✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

You have reached the limit of free articles.


To enjoy unlimited access to Culture Whisper sign up for FREE.
Find out more about Culture Whisper

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy

Each week, we send newsletters and communication featuring articles, our latest tickets invitations, and exclusive offers.

Occasional information about discounts, special offers and promotions.


OR
LOG IN

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

Thanks for signing up to Culture Whisper.
Please check your inbox for a confirmation email and click the link to verify your account.



EXPLORE CULTURE WHISPER
✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy
Forgot your username or password?
Don't have an account? Sign Up

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

If you click «Log in with Facebook» and are not a Culture Whisper user, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and to our Privacy Policy, which includes our Cookie Use

Support Us Login
  • Home
  • Going Out
    • Things to do
    • Food & Drink
    • Theatre
    • Visual Arts
    • Cinema
    • Kids
    • Festival
    • Gigs
    • Dance
    • Classical Music
    • Opera
    • Immersive
    • Talks
  • Staying In
    • TV
    • Books
    • Cook
    • Podcast
    • Design
    • Netflix
  • Life & Style
    • Beauty
    • Fashion
    • Gifting
    • Wellbeing
    • Lifestyle
    • Shopping
    • Jewellery
  • Explore
  • Shopping
  • CW SHOPS
  • Support Us
  • Get Started
  • Tickets
  • CW SHOPS
Get the Best of London Life, Culture and Style
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
Food & Drink

Essence Cuisine, Shoreditch

Combining the 'free-from' plant-based movement with the joys of gourmet dining, Essence Cuisine is the perfect venue for those who want to enjoy wholly natural food in style

Essence Cuisine, Shoreditch
Essence Cuisine, Shoreditch
Essence Cuisine, Shoreditch Essence Cuisine, Shoreditch Anna Ellis-Rees
Essence Cuisine is a swish, 100% plant-based restaurant in Shoreditch led by LA celebrity chef Matthew Kenney who, according to Forbes magazine, has ‘a certain glow about him’ .


The interior is sharp and minimal with aluminium walls and a concrete bar; with its tiny tables and bench seating, it should be noted, however, that Essence Cuisine is not conducive to lingered dining.


At breakfast try the surprisingly fluffy scrambled chickpeas with ‘massaged’ kale and spicy green harissa, asparagus and mushrooms. For lunch or dinner, order the lively spicing of the slurpy, springy Pad Thai made with kelp noodles, tamari almonds and lime; or the Heirloom tomato lasagne, a reinterpretation of a classic, made with courgette in place of pasta, sundried tomato sauce, pistachio pesto and creamy, macademia ‘ricotta’. The brownies made with raw cocao and toffee-like Medjool date ‘caramel’ are revelations.


Essence Cuisine represents the very best of imaginative 'free-from' cooking, and it is somewhere we will go back to again and again.


What Essence Cuisine, Shoreditch
Where Essence Cuisine, 94 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4RH | MAP
Nearest tube Old Street (underground)
Price ££
Website Book



Most popular

Things to do in London this weekend: 24–26 March. Photo: The Parakeet, Kentish Town
Things to do in London this weekend: 24–26 March
Irene Maiorino and Alba Rohrwacher in My Brilliant Friend season 4, HBO/Sky Atlantic (Photo: HBO)
My Brilliant Friend, season 4, Sky Atlantic: first-look photo, release date, plot, cast
Best art exhibitions in London. Photo: Thin Air at the Beams
Top exhibitions on now in London

Editor's Picks

Five brands to keep an eye on from London Fashion Week
Up and coming fashion designers London
Sally Field (Kate Keller) and Jenna Coleman (Ann Deever) in All My Sons at The Old Vic. Photo by Johan Persson
All My Sons, Old Vic Theatre
The Little Stranger
The Little Stranger film review
The Candlelight Club's Eighth Birthday Party
The Candlelight Club's Eighth Birthday Party
Meet the Makers, Prosecco House
Meet the Makers, Prosecco House
Aakash Odedra Company, #JeSuis, photo Sean Goldthorpe
Aakash Odedra Company, #JeSuis, Lilian Baylis Studio
Sign up to CW’s newsletter
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).

Essence Cuisine

Shoreditch

Food & Drink

You might like

  • Halibut cheeks at Brat, Shoreditch

    BRAT, Shoreditch ★★★★★

  • Cub Shrooms on Shrooms credit Kim Lightbody

    Cub, restaurant, Shoreditch ★★★★★

  • Wulf & Lamb vegan restaurant review [STAR:4]

    Wulf & Lamb vegan restaurant review ★★★★★

  • Tapas Revolution Shoreditch

    Tapas Revolution Shoreditch

  • Why the tenth London Restaurant Festival is the best yet

    Why the tenth London Restaurant Festival is the best yet

  • Morito restaurant, Hackney

    Morito restaurant, Hackney



  • The Culture Whisper team
  • Support Us
  • Tickets
  • Contact us
  • Press
  • FAQ
  • Privacy
  • Terms and conditions
  • Cookies
  • Discover
  • Venues
  • Restaurants
  • Stations
  • Boroughs
Sign up to CW’s newsletter
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
×