Avant-Garde Portuguese Restaurant Will Open in Stoke Newington

Moio will open at 188 Stoke Newington High Street on 10 January. It is the debut restaurant from chef João Ferreira Pinto and sommelier Carolina W Seibel, replacing Rustic Twist opposite popular local pub The Three Crowns, according to Hot Dinners.

A sample menu reads several notches above the by-now hackneyed small-plate-modern-European menu template so familiar to London diners. A celeriac vichyssoise with deep-frozen grapes and a seafood barley — as opposed to rice — with bisque foam read classically; a veal tartare with cured egg yolk and Nardin anchovy emulsion reads invitingly, and a snack of morcilla with shiso leaf and smoked plum reads intriguingly.

Ferreira Pinto and Seibel most recently worked at Portland, the Michelin-starred central London restaurant operated by Will Lander and Daniel Morgenthau’s Woodhead restaurant group, which also oversees Clipstone and The Quality Chop House.

The full sample menu is below; more soon on the wine list.