Yotam Ottolenghi to open Chelsea deli in 2022

Yotam Ottolenghi is to launch one of his largest delis yet, on Pavilion Road in London’s Chelsea, in January 2022.

The site will open early for coffee, pastries and breakfast seven days a week and will close in the early evening.

As with the chef’s other restaurants, it will feature a large communal table, salad bar and freshly-made pastries displayed in the window.

The kitchen will serve a menu of signature Ottolenghi hot dishes every morning, such as scrambled eggs with London cured salmon, focaccia, mixed leaves and crème fraiche; and French toast with mixed berry jam and orange yoghurt.

From 11am the restaurant will offer daily changing salads such as roasted sweet potato with lime and cardamom sauce; and mains including grilled Loch-Duart salmon with tartare sauce and sweet potato, chard and cashew nut fritter with red hummus.

Constantly rotating bakes will include a caramelised white chocolate and macadamia cookie or tangerine and pistachio mini loaf with yuzu icing.

Ottolenghi opened his first new deli in six years, in London’s Marylebone, last summer. The chef’s restaurant group runs seven London sites, including the Nopi restaurant in Soho.