If you love vibrant Mediterranean dishes, Bubala will be your East End sweetheart
Bubala, 65 Commercial Street, London E1 6BD, (020 7392 2111). Small plates £5-£7.50, larger plates £9-£11, desserts £4-£5.50, wines from £25
Shortly after sitting down at Bubala, I felt a chill breeze. I looked across to the front door, which was flapping open. As a customer left, they pulled it shut behind them. It sprung open again, just enough to let in a gust of frigid air. I studied the narrow, L-shaped dining room with its textured walls in light shades of oatmeal, and its bar tiled in jade green, and its hard-wooden banquettes, with their sky-blue panels. The colours may have changed, but everything else was familiar, including my plummeting core temperature. I got out my phone and did something I never, ever, ever do, because it’s hideously vain and I am absolutely not that person. Not at all. Not me. I Googled myself.
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