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The founders of recently-closed Hackney restaurant Papi will be opening a brand new pub and dining room on Green Lanes this spring.
The Golden Tooth will be opening in the space formerly known as The Leconfield, at the Newington Green end of north London’s epic Green Lanes.
The opening menu will include Sunday roasts, as well as bar snacks of currywurst, fried ox tongue or Bedfordshire clanger with a Thai-style gooseberry jam, mussels Toast with house lardo and endless oysters. The restaurant will offer veal sweetbread saltimbocca, Montgomery cheese puffs with sungold tomato ketchup and steak tartare with lacto cep and mushroom crackers, as well as turbot tranche with raw crème fraîche and grilled peas, old spot pork chop with quince, and kid goat chop with ezme salad.
The pub will open on April 24, and be split into a 55-cover dining room and pub space for more casual drinking and the scoffing of bar snacks. Food will be served Wed-Sun.
Matthew Scott and Charlie Carr previously ran Papi by London Fields, which closed down earlier this year. The former Papi site at 373 Mentmore Terrace is now in the capable hands of chef Michael Bagnall, who is also in charge of the Elm pop-up at Peckham’s Montpelier pub. Known as Auguste, dishes here are inspired by Bagnall’s time living in Abruzzo, with skewers of cull yaw, liver and wild boar on offer, as well as stuffed cappelletti pasta in lamb brodo.
Speaking about the new opening, Matthew Scott said: ‘My journey started in East End pubs hosting kitchen residencies with Hot 4 U, so to now be returning feels like a full circle moment and one where we can finally reach our potential. Our food offering is bold, generous and rooted in closed-loop cooking and sustainability, with in-house butchery at the core. We want to honour the pub itself - a real public house steeped in history - dog-friendly, Guinness on tap, the best roasts and most importantly, a place for the community. It will be the same Papi spirit, just sharper, more considered, and with the full autonomy it deserves’.
Papi was known for its playful energy, and menu of great looking seasonal stuff on sharing plates. Hot 4 U staged kitchen takeovers of esteemed Hackney boozers The Plough, Prince Arthur and The Haggerston before Papi launched.
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