The Gate

DAYS OF BUSINESS

Mon - Sun:	12:00 to 15:00 18:00 to 23:00

Brothers Adrian and Michael Daniel have been running London's most successful vegetarian restaurant since December 1989.

Adrian's approach to cooking is an eclectic one - drawing on a wide range of ethnic cuisines, selecting the best combinations and creating dishes that have earned him a reputation as one of London's finest vegetarian chefs.

Price Guide	Entrée £4.50 - £6.25, Main £8.50 - £13.50, Dessert £4.50 - £6
Payment Options	Cash, Amex, Visa, Mastercard
Features	Outside dining area
Ambience	Contemporary, Relaxed, Trendy
Food	Vegetarian option

Menu

Wine list

Starters

Marinated greek olives

2.25

Soup of the day

4.50

Halloumi kibis: halloumi, red onions, peppers & courgettes char-grilled in a tikka marinade, served on a chickpea salsa with green schoog.

Yam & sweet potato fritters: served with a red chili coulis & a tamarind sauce.

Butternut squash tart: roasted butternut squash & gubbeen cheese, baked with crème fraiche in thyme pastry, finished with basil oil.

5.50

confit artichoke salad: baby globe artichokes slowly baked in olive oil, oven-dried tomatoes, toasted pine-nuts & parmesan shavings, tossed with frisee & watercress leaves & a lemon dressing.

5.50/10.00

Warm root vegetable salad: roasted carrots, parsnips and swede tossed with mixed leaves & a horseradish & crème fraiche dressing.

5.50/10.00

Vietnamese spring rolls: bean-sprouts, papaya, mange-tout, green mango, baby corn & mouli wrapped in rice-paper, served with a satay sauce.

5.50

Mezze platter: a selection of all starters (serves two/three).

14.50/21.00

Main

Root vegetable rotolo: roasted parsnip, artichoke & swede rolled with gorgonzola cheese in thyme-infused potato, served on a bed of french beans with a mustard cream sauce, topped with deep-fried leeks

13.50

Green thai curry: courgettes, baby corn, mange-tout, shitake mushrooms, bean sprouts & thai white aubergines in a rich green curry sauce, served with jasmine rice & a green papaya & ginger salsa.

12.00

Aubergine charlotte: char-grilled aubergine filled & baked with layered wild mushrooms, sun-dried tomato & a goat’s cheese custard, served with basil & sun-dried tomato pestos.

13.50

Butternut squash ravioli: saffron pasta filled with roasted butternut squash & dolcelatte, pan-fried in sage-scented lemon butter & served with sauteed cavolo nero

13.00

Tortillas: beetroot, mint & feta cheese; & sweet potato, plantain & sweetcorn, served with guacamole, sour cream & a turtle bean & pasilla chili salsa.

12.50

Pasta of the day

8.50

Desserts

Chocolate & walnut brownie: served with clotted cream ice cream

5.50

Date steamed pudding: with toffee sauce.

5.50

Plum, pear & stem ginger crumble: served with crème anglaise. (allow 15 min. contains nuts.) .

5.50

Passionfruit crème brulee

5.50

Ice cream & sorbet : made on the premises.

4.50

Cheese plate: with oat cakes & a fig & date compote.

6.00

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All prices are in Great Britain Pounds (GBP£) unless otherwise specified.

This menu was last updated on 15/4/07.

"'The best restaurant I reckon in Hammersmith is The Gate which is in a converted church where they serve up fantastic veggie food at great prices' The Gate Restaurant, hidden behind old brick walls, is a great little place where you can escape city life. There is a beautiful courtyard dotted with climbing plants whilst the restaurant is a basic eatery with a touch of funk. The menu consists of freshly prepared, imaginative vegetarian cuisine."

Tom Edwards, BBC London - April 2007

"'With its clean, sparse decor defiantly in the modern mould, the Gate mark II (the other’s in Hammersmith) is clearly not your run-of-the-mill vegetarian. True, with risottos, soups & pancakes making appearances, many of the expected veggie staples are present, but here they’re invented anew through the judicious choice of ingredients: pancakes are layered with spiced tomato & aubergine curry & served with mango chutney, raita & roasted okra; risotto might be flavoured with pea & mint; soups change daily. Textures are cleverly contrasted, while dishes erupt with vibrant tastes. With a succinct wine list adding to the ‘excellent food & drink’ & staff who are ‘knowledgeable’, many diners leave convinced that this is ‘the best vegetarian restaurant I have been to’."

N/A, Square Meal - April 2007

"Tucked away in a quiet, leafy church courtyard, the Gate's sunflower-yellow walls and stripped-wood floor are a civilised setting in which to enjoy the elaborate, imaginative but not over-ambitious globally inspired menu. Probably London's best vegetarian restaurant."

N/A, Time Out - April 2007

"A rarity, in that rather than being a vegetarian restaurant it is a restaurant that is vegetarian: the cooking is of high standard: the dishes are imaginative, rich and well-presented: and almost as an afterthought, they are all vegetarians. You can see why the Hammersmith locals have kept quite about this one. The menu changes monthly but expect well-made pastas dishes, noodles and serious puddings - every thing from creme brulee to bitter chocolate and hazelnut cake. There's also a decent cheese board teamed with a quince compote. And there's a grown up sort of wine list..."

N/A, Hot Tickets - April 2007

"There were plenty of ordinary starters: a gazpacho, a caesar salad or a spinach roulade, all for a fiver or less...The bean tortilla was as good as any Tex-Mex, the pumpkin smooth, tangy and vaguely reminiscent of a crêpe aux fruits de mer.... ‘It’s just a much nicer environment when you are cooking in a kitchen without meat or fish,’ he says. I am sure that there are many who would prefer to keep The Gate as one of those ‘best-kept-secret’ sort of places..."

Robert Hardman, The Spectator - April 2007

"A 'place you can really fall in love with'..."

Troy Segal, Zagatsurvey 2007 - September 2006

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