Brother Marcus founders to open Soho cocktail bar

Brother Marcus founders Tasos Gaitanos and Alex Large have announced plans to open Kamara, a high-end cocktail bar, in the heart of Soho this Autumn.

The 83-cover space will reside in the former home of acclaimed bar The Blind Pig on Poland Street, with the concept developed by Angelos Bafas (Kioku Sake Bar, Nipperkin, Soma), alongside Gaitanos and Large.

Guests can expect a tight mezze-style small plates menu and cocktails based on in-house macerated spirits and homemade ferments, drawing on both Bafos and Gaitanos's Greek heritage.

Menu highlights

Flavours will be drawn from the various regions of the Eastern Mediterranean, with signature cocktails including the Tuvunu Highball (Kamara fig brandy, Metaxa 12*, Greek mountain tea, fermented figs in honey, fresh lemon, 3 Cents fig leaf soda); Coffee and Honey Old Fashioned (Michter’s bourbon whiskey, Cretan aged eau de vie, coffee and cacao distillate, British burnt butter, Exmoor honey, aromatic bitters) and Smoked Pepper Daisy (Los Siete Misterios Doba-Yej mezcal, single variety tsipouro, smoked boukovo, Kamara hay smoked tomato spirit, crushed black pepper, basil leaf oil). 

Mezze dishes will mirror the drinks philosophy, offering a bold and refined take on East-Med cuisine. Dishes will include cod’s roe taramasalata with sumac onion; crispy calamari with zhoug aioli, burnt lime and Aleppo chilli; Greek feta sausage with aubergine bayildi, labneh and zhoug; and fried chicken with muhammara and Greek graviera. 

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