Eat Out London!The Good Egg
We’re an all-day neighbourhood restaurant serving Jewish-inspired breakfast, brunch, lunch + dinner, plus craft beers, natural wines + cocktails.
The Good Egg
Order before 12pm for collection 12pm the following day.
PLEASE NOTE: Hot X Easter babkas can be pre-ordered for collection only between 26/03 + 01/04 (until 12pm) – i.e. not any time outside these dates.
Chocolate babka is available throughout the year.
Because our babkas are baked fresh on the day you specify for collection, we regret that any not collected on the day specified cannot be replaced or refunded.
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The Good Egg Soho | London Restaurant Reviews | DesignMyNight
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Luckily there were a few other servers around who we could flag down and who seemed a little more with it.
The wait between ordering your meal and the meal being delivered was extremely long, and lengthened further by the fact that a) my eggs weren't ready with the meal (the "Jerusalem Breakfast" combo) and delivered late, again only after asking about them a second time, and b) the breakfast combo mentioned above can with one measly mini pita, despite essentially being made up of 4 sauces and spreads - not nearly enough pita to accommodate and try all of them, nor did they provide spoons in case you'd assume you slurp them up with one.
Most of the sauces and spreads were quite tasty, but we had to order 2 extra mini pitas, and ask for them twice again, and they still had the gumption to charge us for them.
My girlfriends Hanukkah Brisket Hash was better, with quite tasty brisket, albeit a bit dry there was a good quantity of it - only issues with that dish was that the egg was overcooked, so there was no runny yolk to help moisten the rest of the dish.
Unless The Good Egg Soho gets their act together and more on point, I'd recommend stopping in to grab a babka to go, rather than spending your cash sitting down.
The Good Egg, restaurant review: Stoke Newington sets the ...
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In Manhattan the other day I had brunch at a Jewish place called Russ & Daughters that was so wonderful it turned into dinner.
The Good Egg replaced a grim bookmaker and, with its bare-brick white walls, replete with massive jars of pickling lemon rind and rings of onion and beetroot next to cookbooks on vast and mostly empty shelves, I could be in Manhattan again.
Sadly for us, the Jerusalem Breakfast, at £20 a pop, isn't yet available, though it promises just the sort of dishes that makes Russ & Daughters my top Manhattan recommendation right now: a "smorgasbord of little breakfast plates to share, with cheeses, burnt aubergine, fresh herbs, salads, eggs, smoked fish, hot pastries and cakes".
Shakshuka with merguez sausage or halloumi (£9), or both if you ask nicely, is better than any I had in Tel Aviv; a smoked-meat hash, served in a cast-iron dish with fried potatoes, onions, salsa verde and a poached egg, is great value at £8 (though not as jumbled up as most hashes are served); a breakfast burrito with eggs, chorizo, sautéed potatoes, cheese, refried beans and guacamole is even better than the sum of its many parts (£8.50); and a bacon and date pitta is very good for £7.50.
Sure, it helped that this was a sunny Saturday morning; but The Good Egg gives stonking great value to Stoke Newington and sets a standard to which all brunches should aspire, and not just in London.
The Good Egg, Soho: Breakfast Review - olive magazine
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After the success of their first site in Stoke Newington, The Good Egg crowd-funded to their second site in Soho’s Kingly Court.
The menu offers a selection of sweet and savoury choices.
Choose between a kanafeh croissant filled with pistachio and rose, cardamom buns and rugelach (a light, flaky pastry) for a sweet baked treat.
If you fancy something savoury and want a small taste of everything, try out the Jerusalem breakfast plates, small dishes that range from spicy merguez hogget sausage with preserved-lemon yogurt and sweet marinated aubergine with tahini and smoked paprika to crispy fried eggs with chilli and vinegary beets and dill.
Bullseye: The Good Egg’s cornbread French toast is crisp on the outside with a dense cake-like texture, served with whipped sour cream, spicy pumpkin purée, crunchy pecan brittle and sweet, juicy poached cranberries.
Grace Dent reviews The Good Egg: 'The menu reads like a bawdy ...
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Then, in recent weeks, The Good Egg, a pop-up in Stoke Newington, which has opted to stay permanently, well, erect.
One of my biggest London foodie joys of 2015 has been the rise and reformation of Middle Eastern dining: at Berber & Q in Haggerston, Black Axe Mangal in Islington, Oklava in Shoreditch and now at The Good Egg in Stokey where the slow-roasted Persian brisket arrives with a plump pita to mop up the sauce, which is laced with pickled mushrooms.
Not everything at The Good Egg is a triumph: a thunderous whole roast cauliflower with tahini lacked smokiness or any specific oomph, even if it looked glorious, and the cocktails are potent day-dissolvers rather than anything perfectly hewn.
On my return to The Good Egg I’ll definitely reorder the bold NYC deli-influenced trout and whitefish croquettes, then the Persian brisket with a side of purple sprouting broccoli with tahini.
And most importantly, I’d double-check when leaving the house that I’d ordered my Uber to The Good Egg and not Bad Egg, to avoid doing another en-route U-turn.
The Good Egg
Order before 12pm for collection 12pm the following day.
PLEASE NOTE: Hot X Easter babkas can be pre-ordered for collection only between 26/03 + 01/04 (until 12pm) – i.e. not any time outside these dates.
Chocolate babka is available throughout the year.
Because our babkas are baked fresh on the day you specify for collection, we regret that any not collected on the day specified cannot be replaced or refunded.
The Good Egg, London: restaurant review | restaurant review | Life ...
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Braham says he is inspired most by the deli traditions of Montreal, where they dry-cure their pastrami before smoking for deeper flavour than wet-cured.
The boats that steamed hard across the North Atlantic in the late 19th century carrying Jewish migrants on the run from pogroms went south for Ellis Island and New York and north for the Saint Lawrence river and Montreal.
Still, I admit that what drew me to The Good Egg was the launch of a new menu, listing a “Montreal smoked Hereford short-rib pastrami”, fully accessorised.
A salad of taut-skinned tomatoes, capers and red onions in puddles of peppery olive oil with a big dollop of house-cured whitefish mayonnaise really does recall a classic New York deli plate.
■ Zelman Meats in London’s Soho, from the team behind the steak restaurants Goodman and the Burger and Lobster chain, runs a short menu of slow-cooked animal.