People, it is May, it is green & it is lush! One thing we can say, Nature loved loved loved all this abundant rain while we loved feeling all cosy at Wild Food Café infused by the comforting flavours of freshly made food. Mmmmm….!

Last week we welcomed an amazing artist Lisa Sarah Jenkin to grace our walls with her elaborate creations. The whole Wild Food Café family absolutely loves the complexity, detail and colour of her mosaics and paintings.

The exhibition, which will run till mid June, was phenomenally received on the opening night by so many beautiful people that came to celebrate Lisa’s art. It is definitely a must see.

Back to cuisine matters. We are crazy about nettles and wild garlic at the moment. We have at least a few recipes for a nettle soup which we make every week till the season lasts, so if you fancy boosting up on core minerals from this amazing local & wild superfood, come around! We also make wild garlic pesto and add it to numerous recipes. Mmmm..!

Another weekly favourite dish in Wild Food Café kitchen is Living Borsch. A gentle, simple yet outstanding combination of flavours from fresh beetroot, oranges, almond milk, cultured kim-chi (spicy sour-kraut) and probiotics is great for the belly, mind and soul.  

We are super grateful and appreciative about the response and enthusiasm we receive from our beautiful family and community about our Saturday night dinners. We love hosting you, love seeing you socialising & having fun. How does it get any better than this?

For us, ‘Saturday Night Wild’ is a delightful opportunity to be playful and creative with food. We make-up spontaneous themes and play like children in the kitchen experimenting with flavours from different parts of the world, adding beautiful ingredients and exquisite techniques. It is a bit like a carnival, a theme-party and a fancy-dress bash all together. We do things we normally don’t do during the day due to a fast pace of our lunch service.  We like to be daring, express our innovative ideas, be ourselves and have fun. How awesome that we get to share this experience with so many of you!

For example, last Saturday Night Wild was named ‘The Quickening of Quetzalcoatl’:) we had delicious live music, stuffed Mayan avocados, coconut, chocolate and chilli desserts and comforting Mexican soup.

The week before, we transferred ourselves to a completely opposite part of the world and threw a Japanese night with sushi, abundantly stuffed with avocado, fresh aloe vera, shiitake and enoki mushrooms & sweet potato ‘ryce’, accompanied by tempurah’ed vegetables.

Few weeks ago we had a Jamaican bash with all the exotic Caribbean ingredients and flavours in one plate accompanied by reggae-roots-tribal beats by Anthony Antarma. It went down a treat!

The game goes on! This Saturday Night Wild (19^th of May) we are going to celebrate spring and fresh garden flavours with an Italian fiesta. Expect raw lasagne, Italian soup and T I R A M I S U! There are no limits to our imagination and playfulness. How much better can it get?

Lastly, the best place to keep up with our Saturday Night Wilds is our facebook page. We do advice to book for Saturday nights to avoid not having a place to sit!

Moving on, we love the long balmy summer evenings in Neal’s Yard so we decided to open our doors on Friday evenings as well! Imagine sitting cosily by our wide-open windows, inhaling calm breeze infused with flower aromas from our windowsills while observing the lively buzz of Neal’s Yard from above? That’s right!

 To celebrate our Friday evening opening we give free smoothies or chocolates with every meal. Pass the word around, it is worth it.

It is April everyone! The days are a lot longer here in Neal’s Yard and we are blessed with plenty of sunshine and rain. We are admiring blooming trees and plants in Covent Garden and in our beautiful windowsills. We even tried to bloom our artichokes.

We LOVED celebrating Easter at Wild Food Café and are very happy to say that our Easter Mayan Eggvocados became a sensation online and an instant sell-out at the café.

We also made a sweet version of Mayan Eggvocados stuffed with fresh coconut cream, covered with plentiful of heavenly raw chocolate and finished with drizzles of wild honey and fresh mango sorbet.

