Jake Finn to open Cinder in Belsize Village
Called Cinder, the restaurant will serve a menu of dishes where ingredients have been cooked on a Josper grill, with dishes grills taking influences from Peru, Japan, Italy, France and Greece.
Menu items will include seared tuna, black beer ponzu, radish and spring onion; lamb kebabs marinated in yoghurt, maple syrup, oregano and sage; and grilled mastelo cheese with kalamata glaze and oregano. There will also be sharing dishes for two, such as whole sea bream, fennel, radish and herbs; and a dessert of apple tarte fine with vanilla cream.
“There is nothing purer that cooking food over fire. I’ve been obsessed with BBQ and cooking over grills since I was little,” says Finn.
“But for me it’s unadulterated cooking, food as it was intended to be eaten. At Cinder, I’m pushing that out but also bringing some ‘chefiness’ into the proceedings with sauces, reductions, stocks, and killer sides. It’s a dream come true.”
Finn, who has worked at London restaurants including La Petite Maison, Coya and The Ritz, had intended to open Cinder last May, but instead created a home delivery service when lockdown restrictions were put in place.
The 16-cover restaurant will have additional seating for 16 outside, meaning that it can open for outside dining from 12 April. As such, Cinder will open on 20 April, with inside dining set to commence from 18 May restrictions permitting.
