Restaurant review: Hummus Bros

Roger

23 February 2007

Address: 88 Wardour Street, London W1F 0TJ
Telephone: 020 7734 1311
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Longitude: -0.133748
Latitude: 51.513411

This counter-service hummus bar lies in the sclerotic heart of Soho. It's semi-fast-food: there's seating for about twenty people, but with counter service, and takeaways are available and popular.

Food

The main dish is a torus of fresh hummus in a bowl, with a "topping" of some sort (veg, meat, mushrooms - they have seven altogether) in the middle and two small hot pitta breads. There are extras and puddings; I had the mixed pickles, which included three pigs of garlic (two of which were amusingly cyan). Expect to pay somewhere around £ 5-£ 7 for food and drink.

Key thing to bear in mind: the hummus is fresh. Those of you who've heard me rant about supermarket hummus and tarama will know that I am excessively sensitive to the age of this sort of food, and the hummus I had was definitely less than twelve hours old. Excellent!

Busyness

Fairly full at lunchtime on a Friday; apparently it empties out a bit late at night.

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