Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Cafe Tramp Opening Next Week
Cafe Tramp 361 Green Lanes, Harringay
Cafe Tramp owner Haldun Ozdemir has kept us all on the edge of our seats for the best part of two years. Some people even doubted that it would ever open, but all of us have been watching developments with great hopes of things to come.
Believe it or not, the opening day is almost upon us! After an invite only launch event on Monday, Haldun and the team will open their doors to the public on Tuesday next week.
The work Haldun has put into the fabric of this venue is staggering. Every part is hand-crafted, very often from painstakingly picked architectural salvage items. The ceiling is salvage from a burnt-out pub on the Edgware Road. Tiling in the loos was uncovered and saved from a large house being demolished just off the Seven Sisters Road. The sinks are decorated Victorian gems. Everywhere you look is a feast for the eyes. And that's just the venue.
It seems like we're in for a treat with the food as well. Dinner will be served seven days a week with brunch at the weekends. Although I've yet to sample the full menu, I was invited to a tasting where chef Tushar Sakpal made a range of dishes and showed his skills. I was impressed. Here's a sample from the main menu that will be available from next week:
Starters
Wild mushroom & chorizo croquettes
Octopus, red wine, capers & Dill Aioli
Prawn, ricotta cheese ravioi with tarragon
Seabass carpaccio
Mussels in wine tomato emulsion and sourdough
Soup
Tramp Bouillabaisse
Potato & leek soup with caramelized onion and parley drizzle
Salad
Buffallo mozzarella, slow cooked squash with almond chips, fennel green leaves
Baby gem salad with shallots, thyme and parsley
Main
Seabass with sauce vierge & root vegetables
Duck breast with carrots & citrus star anise sauce
Beef steak with salsa verde
Langoustine with parsley, mint, yuzu drizzle
Asparagus langoustine risotto, tomato petals
Dessert
Tarte tartin
Fig crumble with vanilla ice cream
And to cap this, Haldun has an ace barman in the team who will make you any cocktail you choose!
It will be a week or two before the upstairs space opens whilst planning is finalised, but that's a great space too.
All the very best of luck the the Cafe Tramp Crew.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Dessert prices £8!? At an italian restaurant on River Thames last night, stunning tiramisu for £7 ... and a view of the Tower Bridge all lit up for good measure. A view of McDonalds 24hr Drive-in probably wouldn't help with digesting an £8 dessert :)
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Permalink Reply by Gus Alston on
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This place truly is stunning and worth a visit just to enjoy the interior (and particularly the downstairs toilet!). However, went in with some friends the other day just for drinks, and was fairly obvious they didn't understand any of the cocktails offered and service was chaotic, despite loads of staff! First time I've ever been served a Martini with ice in it, and at these prices they're gonna have to do a lot better! Like others, I hope they get it sorted!
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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Blunt on
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A simple start would be to make their croquettes much smaller. Ours were lukewarm in the middle rather than frozen, but cork-size rather than tennis-ball size would solve the problem and increase the proportion of hot crunch to mashed potato.
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Permalink Reply by Robin2 on
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posting this here too as I only saw the link after putting it in the other thread...
We went on Saturday and I wasn't very impressed tbh.
The look of the place is probably the best thing about it.
There were a lot of staff - possibly too many - but I'd only describe one of them as suitably friendly and competent, the rest varied from businesslike-but-not-very-warm to fairly useless. Two of our side dishes didn't arrive at the first time of asking and when I asked for another glass of wine I was brought an empty wine glass - I'm still trying to work out what that particular waiter thought I wanted it for!
As for the food, my steak was lukewarm at best, and the mixed leaf salad had a very strong dressing, something which I thought was mercifully out of fashion these days.
And the music was the cheesiest form of 80s elevator music until they admittedly improved things with what sounded like Pavarotti which at least felt more appropriate.
Lastly they add the 'discretionary' service on automatically, which I never like, and not at the customary 10% but 12%...
The owner was there entertaining a couple of female friends, and I thought he missed a trick not at least coming round and very informally saying hello and asking how we were finding things.
Better food, service and atmosphere is available locally at much cheaper prices so i think they have work to do... if you're still curious check it out yourself before taking friends/family there...
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