Brother Marcus has a few different locations. The one we visited is right beside South Kensington station. It's a light filled comfy restaurant, specialising in middle eastern style sharing platters.

We like eating on the earlier side, which meant that we could benefit from the "pre-show set menu". This consists of a "rip and dip platter", consisting of three dips, olives, and fluffy pittas; and then a veggie and meat mezze per person.

The dips platter arrived swiftly, with our choice of roasted beetroot hummus, baba ghanoush and taramasalata. All the dips were delicious, and the pittas were indeed fluffy. A bottle of Kokotos wine showed up soon after, although I probably should put bottle in double quotes, as it was filled from a tap. That didn't do anything against its tastiness though.

As is usual in restaurants like this, everything comes when it's ready, so our table was soon overflowing with dishes. The pan-fried halloumi was sweet and sticky with a watermelon jam. The crispy aubergine skewer, crispy, but not dry and served with a creamy labneh sprinkled with grape molasses. The calamari had a well-seasoned coating, and was served with a green aioli. A little sprinkling of chilli added a little kick. And finally, the moist and well-spiced lamb koftas came on a smooth bed of aubergine begendi (béchamel sauce).

Close to many of London's top museums, the pre-show menu was excellent value at £25 per person. We can recommend this modern place, which after a day out shuffling around old museum pieces will certainly fill your belly.

Rip and Dips Platter

1 / 5

Pan-fried Halloumi

2 / 5

Crispy Aubergine

3 / 5

Crispy Calamari

4 / 5

Lamb Koftas

5 / 5

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