Cinder St John’s Wood Menu

Cinder St John's Wood is a fire focused restaurant at 5 Saint John's Wood High Street. Chef Jake Finn built the Cinder idea around carefully sourced ingredients and the flavour created by cooking over flame. The Josper oven sits at the centre of the kitchen's approach, giving vegetables, fish and meat a distinctive char while keeping the menu refined and suitable for sharing.

Small plates show how broadly that approach can be used. Guests may find a spicy crab doughnut with prawn glaze, lamb meatball skewers, beetroot ceviche and charred carrot with garlic yoghurt and toasted buckwheat. Hispi cabbage with chilli and pine nuts, burnt leeks with pecorino and hazelnuts, kimchi salad and fried maitake give vegetable dishes just as much attention as the seafood and meat.

Larger plates continue the theme with grilled octopus, chicken thighs with chimichurri, roasted squash and cedar plank salmon with pickled cucumber and shallots. The seasonal menu can also feature stone bass, squid, cauliflower and a changing selection of steaks butchered in house. Triple cooked potatoes with black lime salt and crisp salad make useful additions for the table.

The restaurant combines an open kitchen with an intimate dining room, a heated terrace and a private room below the main space. A tasting menu brings together several signature dishes, while cocktails such as the Cinder margarita and smoked negroni complement a considered wine list. The result is a sociable Saint John's Wood restaurant where guests can experience creative Mediterranean influenced cooking through the flavour of the fire.

Address: 5 Saint John's Wood High Street, Saint John's Wood, London NW8 7NG, United Kingdom

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