FOOD & BOOZE NEWS
TURKISH WINES AT TIKE
A hit among the upwardly mobile of Istanbul, Tike opened last year to the delight of City folk who like a good bit of meat with fresh warm hummous.?Now a wine list has been added, which features Turkish grapes as well as a selection of more traditional varieties. A unique opportunity to try Levantine wine in London. 5 Fenchurch Place, EC3M 4AJ, tel: 0207 702 9965.
PSYCHIC SUNDAYS IN SOHO
Does brunch feel like old news to you??Likewise Sunday lunch??Maybe it’s time you tried out Profile Soho’s new psychic Sundays, where Marco, a no-nonsense tarot psychic, guides drinkers and diners through 10 minute one-to-one readings. Simply turn up, put your name down and await your future. The menu of American classics, a mean cocktail list and a two-for-one happy hour from 5pm-7pm means Sundays just got a whole lot more interesting – in Soho, anyway. The next Psychic Sunday is 21 March. 84-86 Wardour Street, W1F 0TQ 020 7734 3444.
BREAKFAST PIZZA AT PIZZA EAST
Shoreditch Italian Pizza East is dragging the stuff of hangovers into the respectable breakfast sphere, offering hot breakfast “pizza rollys” – pizza-style wraps filled with the likes of sausage, pancetta, mozzarella and egg, or spinach, mushroom, ricotta and egg, for £3.50 or £5 with a cup of tea or coffee. More traditional pastries served too. Free rollys will be handed out this morning and tomorrow outside the restaurant. Breakfast from 7:30am during the week, 10:30 on weekends. 56 Shoreditch High Street, E1 6JJ,
tel: 020 7729 1888.