As you may be able to guess from the name, cooking over fire will be a big thing here
After spending time in acclaimed kitchens like Elystan Street, The Ledbury, Petrus, and HIDE, Yiannis Mexis is going it alone with new restaurant Pyro. He’ll be bringing taverna vibes to Borough with the restaurant, which’ll feature an open kitchen, a large bar and an outdoor terrace, where a Greek Sunday feast will be held on the weekends.
Yiannis will be cooking a contemporary Greek menu of small plates and sharing dishes that makes use of hyper-seasonal produce, authentic Greek ingredients and open fire. Expect dishes like:
- spanakopita with fragrant herbs and barrel-aged feta
- mussel saganaki with toasted bread and vine leaf
- pork pluma and hen-of-the-woods mushroom souvlaki with prunes, radicchio and sour apple
- tarama and carob rusks
- Dorset lamb with lamb fat flatbreads, smoked anchovy yoghurt and bitter leaf fricassee
- whole charred aubergine with tomato stew and smoked mizithra
- whole lobster with mussels and roasted tomato orzo
- barbecued octopus in spiced red wine with yellow split pea
- charred hispi cabbage with pine nuts and graviera cheese
- whole Cornish turbot with smoked bay leaf and ladolemono
The wine list will feature bottles from independent Greek producers as well as varieties from around the world. The cocktails will come courtesy of Ana Reznik (ex-A Bar with Shapes for a Name), and be served late into the evening out in Pyro’s garden. She’ll be using seasonal Greek ingredients and lab techniques to create the serves, which’ll feature flavours like jasmine, olive oil, mastic, seaweed, preserved bergamot and mahlep. Sounds like we’re in for another Greek summer in London.
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Key Information
Opening date | Thurs 1st May 2025
Address | 53B Southwark St, London, SE1 1RU
For more information | pyrorestaurant.co.uk