It started with a grandmother who refused to write anything down.

Teta Nawal cooked for fifty years without a single written recipe. When she passed in 2016, her grandchildren realised the archive had gone with her — so they spent three years rebuilding it by taste, one argument at a time.

Saffron Table opened in 2019 with nine dishes they could agree on. The disagreements became the seasonal menu, and the arguments never really stopped — which is, we think, the point.