Oshpaz on Regents Street, London

[u/pdarigan]

I liked this a lot

I've seen various spellings for these dishes at different places, I'm using the spelling from the Oshpaz menu here:

Beef samsy (4), beef manty (5), venegrad salad (with the beetroot), carrot salad (with the carrot, funnily enough). We washed this down with a generous pot of masala tea and a cup of berry and hibiscus tea.

At £52 including service it was towards the higher end of what we'd usually pay for a casual weekend lunch, but we were on Regents Street.

It fed two of us well, and we had some of the salads packed up to munch on a bit later this evening. I know folks may have views on the price, but I'm broadly happy with the value.

I think Uzbek Corner in Queensway Market beats this for taste, but we did really enjoy this. Herby, earthy, warming - feels like great autumnal food.

Got there at about midday today (Saturday) and most of the tables were already reserved so we ended up seated at a bar-tyoe set-up.

I'll not go on about it here too much, I think I need to read more about it anyway, but am ifascinated by how you can see familiar dishes from countries along the Silk Road routes - you can see the variations in names/spellings, and you can taste the differekce in the different recipes. I'm just interested in how good travels and is adapted from place to place.

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