Flat lay of Ara Restaurant’s brunch spread featuring poached eggs with courgette spread, shakshuka, greek yogurt with rhubarb, toast, and monmouth coffee in Aldgate East.

Brunch Menu

Breads etc.

Grilled potato bread

cultured butter
3,5

Sourdough bread

toasted, cultured butter
4,5

Homemade Jam

3

Olives

smoked almonds
4.5

Whipped tahini

fermented chilli
5

On Toast

Cacklebean eggs

scrambled, poached, fried
7,6,6

Courgette spread

feta, chilli sesame oil
9

Breakfast Plates

Granola

greek yoghurt, seasonal fruits, honey, lime leaf oil
9

Turkish eggs

crispy chilli peanuts, garlic yoghurt, toasted sourdough, dill
13,5

Shakshuka

eggs poached in tomato, onion and peppers, yoghurt, toasted sourdough
13,5

Smoked chalk stream trout

scrambled eggs, labneh, pickled mooli, tomato chilli jam, dill
14

French toast

brioche bread, burnt apricot butter, creme fraiche, pistachio crunch, rose petals, lime zest, maple syrup
15,5

Fry Up

fried egg, sausage, bacon, double fried potatoes, roasted tomato, mushrooms, beans, toasted sourdough
16

Sides & Extras

Veggie

Beans, Kimchi, roasted tomatoes, or roasted mushrooms
3

Meat

Sausage, grilled chorizo, bacon, grilled halloumi
3,5

Brunch Plates - served from 1200

Slow cooked beef croquettes

spicy aioli
9

Corn ribs

umami dust
8

Burrata

crispy chilli peanuts, apricot puree
12,5

Fried chicken

no-pomelo salad, peanuts, toasted coconut
13,5

Chalk Stream trout crudo

cranberry ponzu, daikon, sesame
13,5

Smoked Cabbage

lime tofu crema, walnut and pomegranate gremolata
21

Grilled half chicken

charred peppers and chilli sauce
25

Crispy pork belly

kimchi, pear, red chilli nahm jim
22

Sweets

Herb sorbet

5

Chocolate basque cheesecake

caramelised whey
5

Semolina halva

preserved lemon and whipped coconut
7