Berenjak London

Have you ever raw dogged a ghormeh sabzi?
No tv, music or Instagram, no human interaction. Just a straight up order for a doogh and this unique khoresht, torshi mixed in to cut through the fatty lamb then all washed down with the fizzy and salty yoghurt drink. LMK

Berenjak. Dubai. Michelin. Bib. 🤝🏽

£3700.00 raised for children in Palestine with our brothers from 🤍

It fills my heart when I see the turnout to these events, you really turn up and I love you all for that. It was also fu***ng busy!
For the first time in a long time, I had to actually do some work, at the last minute we noticed that we probably needed another pair of hands in the kitchen wrapping the sandwiches. I was actually planning on swanning around for three hours, mingling and taking photos but the universe had other plans for me.
What happened next was all a blur, I may have even sent a sandwich out without a lid (sorry if this was you and you’re reading this).

Anyway, a million times thank you and I hope to see you at the collab this Friday! 🍔

£3700.00 raised for children in Palestine with our brothers from rascals 🤍

It fills my heart when I see the turnout to these events, you really turn up and I love you all for that. It was also fu***ng busy!
For the first time in a long time, I had to actually do some work, at the last minute we noticed that we probably needed another pair of hands in the kitchen wrapping the sandwiches. I was actually planning on swanning around for three hours, mingling and taking photos but the universe had other plans for me.
What happened next was all a blur, I may have even sent a sandwich out without a lid (sorry if this was you and you’re reading this).

Anyway, a million times thank you and I hope to see you at the collab this Friday! 🍔

£3700.00 raised for children in Palestine with our brothers from 🤍

It fills my heart when I see the turnout to these events, you really turn up and I love you all for that. It was also so fu***ng busy!
For the first time in a long time, I had to actually do some work, at the last minute we noticed that we probably needed another pair of hands in the kitchen wrapping the sandwiches. I was actually planning on swanning around for three hours, mingling and taking photos but the universe had other plans for me.
What happened next was all a blur, I may have even sent a sandwich out without a lid (sorry if this was you and you’re reading this).

Anyway, a million times thank you and I hope to see you at the collab this Friday! 🍔

🚨 Berenjak @ Bleecker 🚨
One Night Only • 5th July • 17:30
All profits going to the children of Gaza ❤️🖤🤍💚

🚨 Berenjak @ Bleecker 🚨
One Night Only • 5th July • 17:30
All profits going to the children of Gaza ❤️🖤🤍💚

Handsome faces of Sharjah 😍
Ladies, pick your fighter 🥊

Growing up I never used to like Zereshk Polow, I didn’t understand why you’d sweeten a savoury meal, combined with being force-fed khoresht and rice every day of my childhood it eventually pushed me away. It was as if I was a duck being plumped up and readied to donate my liver as some sort of delicacy for the annual Nowruz get-together, believe me when I say I must’ve gone nine or ten years without eating Persian food unless it was a family gathering or an impromptu visit to my family home.

But like many second generations (not just Iranian btw) I speak to that are in their late 20’s/early 30’s, I came to realise that at some point something caused a little switch in our heads to flicker, and our mindsets have since shifted, we went from being embarrassed and secretive to curious and eventually proud of our origins.

I want to tell you more about how poorly information is passed down to us from our elders but I’m conscious I’ll lose your attention if I haven’t already, so I’ll save it for another time and cut to the chase -
I now love Zereshk Polow, it reminds me of home and if I ever miss my parents or crave a homely meal I’ll head straight to the restaurant and scratch that itch, immediately feeling reconnected.

My go to order: Jujeh Kabab, House Rice, Shirazi Salad and Khiarshoor, go try it and thank me later.

Growing up I never used to like Zereshk Polow, I didn’t understand why you’d sweeten a savoury meal, combined with being force-fed khoresht and rice every day of my childhood it eventually pushed me away. It was as if I was a duck being plumped up and readied to donate my liver as some sort of delicacy for the annual Nowruz get-together, believe me when I say I must’ve gone nine or ten years without eating Persian food unless it was a family gathering or an impromptu visit to my family home.

But like many second generations (not just Iranian btw) I speak to that are in their late 20’s/early 30’s, I came to realise that at some point something caused a little switch in our heads to flicker, and our mindsets have since shifted, we went from being embarrassed and secretive to curious and eventually proud of our origins.

I want to tell you more about how poorly information is passed down to us from our elders but I’m conscious I’ll lose your attention if I haven’t already, so I’ll save it for another time and cut to the chase -
I now love Zereshk Polow, it reminds me of home and if I ever miss my parents or crave a homely meal I’ll head straight to the restaurant and scratch that itch, immediately feeling reconnected. My go to order: Jujeh Kabab, House Rice, Shirazi Salad and Khiarshoor, go try it and thank me later.

⚽ WORLD CUP AT BERENJAK BOROUGH ⚽

With just a few weeks to go until kick off, there’s still time to plan the ultimate viewing party with us. We’re taking bookings for our upstairs area at Borough (where we’ve got a screen), so you can catch all the action whilst enjoying a feast of kababs + mazeh.

Link to enquire is in our bio. The upstairs area is best suited for groups of 14+, but get in touch no matter your group size and we’ll see what we can do 💥

LUNCHES @ BOROUGH

Midday kababs are now on the agenda south of the river: from next week, we’ll be open for Tuesday - Saturday lunches at Borough.

Bookings now available via the link in our bio, space also saved for walk-ins 💥

Just leaving this here…