Rafael Cagali's two-Michelin-star tasting room inside the Town Hall Hotel, Bethnal Green's destination kitchen.
Rafael Cagali opened Da Terra on the ground floor of the Town Hall Hotel in 2019, a Brazilian-Italian chef trained through Quique Dacosta and Simon Rogan running a 14-course tasting menu, and held a Michelin star within seven months, the second arriving in the 2021 Guide. The cooking pulls from Cagali's two heritages, São Paulo and Tuscany, built on British produce: Cornish red mullet with mojo verde, beetroot lasagne, Iberian pork with Brazilian malagueta. The Edwardian-civic-building dining room is unusual for the register; the audience that came for The Ledbury and wants the East-London equivalent books here.
Single tasting menu format, book six weeks ahead for Saturday. The Bethnal Green Town Hall Hotel sits ten minutes from Liverpool Street by Overground; the building is Grade II-listed Edwardian and worth the walk-through itself.
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