Kricket Soho: Brixton favourite transfers to the West End

The new site is more than three times the size of the original
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Ben Norum5 December 2016

A second branch of Indian restaurant Kricket will open next year, and it will be more than three times the size of the original.

Chef Will Bowlby and front of house Rik Campbell, the founders, will open Kricket Soho on Denman Street near Piccadilly Circus following the success of the original at Pop Brixton.

It will seat 70 diners across two floors, a marked difference to the Brixton site which can cram a mere 20 into its shipping container home.

It will once again serve modern Indian small plates, with many of the south London favourites making a West End transfer. There will also be plenty of new dishes as part of an extended menu made possible by the increase in space.

New dish: Pumpkin in a makhani sauce
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There will be new sections dedicated to dishes made on a robata grill as well as those cooked in a clay tandoor.

These will include a Goan sausage fry with coriander chutney, peanuts and pickled fennel; bone marrow and cep kulcha; a Cornish crab meen moilee with castelfranco and peanuts; and pumpkin in a buttery makhani sauce with fresh paneer, hazelnut crumble and puffed wild rice.

Regulars will be glad to know that signatures such as Kricket’s samphire pakoras, and Keralan Fried Chicken will still be available.

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Dining will take place on communal tables on the lower level, or at a kitchen counter in the ground floor bar area, which will offer a seasonally-changing range of six Indian-inspired cocktails.

The kitchen counter will be reserved for walk-ins, but booking will be taken downstairs for groups of four or more and there will also be a semi-private dining area for large groups.

Kricket Soho will open at 12 Denman Street Thursday January 5.

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