The Modern Pantry – the most exciting place to eat in Clerkenwell London EC1

"My God, this young woman can cook." read more...
Matthew Norman

"This is the most exciting place to eat in Clerkenwell right now." read more...
Guy Diamond

"You know that fusion works when you eat something like chorizo, date and feta fritters served with a yogurt dip, its innate piquancy championed by tamarind, and you think why has this not been done before? It’s carnivores’ falafel!"

"The element of frivolity in The Modern Pantry’s food is welcome after too much gastronomic worthiness recently." read more...
Fay Maschler, Evening Standard

"It has a charming ambience: you feel you could be in a private Georgian townhouse, and the food is far superior to normal café fare."
Leisure, Food & Drink

"An East meets West menu is a notoriously difficult style to master, but one that comes naturally to chef Anna Hansen." read more...
Xanthe Clay, Telegraph Weekend

"The Modern Pantry hails the return of culinary fusion. At last, a restaurant whose USP isn’t good British food. Its philosophy is ‘the desire to please the palate by using traditional and modern ingredients in new and exciting ways’. And so it does."
Zoe Strimpel, CITY A.M.

"Set in a fabulous listed Georgian building… The Modern Pantry is just the sort of modest gastrodome called for by the zeitgeist: buzzy ground-floor café, bookable first-floor dining-room, and cute little next-door deli." read more...
Terry Durack, Independent on Sunday

"As each nugget of honeycomb in the homemade Hokey Pokey ice cream emitted a satisfying crack in my mouth, I was certain that would be the only crunch The Modern Pantry faces in the months to come. Highly recommended." read more...
Lisa Thompson, NZinspired

"If you’re tired of unoriginal restaurant offerings, the creative and interesting menu at The Modern Pantry is a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach." read more...
Michelle Court, View London

"Sugar-cured prawn omelette with spring onions and smoked chilli sambal [was] a show stopper of a starter that delivered a Technicolor kaleidoscope of flavours" read more...
Ben McCormack
"We gave up the struggle to pick two starters and chose three"

"If I could eat nothing else but [The Modern Pantry] chocolate liquorice mousse with brittle choccie wafer, whipped cream and tamarillo for the rest of my days, I’d die a happy old woman." read more...
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, London Lite