london
The Palomar
• Middle-Eastern• Soho
About the restaurant
The Palomar was among the first wave of restaurants to make full use of small dining rooms with a bar counter wrapped around its open kitchen, making it perfect for a quick lunch or a date night. It’s always popular, so be prepared to queue if you haven’t snagged a reservation.
The restaurant was founded by Layo and Zoë Paskin, who started in nightlife and events before turning their hands to restaurants. After the success of The Palomar, they later expanded their restaurant empire with the additions of The Barbary, The Blue Posts and Evelyn’s Table, all in and around Soho.
The food here is inspired by classic dishes of Tel Aviv and elsewhere in Israel, and also informed more broadly by the vibrant food culture and common dishes of the Levant and the Eastern Mediterranean. Expect incredible falafel, fattoush salad, pillowy-soft flatbreads and grilled meats.
Reviews from the Web
Critic reviews
The Infatuation
This small restaurant in Soho has a certain energy that you’ll feel the moment you walk in the room.
The Guardian
The London outpost of a five-strong, achingly hip restaurant group in Jerusalem – serves lovely food. It pulls on the traditions of the Mediterranean fringes without being overwhelmed by them, and it does so with a vigour and enthusiasm which are so utterly infectious that even this professional misanthrope had to get with the project.
Standard
I enjoy the concept of ‘hot’ London restaurants because the title befalls venues for the most random and incoherent of reasons.
The Telegraph
As you enter, the kitchen crowds the space, hot and noisy. It’s all a bit sudden.
The Independent
For this London venture, Machneyuda's founders have teamed up with two London siblings who used to run a nightclub called The End. The result is a Jewish restaurant which is unorthodox in every sense.
Time Out
Fantastic modern-Israeli food, pulse-quickening dance music and a warm family atmosphere at the West End’s most unlikely bar-restaurant of the moment.
The Nudge
Take a stool at the 16-foot polished zinc bar overlooking the chefs and watch as they prepare orders to the over-bar-banter specifications they’ll unfailingly make you dish out.
- 34 Rupert St
- W1D 6DN
- London
- +44 20 7439 8777
- Visit website
