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| On the great bakery trail |
From bagels to baklava, you’ll find the
taste you want on this culinary journey, writes Peter Gruner
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Mohamed Halloufi from La Princesse with a giant almond cake
Bedri Hoxha, Anna Zalesinska and Isaac Cohen from Happening
Bagels
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FROM savoury bagels to rich baklava and Spanish-style orange
and almond slices – there are a multitide of mouth-watering
treats to be enjoyed in cosmopolitan Finsbury Park.
Start your gastronomic bakery tour at the top of Blackstock Road,
opposite Finsbury Park station, for a journey that will involve
delicious foods from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Algeria, Mexico, Greece,
Italy, the West Indies, Turkey and Kurdistan.
Isaac Cohen has been running The Happening Bagel, in Seven Sisters
Road, since 1994, and claims his home-made products, including bagels,
croissants and cakes, are the tastiest in all north London.
Isaac said: “We are always busy, but when Arsenal are playing
at home on Saturdays we never stop. All the food is cooked on the
premises using the finest ingredients and we start preparing our
food at 5am.”
But it’s not just football fans who crowd the shop on match
days.
Isaac said: “Paul Gasgoigne and Tony Adams were regular customers.
People love my chulla bread but who can ignore my special cream
cheese and smoked salmon bagels?”
Now follow the delicious wood-fire smell to Good for Food in Blackstock
Road where Portuguese owner, Helena Spurr, prides herself on a fabulous
array of organic Mediterranean breads and serves the popular Illy
Italian coffee. Her coffee bar and shop also sells a wide range
of continental cheeses, pâtes, olives and charcuterie.
“I specialise in good Mediterranean foods, including Spanish
orange and Moroccan almond cakes and continental cheeses,”
says Helena.
“We hope we offer a little bit of that extra quality in an
area which can look a little run down at times.”
Moving along you can’t miss La Princesse, an Algerian café
and takeaway, and purveyor of the choicest deli foods and luxury
cakes.
Customers will come for a slice of delicious Millefeuille, custard
and cream cake, or a piece of almond baklava cake and perhaps a
glass of refreshing mint or peppermint tea. For those with a very
sweet tooth there’s a semolina and honey concoction and on
the savoury side there is also the ever popular chelitta spread
made from roasted green and red peppers and tomatoes on bread.
• The Happening Bakery, 284A Seven Sisters Road, N4. 020 8809
1519.
• Good for Food, 16, Blackstock Road, N4. 020 7503 0034.
• La Princesse, 66 Blackstock Road, N4. 020 7359 8736. |
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