Chishuru to open in Fitzrovia next month
Dubbed Chishuru 2.0, the Fitzrovia restaurant will open on 18 September and serve a set menu only format.
Menus will cost £35 per person for lunch and £65 at dinner with dishes on the launch menu to include fermented rice cake with white and brown crab meat, and pumpkin purée; beef shin broth, kale, corn tofu; cassava fritter, maitake mushroom, uda mayonnaise; cod fillet with spiced black sauce, wilted greens; quail stuffed with forcemeat with taro root, ehuru and uziza sauce; and grilled Chinese cabbage stuffed with caramelised shallots, utazi leaf, wild watermelon seed sauce.
Menus will change regularly with the restaurant saying it will be able to publish current menus on its website once it has been open for a week or two.
Its wine list will exclusively feature wines from small French producers and it will also serve a short list of cocktails made using west African ingredients where possible.
Bakare opened Chishuru in Brighton Village’s Market Row in 2020 after winning a competition run by Brixton Village owner Hondo Enterprises the previous year.
She first revealed she was looking to relocate the restaurant in September 2022, with it closing a month later. She then announced in March this year that she had found a new location close to Oxford Circus.
Since the Brixton site closed, she has operated pop-ups at Quality Wines, Carousel, 180 The Strand and most recently the Globe Tavern in Borough Market.
