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Bringing up Bubala: welcoming a new eaterie to the East End

A new Middle Eastern restaurant has brought Jewish flavours back to Spitalfields

October 17, 2019 08:35
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ByVictoria Prever, Victoria Prever

4 min read

Helen Graham and Marc Summers have produced a beautiful new bubala.

Not the flesh and blood sort (their partnership is purely professional) but a cute restaurant on Commercial Street — once the Jewish heartland and now a thriving hipster hive of restaurants, cafes and fashion outlets.

Many of us will identify with having relatives who inhabited that part of London, so it feels apt that the pair with a past in Middle Eastern food are serving up their Jewish and Modern Israeli-influenced vegetarian food in the East End.

“My grandmother lived near here” says Summers, who has worked in food for several years, starting out behind the stoves, but latterly moving to a front-of-house role — most recently as the manager of Josh Katz’s East London outpost, Berber & Q.