From ‘Thai-bouleh’ to fast shakshuka, exclusive recipes from Observer Food Monthly readers’ 2015 restaurant of the year
Thirty seconds from the hot mess that is London’s Leicester Square, the Palomar gets tourists, theatregoers, A-list film stars peering in their window. “But getting people walking past to come in is hard because the food is quite strange,” says Layo Paskin, its creative director. “Sometimes you see them think, ‘This looks like a cool place.’ Then they read the menu and look like this” – an Edvard Munch mask of terror. “Or you can see them thinking, ‘Maybe later…’”
Tomer Amedi, the head chef, explodes with laughter. “They have
no burgers!” he mock-screams. “What is this?”