On a cold october evening, what is more welcoming than a restaurant that has log fire, low beamed ceilings, rustic tables and chairs and a warm ambience. You can find all this at Mangal 1.1 based in Shoreditch at The Comedy Cafe and Bedroom Bar at 68 Rivington St London, Greater London EC2A 3AY
The restaurant serves middle Eastern Cuisine. A variety of kebabs cooked on charcoal grills all served with warm bread and salads are a favorite with non vegetarians. The vegetarians can easily enjoy the fresh Mediterranean salads and vegetarian meze dishes and falafels.
My friend Heidi and I had the opportunity to sample the food at Mangal 1.1.We started off with some juices to wet our appetites and than munched on fresh bread served with Hummus a dip made with chickpeas, tahini, garlic and lemon juice, Cacik a dip made with cucumber and yoghurt, Ezme a salad of finely chopped vegetables and herbs and Patlican salad made with grilled aubergine and chopped peppers.
All the dips with the hot bread were really delicious and a perfect start to the meal. I could have easily munched through another plate of these delicious salads and dips instead of the main course.
For our main course Heidi had the lamb shish, marinated cubes of lamb grilled on skewers served with a green us salad, she said it was delicious.
Being a vegetarian, there were only two options to choose from; the Falafel deep fried chickpea balls or the Sebzeli Guvec which was a dish made with courgettes, aubergine, potato, green and red peppers with mozzarella cheese.
I was offered the Falafel which was served with salad and Hummus. The falafel were a little dry for my taste, I guess this was probably from the double frying.
For dessert we shared a plate of baklava, a sweet nut filling encased in filo pastry and drenched in sugar syrup all washed down with filter coffee. Baklava were delicious and had a very authentic flavour.
Mangal 1.1 is the perfect place to grab a quick meal after work whilst in London.
Heidi and I were invited to the Mangal 1.1 as guests to try out their food, all the views and opinions in this post are of my own experience.
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OMG that looks delicious, especially the baklava! Shoreditch is so easy for me to get to, will definitely have to check it out.
This is my favourite kind of food, and all those dips and bread look incredible. I'm hungry now!
This looks so lovely! Great to see a place with nice food and a warming atmosphere too x
That looks the ideal way to enjoy a kebab. So much better than as late night post drinks munchies. The dips and bread would be right up my street.
Mmmm that baklava! All those dips and breads look lovely too x
all platter looks delicious.
Looks lovely!
The restaurant, with the open fire, looks so cosy and the food looks gorgeous.
Looks really nice!
Ashleigh