Samantha and Samuel Clark are set to open their third restaurant this May. Morito on Hackney Road will be a new experience, but with similarities and references to its popular sister restaurant in Clerkenwell.
The new restaurant kitchen will be headed up by Samantha Clark and Marianna Love who is currently Head Chef at Moro. Love will bring with her a wealth of knowledge from her time at Moro, as well as culinary influences from her Greek home and family restaurant business in Crete.
Samuel Clark, who has been involved in setting up the new restaurant and developing the menu, will be permanently based at Moro, overseeing the kitchen.
Morito will open its doors in May for breakfast, serving made-to-order Moroccan breads as part of the menu, followed by lunch and dinner of tapas dishes and larger family-style plates for the whole table. Exceptional produce has been sourced from southern Spain, Morocco, Turkey and Crete to feature in the new menus, some not yet available in London.
The new site has been designed in collaboration with Dillwyn Smith featuring a horseshoe shaped marble topped bar, inviting open kitchen and large windows.
The duo stated, “We are very excited to be opening a neighbourhood restaurant in an area close to our hearts; we lived just off Columbia Road for many years and have happy memories of our time there.
'The new Morito on Hackney Road will have some of the food and design elements of Moro and Morito are known for, but with some exciting differences: inventive dishes, new ingredients, all served up in a fresh, colourful space with Samantha and our head chef, Marianna at the helm.”
Morito was launched on Exmouth Market in 2010, and its sibling Moro which opened on the same street in back in 1997.