DakaDaka is a new Georgian restaurant located on Heddon Street in London's West End, a street historically known for its lively nightlife venues. The restaurant embraces a deliberately boisterous atmosphere, playing Georgian dance music loudly throughout service while diners enjoy traditional Georgian dishes including badrijani, imeruli, and kababi. The interior features pitch-black brick walls, candles, metal fixtures, pottery, and folklore decorations designed to recreate the ambiance of a late-night Tbilisi establishment. The venue offers both table seating in the central dining area and counter seating directly adjacent to an open kitchen with live-fire cooking. The restaurant's design and atmosphere prioritize energy and immersion over quiet conversation.
"DakaDaka does play Georgian dance music very loudly and with endless enthusiasm right through your badrijani (grilled aubergines), imeruli (cheese-filled flatbread) and kababi (lamb skewers). Helpfully, the brick walls have been painted pitch-black to give these dark, candle-lit, metal-clad premises a real sense that you've somehow stumbled into a 2am lock-in on a back street in Tbilisi, complete with pottery, folklore and blackboards on the walls."
"Heddon Street has always been synonymous with rowdiness, regardless of the fact that the mature, semi-elegant likes of Sabor, Piccolino and Heddon Street Kitchen are quite the opposite. But anyone who ever found themselves staggering out of Strawberry Moons in the 1990s having lost a shoe and with a love bite or from the basement club at Momo will know that this little nook tucked away behind Regent Street is where a good time is meant to be had."
"There's also a sit-up counter behind which the open kitchen is in full swing, and where you can sit shoulder to shoulder with a total stranger. If you do, however, please dress in removable layers, because you will be directly next to the open fire used for live fire cooking."
Read at www.theguardian.com
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