Honey & Spice Food Store

"Middle Eastern-inspired deli Honey & Spice is from the same people behind Honey & Co so you know the food is going to be great. The cheerful spot on Warren Street has Scandi-style open cabinets—filled with jars of nuts and seeds—that spark joy. Their street-side terrace is where you want to be on a warm day, but really (thanks to the UK weather) it’s mainly a takeaway situation. The salad boxes, packed with peppery radish slaw, herby chickpeas, and moist kofta, are a great lunch option." - heidi lauth beasley, daisy meager, sinead cranna, jake missing, rianne shlebak

"Middle Eastern-inspired deli Honey & Spice is from the same people behind Honey & Co so you know the food is going to be great. The cheerful spot on Warren Street has the kind of warm wood, Scandi-style open cabinets—filled with jars of nuts and seeds—that spark joy. Their street-side terrace is where you want to be on a warm day, staring into the swirl of a brilliant white chocolate and tahini babka like it’s a tasty Rorschach test. There’s no seating inside, so really (thanks to the UK weather) items like soft, sesame seed-speckled bread sticks and smoky hummus are mainly a takeaway situation. If you’re in the area, the salad boxes, packed with peppery radish slaw, herby chickpeas, and moist kofta, are a great lunch option. photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch" - Sinéad Cranna

"You know those picnics you plan when drunk? Where you get all excited about going to Regent’s Park? There’s always one friend who’s going to grill peppers and make a broad bean hummus, and another is going to marinate chicken for 48 hours in a sauce passed through three generations of their family. Then you all wake up the next day and buy some hummus and Doritos from Tesco with a side of Berocca? Skip the supermarket and head to Honey & Spice instead. It’s a deli just off Warren Street and does all of  those dream mezze dishes you want to make for a picnic but never do." - Rianne Shlebak, Jake Oliver, Heidi Lauth Beasley, Sinead Cranna

"Honey & Spice, the beloved deli from husband and wife duo Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer, boasts a range of indulgent yet homely cookies, sold individually from the pastry display or in bags of five, six, or seven. The preserved lemon and tahini cookies are made with rich nutty tahini, tangy lemon marmalade, and salty preserved lemon, before being encrusted with white sesame seeds and sugar. This results in a thrillingly different cookie profile: sharp and citrussy, with a powerful savoury thrust. Other hits include soft-centred, gluten-free marzipan cookies flavoured with orange zest and rolled in flaked almonds, developed to always have something to offer its coeliac neighbour, artist Rebecca Hossack — a story that speaks to the owners’s generosity. For those who can’t make it into Warren Street, Honey & Spice offers both London and nationwide delivery." - Emma Louise Pudge

"Although the closure of beloved restaurant Honey & Co after over a decade on Warren Street marked the end of an era, its coffee, cardamom and walnut cake is a timeless classic that endures at the new Bloomsbury location and the original Honey & Spice deli. Coffee and walnut is a classic British cake — the kind of bake that might appear at a National Trust property. However, cardamom coffee is a cornerstone of the drinks menu at Honey & Co, and so it made sense to Srulovich and Packer that the trinity of coffee, cardamom and walnut would make for a splendid cake. Two layers of rich, honeyed, slightly savoury sponge — fragrant with coffee and floral with cardamom — are topped with waves of coffee cream and toasted walnuts, resulting in a cake that is equally suited to being enjoyed at breakfast or elevenses, as it is at teatime or as a post-dinner dessert." - Emma Louise Pudge