘This is going to be loud, messy, emotional and absolutely delicious,’ they say.
The event will be taking place outside the bakery on their al fresco decking area, and tickets cost £60 each. There will also be two seatings for each evening (at 6pm and 8.30pm), meaning double the chance to get a ticket before they all sell out (which they will). There will also be drinks specials for the evenings.
The original Black Axe Mangal showcased incredible cookery from Lee (who was previously head chef of St John Bread and Wine). If you wanted Turkish grill-inspired nose to tail cooking, such as squid ink and cod’s roe flatbread, charred hispi cabbage with fermented shrimp butter and crispy rabbit, BAM was the place to go.
This is the latest in Dusty Knuckle’s ‘Dusty Dinners’ series, in which the east London bakery teams up with some of the best chefs in town for special, slap-up meals. Previous Dusty Dinner collabs have come from heroic Stoke Newington corner shop Londis N16, Malaysian restaurant Roti King, Jago Rackham of Ecstasy Cookbook and Jake Bucknall of south London’s Dinner for One Hundred.
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