What's on the menu at new NW8 restaurant, Johnny Green

The interior’s not hugely different from its last incarnation — light bright and airy. The menu also bears some similarities. Starters include a range of salads, some fried treats (including croquettes and haloumi fries) and roasted veggies; mains are divided between plant-based dishes, fish and meat and desserts range from sticky toffee pudding and cold brew tiramisu to a lighter BBQ pineapple.

We kicked off with a fig, chicory and blue cheese salad and a less saintly plate of halloumi fries on a schmear of lemon and mint yoghurt and showered with Insta-friendly pomegranate arils.

What Mr P’s main course vegan chorizo fried rice lacked in elegance it made up for with punchy flavour. My seared tuna on a white bean and avo puree was the fashion victim — accessorised with Barbie-forward ribbons of cute pink and white striped candy beetroot.

We shared a Mars bar cheesecake – maybe inspired by the planet rather than the bar as what arrived was deconstructed to a shiny chocolate-coated, cheesecake filled sphere on a pile of deeply dark, biscuit crumbs.

Our waiter — moonlighting from his day job as a kick boxer — was cheerfully efficient, although, he had plenty of time with the room being on the quiet side. Perhaps it’s early days as we shared the large room with only a few tables of families and couples.

It’s fresh and fun — I’d head back for lunch or brunch and expect the SJW fraternity will pop in for a latte-fuelled gossip or to and would be happy to have it as my local. The sort of place you’d pop to on a whim when you didn’t fancy cooking dinner.

Johnny Green

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