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Ceru won't make you blue

I took my mum for a meal at this Middle Eastern/Mediterranean-inspired restaurant and our taste buds were tingling

October 16, 2018 15:00
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Middle Eastern/Mediterranean food is the hottest ticket in town, and restaurants are springing up all over the place.

This summer, in buzzy Soho, Barry and Patricia Hilton opened their second Ceru restaurant, which offers a Levantine menu. Levantine is the popular catch-all to mop up the flavours of the Eastern Med. 

Awkward-to-pronounce Ceru, it turns out, is shorthand for cerulean — a colour ranging from blue, azure to a darker sky blue, the blue of a sunny Mediterranean sky. The sort of sky which can only make you feel less blue and rather more cheery.

The restaurant's food also gives that summer holiday high. Arriving on an oddly quiet Friday lunchtime, we had the pick of the tables. A bonus for us, but probably not for the Hiltons, who, I suspect would rather have had a few more bums on seats.