Pine-smoked salmon
Fennel and apple salad, citrus butter sauce.
£24
Seasonal Aegean-Anatolian cooking
Aegean mornings, Anatolian evenings.
A neighbourhood kitchen on a side street in Stoke Newington, cooking at the same stove since 2014. We rewrite the menu each season around what our growers bring in, and keep the door open from the first pot of tea to the last glass of wine.
Fig. 01Sunday morning: breakfast for two at a garden table.
Our story
Fig. 02The dining room, just before dinner service.
A neighbourhood kitchen, twelve years on the same street.
Kiraz Kitchen opened in the spring of 2014 as an eight-table breakfast room. Kiraz is Turkish for cherry, and the name comes from the old cherry tree in the back garden. It is still there, and every June its fruit goes into our jam.
These days we open for lunch and dinner too, but the way we work hasn't changed. We buy from people we know, cook with a few good ingredients and take our time. The sourdough is mixed and baked here every morning.
- 2014our first morning in N16
- 42seats inside and in the garden
- 14growers, from Kent to the Aegean
Elif and Kerem AralFounders
Plates of the season
The kitchen's autumn favourites.
Six plates we keep coming back to this month. Drag the cards or use the arrows to look through them.
Meze table
Six meze of the day, flatbread from the grill and Ayvalık olive oil.
£21
Urla artichoke
Broad beans, spring onion and dill; lemon and olive oil dressing.
£11
Breakfast in the pan
Buttery menemen, grilled sucuk, kaymak and wildflower honey.
£15.50
From the coast
Grilled prawns, squid, beef fillet and a green salad.
£46
Filter coffee
The single-origin bean of the week, brewed slowly on a V60.
£4.50
In the kitchen
Everything I put on a plate has an address. I won't cook with an olive oil until I know which trees it came from, or a cheese until I know which hills the sheep grazed on.
Deniz AralHead chef and co-founder
Grew up in İzmir and started out washing pots in a hotel kitchen in Alaçatı. After some years in Lyon and Copenhagen, Deniz settled in London and now writes the menu every month with the people who grow our food.
- AyvalıkEarly-harvest olive oil
- UrlaArtichokes and vine leaves
- KarsAged kaşar and gruyère
- KentLamb, apples and cobnuts
Reservations
Book your table.
Weekend breakfast and Friday nights fill up early. Send us a request and we'll ring you within half an hour to confirm.
For groups of more than eight, please call us: 020 7946 0142
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Gallery
Kiraz, in pictures
Guest book
Kind words
We came for Sunday breakfast and ended up wishing we could stay for dinner. I'm still thinking about the menemen, and our tea glasses were never empty for long.
The lamb shank was spot on, and our waiter really knew the wine list. It's now our favourite place for dinner in north London.
I don't know anywhere else that cooks artichokes with this much care. Sensible portions, and the service is calm and friendly.
We booked a table for ten for my mum's birthday. They'd thought of everything, and a candle turned up on her pudding without us having to ask.
Proper coffee and homemade cakes. On a weekday afternoon with a book, it's the quietest corner in the neighbourhood.
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Hours and address
If you're ever in N16, come and eat.
- Tuesday - Friday
- 8.30am - 11pm
- Saturday - Sunday
- 9am - 11.30pm
- Monday
- Closed
Address
7 Albion Row, Stoke Newington, London N16 8LE
Ten minutes' walk from Stoke Newington Overground station. The 73 and 476 buses stop at the end of the road.
Kiraz Kitchen