Restaurant Review – Morito, Exmouth Market
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It also stands for Moro, of which it is an offshoot, which I love but visit rarely. We love a restaurant that doesn't rest on its laurels and despite its popularity Morito continues to deliver new, exciting menus. The London Foodie, October Morito is my latest foodie discovery in London.
The food is beautifully made, bursting with flavour with some super fresh, top quality ingredients that really shine through.
Very well priced, it is also not going to break the bank. This is a gem of a place, and I cannot wait to return. Eat Like a Girl, September Morito is one of my favourite restaurants in London. Cosied up next to big brother Moro next door, Morito is a glam little Morito exmouth market reviews bar, serving authentic and delicious tapas, often with a Moorish twist, and great wines and sherry too.
I am often found there nursing a glass of my favourite Basque white wine Txacoli. The format of Morito is essentially a relaxed tapas bar. For me, it is the perfect place to eat: There are many plus points about living a short walk from Exmouth Market, and the proximity of Morito is surely one of them.
The husband and wife team Sam and Sam Clarke who have run the successful restaurant Moro for 15 morito exmouth market reviews opened a baby sibling next door nearly two years ago. It espouses the Moorish cooking to which the Clarkes introduced London, with an emphasis on the Spanish style of eating. Meat eaters will like the slow roast pork belly with cumin and lemon, or the butifarra sausage with white beans and alioli.
It was one of those recent rainy days this week with hot sun in the afternoon, so sitting outside with a glass of ice cold fino to accompany was just the ticket. Sugar Street Review, May 10 Sam and Sam Clark really are the Midases of the London restaurant scene. Again, it may be slightly tenuous to include what is, in essence, a Spanish tapas bar here, but, like its elder sibling, Morito is heavily influenced and inspired morito exmouth market reviews the morito exmouth market reviews of the Middle East.
Enthused, slightly tipsy chatter oscillates with almost perfect synchronicity, as dish after dish flies out of the kitchen, each as delectable as the last. Time Out London, October 20 Eating here is like being transported straight to a tapas bar in Spain The cooking is superb and the well-chosen all-Spanish wines are worthy of investigation - don't miss the sherries.
There's little to the design beyond wipe-clean orange surfaces and a central bar behind which the chefs work, plus a smattering of small tables and stools around the sides. The focus is firmly on the food - and what food.
Andalusian-style ajo blanco, made with fine-ground almonds and spiked with sherry vinegar, was silky smooth, served Malaga-style with a few sweet muscat grapes. The richness of chicharrones made from slow-cooked pork belly that is then cooked until crisp on the plancha grillwas cut with cumin and morito exmouth market reviews. Slices of crisp-fried morito exmouth market reviews, topped with Spanish molasses, skillfully blended savoury and sweet, as did salt cod salad with pine nuts, dill and sweet orange.
John Lanchester, The Guardian, January 8 Morito is a tapas bar right next door to the famously successful Moro in Clerkenwell. The cooking is excellent and the list of hits I had was almost as long as the list of dishes I tried — and it was a long list. I'll get back to that. Salad of chopped octopus; lamb chops flavoured with morito exmouth market reviews a beetroot dish that was like a hummus made out of borscht and spiked with feta and walnuts — that was great, and I say that as someone who doesn't like beetroot.
The two stars of the meal were chiccarones — small squares of pork belly, again flavoured with cumin — and fried chickpeas, recommended by the waiter, which came with chopped tomatoes, chilli and coriander, and were a spicy, crunchy, compulsive treat. In total, three of us shared 14 dishes. That may sound a lot, but it wasn't, morito exmouth market reviews the portions are small. If I were local morito exmouth market reviews Morito, which I'm unfortunately not, I'd be tempted to use it more morito exmouth market reviews a quick-drink-and-bite-after-work Spanish style than in a full-meal-of-tapas British manner.
Spanish wine has been improving at an astonishing rate for two decades, and the list at Morito reflects that; it also gives you a chance to reacquaint with the fact that sherry is the best-value great wine in the world. The wines are served in chunky tumblers rather than in glasses. I don't like that, and your grumpy old relative won't like it, either — what's the point of serving good wine and then diminishing the experience of tasting it?
There's no booking at Morito, which is tapas-bar authentic, but can mean that you might be in for a wait. I went at morito exmouth market reviews, on purpose, because I wanted to avoid the evening rush. I'm told they get slammed; I can believe it. Giles Coren, The Times, December 11 No, no, come back. Actually, we will have them, put them back on.
And can we get three sherries morito exmouth market reviews And he plonks down a carafe of tap morito exmouth market reviews three glasses and then comes back a couple of minutes later with three ice-frosted schooners of La Guita manzanilla. And then the food starts coming: Not just the stand-out but the stand-up dish, as in stand up and applaud: The very best way to eat pasta: And then coffee and baklava and a very modest bill and loud goodbyes and out into the smoky cold of a London afternoon, south back to work in town for my pals, and north to the green reaches of Kentish Town for me, for a well-earned siesta.
It was more enjoyable eating here than in many restaurants costing three times as much. Go early, go late. There are few places worth waiting for but Morito is one. The cooking is excellent and the list of hits I had was almost as long as the list of dishes I tried morito exmouth market reviews and it was a long list; read morito exmouth market reviews.
