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Opening times Monday 8am – 5pm Tuesday 8am – 6pm Wednesday and Thursday 8am – 10pm Friday 8am – 11pm Saturday 9am – 11pm Sunday 10am – 5pm Last food orders half an hour before closing each day Book a table on 020 7263 5289, email here to book online WALNUT café and dining room in Finsbury Park is run with passion by local chef Emma Duggan and offers a variety of delicious drinks and dishes with a British and European influence.

Find WALNUT in the corner of John Jones’ The Arts Building on Stroud Green Road, N4 – the great cafe and dining room in Finsbury Park to pop in to munch brunch or lunch, grab coffee and a cheeky cake or linger over dinner.

Fans of food, wine and dining out, Emma and her experienced team aim to create a welcoming place where they would enjoy spending time with friends and you are all invited – bring the dog and the kids!

VENUE HIRE AND OUTSIDE CATERING The close proximity of WALNUT to Finsbury Park Station makes it a great space to hire for private party for local London friends or a wedding ‘do’ bringing friends together from far and wide.

Get in touch with Chef Emma or a member of the team to discuss your requirements and menus – from sitting down with 40 friends or colleagues for dinner to 80 stand for drinks and canapes.

https://walnutdining.co.uk

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Restaurant review, The Walnut Tree, Thwaite

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We tried out the vegan and vegetarian offerings at this mid-Suffolk pub.

I visited The Veggie Red Lion in Great Bricett several times when it was owned by Jan, and was really interested to see what the food would be like at her new vegetarian pub on the main drag to Norwich.

Covered in a coating of golden panko crumbs, I expected something akin to a falafel inside, but actually found expertly seasoned mash, slivers of saline seaweed, crushed and whole chickpeas, brought together with a touch of lemon and dill.

Rach’s special saw a dish filled to the brim with edamame beans, squash, cashews and mushrooms in a light cider sauce, topped with a burnished puffed pastry lid.

Inside super crispy pastry (no soggy bottom) was a huge garlic butter roasted field mushroom, seasoned spinach and a slab of melting blue brie, all with a peppery white wine sauce on the side.

Walnut in Finsbury Park has an ex-Angela Hartnett chef running the ...

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Summing it all up: After 25 years working for Gordon Ramsay and Angela Hartnett, chef Emma Duggan is going solo with this restaurant on Stroud Green Road, just north of Finsbury Park station There aren't many new neighbourhood openings who can attract a Michelin-starred chef to their launch party, unless that top chef happens to be their mentor.

That was the case with new Finsbury Park spot Walnut.

Running it is Emma Duggan whose CV is pretty impressive - having clocked up 25 years working in the kitchens for the likes of Gordon Ramsay, Angela Hartnett, and most recently for Oliver Peyton at the Wallace Collection and Inn the Park (St James’ Park).

Hartnett appointed Duggan as Head Chef at the Whitechapel Gallery Dining Room and also gave her a stint at Café Murano and Pastificio in Covent Garden too.

Opening hours are Monday 7:30-17:00 Tuesday to Friday 7:30-23:00; Saturday 9:00-23:00 and Sunday 10:00-17:00 Find out more: Visit their website or follow them on Twitter @Walnut_Dining

Walnut Cafe & Dining restaurant review: The new face of Finsbury ...

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The Cardiff man accused of driving a van into people outside the Muslim Welfare House near Finsbury Park Mosque last week may have been acting on out-of-date information.

The Park Theatre opened in 2013;  Blake College of Art and Design moved in a couple of years ago; there’s a University of the Arts hall of residence, Sketch House;  and the John Jones Arts Building, on six floors, impressively redeveloped in 2014 by the leading firm of  framers and restoration experts, hosts a number of other creative businesses, exhibitions, talks and workshops.

Initially, its main food offering was Exeter Street Bakery — but this space has just been taken over by an ambitious new restaurant, Walnut, created by local chef Emma Duggan, who walked past the site at the start of the year, noticed it was empty, contacted John Jones and, using Crowdfunder, got the place in business last month, doing much of the work herself with her partner.

The food is rich, parmesan and truffles re-appearing, not shy of unctuous cream and butter — and it seems slightly in the style of a Ramsay-type brigade kitchen, although there’s no brigade here, mainly just Duggan working flat out.

Walnut is Crouch End or Stroud Green bravely advancing into roughest Finsbury Park, a matter of a few hundred yards at most but a bigger punt than is represented by places such as Yard Sale Pizza or Salvation in Noodles opening on Blackstock Road.

Beast: restaurant review | Jay Rayner | Life and style | The Guardian

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You could bang on about the bizarre pricing structure, and the vertiginous nature of those prices; about the rough-hewn communal tables that are so wide you can’t sit opposite your dining companion because you wouldn’t be able to hear each other, and the long benches which make wearing a skirt a dodgy idea unless you’re desperate to flash the rest of the heavily male clientele.

Instead you should accept Beast as the most unintentionally funny restaurant to open in London in a very long time.

It is a venture by the Moscow-born company behind the admirable steakhouse Goodman, and the clever and ever-expanding chain Burger and Lobster, where you can get only an expensive burger or a cheap lobster, both for £20.

When it first opened a few months ago, it offered only a set menu for £75 a head: a few antipasti of aged parmesan and the like, followed by 400g of bone-in rib-eye per person, and a quarter each of Norwegian king crab, a species which cleverly manages to be both a delicacy and a cause for concern to environmentalists due to the way it is advancing down the Norwegian coast.

At that price they should lead the damn animal into the restaurant and install it under the table so it can pleasure me while I eat.

The Walnut Tree Thwaite: Vegetarian & Vegan Pub Restaurant

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Welcome to The Walnut Tree Thwaite, Suffolk’s Vegetarian & Vegan Pub Restaurant.

After many years creating and serving our tasty vegetarian & vegan food from the Veggie Red Lion in Gt Bricett, we have moved to the former Bucks Head at Thwaite.

The Walnut Tree is a grade ll listed pub & restaurant that offers both us and our customers more space than the Veggie Red Lion.

Our menu offers a wide range of homemade vegetarian & vegan food and daily specials, using fresh and locally sourced ingredients where possible.

We are family friendly, children are made very welcome and have their own menu.

Walnut | Restaurants in Finsbury Park, London

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Countertop dining: it’s so popular, so ubiquitous, so keenly taken up as a byword of relaxed casual eating these days that I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if they introduced it at Wetherspoon’s any day now.

The counter at this Finsbury Park café-bar was certainly very popular on my Sunday lunchtime visit – although the staff were nonplussed when I told them I’d booked a couple of seats there.

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