Pop-up Porridge Café offers healthy option for London diners

 
New grains: diners can tuck into pomegranate, orange, honey, chocolate shavings and buckwheat oats (Picture: Instagram/Porridge Cafe London)
Alexandra Rucki12 February 2015

A pop-up café is competing with the Cereal Killer Café by bringing something healthy to the table for diners – porridge.

The aptly named Porridge Café is the latest quirky restaurant to open in the capital and will only serve a variety of different porridge dishes.

Some of the options include breakfast oats, quinoa and savoury based meals made with risotto and beetroot. Visitors can take away the meals to enjoy for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

There is also a range of different milks to choose from catering to all dietary needs and 11 different types of grain.

Founder and director Nik Williamson, who quit his job in the city two years ago to run street-food stalls, said he was inspired by the Nordic revival of the dish.

Healthy option: beetroot, feta, capers and poached egg spelt risotto (Picture: Instagram/Porridge Cafe London)

He said: “For me it is about brining something healthier to the table. With the Cereal Killer Café you have got something that is a novelty.

“A lot of people don’t realise how many grains there are that you can make porridge with.

“People aren’t aware they can use beetroot to make their porridge look bright red and beautiful, quinoa you can put into the mix which is a really good superfood.”

Mr Williamson said if the café proves to be a success it could become a permanent fixture.

Last year the UK's first cereal café, Cereal Killer Café, opened in Shoreditch serving bowls of cereal and cakes to visitors.

Other quirky café's to have opened in London over the past year include a board game café, Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium and a cuddle café.

The café will be open from March 2 until the end of the month in Paul Street, Shoreditch.

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