Friday Night Dinner: Akub
From the archive: We visited Akub in January 2023
Just off the main road near Notting Hill Gate station is this cosy multi-floor restaurant serving Palestinian food. Opened last year, and the menu contains mostly sharing dishes.
We started off our drinks with two Palestinian beers, a White, and an IPA, which fitted very well with our selection of mezzes/starters/whatever you want to call it. Before the starters showed up, we ordered a bowl of salted lupin beans, called Turmous, which were very tasty. Similar to a mix of almonds and perhaps Edamame? At least, the way you eat them was like the Japanese bean snack, as it involved removing the skin in your mouth — if you were so inclined. I was; my partner wasn't.
The starters that we ordered included three balls of a goats cheese (Labaneh) covered in three different kinds of spices. Sumak, and two others that I can’t remember right now. Besides that, we got a grilled Nabulsi cheese, which was covered in some oil and seeds, and was slightly squishy like fried halloumi can be, a little salty like feta, but overall a better texture than I think that over-fried halloumi could be. Our third starter were spiced squash dumplings, Shish Barak with Beetroot, which was also delicious.
Our "main" to share was the short rib Fatteh, which was slow cooked beef with spices, with garlic yoghurt, crispy (like really crispy) onions, with some fried focaccia squares to add some more texture.
Even after that, we were still not 100% satisfied, and had a rich chocolate cremeux and pistachio ice cream to finish. It was all so tasty that we forgot to take any photos!
The service was attentive, and our waitress explained approximately how many things we should order from the menu, and she was spot on.
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I've finished reading Children of Memory, the third book in the series.
Another interesting take on forms of intelligent life.
A fourth one is going to get released later this year.
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RE: https://phpc.social/@phpc_tv/116274041642323081
Now that phpc.tv and phpc.social are part of the same umbrella, I've upped my yearly contributions to their Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/phpcommunity/projects/phpc-social
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I've published a new blog post: "Human Creations", on the difference in content generation by LLMs, and the creation of text, art and code by humans.
You can find it at https://derickrethans.nl/human-creations.html or at @blog
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It's good to see that more and more people are realising that the Web can be for-good, without all the enshittification.
That's why I'm happy to see endeavours like phpc.tv springing up, and helping out where I can.
Taking back the control of how the Web is for people, by people, without big tech making it all shit.
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