The success of Easter specials made Eggvocados an instant keeper on our menu. Now Mayan stuffed Avocados are our weekly special dish, so come by and try some if you haven’t yet!

To be honest, when we decided to open on Saturday nights a bit more than a month ago we didn’t know what to expect. It was a bit of a leap of faith. We were there, providing great atmosphere, food, surprises and freebies, live music and plenty smiles as we do during the day.

It must be said, we were overwhelmed by the response we received. It gave us so much courage and excitement to see Wild Food Café buzzing in it’s full potency in the evening hours and so many of you coming over, socialising, having a good time and creating the best ever place to BE right in the centre of town!

That’s exactly what we aimed for and more.

We are now organising weekly events and are collaborating with our immediate community, artists and musicians to create something simple, special yet unpretentious every Saturday evening.

Sometimes we do theme nights:) 28th of April is our Jamaican Jambalaya with tantalising Jamaican cuisine and live reggae from Avalon Roots. We also have upcoming performances from Ravi Ji on African Kora and Carrie Tree as part of her grassroots funding campaign for a new album. Keep checking our facebook page to stay posted. 

However, it is not the music, the programme or the food that excites us the most. It is seeing us all gather, spending time together, sharing ideas and having great time and co-creating the most vibrant environment for all to cherish. We are grateful to be providing the space for this potency and magic to unfold. How much better can it get? Thank you everyone!

We now also accept bookings for Saturday nights to ensure that you and your friends get good seats in the house. Bookable places are limited and walk-ins are still very welcome!

 Finally, we are also opening for Friday evenings with a lighter menu of drinks, juices and desserts, so if you are in town and don’t get a chance to visit us during the day come over and say hi!

There is some exciting news that we would love to share with you. First of all, we are soaking up the spring. Did we already tell you how sunny does it get at Wild Food Café? Mmmm…..

We love longer days and the buzz that spring brings. To celebrate and attune to it, we are opening for Saturday dinners (from 17^th of March).  For many of you it is very exciting and long awaited news – we have been well aware that 12.00-5.00 daily opening meant many of you simply couldn’t make it!

“So how would the dinners at Wild Food Café look like?” – you may ask J Expect more elaborate dishes – we are opening with some nibbly starters, main course – either raw, cooked or both combined – and of course, desserts, virgin juice cocktails and other drinks. At the moment we are welcoming BYOB (bring your own bottle) policy but soon enough we will be mixing our own alcoholic potions and serving delicious connoisseur wines. Give us another monthJ

Saturday dinners have 15 pre-booked spaces – the rest is walk-in so if you want to ensure we have a space for you drop us a line on wildfoodcafe@gmail.com or call on 0207 419 2014.

Spring is all about fresh ideas and transformations and we continue to work on various improvements in the café – it is exciting to see customers appreciating changes every time they come!

We have new exciting additions to our daily menu: now you can nibble on a selection of best quality unpasteurised Turkish olives mixed in with nourishing seeds and invigorate your senses with Wild Spring Salad with seasonal wild greens. We made our potato salad more spring-like by serving it with green beans and pea shoots and, of course, we  now have a selection of energising iced coffees which can be dairy free too!

These days we love: falafel in our sourdough flatbreads, baby veggies, peashoots, rhubarb, sweet potatoes, wild garlic, iced coffees, lavender cakes and sunshine!

Lastly, enjoy the spring, eat & drink your greens, have fun, be happy!

Remember that to receive the Wild Food Café newsletter you can register on www.wildfoodcafe.com. Simple as thatJ

Much love & spring blossoms,

Wild Food Café Family

Read more

Wild Food Cafe is looking forward to Christmas!

Our opening hours are:

Saturday, 24th December: 12-4

Sunday, 25th December: Closed

Monday, 26th December: Closed

Tuesday, 27th December: Closed

Wednesday, 28th December: 12-5

Thursday, 29th December: 12-5

Friday, 30th December: 12-5

Saturday, 31st December: 12-5

Sunday, 1st of January: Closed