New Featured Article - Abeno, WC1A 1LY

[katstevens]

Afternoon everyone!

Our featured article this week is for the excellent Abeno, WC1A 1LY, a small Japanese restaurant near the British Museum, specialising in okonomi-yaki. This is a sort of omelette that the staff cook in front of you on a hot plate, and I can confirm it is delicious (though it seems they no longer have the intellectual-property-defying OLYMPIC mix on the menu).

There's a brand new article for a brand new pub, in the shape of the Forest Tavern, in Forest Gate. Well, brand new might be pushing it - it's a revamp of the old Railway Tavern. It probably won't surprise you that it's part of the Antic chain, and as a result is pretty similar to its siblings in Forest Hill, Leytonstone and other places I am failing to buy a flat in. In further Antic news, Jam Circus, their pub in Brockley, is finally going to be reopening in November following a fire last year.

Sadly there's also a pub closure to report. according to their website, the Pakenham Arms in Clerkenwell has been sold off, mirroring the fate of the Royal Mail sorting office opposite. We've many happy evenings there, and are sad to see it go.

Comments

[kake]

I still haven't had okinomiyaki in London, as far as I can remember. (I had it in Oxford several years ago.)

We do have a page for the Pakenham Arms! It's just that the search isn't (yet) clever enough to pick up misspellings.

[katstevens]

I thought it was a bit odd we didn't have it! Oh dear, I should have got the correct spelling from their website really - will amend the article the post!

[kake]

I do have some code to write that will hopefully make the search more clever in this regard...

[shuripentu]

Ooh, thank you for highlighting Abeno – there aren't many restaurants I can eat freely at, but Abeno's ingredient sourcing makes them one of the select few, and I didn't know about them before. :D